Year 2CB
Welcome to Year 2B class page.
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.
Week commencing 14th October
This week, we were lucky to have our first visit to Gateshead Library. The children enjoyed listening to some stories, doing a book scavenger hunt and choosing a book to take back to school to read for pleasure. What a brilliant time we had!
Our two stars of the week are Jenson and Mela. Jenson has impressed with me his writing this week and has been able to apply his Year 2 targets to his writing. He is also trying so hard with his handwriting. Mela has been blowing our socks off with her reading. She has developed so much in confidence and can now read with some expression too.
Week commencing 7th October
This week, we started with Muddy Monsters with Phil. We had lovely weather for it and we worked on our team building skills to pass a VERY dangerous river with crocodiles in it. We worked well as a team and decided the best way to cross the water by using the most suitable equipment. We also spent time in the forest school area playing in the muddy kitchen, on the hammocks and making dens. We had so much fun!
In Science, we continued to learn about animals and how they were suited to their habitats. This week, we got to design our own creature and talked about how it was adapted to its habitat. We had some wonderful creations.
Our two stars of the week were Ersin and Ro. Ersin has been impressing me in all subjects and has been trying really hard even if he finds something difficult. Ro produced some great writing based on the story ‘Clean Up’ and she was able to apply the Year 2 targets into her writing. Well done to you both, you are both superstars!!
Week commencing 30th September
What another busy week we have had! In English, the children have been coming up with some great noun phrases to describe a setting from the book 'Clean Up'. They were then able to apply these targets into their extended write and I was blown away with their writing! Super stars! In maths, we have been developing our multiplication skills learning the 2, 5 and 10 times tables through a range of games and then the children had to apply these skills into number sequences. During Science this week, we had a delivery from the postman who had sent us lots of different addresses and pictures of different animals and we had to work out which animal would be adapted to which habitat and why. We were great at this!
Our two amazing pupil of the weeks are; Kit and Gaurika. I have been sooo impressed with the way that Kit has started Year 2. He has shown great resilience even when he finds things a little tricky and his work ethic is always OUTSTANDING! Gaurika has been developing her confidence when reading and is able to read more words through sight and is trying hard to use expression. Well done to both of you, you are simply AMAZING!
Week commencing 23.09.24
We've had another super busy week in school this week. In History, we have continued learning about 'The Great Fore of Gateshead' and the children have acted out the scenes from when the fire started! They had so much fine acting in role as people who were on the Quayside the night it happened. In Science, the children took part in an experiment to learn about micro habitats. We made a micro habitat consisting of four different areas which included; light, light and wet, dark and dark and wet. We went out into the forest school to get some wood lice and after different time intervals we looked to see which micro habitat they preferred. They all creeped their way into the dark and wet areas which is what we predicted. The children really enjoyed this experiment, and we even had names for them!
In Maths this week, the children have been learning about comparing numbers. We built on from our work last week about partitioning and we were able to use this to help us know which was the greatest number by looking at how many tens and ones it had.
Our amazing stars of the week were Leon and Sierra-Ruby. Leon has started Year 2 with an excellent attitude and work ethic and is always giving his best in everything he does. Sierra-Ruby has been great in maths this week and was confidently able to answer some difficult reasoning problems! You are both AMAZING!! A huge well done to you both!!
Week commencing 16th September
What an amazing week we have had! We have had two amazing trips out of school this week and we have been so blessed with the weather! We went to Saltwell park to learn about different living things that live there and had an I Spy sheet to complete. We found lots of living things including a dragon fly which we were fascinated by. At the end of the week, we went to the Quayside and the Baltic and we learnt about the different places linked to 'The Great Fire of Gateshead'. The children were fascinated to learn about where the fire started and even spotted some of the ruins from the houses from when they burnt down during the fire. We also took part in a bridges workshop where we looked out at the amazing view across the Tyne and spotted lots of bridges. We then had a go at designing and creating our own bridges which Miss Brown was very impressed by.
Our amazing pupil of the week is Aisha who has blown our socks off with her amazing noun phrases to describe Rocket in Look Up. We can't wait to see her use and apply them to her character description during her extended write. What a super star you are!
Week commencing 9th September
What a busy week we have had! We began the week with our first PE lessons; ball skills and gymnastics. In gymnastics, we practised doing some different types of rolls and then linked our movements together. Even Miss Brown had a go at a forward roll! We practised our dribbling skills with the ball and some of us were amazing and could be signed up for a premier league team!!
We have had a whole day on Computing, learning about what a computer is. We learnt about different inputs and outputs and went on a technology safari around the school to find what we had. We found lots of different devices and then we created our own inventions ... we had some that Miss Brown certainly approved off; like a robot that gives chocolate instantly!
Mr Parkin, our music specialist has also paid a visit to our class this week and we began to learn our Harvest Festival song whilst playing different musical instruments.
Finally, our two amazing pupil of the weeks are Ella and Adam. Adam has been the perfect role model since starting Year 2 and has amazing manners. Ella produced a fantastic collage inspired by Romare Bearden and she was able to use the overlapping technique brilliantly. Well done you are both superstars!
Week commencing 5th September
Wow! What a first few days back we've had! It's been so lovely to see the children walk in with beaming smiles on their faces ready to take on the challenge of Year 2! The children have all settled in beautifully to Year 2 life and shown great attitudes towards their learning.
This week, we have been working on our art unit; Painting and Mixed Media. The children have been learning about primary and secondary colours. We discussed how we mixed the primary colours to make the secondary colours and then the children mixed them on their pieces of paper by dampening it and tilting the tray from side to side. We looked at the artist Romere Bearden who created different collages through overlapping different textured paper. Therefore, we had a go at creating our own textured paper ready to create our own collages next week.
The children elected the school councillors for our class. Jenson and Ro delivered some brilliant speeches on how they were going to make our school better whilst supporting their peers. They are very worthy representatives for our class. Well done to you both, we can't wait to see how you help our school be even better than it already is!
We also chose our Reading Champions to help promote reading across the whole school. Well done to Able and Aisha who were elected for the class. I'm sure your love for reading will shine through! Super stars! 🌟
A busy few days and we can't wait to see what next week holds!!