Welcome to Year 2!

My name is Miss Elawad, and I am so excited to be joining the wonderful team here at Our Lady of Lourdes. I am delighted to be your teacher and cannot wait to get to know each and every one of you!

Welcome to an exciting new school year, Year 2! We have a fantastic year ahead filled with fun, learning, laughter, exciting experiences and lots of adventures.

Year 2 is a very special year, and there is so much for us to discover together. You will have lots of opportunities to learn new things, develop your confidence, challenge yourselves and become even more independent learners. We have some wonderful learning planned, with plenty of creative activities, exciting experiences and opportunities to learn through play and exploration.

There may be times when our learning feels tricky, but that is all part of the adventure! We will encourage each other, try our best, learn from our mistakes and celebrate our successes along the way.

I am so excited to begin this journey with you all. Get ready for a year full of learning, friendship, fun, teamwork and adventure!

I can't wait to see all the amazing things we will achieve together. 

Autumn 1 Week 3:
 

In Maths, this week we continued our unit of place value, the children learnt how to flexibly partition a 2-digit number using base 10, how to count in 1s and 10s on a number line and how to estimate.

In English, we continued our learning on our story 'The Secret Sky Garden', we learnt about the language features of a diary entry and annotated a diary entry in pairs. We then applied those features throughout the week and wrote sentence using past tense verbs and time connectives.

This week in Science we learnt about the features of a fish and sorted fish based on their diet.

In History, we created a wanted poster for  Guy Fawkes and included all the key facts we learnt throughout the last two weeks.

In Art, the children experimented with different materials and had a go at creating textures with the materials using oil pastels.

The children were very excited to continue their Spanish learning and learnt how to introduce themselves in Spanish.

Autumn 1 Week 2:

In Maths, we continued our learning about place value. We used place value charts and part-whole models to practice partitioning 2-digit numbers into tens and ones.

In English, we explored our story, The Secret Sky Garden, and created a story map to familiarise ourselves with the story. We then wrote a setting description of the sky garden using adjectives.

In RE, we learnt about how to practice good stewardship in our everyday lives. We also explored the story of Noah’s Ark from the Bible.

In History, we continued learning about the Gunpowder Plot and explored different religions during the Stuart Era.

This week in Science, we continued our topic, Animals Including Humans, and explored the different features of birds and what they need to survive.

We also had our first Spanish lesson this week, and the children were very excited to begin their Spanish learning! Buenos días, Year 2!

Please check our Google Classroom for this weeks homework, you can find the login inside your child's homework book. Reading is very important in helping your child make progress and develop their confidence and enjoyment of reading. We kindly ask that you read with your child for 15 minutes daily.

Have a lovely weekend!

Miss Elawad