Year 2 - Panthers
Hello everyone, welcome to our Panther page.
We are one of three classes in Key Stage 1. In our class there are 30 Year 2 children
Here you can see what we've been doing and find out about what we're learning.
Mrs Claxton and Mrs Edwards teach our class.
Miss Lebeter, Miss Radford, Mrs Wilson and Ms Cargill help us too.
Our topics for the Summer term are -
Brilliant bodies
In this topic, we will identify, name, draw and label the basic parts of the human body and the functions of these body parts! We will find out about the 5 senses and which part of the body each one of these senses is associated with.
Animal Allsorts
In this topic we will find out about different types of animals that exist in our world and what makes them so special. We will find out how to categorise these animals and to think about where each type of animal might be found.
Our latest newsletter
What a wonderful day at Wheelgate!
had fun with the sack race and with skipping ropes.
enjoyed our Annual KS1 football rounders tournament
practised our long distance running.
relaxed with some yoga!
learnt Circus skills with Alex from Circusology.
learnt a dance to perform at whole school games day.
learnt fantastic football skills with Ash
and finally, had fun doing relay races. What a week!
Enterprise sale
To make some money our class, we made stress balls with flour and balloons and peppermint, strawberry and orange cremes. Our stress balls were very popular and sold out quickly! The cremes went down well too! We are looking forward to choosing something to spend our money on!
Read the notes from Panther class council 26.6.19
Let's do something funny for money!
To raise money for Comic Relief we came to school with funny hair and faces. We had a cake sale and did a sponsored “junk model robot” challenge. We wrote jokes and made our won class joke book. The total we raised was £700! Fabulous!
World Book day dress up
We came dressed as historical book characters. Look at our fabulous outfits!
Gareth Baker, author comes to visit
We all had a fantastic time during our workshop with visiting author Gareth Baker. He told us all about the books he has written and gave us some top tips for how to be a successful writer. With Gareth's help we were able to use some magic words to get our campfire burning and settled down for a cosy story! Gareth asked a few of us to choose some characters and objects and then created a unique story based around our choices. We thoroughly enjoyed our storytime and are all inspired to become writers when we grow up now!
Help! Help!
Darren from St John’s Ambulance came to teach us how to help if there was an emergency. We learnt how to use DR ABC to help us remember what to do. He also told what to do if we needed to call 999.
Rocking with Rock Steady!
We took part in a music band workshop run by Rock Steady! We had great fun making a band and singing along to George Ezra's Shotgun song!
Chinese New Year
To celebrate we -
- wrote our names using the Chinese alphabet.
- made a dancing dragon.
- enjoyed reading our fortune inside our fortune cookies.
- made a card to celebrate the year of the Pig.
For Safety Day we thought about how we could keep safe on the roads. We need STOP, THINK, LISTEN, LIVE.
Problem Solving Day
After enjoying the story of "One is snail, 10 is a crab", we learnt about co-ordinates. We loved solving the problem of putting the sea creatures in the right place using the co-ordinates. The big grid on our floor was great to practise our new skills on.
Art Week
KS1 have been looking at famous artists that painted pictures of the sea, to fit in with our topic “To the rescue”.
We have created pictures in the style of Claude Monet, a French artist who was one of the greatest painters of the impressionist times. We enjoyed painting with water colours, ready-mix paints and pastelling trying to copy Monet's famous sea paintings.
Come and look at all the fun we had at our Christmas party!
Christmas Jumper Day - we looked festive and fabulous!
To celebrate Christmas we performed “Lights, camel, action!” We sung and danced to tell the story of the first Christmas. It was great fun dressing up and performing to our families!
Multiskills at Quarrydale
On a cold, windy afternoon, we visited Quarrydale Academy for a session of Multiskills. We loved playing lots of different games with the sports leaders and then we had great fun learning an aerobics routine! On our way home, we got very wet but loved our hot chocolate when we got back to school which warmed us up!
Children in Need Day - Friday 16th November 2018
We had a great day raising money for Children in Need. We dressed up in spots or our Pudsey outfits. We made a class Pudsey Bear, enjoyed our cakes and took part in a raffle to win mini Pudseys! We raised £682! A fantastic effort!
Anti-Bullying Day - Choose respect!
Class Council - Anti Bullying and Anti-Bullying afternoon
We enjoyed watching the YouTube video on bringing colour to our world
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rwelE8yyY0U.
We talked about how can we show respect and #chooserespect at Dalestorth and had some great ideas – telling someone their handwriting is good, that you think their hair looks great, helping them when something goes wrong, offering to share or lend a hand. We also shared our ideas about how we can show respect at home – by doing as we have been asked, helping with the washing up, tidying up our toys without being asked.
We all agreed that we were looking forward to the cinema next week and seeing “Snow White” on our whole school panto trip.
