This week, the children in 2H have been enthusiastically creating actions for the story of Kassim the Greedy Dragon by Pie Corbett. In their phonics sessions, they have been carefully practising their sounds as well as segmenting and blending. In Geography, the focus was on exploring where the countries of the United Kingdom (England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales) were situated on a map. In mathematics, the children have been exploring place value by making links between numerals, words and tens and ones. It’s been another busy week and a chance for the children to begin settling into year 2 routines. A super start to the year 2 curriculum 2H!

A huge welcome to the children and parents of 2H. It has been an absolute pleasure meeting the class and several of the parents.

The children have had a busy first week at school. They have been trying really hard to follow the classroom rules and have been practising ACE walking (lips locked, facing forward, hands at their side and walking smartly). Several times this week, the class have been praised by staff members for their ACE walking. A great start! The children have also been working on their presentation in their maths books. They have practised using a ruler so that they can underline the date neatly in their books.

The children have had the opportunity to explore different emotions and have met Chewy the worry monster. They have enjoyed several creative activities including, drawing a colour monster, creating an emotions monster and mixing primary colours with paint. They also visited the orchard today so most of the children have an ACE apple in their bag, ready to be eaten once it is washed.

It has been very hot indoors and out this week but the children have coped well. A super start to the term 2H.

Where has the time gone? The children have done lots of amazing, fun activities in year 2 (including sports day). There are lots of memories which they will hopefully share at home. We said goodbye to Ella and Amayra and hope they both settle well. into their new schools. We have welcomed Daniel to the ACE community and hope he will be happy at the school.The children will be missed by me and Mrs Reehal. We wish them success and happiness as they prepare to move on to year 3.

The children have been busy over the last couple of weeks. The focus has been on collaboration and seeing if they can work well in a team. They had a challenge to work in groups and create a tall tower. They also worked in teams to make their own boats (building on their previous experience in year 1) using junk modelling. They had to think about what materials would be waterproof and which materials would float using their knowledge from science lessons on materials.

This week, the class were extremely excited when they heard they were going to create their own cupcake! We discussed the ingredients needed: butter, sugar, eggs and flour. The children had the choice of decorating their cupcakes with either icing, strawberries or both. They worked together in groups and took turns. Some children cracked the eggs, others read the weighing scales to ensure the right amount of sugar and flour was added to the mixture while others spent time mixing the ingredients altogether. Once the buns came out of the oven and had cooled, the children decorated them with icing or strawberries. They all said their cupcake was delicious and they enjoyed the experience. Well done 2H!

To consolidate our recent Maths learning all about position and direction, we used the Beebot programme on the Ipads in our computing lesson today. We used the forwards, backwards, left and right buttons to move the Beebot to different places.

We decided to find out the most popular ice cream flavour in Year 2. First of all, we needed to collect our data. After deciding on some possible flavours, we asked each other which their favourite is. We recorded our findings in the form of a tally chart, remembering the golden rule of putting a diagonal line through for number five.

After collecting the data, we then used it to create a bar chart. Using this, we were able to identify the most popular and least popular ice cream flavours.

Today we have looked at some of the work of artist and botanist James Bolton. We began by noticing key features and then had a go at sketching the painting.

We enjoyed our computing lessons this half term where we used the program J2Data. We created our own pictograms and bar charts after collecting the data and recording it in the form of a tally chart.

This week, we found out who had won a prize from the Red Nose Day name raffle. Here are photographs of the winners from 2H. The rest of the class were wonderful in supporting the winners and gave them a huge applause. However, the best is yet to come…the whole class won a prize for donating the most money in key stage 1. They have been granted a movie afternoon! Oh wow! A huge thank you for your kindness and generosity. I’m so proud of 2H and their parents.