Poetry Week

We had an excellent poetry week last week. We read lots of poems in the classroom and some children even learned poems by heart. On Thursday we had a whole school 'poetry marathon' in the library - we made sure that there was someone reading poetry every minute of the day. It was lots of fun! On Friday we had a special assembly when each class performed its own poem and some children and adults read poems too. What a lovely week!

Welcome to our Year 2 blog

We will be using this blog to share the fantastic work we have been doing with you. Feel free to leave comments!

We have had a great start to the term. The children have worked so hard and have settled in really well.

Here is some of the work we have been doing so far.

Snails

We have been having lots of fun with snails in science.

'We had an investigation to see what the snails like to eat. They had lettuce, basil and mint. Lettuce was their favourite food'.

Florence Nightingale

We have been learning about Florence Nightingale. We have done some brilliant role-play, safely found out about her on the Internet and done some fantastic letter writing.

Maybe you could ask your child to answer these questions:

Who was Florence Nightingale?

Why do we remember her?

Why is she called 'The lady with the lamp'?

Featherbank World Sports Week

What an excellent week we have just had! All the children in school were split into 6 teams (France, Greece, Australia, USA, South Africa and Mexico) and they completed lots of team activities such as flag making, learning about their country and tasting food from their country. On Friday we held our World Sports Day and children from each team competed in races to find out which team would be the winner.

Congratulations to the Australia team!

All the children had a super time. They enjoyed working with children from different classes and they learned lots of valuable lessons about taking part and being great sports people. Well done to everyone!

Congratulations to Class 1 who won the rounders match - although it was a very close contest!
We had lots of fun and hopefully we can have a rematch before the end of term.

Healthy Living Week

Next week (14th - 18th June) is 'Healthy Living Week'. We will be learning lots of important facts about being healthy as well as doing lots of fun activities. This will finish with a Class 1 v Class 2 rounders match on Friday. We will let you know the result!