Year 2 had great fun spending our earnings from the Christmas Fayre. We travelled to Vue Cinema in Gateshead on the metro and took our pack lunches with us. We had a mini adventure, but the fun didn’t stop there as they produced some fantastic writing when asked to write  a recount of our trip.

Mrs Kiely loved the VIP seats!

Hello and welcome back! I hope you have all enjoyed the Easter break. Our new topic this term is pirates and the children are all very excited to get started and learn lots of interesting facts.

We will be linking English to our topic this term and will start by thinking about instructions. The children will be learning to listen to and follow instructions, firstly by playing captain’s coming then making a pirate hat. We will also be making hard tack biscuits (pirate food) and writing our own instructions for other pirates to make them. Pirates is a great topic and can have lots of engaging writing links. (please see topic overview for further information)

Reading and spelling are also still very important and we will be continuing with our weekly spellings focusing on the different spelling rules. Please ensure your child’s reading books and diary are in on their reading day so we can ensure your child is listened to frequently.

In maths we are focusing on number, place value , addition and subtraction, then moving onto recapping multiplication, division and fractions. We will also be focusing on measure, applying skills and knowledge we have learnt throughout the year and using them in different situations.

We are all very excited for our first summer trip tomorrow to the Vue Cinema, Gateshead to  see Zootropolis! We are using our earnings from the Christmas stall to pay for most of the trip.

For information on all subjects covered this term please see pirates topic overview.

Thank you!

Mrs Franchi

Year 2 are thinking about instructions in English. We played a game called Captain’s coming  and we had to listen and follow instructions. We then gave our partner instructions thinking about verbs and adverbs. They were all really good at spotting the verbs and adverbs!

For our topic lesson we started off thinking about pirates and created a mind map of facts we already know. We even thought about what we would like to find out throughout the topic. We are SUPER excited to find out more about pirates!

Through our all around the world topic we have been learning about Africa. We found lots of African tribes wear African necklaces so we decided to make our own. We used lots of bright colours and patterns to make them look like real African necklaces. They turned out fantastic!

We also read that some African tribes may rank themselves by who can jump the highest, so the most important person in the tribe maybe the person who could jump the highest. We had to try this to see who would be the most important person in our Year 2 tribe.. it was Esme!

We have loved World Book Day 2016 and all the costumes looked fantastic!

We had a great afternoon of reading, each class moved around the school to listen to a new story being read by the teachers of Bede Burn.

This afternoon we had great fun eating pancakes and tasting different toppings. We tried pancakes with chocolate, lemon, strawberry jam, sugar and syrup. Our class favourite was chocolate and a close second was strawberry jam.

We linked pancakes and maths together by practising cutting our pancakes into halves and quarters. We are also going to complete a tally chart and a pictogram to  show our findings.

Before we ate our yummy pancakes, we researched pancakes around the world. We found out some people have fancy dress pancake races, whilst flipping pancakes in the air.  We also found out the Swedish call Pancake Day ‘Fettsdagen’, which means ‘Fat Tuesday’. They eat a pastry called Semla instead of pancakes.

Fun Fact

Did you know…

…the biggest pancake in the world measured over 15 metres long!

Wow! What a great time we had at science club on Tuesday. We were learning how to cast  thumbs using dental alginate and casting powder.

First we had to mix one cap of dental alginate with water and stir with a tongue depressor.

Next we had to put the mixture into the thumb pot and wait for the mixture to turn from pink to white. Once it had set we could take our thumbs out.

We then had to mix two caps of  casting powder with water and fill the holes left by the thumbs.

We had to wait 10 mins for the mixture to set. 🙂

Adam’s was amazing!