During Anti-bullying afternoon we learnt about different types of families – each one is different but just as special as the next. We read the story ‘Picnic in the Park’ which tells the story of Jason's birthday picnic and his guests. It introduces the children to a range of family structures, including 2 & 1 parent families, adoptive & foster families, gay & lesbian families and step-families. It also shows a diverse range of adults and children We remembered our work on British values and the importance of respect and tolerance. We learnt that there are all sorts of differences in each and every family but that each family is special and should be respected.
Our Dalestorth Challenge - The Penny Mile
On Monday 12th November we gathered together all the change we had brought into school and laid it along the KS1 playground. It took us ages to put all the coins down and we used metre sticks to measure the money we had collected. Panther Class had collected enough money to measure 41 metres of the playground - an amazing achievement. Thank you to all who contributed.
World War 1 Remembrance Week
We walked to New Cross Church for a Remembrance Service. We learnt about peace jelly babies and thought about the soldiers who fought in the First World War.
We laid a wreath that we had made at the War memorial. We found the name of a soldier “W.H. Spencer” – a relative of Meghan.
We got very muddy on our "Boot camp" showing determination to tackle to obstacles, like soldiers in the trenches a 100 years ago.
We were very lucky to look at some real objects from World War 1, including a soldier's pocket bible that had a bullet hole in it! We were surprised to feel how heavy the rifle was. How did the infantry soldiers run into battle with it?
A trip to Sutton Library
On a rainy day, we walked to Sutton Library. We enjoyed listening to stories read by the librarian and we choose some books to bring home. It was a very wet walk back to school!
Re-Start a Heart Day
Today we had our "Re-start a Heart" training. We learnt what to do in an emergency and how to perform CPR. We talked about dialling 999, shouting for help, checking for danger and practised CPR on "George".
Class council 11.10.18
We talked about what we had enjoyed so far and how we have settled into Year 2.
- We've loved Traction Man and the fantastic adventures he has had in our classroom.
- We’ve enjoyed lovely food at lunchtime.
- We love sitting the Lions and Tigers at lunchtime.
- We love the new activities at lunchtime
- We love our end of the day stories.
- We are feeling sad that there are lots of names in our behaviour book. We are hoping that the new way of lining up might help with that.
How are lunchtimes now that we have play leaders?
We are loving it… especially big skipping, the big speaker, musical statues, hula hoops, the dressing up clothes, sitting on the carpet tiles and reading, playing noughts and crosses, playing with the FS2 children, the tuff spot and conkers.
Any issues for school council?
We’d like a friendship stop so we know where to go where we are feeling lonely at playtime or lunchtime.
What’s happening in the rest of the world?
We watched Newsround and talked about Hurricane Michael in Florida and the damage that was being caused. We then watched an interview with some of the actors from the new film, “Big Foot”.
What are we looking forward to?
The cinema, the pantomime, our library trip and starting our Christmas play!
Science day fun!
What fun we had!
We loved our science afternoon.
We investigated rainbows made with skittles, made cornflour slime, larva lamps and fizzy colours, watched colours travel along the paper towel and made rainbow colours with milk.
The afternoon ended when we watched the year 5 children send their water rockets high into the sky.
A fabulous end to a great afternoon!
London's Burning!
To start our first topic, “The Great Fire of London” we came to school dressed as bakers. We made bread (we didn’t burn the school down!) and we re-enacted the story of the fire that was started by Thomas Farriner, a baker in 1666 in London and lasted for 4 days.To start our first topic, “The Great Fire of London” we came to school dressed as bakers. We made bread (we didn’t burn the school down!) and we re-enacted the story of the fire that was started by Thomas Farriner, a baker in 1666 in London and lasted for 4 days.
Health and Well-Being Week
On our first week back we did lots of activities around keeping healthy and looking after ourselves. We looked at healthy foods, talked about ourselves and did a range of fitness activities including yoga which we loved! Here we are joining in with some of the traditional yoga poses. Namaste!
Yoga Workshop
What can you do to help?
- Come and talk to us if you have any worries or concerns.
- Read to them and read with them! Reading is a key skill in Year 2 and helps children become successful, independent learners. Listening to your child read at home at least 4 times a week will ensure continued progress. Please write in your child’s reading diary when they have read to you, as they will be rewarded for this with a raffle ticket ( for 3 or more reads at home) and a chance to win a book, each week.
- Use the Oxford owls website to help your child with their reading.
- Please continue to help your child learn the keywords in their plastic packet.
- Count! Count in 1s, in 2s, in 3s, in 5s and in 10s, up the stairs, peas on the plate, pennies in the purse etc. Count over 100, from different numbers rather than from 1 eg 36,37 etc.
- Come and help us – we always welcome parents to help us…listen to readers, help with baking, sewing etc.
- Use the learning links below.
Homework
After Christmas children will receive a piece of homework fortnightly. This may be Maths or English work. We will send you more information nearer the time.