Year 2D

Welcome to 2D's page! Here you can see all the fantastic things we get up to throughout the year! We're so excited to get started and can't wait for you to see all the things we achieve as we grow.  

"Just think of all the things you can do, to make yourself better before the year's through!"

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 elizabethdalley@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

Callum and Murat are both Pupil of the week. They have been superstars this week. Callum has been super in English and is showing what fantastic progress he has made this year. Murat has also been showing off the great progress he has made this year by doing some excellent writing and using his knowledge of phonics to build words.

This week, we had a virtual lesson with the author Dapo Adeola. He told us all about his new book 'Hey You!' and he shared it with us. He even showed us how he did some of the illustrations in his book. It was very inspiring and we had lots of fun! 

Jasmine and Ava are our super stars this week. They were both AMAZING during our Geography lessons this week and have shown a great work ethic. Great work girls!

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!  

This week Maylee and Layton are our Pupils of the week. Layton has written a great non-chronological report about our learning in Geography. Maylee has shown a fantastic attitude towards her learning this week and is making a great progress. Keep up the great work you two!

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!

In Year 2 this week, Georgia and Jake are our superstars! They have both worked really hard to learn their lines for our Year 2 production. What great actors they are!

Today has been NSPCC number day. We have taken part in lots of different activities related to number. We even went into the the playground, armed with chalk, and challenged ourselves to see if we could fill the play ground with as many number facts as we could think of.

Our superstars this week are Jennifer and Noah. Jennifer has being doing some great work building sentences and Noah has shown great perseverance this week when learning about time. Keep up the great work you two!

In Science this week, we have been learning all about germination. To see this is action we have planted our own seeds and are going to observe them closely over the next few weeks.

What a great start to the Summer term these two have had! Callum has been AMAZING at telling the time in Maths and has had an outstanding work ethic in all other subjects as well. Mimi has also worked really hard this week and produced an excellent piece of writing this morning. She thought really carefully about how to make it her best piece of work. I'm so proud of you both, keep up the great work!

In Science this week, we have started our new topic: Plants. We started by looking at different seeds, bulbs and shoots. We tried to find some similarities and differences. Then we learnt about germination. We're looking forward to finding out more!

Grace and Silay are Pupil of the Week, this week. Grace has shown great perseverance and improvement with her mental maths skills this week. Silay has made excellent progress with her writing, using lots of our Year 2 targets and some fantastic vocabulary. Keep up the great work girls!

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 learnt about the flour and how it’s made, then had a go at milling some of our own. After that, we used the flour to make some dough for bread - we made a bit of a mess doing this! Then we tried some different bread and learnt about how different grains made them taste different.

Surprisingly, we were then 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 made some art work out of the seeds.

After lunch, 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!

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!

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!

Today, we have been doing some Christmas crafts that have required our fantastic fine motor skills. We have made some winter hats and some robin decorations.

Today, we were lucky enough to have an online workshop with Seven Stories. Our workshop was all about Mog the Forgetful Cat by Judith Kerr. We heard some stories, did some singing and even did some arts and crafts. We had such a lovely time!

Year 2 have had so much fun at their party this afternoon! We’ve done lots of dancing, played lots of party games and even had some party food. We then had a surprise visit from Santa who brought us all a present – what a treat!

Today has been Friendship Friday. We have had a think about what friendship means and then we decided what makes a good friend for us.

We were so excited this morning when we noticed there had been a special delivery! After hunting high and low, we all received a special letter addressed to us. Inside, was a golden ticket and an invitation to board the Polar Express next Friday afternoon! We were so excited that Mrs. Allan even came out her office to see what all the noise was about! We’re still trying to figure out who delivered them but we think it might have been one of Santa’s helpers!

Children in need has been a bit different than usual this year but we have still had a lovely day and managed to raise money to help those less fortunate. We came to school in our odd socks and took part in lots of activities. Our favourite part was the Pudsey biscuits! Delicious!

In DT, we have started our ‘Baby Bear’s Chair’ unit. Before we design and make a chair for baby bear we needed to do some tests. Today we tested which structures and shapes were the most stable. We found those with a flat bottom and that were wider at the bottom were the most stable.

This month during our collective worship time, we have been learning about Black History Month. We have learnt about important figures and they discrimination they have faced. We have focused on Barack Obama in Y2 and have learnt about the amazing things he has achieved. We have created our own artwork based on the infamous ‘Hope’ image which became one of the most widely recognised symbols of Obama's campaign message.

Today Mr Parkin came in with his band. We really enjoyed listening to them play and playing some games along to the music.

This afternoon in Science, we have been learning about The Eatwell Plate. We have learned that we need that have a balanced diet by making sure we eat food from all the different food groups. We learnt about which foods belong to which groups.

In Maths, we started this week’s learning by doing some practical work. We used a range of concrete resources to represent numbers up to 100.