Year 2B

Welcome to Year 2B class page.

We are so excited to have you all back and to have our classrooms full again!

We have the recipe for success!

Take a group of enthusiastic children and add together caring and supportive teachers (don’t

forget to add teaching assistants!). Pour in lots of challenging and fun activities and sprinkle with excellent manners and behaviour. Stir until learning and progress is outstanding! Voila…a fantastic Year 2!

Join us on our fabulous learning journey as we use our skills to learn about our world in the past, present and future so that we can become valuable citizens of modern Britain.

Home Learning - 07.07.21

Now that we are self-isolating, we need to be taking part in our home learning sessions. This can take 2 forms: 

- Log onto Microsoft Teams using your login information found in your Reading Records

- Complete a paper pack of learning which can be collected from the school office. 

Below is a timetable of the online learning. Lessons will be three times a day at 9:00am, 11:00am and 1:00pm. If you are having any issues accessing the lessons, please contact me on catherinebrown@brightonavenueprimary.org.uk or contact the school directly. 

The Summer Reading Challenge launches 10th July

Gateshead Library

#SummerReadingChallenge #WildWorldHeroes

Children across Gateshead are being encouraged to go wild for reading this summer by joining the hugely popular annual Summer Reading Challenge, taking place at all Gateshead Council libraries from 10 July until 4 September.

The Reading Agency have teamed up with the WWF in developing the theme for this year's challenge, which is 'Wild World Heroes', featuring illustration by award-winning children's author and illustrator Heath McKenzie. It is aimed at encouraging children to engage in fun reading activities focused on real world environmental issues, such as climate change, wildlife decline, plastic pollution, and deforestation.

To join the excitement all children need to do is visit any library across Gateshead at least three times throughout the summer holidays and borrow at least two books. Each time they will be rewarded with a free prize:

Aged 5 to 11 years:

• First visit - Wild World Heroes themed collectors' cards and stickers 
• Second visit - A book and pencil
• Third visit - A certificate of completion.

Aged Under 5 years:

• First visit - Wild World Heroes themed collectors' cards and stickers
• Second visit - A book and additional stickers
• Third visit - More stickers and a certificate of completion

The Y2 children have been looking after the caterpillars from Y1 due to them having to go into lockdown. We have been taking great care and we have been watching the life cycle very carefully to know when it is the right time to transfer them into the net. Today, was the day! The children were so excited about this and we can’t wait to see them turn into butterflies.

Well done to Ada and Emma this week. You have both shown a great understanding of fractions. Well done! 

This week, the children have continued to develop their sewing skills. They have learnt how to sew a button onto their pouch and then do the running stitch around the edge. I was so impressed with the children! Take a look at our amazing pouches!! 

A huge well done to Oscar and Mya this week! I was blown away by their writing today ... I thought I actually had children from Year 3 in my class. Oscar used some great sentences for effect and Mya used a wide range of subordinating conjunctions within her work. Just wow! Well done you two!

The children enjoyed listening to another author during a virtual session. He shared his book 'Hey you!' with the children and then answered a range of questions. It was a great interactive session!

This week, the children have begun their DT project for this half term. They had to learn how to do a running stitch. I was soooo impressed with how well the children all did! We definitely have some children who are going to be making clothes in the future! 

WRAP SPLAT HAT!

Sun awareness program 2021 from Garnier.

The Wrap Splat Hat programme features fun lessons and activities that have been designed and written by education experts that will help teach children to Wrap, Splat, Hat! This stands for WRAP up in a t-shirt (and wrap on some sunglasses), SPLAT on some sun cream (ideally SPF50), and of course wear a HAT!

Type in the link below to receive a family pack, competition details and how to stay safe in the sun 

Welcome to the Wrap Splat Hat! Sun Awareness Programme 2021 (boorooandtiggertoo.com)

This week our Pupil of the Week goes to the gorgeous Alexia and Nour. Alexia has just started our school this week and already it feels like she has been here forever. She has settled in beautifully and made some great friends. We are so pleased she chose to come to our school. Nour has used great expression in the Y2 production. Well done to both of you! What superstars!

This week, the children have been continuing to develop their art skills and used an approach called frottage to create a piece of art. The children had to rip pieces of paper up and then think carefully about wow words in comics. The children had a great time!

Pupil of the Week 21.5.21

We have a very smiley boy and a gorgeous girl this week as our Pupil of the Week. Our boy received his award for always giving 100% effort in everything he does and our girl received hers for using great expression during the our rehearsals of the KS1 production. I am so proud of them both. Well done!

The children were very lucky this week to have a virtual author session with Swapna Haddow (author) and Dapo Adeola (illustrator). They read their book called ‘My Dad is a grizzly bear’ and then they talked about the process it took to write and illustrate the pictures. It was a very fun and interactive session!  

