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Y2W Class Timetable 2024 Spring

2L Spring 2024 Timetable

Year 2 Lourdes make pizzas! - 20.4.2024

This half term, our DT topic has been Perfect Pizzas. We have researched the ingredients for a pizza, tasted different toppings and discussed our favourite pizzas. We then designed a pizza and made it in class. The children had to roll the dough and add the tomato sauce, cheese and different toppings. Afterwards, the children enjoyed tasting and evaluating their food.

Year 2L Pizza 2024

Maths in Action- 15.3.2024

For our Maths lesson, Year 2 Lourdes went on a trip to the Olympic Park in Stratford. The children took part in many outdoor Maths activities. They walked around the park and had to count the amount of bicycles, benches and dogs that they could find and create a tally chart. Afterwards, the children looked at the London Stadium and identified the different shapes and finally, the children went on a walk along the River Lea, creating a bar chart of the different birds.

Year 2L Maths in Action 2024

This half term, Y2W had the opportunity to go the Olympic Park as part ‘Maths in Action’. They were challenged to take a tally of objects around the South of the Park, identify lines of symmetry and shapes on the stadium and estimate the size of Here East.
They thoroughly enjoyed the outdoor activities!

Year 2W Maths in action

Year 2 Lourdes Spring Term Reflection

As we prepare for our Easter holidays, the children in Year 2 Lourdes have been reflecting our favourite moments. From the Citizenship project in January where we learnt all about Stevie Wonder and had a swap day with Helens to our swimming lessons at Newham Leisure centre. We have enjoyed some fun trips including the Science Museum and the Olympic Park. We have also enjoyed our two English projects, the classic poetry project and the classic mysteries project and participated in lots of assemblies. We are very much looking forward to what the summer term has to offer.

 Year 2L Sprint Term Reflection

Year 2 Lourdes- World Book Day! 7.3.2024

Year 2 thoroughly enjoyed World Book Day on Thursday. Children were dressed up as their favourite book characters as they had the opportunity to visit the school library, read with Nursery children and watch all of the EYFS and Key Stage 1 teachers perform The Gruffalo. They engaged in many fun book based activities.

Year 2L World Bookday 2023

 Year 2 Trip to the Science Museum- 5.3.2024

For our Humanities topic ‘Communication: Then and Now’, the children in Year 2 were very lucky to go to the Science Museum and look around the ‘Information Age’ section. In this part of the museum, they got to see many different forms of communication such a telephones, computers, radio and satellites. They looked at many artefacts including a model of a switchboard and a radio transmitter, and discussed how communication has changed over time.

Year 2 Science Museum 2024

Year 2 visit to St Helen’s 10.01.24

This week, as part of our Citizenship Project on Equal Opportunities, Year 2 went on a KS1 swap day to St Helen’s. The children split into different groups and took part in lots of fun activities. Each activity was based on different disabilities such as a sensory circuit, blindfolded taste test and blindfolded obstacle course. The children also had a special assembly with a visual impairment teacher who spoke to the children about Braille and the resources that visually impaired children need in school to help them to learn. The children made lots of new friends and learnt about different disabilities.

Year 2 Visit St Helens 2024

Autumn Term Y2W

Y2W had a great Autumn Term! From testing different materials in Science, to online researching for English and sewing finger puppets in D&T. We are looking forward to the Spring Term and all new things we will be learning!

Y2W End of Autumn Term 2023

15.12.2023 Reflection - Year 2 Lourdes

As we approach the end of our first term in Year 2, we have been reflecting on what we have enjoyed the most. From learning about the Creation Story in September to the Black History Project in October, we have had so much fun and learnt a lot. We have learnt about the use of boastful language in our story from the Myths and Legends project and have used 3D shapes in Maths to count the faces, edges and vertices of different shapes. As a class, the children agreed that their favourite experience was learning how to sew and make a puppet in DT. We can’t wait to see what the Spring term has to offer.

Y2L Reflections 2023

Year 2 Lourdes learn how to sew - 01/12/2023

For D&T, children in Year 2 have been learning all about puppets. We have researched different puppets, designed our own finger puppet and made our own mock ups using paper in preparation for our final product. This week, the children learnt the key still needed for our final product which was how to sew a running stitch. The children learnt how to thread through the needle, weave through the material and tie a finishing knot. We are so excited to sew our finger puppet and evaluate them!
Y2L 01.12.23

As part of our learning for DT, Y2W got to make finger puppets. They used their sewing skills, learnt in the previous lesson to create their original designs. They used additional materials such as pipe cleaners, buttons and fabric paint to add extra details to their puppets.

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17/11/2023 English & RE with Year 2!

For English this week, we wrote our own myth inspired by our class text, The Tall Tale of the Giant’s Causeway. We have used our imagination to plan and write a story about a giant who visits St Joachim’s. At first, we think they are a scary monster and as the hero in our story, we try to fight the beast however we learn that they are a friendly giant who is lonely and wants to join St Joachim’s. We had a lot of fun using different vocabulary to make our story interesting and can’t wait to edit and publish our stories next week.

Year 2 Q4 1

As part of our learning for Judaism, Y2W got to role-play a Shabbat. After watching a short video, we got into small groups to perform our own Shabbat using real props.

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