Last full week of year 2!

Summer Week 6

On Monday we went to Bewilderwood and we loved it! Once we arrived we went on the boat and listened to the story. Some of us did a very load scream including Mrs Baker when Mildred the Crocodile made us jump by sneezing! We spent the day exploring, climbing and having fun. All I can say is Green class are all very brave and dared the big slides and climbed the highest equipment! They are also amazing problem solvers and managed to get out of the Muddle Maze and Sky Maze.

Some of us even got our faces painted :)

We have also been practising lots for our performance on Wednesday. Please do come along to our show on Wednesday morning 9am :) 

We have also been doing some additional work on transition and change in PSHE. We have also talked about the names of our body parts this week. 

I am sure you will agree Green class did really well reading their favourite memories at church today. Thank you to everyone that came! 

I would like to thank everyone for being so amazing the last few weeks. I am very aware it has been a very busy one for parents/carers too with all the extra stuff that has been happening- thank you all so much for your support :)

Week 5 Summer 2

 Week 5 Summer 2 

Green class will be tired tonight! What a super sports day! Green class you did us proud today! It was amazing to see you all showing your skills in football, hockey, rolling and getting wet in the over under relay! We thank you all for your help with the younger children. You also were amazing in the races and were so quick! Well done everyone! Thank you to all the adults that joined us today for the picnic and for all of the cheering during the events It really was so lovely for the children and they loved it! 

We have been problem solving in Maths this week. Green class have investigated odd and even numbers and have thought about making generalisations and been finding ways to prove or disprove a mathematical statement. 

Green class have also planned their own stories this week and will be writing these next week. 

Please remember to sign up for a space for The Greatest Showman if you would like to come and see your child perform. They have worked extremely hard on their performance this week and it is starting to look great! 

This week we have been looking at our bodies and understanding that we are the boss of our bodies. We have looked at safe touches, unwanted touches and unsafe touches an how to deal with each situation.

Green class as always have been a delight to teach this week! 

Next week transition day to Stalham Academy, disco and sleepover. 

Week 4 Summer 2

Week 4 Summer

What a super week! We had a wonderful time at the Royal Norfolk Show and enjoyed learning about the animals and the old farming machinery. We also loved collecting lots of stickers and things! I am very proud of Green class as members of the public commented at how kind and helpful they were! 

In Maths we have been problem solving this week. The challenge below shows Ruby working strategically to solve a problem. 

The boys here are creating as many different houses only using 7 cubes as they can!

We have also been learning about keeping healthy and been writing non-fiction texts.

Thank you Green class for a lovely week!

Week 3 Summer term 2

Week 3 Summer 2

Green class want to thank everyone that came to Maths Cafe. We enjoyed sharing how we multiply using concrete resources and how we move on to pictorial representations. We have been doing lots of problem solving this week. We have looked at how many different ways we could make 36p to buy different sweets. 

WOW- I hope you agree. Green class did amazingly well in their fashion show in sharing assembly, showing off their costumes they have made. Their confidence made me very proud! 

Rehearsals for our show ' The greatest showman' are coming along well and all children have really tried hard remembering lines and stage directions! Thank you all for their amazing costumes! 

Federation sports day was a huge success and Green class were amazing! We tried fencing. We also did dancing, forest schools and learnt about eating healthily. 

Again Green class have gone above and beyond this week and have all worked so hard.

We have our new reading tree up now so please do make sure your child is reading at least 3 times a week at home. This will really help them to prepare for year 3. I know lots of the children are excited about Year 3 but are also feeling very nervous. You may want to be chatting about this at home. We will also be doing lots of talking about it at school and visiting Stalham too! 

Week 2 Summer 2

Week 2 Summer 2

Green class are now well underway with rehearsals for our Greatest showman show :)

Thank you so much for all the support that you are giving your children learning lines and songs!

A huge thank you to all the dads/grandfathers/uncles/brothers that came to celebrate fathers day with us. We really hope you enjoyed it as much as your children did! Happy fathers day from Green class for Sunday! 

We have been learning about Malawi and Florence came to visit us all the way from Malawi. The children have asked her lots of questions to deepen their knowledge. Florence was able to give the children a chance to try some traditional  food. The children tried nsima some of us were not so keen. This is a traditional staple in their diet made from corn. 

Week 4 Summer Term

We have had a fantastic week. We have been making chitenge patterns and have begun to create an item of clothing using our patterns. We used vegetables to do vegetable printing to create a pattern. We will complete our item of clothing next week :) We have learnt a bit about Malawi ready for our Federation day on Tuesday.