In English, the children have been looking at how an information text is organised before they then moved on to writing their own. The children had to work out whether the statements had been written about a fiction or non-fiction text.

This week, in Art, the children have been thinking about the different emotions we have. The children have been drawing the emotions thinking carefully about how our facial expressions change. The children had great fun!

Well done to Owen and Amelia this week. Owen has worked so hard to learn his line for the Y2 Graduation and Amelia has blown Miss Greaves' socks off with her phonics. Well done! 

This week, in art, we have been making 3D humans using different skills. The children were able to move them in to different poses to create different Superheros! We had lots of fun! 

In Maths,today we have been playing shop! We are starting to look at money so we got all the different coins out and worked out what we could afford to buy from our friend's shop. Some of us even managed to work out change!

A HUGE well done to Mya and Reuben who have been superstars all week. Reuben always has a super attitude towards his learning and always works really hard and Mya has been able to interpret data to answer a range of difficult questions. Well done to you both! 

Today, the children have had a fun day of Maths tasks to complete for NSPCC number day! The children had to solve a range of problems and used different concrete resources to make numbers. The children finished by using chalk outside to write an array of numbers and sums. We had a fantastic day!

Well done to Bua and Beloved who are our Pupil of the Weeks. Bua always has such an amazing attitude towards her learning and is a great role model in our class. What a super star you are! Beloved has answered some very tricky time questions this week. He had to work out the duration of time and was able to do this with great confidence. Well done to both of you!

In Geography, we have been comparing Kampong Ayer (the largest water village in the world) with Gateshead. The children have been looking at the climate in both of these places and compared them. We also looked at similarities and differences between the houses and the children were very shocked to see that residents in Kampong Ayer didn't have a flushable toilet!

A HUGE well done to the gorgeous Skye and Tommy this week. I have been soooo impressed with Tommy this week as he has had an amazing attitude towards his learning all week and has produced some fantastic work. Just WOW! Skye has blown me away with her brilliant narrative based on 'The Three Bad Pigs' a twist from a previous fairy tale. Skye was able to include a range of Y2 targets in her writing and her stamina improved massively this week. Well done to you both! 

This week, in maths, we have been conquering time! Time is a very tricky aspect of maths but the children have blown my socks off this week. We have been reading and drawing the times for o'clock, half past, quarter to, quarter past and even five minute intervals. At the end of the week, we challenged the children further with some reasoning questions and again they were amazing. 

In Design Technology, we have been making fantastic moving monsters! We have been looking at inputs, outputs, linkages and motions to make our designs successful.  We had to create a design brief and survey what people thought was the best design before we continued to make our monsters.  Finally, we completed an evaluation to show what worked and what we would change.  Take a look!

This week, in English, we have been looking at explanation texts. We had to write a text to explain how we would please a teacher. The children had lots of fun thinking of ideas and as teachers we loved some of their ideas and hope they come true! I was so impressed with the standard of their writing. 

Wow, wow, wow! What an amazing day we have had. Unfortunately, due to COVID we were unable to visit the farm to complement our geography topic this half term; ‘Why does it matter where my food comes from?’ Instead, the farm came to us! We were so lucky to have ‘Farm Boxes’ delivered by The Country Trust with lots of different activities in them about food. We tried some different bread and learnt about how different grains made them taste different.

Surprisingly, we were  interrupted by some very cute visitors! Because we have been learning all about farms, Lee our Caretaker, offered to bring some lambs in for the children to feed. We all got the have a cuddle with the young lambs and then feed them. One of them was very noisy!

When they had gone, we looked at what seeds were in different foods we eat and then we made our own butter, made bird feeders and tasted some cheese from different farms across the country. What a fantastic day!

It has been so lovely to have all the children back this week. They have all settled so well back in to the school routine and were so excited to see their friends! Once again, a massive thank you to all the parents for your continued support during lockdown and remote learning we really do appreciate it. 

We had so much fun on World Book Day! We came to school in our pyjamas and took part in lots of book related activities including; listening to a story, reading our favourite story to a friend, taking part in a live online session with the Author and Illustrator of the books Look up and Clean up, a book scavenger hunt and making finger puppets and masks of our favourite characters. We were even inspired to make our own miniature books – some of them were great!

Week Beginning 22.02.21

This week in RE the children have been discussing the OLQ 'What is the Holy Week Story?' and why it is important to Christian followers.  The children discussed the weeks events leading up to Jesus' resurrection and put the events into a timeline. Take a look!

PSHE+C (WB 01.02.21) 

As a class, we have been focusing on our own mental health to help us support Children's Mental Health Week.  We have taken part in lots of activities where our focus was on ourselves! Take a look at what we have been doing.

In our PSHE lesson this week, we have been discussing the communities that we belong to. We talked about the different jobs in our communities and the different crimes. We also talked about what makes a good community. We then designed our ideal community.

