Welcome to Class 2
Decorating the Christmas tree
today in class we decorated our classroom to get it ready for Christmas. We all hung a decoration on the tree to help make it shine brightly. Look at how fabulous it looks. 🎄🎅
Teddy Bears Picnic
Today we had lots of fun making our sandwiches that we previously designed. We made sure we washed our hands and used the equipment sensibly, all to keep us safe. We then finished with our teddy bears picnic!
Professor Brainstorm
We had lots of fun joining in different science experiments … they looked so much like magic tricks!
Homework for Monday 29th November
Homework for Monday 29th November 2021
This week in numeracy we are working on our understanding of measures. We are looking at length, weight, capacity and money. Please work with your child to complete the task below. We are working on children understanding the vocabulary linked to each of these areas.
*Please note that this week we have no spellings.
Any questions, please ask.
Many Thanks
Mrs Aspinall
Homework for 29.11.21
Children In Need
We had lots of fun joining in all the exciting activities today. Thanks for donating!
Homework for 19.11.21
Homework for Friday 19th November 2021
We are continuing to enjoy our topic of Memory Box, thank you to those who have brought in old toys to share … we are loving investigating!
This week in SPAG we are going to be looking at adjectives and how they are used to describe nouns. Please work with your child to complete the activities below. We are super impressed with the children’s phonics knowledge and how this is having a positive impact on their writing. I’m sure they will impress you at home too!
Thank you for your continued support.
Mrs Aspinall
Homework for 19.11.21
Taste Testing
Today we had lots of fun completing our science experiment of taste testing. We carried out our very own bush tucker trails …. we blind folded each other and had a good at guessing the delicious food we were eating. We all did a great job and had lots of fun exploring one of our five senses.
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Homework for Friday 12th November
Homework for Friday 12th November 2021
This week we are continuing our work on Memory Box following our trip to Beamish last week. In Science we are continuing our work on Animals including humans. We will be carrying out different experiments, in the coming weeks, exploring all 5 senses. Please work with your child to complete the task below.
Thanks for your continued support.
Many Thanks
Mrs Aspinall
Homework for 12th Nov
Beamish museum memorable experience
Today we went to beamish museum as part of our new cornerstones topic Memory Box. We had lots of fun looking and playing with toys from the past, riding on the tram, looking around the old shops and banks as well as looking in old houses. We can’t wait to incorporate all we have experienced into all of our learning back in class.
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Amazing Counting
this week in class we have worked super hard on our counting skills, we are now really good at counting, reading and writing numbers up to 50!
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Homework for Friday 5th November
Welcome back to the second half of the Autumn term. We are very excited to start our new topic and begin learning all about Memory Box. We are all excited for our trip to Beamish this Friday too.
This week in numeracy we are counting using number lines and hundred squares. We are working on starting counting at any given number. Please work with your child to complete this week’s numeracy homework challenge below.
Any questions, please ask.
Many Thanks
Mrs Aspinall
Homework for Friday 5th Nov
Welcome back ….. Memory Box
We hope you all had a lovely half term and are looking forward to our next half term in school. We have lots of exciting things happening this half term and we are very much looking forward to our new topic … Memory Box. We are kicking starting our topic off with a visit to Beamish Museum. Keep an eye out for letters with more information.
Pumpkin Carving
Today we had lots of fun designing and carving a pumpkin. The children had a go at getting the seeds out of the pumpkin and enjoyed getting super messy!
Mary Anning and Karen
A massive thank you to Karen and her mum Kelly for sending us pictures of Mary Anning’s fossils.
Cornerstones Celebration
Today marked the end of our first Cornerstones topic – Dinosaur Planet. We had lots of fun recapping what we have learnt this half term. We then read our favourite dinosaur story, danced to dinosaur music, played games and ate dinosaur poo! We have really enjoyed our first topic and are looking forward to the next one.
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Homework for Friday 22nd October 2021
As this is the last week before half term in class we will be completing our Rising Stars assessments. The children are very keen to show off all that they have learnt this half term. They have all worked super hard! We are ending our first topic of Dinosaur Planet with a celebration day this week and we will also be talking about Halloween … the children are very excited!
This week for homework please complete the activity below. Any questions, please feel free to ask.
Many Thanks
Mrs Aspinall
Harvest Festival
Today we joined in a whole school virtual harvest assembly. We joined in singing lots of different songs and added in actions too. We sang lovely as a whole school.
Dinosaur Fossils
Today we made dinosaur fossils using pasta shapes. They look amazing. We were like real life archaeologists!
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Homework for Friday 15th October
This week in Science we are continuing to learn about the season. We are going to be focussing on how people and animals change the way they dress according to the weather. Please spend a few minutes talking to your child about what they might wear during the autumn months. Please complete the activity below. If any resources are required, please feel free to ask.
Many Thanks
Mrs Aspinall
Well done Evie!
Evie impressed us with her rosette today. She told us all about her dogs coming 3rd in the dog show. Evie enjoyed telling us about how she helped her family to show the dogs.
