The muffins were a big success! Many of the children enjoyed them. Here is the recipe we followed. The ingredients below make approximately 6 muffins. (The method mentions salt – we did not use any).

Somehow it’s July already!

We had a great week! Miss Barnes will be uploading some sports day photos on the school website soon.

Here are some photos from our school trip to Thorncombe Woods and Hardy’s Cottage. The children were great and really enjoyed being out in the woods and exploring Hardy’s gardens and home.

We’re looking forward to our Sports Day next Monday (27th June!). An email has been sent to Year 2 parents with other details. 

In maths this week, we have been learning about money using notes and coins. Some children have enjoyed this activity: https://www.ictgames.com/mobilePage/coinCalculator/index.html 

At home, you could practise making totals of coins (how many ways can you show 50p), buying and selling objects at a pretend shop etc. 

In literacy we have been thinking about character descriptions. We have looked at Roald Dahl’s ‘Miss Trunchbull’ and used descriptive language to create our own mean characters.

We had a great time in healthy week. We learnt martial art skills, played cricket (before rain called it off!) and enjoyed eating different foods from avocados, peppers, hummus to making our own muffin pizzas! We were especially proud of how they turned out!

We all looked amazing!

It’s starting to feel much warmer now as we approach the end of this half term. We have one week left before a half term break and have been very busy with our secret agent work! 

We’ve created identity badges, taken finger prints, danced, designed secret gadgets and taken part in some maths and reading challenges too! 

In PE we have been practising some athletic races and in music we started learning a new song and had time playing some ukuleles!

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We’re celebrating the Golden Jubilee next Friday 27th May. A home learning challenge and information about a decade dress-up opportunity has been sent home but please see below for more details:

See the message emailed from Mrs Smith copied below:

It’s the Easter break – where has the time gone?! We will be back on Monday 25th April after what we hope is a happy and healthy break for you all. 

This week we’ve continued thinking about fractions of a shape and adding fractions to make a whole. E.g ¼ + ¾ = 1 whole. Can you think of any other examples? 

We have been enjoying learning about butterfly life cycles in science and literacy too. We’ve read this book and learnt lots of facts about them:

We’ve used this research to start writing our own books about a butterfly’s life cycle. 

In PE we have practised some passing techniques to help us with our basketball skills. 

Today, we have been reflecting on the challenges those are facing in Ukraine. We spent some time thinking about why we were wearing the colours yellow and blue and the significance of these colours and also had a conversation about why people are leaving Ukraine and how the money we have raised from our fundraising day will help those in need. 

It’s hard to believe that we’re in April already! We’ve seen lots of warm weather followed by some more chilly weather which has caused us to see some more wildlife like bees and butterflies during those sunny spells! 

We’ve enjoyed learning about the Bog Baby story and have created suitable habitats for a Bog Baby creature. This week we have been writing some instructions for how to care for them too! We’ve learnt the importance of leaving wildlife in its natural habitat and making sure it has everything it needs to survive. 

In maths we have been learning about fractions and have started focusing on halves and quarters so far. At home, you might like to practise finding halves and quarters of different objects. You could move on to thirds and fifths too. We have been using shapes to begin with but have started exploring finding fractions of numbers and linking this with division. E.g. Finding half of 12 is like dividing by 2. ¼ of 20 is 20 divided into 4 equal parts. 

We have also been practising using an analogue clock to tell the time starting with revising o’clock and half past. You might like to use this interactive clock to practise at home on a device: https://www.visnos.com/demos/clock 

In science we have been learning about animals including humans. Here’s a breakdown of our topic: 

Over the Easter break, there is a competition for writing, illustrating or speaking with our Dorchester Area Schools Partnership (DASP). Please see the poster below for more details: 

We have been looking at temperature in maths this week and have enjoyed recording and comparing the temperatures around the school. We have talked about what temperatures could be linked to the words, cold, cool, warm and hot too.

In writing, we have continued looking at poetry. We have enjoyed looking at the language used to describe the wind and the effect that this has. We also enjoyed writing our own poems about winter and writing them up neatly – we are really proud of our poems.

We used this poem by Shirley Hughes to inspire us to write our own poems.

We enjoyed exploring the school grounds and seeing what colours we noticed in preparation for creating our own butterfly which would be suited to live in the school grounds. We also talked about the different cycles that we see in nature such as the water cycle, the butterfly life cycle and the life cycle of a tree. We also enjoyed finding out about the lifecycle of a cardboard box in a story. If you would like to find out more, have a look at this link https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zxfrwmn/articles/zfbnscw 

We have been using our new phonic mats to help us with our spellings, reading and to play some phonics games with. 

We have learnt how to play our own version of wordle by creating our own. You might like to have a go at this one (hint, it’s a 5 letter year 2 common exception word!)

https://mywordle.strivemath.com/?word=ajvuj

We hope that you all had a restful half term, it has been lovely to see the children returning refreshed and ready for learning.

We have continued to look at mass and comparing the weights of different objects. We have also started to consider the difference between the weight of different objects.

Our basketball skills have been improving during our Wednesday outdoor PE sessions! We braved the chilly weather to practise our passing and throwing skills whilst working together as a team. 

We have also been enjoying some poetry from Out and About by Shirley Hughes. We have enjoyed exploring the language used in the poems and how this gives us a clue to what season the poem is about.

Happy World Book Day!

We were amazed by your book character potatoes! There were so many contributions and such imaginative ideas, we loved them! We enjoyed looking at the other classes’ potatoes as we walked around the school on world book 

We also enjoyed seeing how many books we could spot in this WBD video too.