Year 2
Welcome to Year 2’s class page…
Welcome to Year 2’s class page. Come and take a look at what we have been up to this year …
A very warm welcome from myself, Miss Harrison. I am so excited to have joined The Willows as the Year 2 teacher. This year we are supported in class by Mr. McKeown and Mrs Duncan. On a Wednesday morning Miss Mallinson teaches us Music and on a Thursday afternoon we are taught by the head teacher, Mrs Barnett. Mrs Barnett teaches us RE.
In Year 2 we all work together as a team to ensure the children have access to a curriculum that is creative and inspiring.
This term’s Stars!
Now that we are allowed to have assemblies together again, we have restarted our Star Award Assembly on Friday morning. This is a very special assembly where Miss Harrison tells us how amazing one of our friends has been this week – our grown ups are even allowed to come! Well done to all of our recent Star Award winners.
Things to know about…
Year 2 is a very important year for the children! We do lots of lessons and learn lots of new things but have lots of fun along the way.
With all the work we are doing in class, we will get homework too…
Reading – We are expected to read to an adult every night and have what we read recorded in our Reading Diaries. We should be reading a minimum of 3 pages each evening. In Year 2 we have decided that we must read our reading book 3 times before it is changed. This is to help with our comprehension skills.
Spellings – We’ll also be given spellings to learn. These will be given to us on a Friday on Seesaw. They should be learnt during the week and we are then tested on these the following Friday. These are part of our homework.
Homework – Miss Harrison will give us homework to do each week. This will be set on a Friday on Seesaw and is due back the following Friday by 8.30am. We’ll be given either English and / or Maths to do and it’ll be similar to the work we have been doing in class.
Times Tables – In class we are working hard to improve our times tables knowledge. Each week, on a Friday a set of times tables will be stuck into the children’s diaries. These are to be learnt throughout the week. The children will be tested on these the following Friday. Some weeks we may repeat the same set of times tables. This is to consolidate our understanding.
Year 2’s Latest News
Teddy Bear’s Picnic
Today Reception, Year 1 and Year 2 enjoyed a teddy bear's picnic together.
Colour Run
This week, Reception, Year 1 and Year 2 have been learning all about a carnival. As part of the week, we all took part in a colour run. We had so much fun.
Golden Mile Spring Competition Winners!
At The Willows, we try to provide lots of opportunities for our children to be active and achieve the recommended 1 hour of physical activity every day - one way we achieve this is by running in our Golden Mile competition. After 8 long weeks of running during active...
Key Stage 1 – Forest School
This morning Key Stage 1 had fun in our Forest School Area. The children built dens, created shelters and had fun making mud soup. The children also enjoyed the hammocks as well as using the fire to make toast, roast marshmallows and make hot chocolate. What a lovely...
Year 2 – Writing instructions and making milkshakes
This week Year 2 have been writing instructions using time connectives. They have been writing instructions for how to draw a dog and how to make a milkshake. Today the children made their milkshake following instructions from their partners. I have been so impressed...
Festive Reading Challenge – The Entries
Well done to all of our children who entered the Festive Reading Challenge. It has been so lovely seeing so many children enjoying reading and thinking outside the box in where you can enjoy reading a story. Staff have been blown away by the creative, original photo...
Festive Reading Challenge
At The Willows, we strive to provide opportunities for our children to engage in reading activities and actively read for pleasure. During this festive season, we would like to set you a reading challenge that shows how fun and creative reading can be. You need to...
Brass, String & Woodwind Christmas Concert
Tuesday 14th December saw all of our musicians join their families in the school hall to celebrate their musical talents and progress. Throughout the pandemic we have been incredibly keen to continue our music lessons in one way or another. Our peripetetic music...
Inter-House Dodgeball Competition Results
A big well done to all of our pupils across school who participated in our first inter-house competition of the year, playing dodgeball. Pupils from each year group competed against their peers from the other house teams in our dodgeball tournament. Each classes...
Spring Term Golden Mile Challenge
After the success of our first term's Golden Mile whole-school competition, I am excited to announce the start of a new competition for the Spring Term. At The Willows, we are passionate about encouraging children to live a healthy, active lifestyle and our Golden...
RE Inspection
Mrs Johnson (our Chair of Governors) was delighted today to be able to share the report from our recent Diocesan RE Inspection in which we achieved 'Outstanding' in all areas. This Section 48 Inspection, as it is known, covers all aspects of the Catholic Life of the...
Year 2 – Forest School
Our first topic in English was to write a letter to The Big Bad Wolf as one of The Three Little Pigs. When we had finished our work we went down to Forest School and built the stick house from The Three Little Pigs! We tried to stop this from being blown down. While...
Year 2 – Prayer & Liturgy
In Year 2 we get to plan and deliver our own child led Prayer and Liturgy sessions. Each week a small group of us go into the Prayer Area and plan each aspect of the prayer and liturgy. Later that day we deliver this to the class with support from Miss Harrison.
Year 2 – Our R.E.
This half term in RE we have been lucky enough to go over to Church with Miss Harrison and Mrs Barnett to do some learning. We got the entire Church to ourselves and enjoyed asking lots of questions, explored the stained class windows and even learnt how to genuflect...
A very special Friday…
Today marks an extremely special occasion for our Willows family; it is the first time we have all gathered together for our worship since March 2020. The Coronavirus pandemic has impacted on so many elements of our everyone’s lives, from seeing our friends and family...