UNCRC 15 – right to join groups and organisations.
Thank you Izzy
Today Izzy brought in fossils that she was given by a family friend. She very kindly shared them with the class and allowed us to look carefully at them with the magnifying glasses. The detail was amazing! We felt like a real life Mary Anning! Looking at the fossils really helped bring our Cornerstones topic, Dinosaur Planet, to life!
UNCRC 29 – education must develop talents to the full
Well done Jensen!
We are super proud of Jensen who was awarded star of the week at his swimming lessons. You are like a little fish! Well done!
UNCRC 31 – Right to take part in a range of activities.
Homework for Friday 8th October 2021
This week in numeracy we are revisiting and reminding ourselves of our number bonds to 10. The children all have impressive knowledge in class and are enjoying playing our online game ‘Hit the Button’. Please spend time this week working with your child to complete the task below.
Thank you for your continued support.
Mrs Aspinall
Happy World Smile Day
Look at how wonderful class 2 look! We all had a fantastic day giving and receiving random acts of kindness.
Visit to Church
Today we visited church in Kimblesworth. We walked to church and visited Reverend Michael. He let us explore the church and find all of the features that we had learnt about in class. We went on a treasure hunt! He then talked to us about each feature and what it is used for. We had a lovely time!
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Hoopstarz
Today we had lots of fun working with Tracey to learn lots of new skills and tricks with the hula hoop. We also built a house using only 6 hoops. We were then able to crawl through the house … it was very hard trying not to knock it down!
UNCRC 31 – Join in a range of activities.
Homework week commencing 27th September
Homework for Friday 1st October 2021
This week for homework we are going to be looking at labelling a diagram. In Literacy we have talked about the difference between fiction and nonfiction texts. Please talk to your child and ask them about the key features. Then complete the labelling task below.
This week we are also very excited about our visit to church on Wednesday. Please return permission slips before Wednesday.
Many Thanks
Mrs Aspinall
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Rosie’s Newt
Rosie has made an amazing discovery … a baby newt!
She is taking good care of it at home and very kindly brought it in to show us in class.
UNCRC 29 – education must develop talents.
Shadows
In Science we are learning all about Autumn. We have talked about how the hours of daylight will start to reduce as we get further into Autumn. As part of this we have learnt all about shadows and how they change as the sun moves over the sky during the day.
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Yoga
We are having lots of fun with Cath doing our Tatty Bumpkins yoga.
We are getting super strong!
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Homework week commencing 20th September
This week for homework our focus is Science. In Science we are currently looking at the seasons and in particular the signs of Autumn. This week for homework it would be great if adults could talk to their child about what signs they can see around them then complete the task below.
Please let us know if you need any resources to help you complete the task.
Thank you for your continued support.
Mrs Aspinall
Homework 20.9.21
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Number bonds
Today in class we have learnt all about our number bonds to 10. We then played a fab game to help us remember them. Why not have a go at home too? Here is the website… just copy and paste into your browser.
https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/hit-the-button
UNCRC 31 – take part in a range of activities
Inter-house Competition
Today Darren from the SSP came into school to carry out our first Inter-house Competition of the year. Our brand new Sports Leaders worked with him to set up 5 throwing events for classes 1, 2 and 3. All of our children amazed us and tried so hard to win points for their teams. We cant wait to see the overall scores on the doors!
UNCRC 29 – education must develop talents.
Homework week commencing 13th September
This week in numeracy, in class 2, we are going to be reminding ourselves of our addition and subtraction skills that we learnt in class 1. We are going to be talking lots about the key words linking to these topics as well as talking about what the mathematical symbols look like too. Please spend some time working with your child to complete the task below.
Any questions, please ask.
Homework 13.9.21
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Roald Dahl Day
Look at how fabulous we all looked dressed up as our favourite Roald Dahl characters or in his favourite colour yellow!
UNCRC 31 – join in a wide range of activities
Liz Million
Today we had a visit from Author / Illustrator Liz Million. She taught us all about how to create characters to help bring our writing to life. She showed us the importance of emotions when designing too. We then all had a go at drawing our very own dinosaurs!
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Tyrannosaurs Drip
In Literacy we have read a very exciting Julia Donaldson book! We have learnt all about authors and illustrators as well as joining in key vocabulary.
Today we created a scene from the book and re-enacted the story. We did an amazing job of staying in character and acting out the words and actions of the characters.
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Homework week commencing 6.9.21
This week in Class 2 we are going to be reminding ourselves of all of the lovely things we know about writing whilst also telling Mrs Aspinall all about ourselves!
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First Day Back
We all had lots of fun exploring the classroom and playing with all of our friends. We have had such a busy day and are looking forward to tomorrow!
UNCRC 15 – meet with other children
Our Cornerstones Topic
This half term we are going to be learning all about Dinosaur Planet. We are very excited to take part in lots of different activities. Keep an eye of our page to see what we get up to!
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Archived Activities
You can view archived activities for each class on our website.