We have also learnt a lot about Florence Nightingale. We have pretended to administer medicine using ml to measure out exact amounts. We have also written facts that we have learnt about Florence Nightingale and will be creating an information leaflet next week. These will be on display for you to have a look at after half term.

On Friday we looked at the outfit nurses wore while Florence Nightingale was nursing and we had a go at designing our own. Here are a few photographs! 

During our fashion show!

Summer week 3

This week we have completed our SATS reading paper 1.  Next week we will be doing grammar and Maths paper 1. We have also been learning about contractions for example - I have- I've, Will not-won't. 

 We have been doing capacity. We have made super hero, super power potions. We used beakers and pipettes to measure ml.

We have also been learning about wants and needs of humans and animals. We learnt we need, water, oxygen, food and shelter. We made posters in groups. 

Summer Week 2

Summer Week 2

I am sure you will agree that Green class did a fantastic job on May Day doing maypole dancing and setting up their stall. I am especially impressed with all the children that stood in for the children that were absent in an additional dance. I want to say  thank you all for being so brave and dedicated. The children designed and set our 'brain bucket' stall up. They thought about pricing, giving change, advertisement and budgeting.

Thank you for those that came to see Green class share 'supertato' in celebration assembly. They have worked hard to remember the story. They have used this story to base their own stories on. Green class wrote stories and they are brilliant. Please feel free when you next pop in to have a look at your child's story.

In maths we have been looking at addition and subtraction on an empty number line.

We have also been learning to count in 10's starting from any number. For example- 8,18,28,38,48.

This may be something you wish to practice at home.

SATS will start next week. Next week will be a reading paper and some children will also do Maths paper 1. Please make sure you are reading as much at home as possible and any additional maths work will be useful for your child. Early nights and good breakfasts will also help them along :) Any questions please come and see me. 

Summer Week 1

Summer Week 1

What a lovely first week back! We have really enjoyed ourselves. The trip to Marriots Way. We found out that it used to be a railway. We walked along the old railway path in our houses and enjoyed helping the younger children find different creatures and plants. We did a scavenger hunt and then went pond dipping and den making. The dens were AWESOME! Some of them we could get a whole house of children in! They were very creative with washing lines and camp fires next to them! 

In English we looked at writing recounts using conjunctions, commas and adverbs.

In Maths we created pictograms and interpreted them. If you have a computer at home this is a useful link to a game. https://www.topmarks.co.uk/Flash.aspx?f=pictograms

(You will need to enable flash player)

On St Georges day we celebrated by dressing up as princesses and knights. We learnt the story of George and the Dragon and acted it out. 

Spring 2 Week 5

We have been busy again this week!

 We have been learning about farming and where our food comes from. We have also began to look at life cycles. We visited Easton college farm and had a wonderful day! Thank you for getting your child to school early and collecting them late. It was well worth it we had a great day and learned lots :)

We have also been making cards for Mothers day (check their book bags Sunday) and been thinking about all the things our Mums do for us! We are very thankful! We hope you enjoyed the Mothers Day Tea Party! We enjoyed making sandwiches and hope you liked them! We really appreciate everybody that attended!

We have also started our maypole dancing ready for the Spring Fayre. We will continue to practice this next week.

In English we have been starting to create an information leaflet about farming and in Maths we have worked on telling the time. We have also recapped subtraction, multiplication, addition and division.  Practising telling the time at home; o'clock, half past, quarter past and quarter to will really help your child.

In phonics we have looked at the all sound in always, fall, hall etc. We have also looked at the o sometimes making the u sound ie son, other.

Next week we have Easter craft morning, hope to see some of you there :)

Spring 2 Week 4

We have had a super busy week! We had a fantastic time visiting the Academy and doing some spectacular art this week! Lots of us thought it was very big but are now quite excited to visit again later in the year!

 We have been learning to tell the time. This may be something you wish to practice at home. We have been learning o'clock, half past, quarter past and quarter to. Some of us even did the closest 5 minutes.

We have also been making bread. We did this by ourselves. We measured our own ingredients using scales and a measuring jug. We looked at grams and millilitres. We followed the design of bread we created and added different toppings. Some of us made a pizza flat bread, some a bloomer, loaf, rolls or a french stick. We evaluated our own work and a friends!

We have been learning throwing and catching skills in PE.


Reminder: Farm trip on Thursday please make sure your consent form is returned.
Parents evening next week. Please do ask for an appointment if you haven't already booked :)

Science Day

Click the link and see what we got up to last week on our whole school Science Day!

