Year 2

Hello and welcome to 2M’s class page

In 2M, we pride ourselves on being a happy, motivated class who strive to be the best that we can be. Now that we are embarking on our Year 2 journey, we are really focusing on developing these imperative resilience skills that we will need to be able to tackle the challenges that we may face during the year. In 2M, we face each day with a smile on our face, coming into school ready to learn and achieve together – we take great pleasure in sharing each day with our classroom family.

Our MASTER values are very important to us in 2M – we showcase them with pride! We work hard to be thoughtful to each other, respectful of everyone’s thoughts and feelings, and to be enthusiastic in all areas of our learning. Each week, we choose a MASTER value that we will be focusing on and work hard to embed this value in all that we do. We are always working hard to earn green points for showing our values around school.

This year, we are excited to be taking part in our House Team challenges, with us all representing a different colour. We are already showing fantastic teamwork skills, supporting each other and encouraging the others in our teams. This is something that is showing through in our group work within the classroom.

Reading is the golden thread within our classroom, and it is woven through all that we do. We love reading to deepen our understanding of the curriculum, but more so, we love to read for pleasure, developing our knowledge of exciting new authors and going on magical adventures every time we read a new story together. We have many opportunities during the school day to read, and we particularly love our DEAR (Drop Everything and Read) time – we are often lost in a good book at the end of the school day! This year, we will be reading the following texts during our English lessons:

• Supertato by Sue Hendra and Paul Linnet
• A mouse called Maisy by Lucy Cousins
• The Owl who was Afraid of the Dark by Jill Tomlinson
• Fantastic Mr Fox by Roald Dahl
• The Gnome and the Golden Acorn
• Tell me a dragon by Jackie Morris
• A non-chronological report on Neil Armstrong

We have set ourselves the challenge to see how many children can be entered into our Bookworm draw this year!

Over the course of this year, we will encounter many interesting and fun-filled activities to develop our understanding across the curriculum. We will continue to build on our prior learning in Maths, focusing on all the key areas including units like addition and subtraction, shape and statistics. In Geography, we will start the year developing our map skills, looking at key features of a map and how to use one. We are becoming fantastic historians and enjoy travelling back in time during our history lessons to find out about significant events and people from the past and why they were important, starting with the Great Fire of London. In science, we begin by building knowledge of living things including humans before moving on to animals including humans. Alongside this, we will develop our understanding of religions, artistic techniques, computing skills and discussing personal, social, health and well-being.

Routines/key information

• Toast and Milk money needs to be paid via Arbor
• Maths homework is sent home on Friday and handed in on a Friday
• Reading books will be changed on Friday
• The star of the week winner will be continue on a Friday. The child with the most green points, along with 2 runners up, will win a prize out of the prize box!

Our trips this year

• Ford Green Hall
• Gladstone Museum
• Cinema trip
• Catholic Church Visit
• Sea Life Centre
• Berryhill Fields fieldtrip

Thank you for taking the time to read about life in our classroom. We will be sharing more of our learning with you over the course of the year, so keep a look out on our class dojo page and the school website for more information.

Hello and welcome to 2R’s class page

We are a class full of 30 smiley, hardworking children who strive to be the best we can be. Our classroom is cheerful and exciting, which makes it a wonderful environment to learn in. This year, we are working hard to become resilient learners, whereby we face challenges and aren’t afraid to make mistakes in our learning. We are encouraged to have a growth mindset, which will help us to develop confidence in ourselves in all aspects of school life. We are excited to complete our final year in Key Stage One, and we’re going to set a fantastic example to the children in Year 1. We experience lots of different subjects, which enables us to try new things every day! Our teachers love it when we participate and share our own ideas in lessons because it shows we are eager to learn. We know that with great determination, we can achieve wonderful things!

Every day we are determined to show our MASTER values in everything we do; we have high expectations and we are dedicated to being an Eaton Park person.

We love to read in 2R, and we have so many opportunities to read during our day, whether it be during phonics and spelling sessions, guided reading, during lessons or listening to a story at the end of the day. This year, we will be reading the following texts throughout the year:

• Supertato by Sue Hendra and Paul Linnet
• A mouse called Maisy by Lucy Cousins
• The Owl who was Afraid of the Dark by Jill Tomlinson
• Fantastic Mr Fox by Roald Dahl
• The Gnome and the Golden Acorn
• Tell me a dragon by Jackie Morris
• A non-chronological report on Neil Armstrong

We would love to have as many Bookworm winners as possible in 2R this year, so we are going to work together to encourage each other to read 5 times every week at home! Miss Riley would love to see as many children as possible win a gold coin to take to our reading book vending machine.

Over the course of this year, we will encounter many interesting and fun-filled activities to develop our understanding across the curriculum. We will continue to build on our prior learning in Maths, focusing on all of the key areas including units like addition and subtraction, shape and statistics. In Geography, we will start the year developing our map skills. Throughout the year, we will travel back in time during our history lessons to find out about significant events and people from the past and why they were important. In science, we begin by building knowledge of living things including humans before moving on to animals including humans. Alongside this, we will develop our understanding of religions, artistic techniques, computing skills and discussing personal, social, health and well-being.

Routines/key information

• Toast and Milk money needs to be paid via Arbor
• Maths homework is sent home on Friday and handed in on a Friday
• Reading books will be changed on Friday
• The winners medal will be issued on a Friday alongside 2 other children who will pick from the prize box- who is going to shine bright in 2R?

Our trips this year

• Ford Green Hall
• Gladstone Museum
• Cinema trip
• Catholic Church Visit
• Sea Life Centre
• Berryhill Fields fieldtrip

Thank you for taking the time to read about us and we hope you have enjoyed learning about wonderful 2R. We will be sharing more of our learning with you over the year, so keep a look out on our class dojo page and the school website.