We have had another busy week this week. Our English work has been based on Willy the Dreamer this week and the children have edited, planned and written their own version of the story. I was really impressed with the standard of writing. In maths, we have been focusing on statistics and interpreting pictograms and block graphs. The children found this a little difficult to begin with but then they were much more confident towards the end of the week. In History, we continued to learn about the Great Fire of Gateshead and the children keep continuing to impress me with their knowledge. During golden time, the children did some origami and then we went outside to see how far they could fly. Take a look at some of our amazing planes!

First of all, Happy New Year to everyone. It has not been the start to the year we’d all hope but we are SO proud of what each and every child has achieved this week. Those children who are learning from home, you have blown Miss Dalley and Mrs Treloar’s socks off this week with your AMAZING work ethic and you are now all becoming experts on Teams. For the children who have been in school you have equally blown mine and Miss Greaves' socks off with your attitudes towards learning in such difficult circumstances. A big well done to you all and of course your amazing parents for all the help they have given!

This week, all children have been working on the book ‘Willy the Wimp’ where the children have answered comprehension questions, written character descriptions and wrote their own version of Willy the Wimp. In Maths, the children have been working hard on positional language and how to follow instructions. During R.E, the children compared the Jewish and Christian religions and found out some amazing facts. They released Christians and Jewish people share the same God. In Science, we looked at living things and wrote our own acronym for Mrs Gren. Finally, we also started our History unit ‘How did the great fire of Gateshead change the Quayside?’ and the children looked at photos of Gateshead before and after the incident. What a week we have all had! Take a look at some of our photos!

All aboard! On our last day of the Autumn term, we’ve had a trip on the Polar Express! After mysteriously receiving our golden tickets last week, today we put our pajamas on, got cozy and brought our tickets to board the Polar express. We even enjoyed some hot chocolate and biscuits. What a lovely way to end the half term. Have a lovely Christmas everyone, stay safe and we’ll see you all in the New Year!

This afternoon, we have had our annual music workshop with Mr Parkin and his band! We had so much fun singing, dancing and even playing instruments. Mr Parkin even got some of the teachers up singing and dancing as well!

For Friendship Friday we discussed what we thought made a good friend.  We then looked at a range of scenarios to figure out how we could help people who were upset or injured. Finally we read a story about friends having different families, abilities, disabilities and different religions.  Take a look!

Within our D.T lessons this term, we have been looking at the structure of Baby Bear's chair!  We discovered that the structure was more stable if the legs were made out of cylinders. We planned, designed and created our own Baby Bear chair then evaluated how successful it was.

Our superstars this week are Mya and Noor! Mya has written amazing sentences in her English lessons. She was able to include adjectives, adverbs and subordinating conjunctions!  Noor has given 100% effort in every lesson showing his resilience throughout. 

To contribute to the Children In Need charity this year, we all wore odd socks to school!  As a treat, we all received a Pudsey Bear biscuit, juice and took part in lots of Pudsey different activities!

Within our RE lesson this week, we were gaining knowledge of the Hindu celebration Diwali.  We looked at the story of Rama and Sita and how special oil lamps are lit to help them find their way home.  We looked at the celebration events, what the Hindu people could wear and tried some of the different foods they could possibly eat. Look what we ate!

Today, the children were learning about the importance of Remembrance Day.  We discussed the reason for this memorial day and why we show our respect in remembering all the hero's who died in the line of duty.  As a school, we took part in the Nova project where we all painted a Remembrance Day pebble. Take a look at ours!

To say I’m proud of what our amazing Y2 children have achieved this half term is an understatement! The progress they have made in their writing is phenomenal! This week, the children have been writing their own narrative and including so many of the Y2 targets my green highlighter ran out! Take a look at some of the amazing pieces of writing! Just wow!

In Computing this half term, we have been learning about technology. We were able to label parts of a computer and describe what they are used for. After, we discussed inputs and outputs and played a little game where Miss Brown pretended we were a computer and she created some inputs. We had lots of fun! Next, we designed our own robots and created our own inputs and outputs. The designs we created were amazing!

In History, this half term, we have been learning all about Florence Nightingale. We have learnt about her role as a nurse and the impact she had on lots of people's lives. The children today participated in a speaking and listening lesson to express what other people thought about Florence Nightingale. 

This week in art, we have been learning about different painting techniques and how we can blow paints to make the design more effective. The children all had lots of fun and got very messy! We were very pleased with their overall work! What superstars!

What an amazing first week back we have had! It has been so lovely to have a full class again and lots of smiling faces! The children have all settled in to life in Year 2 beautifully! We have been busy doing some work for an Art display in the hall where we have been thinking about our feelings and emotions. The children chose a word to resemble them and they have traced around it and then have started to decorate them. All the children tried so hard with their art work and they are going to look amazing in the hall.