Spring week 3

Thank you Green class again for another awesome week! It has been super busy.

We have had science week and have done some awesome experiments. We did the skittles experiment and  created so many cool patterns. We have used glass test tubes and created sugar rainbows. We looked at dissolving sugar and added food colouring to it and experimented with layering colours using pipettes. We also began creating our flower beds which  are on the playground  so please have a look. As you can see we did these ourselves :) We also used lemon juice and hairdryers to write secret messages! We had a super fun day being scientists!

On Wednesday we had Laura Samuels come to visit us and we even got to hold her Silver commonwealth medal! Thank you for all the sponsorship money you helped raise! The children did a fantastic job in their sponsored circuit. We feel quite inspired to try some new sports!

 On Friday we celebrated comic relief. Thank you again for all of the money you helped us to raise for comic relief! We had a good time making red nose day biscuits and making pom poms. We also thought about how thankful we are for all of the things we take for granted; warm home, bed, clean clothes, family and friends. We looked at why we raise money for comic relief and know that some people aren't as lucky as we are.

We have been looking at creating repeating patterns in Maths and begun telling the time. In English this week we have been writing letters to submit our inventions we designed on science day to the Engineering competition. We will be sending these off this week. We have our fingers crossed that someone at Sutton will win the competition.

Just a reminder we are visiting Stalham Academy on Monday.

Spring 2 Week 2

What a week! We have had so much fun! World book day and pancake day!

Green class really enjoyed making pancakes. We worked on measuring out ingredients and following a recipe. We then created a tally of which toppings we were going to use and of course we then ate our pancake we had made! We discussed lent this week.

On Thursday it was World book day and we came to school in our PJs with our favourite bedtime stories! There were some brilliant stories! Thank you to all the parents/grandparents that stayed for drop and read :) We also enjoyed planning and writing our own stories for the day.

In DT this week we have been evaluating bread, by looking and tasting and evaluating the packaging! We have now designed our own bread. (Some of them even decided to use chillies!) We will be making our own design of bread in the coming weeks!

In Maths we have been working on fractions. We made a fraction wall and have been thinking about equivalent fractions. We know 1/2 is the same as 2/4.  Some of us found the pattern and could continue it up to 100/200!

In English we have written a letter based on the book 'The day the crayons quit'.

In Grammar we have been looking at the spelling rules when adding the er or est suffix.

Thank you to all the children again this week for all trying your absolute best!

Spring term 2 week 1

Welcome back to school after half term. Wow so many amazing pieces of home learning completed! There were some amazing games designed and made and I really loved the effort of all the farms! Your child has a new piece of home learning in their books. If your child has not returned their home learning book yet please do so that they can collect well deserved house points for completing home learning and be given the next piece of home learning.

Thank you to everyone that came to our Maths Cafe on Monday. Green class love sharing our leaning! If you do have any questions you wish to ask about how a Maths concept is taught in Year 2 please come and ask, very happy to show you.

We have been in the forest schools area this week looking for amphibians, reptiles and mammals.


In Maths we have been learning about 3D shapes. We have been on a shape hunt around school.

In English we have faced a problem this week our crayons quit so we have been writing letters based on the book 'The day the Crayons Quit'. We have been using a thesaurus to improve the words we use in our writing.

The form for transition day only needs to be handed back in if your child wishes to have a school packed lunch. If you do not wish your child go please speak to me or Mrs Fiske.

I hope you have all had a lovely weekend.

Spring week 6

What a week! Green class have been amazing as always :) We have had a special focus on mental health this week. We have been thinking about how to keep our minds healthy. We have been thinking about how to get more sleep. It is recommended that 6-7 year olds have 9-12 hours sleep a night. We have been thinking about what we love about ourselves, the importance of exercise and communicating our feelings. On Friday afternoon we had a mental health afternoon where children selected to do yoga, create calming patterns or do mindful colouring.

We also had a fantastic day on Tuesday for Chinese New Year. We worked in our house teams. We created lanterns, Chinese fans, did some dragon dancing, Chinese writing and some Chinese cooking. We then all tried the things we made including spring rolls, chicken chow mein  and egg fried rice. For desert we made cakes decorated as the Year of the pig :)

 Some of us even used chop sticks!

For Maths we walked to the local shop and used real money and worked out our change and what we could afford.

We have also looked at using an empty number line for Maths. Below is an example if you wish to practice at home.

The children have been working on subtracting the tens then subtracting the ones. 

In English we have looked at exclamation marks being used to show emotion and apostrophes used to show something belongs to someone. 

Enjoy a lovely weekend.