Class 2
Welcome to Class 2's learning page!
2023-2024
Class Teacher: Mrs Taylor
Class Teaching Assistants: Mrs Summers and Mrs Knight
PPA cover: Mrs Haffenden (Wednesday)
Key Information
PE days- Tuesday and Friday
Homework - Set Monday and due the following Monday
Reading Books- sent home Thursday and due Monday.
Sharing Books- changed on Thursdays
Cooking- Wednesday (Term 4)
Forest School- Friday (Term 2)
All About Kenya
This term we have been learning all about Kenya, where it is, what it is like there and what you might see if you visit. At the end of our learning we have created information texts to share all of our wonderful
Martin Bulinya Art
This term we have been learning about the Kenyan artist Martin Bulinya. We were inspired by his abstract work and wanted to recreate some of his pieces. We learnt how to use watercolours, how to mix primary colours to make secondary colours and we explored warm and cool colours. Use our understanding of these we chose our favourite pieces of his work and recreated them in our books. We all worked so hard and were very proud of our final pieces!
Human and Physical Feature of Kenya
Today we learnt about Human and Physical features. We know that human features are made by man and physical features are made by nature. We explored some pictures of different landscapes of Kenya to help us to identify what human and physical features there are. We then discussed how the features are similar or different to ones we can see in our own country.
The Great Fire of London
This term we have learnt all about the Great Fire of London. We learnt about where and how it started, why it spread so quickly and how the people of 1666 tried to put it out. We also learnt all about Samuel Pepys and why his diary is an important historical artefact. Finally we learnt about what changed because of the fire and how it has impacted national life through an improvement in our fire fighting and house building!
Here are some examples of our end of project pieces!
London’s Burning!
This term in DT we explored how houses were built in 1666. We looked at the different parts of the house and why they were built like that, for example we realised that the top part of the house was larger than the bottom to create an overhang so people could walk under the houses without fear of having toilet water dropped on their heads! From this we designed and built our own 1666 model houses. We then took these houses to forest school and recreated the Great Fire of London. We were all amazed by how quickly the first spread to our houses because of the wind! There certainly wasn’t much left of our models after the fire!
Reading and Writing Supports
Below are writing and reading prompts we use in class. We encourage the use of these at home.
Grow the code: We use these daily to help with reading and writing. They contain each sound the children have learnt in phonics.
Vipers: A great range of questions to develop comprehension skills.
CEW: A list of the Year 1 and 2 Common Exception Words. We use these to support with spelling.