Year 2 - Melbourne Class | Jubilee Primary School

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Summer

Welcome back Melbourne Class!

We are now in our summer term and will be using this time to explore the topic, 'Incredible Individuals'.

You may have some individuals in your lives, maybe your family, friends and neighbours, who are incredible themselves. In this topic we will learn about other inspirational and 'Incredible Individuals,' who have contributed to our society ,by making it safe and more accepting place to be.

This term we look at the two Jubilee Keys: Tolerance and Aspiration these will help to shape our characters and make us all 'Incredible Individuals.'

Sir Captain Tom 100

The children in Melbourne Class had a lot of fun completing the challenge of doing 100 star jumps or 100 giant steps. Great effort and determination was put in by everyone and we were proud to be a part of raising money for the Sir Captain Tom Foundation.

Reading activities in Melbourne Class.

'Reading widens and deepens our thoughts.' MWW

The pupils in Melbourne Class enjoys reading for a variety of reasons including reading for fun.

'The more you read. The more things you'll know. The more you learn, the more places you'll go.'

Dr.Suess.

Spring 2 :

In PE. we have been developing our football skills. Over the last two weeks the children have been using the sides of their feet to pass the ball accurately .

In English over the last couple of weeks, we have been exploring the features of Traditional Stories; in-line with the topic Kings, Queens and Castles. Children read the text and role-played key events from the the story. For our focused writing the children wrote their own versions of a Traditional Story making gender changes to the original characters. They also wrote Nonsense Poems based on Traditional Stories that they enjoy.

In Science we have been exploring the topic Plants. Over the last weeks, the children identified different types of plants and the factors that plants need to grow. The children have worked in pairs, planting seeds and have placed them in different points around the classroom. In pairs, they will take care of these seeds and observing their growth ; as they mature into full sunflower plants. They will also had the opportunity to suggest factors that might have prevented some seeds from growing.

In Maths we have been exploring Fractions by dividing .The children used the strategy for sharing equally to find a half and a quarter of amounts. Children worked in pairs and in groups of 4 to use cubes counters and strips of papers to practically solve calculations.

Autumn Term 1

Welcome to Year 2 Melbourne Class ! We hope that you had a fantastic holiday and we are so excited to have you returning to school. Over the course of this academic year, we will be learning lots of new things and having lots of fun together! We know you will make yourselves proud, with your outstanding learning over this year. Ms Jefferies and myself look forward to sharing some of these memorable moments on your learning journey, across the range of subjects on our class page. Please share some photographs of your proud moments with us, so that we can post them to our class page. You will be able to share some of your learning with your grow-ups by accessing this page from home.

Welcome to Year 2 !

Mrs. Wint -Wilson and Ms Jefferies

This half term, we were engaged in developing our football controlling skills.

In Literacy, we explored non-fiction text .Students created a number of research questions and used these to create a fact-file on different types of bears and their choice of animal from the cat family.

In Literacy, we used the features of an instructional text to write instructions for making sandwiches. In our cross curricular activity, we linked our English with Design Technology and used these sequences of instructions to make our own sandwiches.

For Remembrance Day, we made poppies to show our appreciation to the many soldiers who have fought in various wars of the past and those still fighting to protect our freedom.

Physical Education Lessons

This half term, we focused on Tennis Skills in our Physical Education lessons.

Here are some of our highlight moments!

Melbourne's Class Circus Poem's Performance

In our English lesson, we looked at the features of poems with a focus on circus poems.

The children practised a range of circus poems and performed their favourite to an audience - our Melbourne classmates.

The children listened carefully to each group's performance and were encouraged to say two positive comments and one 'even better if' comment on each performance.

Year 2 Mathematics Lesson in progress.

Autumn1 Term Topic: 'The Circus is Home!'

We have been enacting events from our current novel, 'Dumbo'. Here we see our class creating freeze frames to share how a character might be feeling . The students used facial expressions and body language as tools to share their fantastic ideas about how the main character could be feeling based on what was read and discussed.