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Welcome to Year 2!

Class Teacher - Miss Broughton

Teaching Assistant - Mrs Knowles and Mrs Pearson

Spring Term - Going Underground!

Curriculum Letter Spring 2022_23.pdf

Going Underground!

Going Underground! (The Victorian Era)

Our focus on the Victorian Era continues this term. We begin by looking at the changes in our country during the Industrial Revolution and then move to the development of coal mining. Not only is coal mining an important part of our national history, but our local area is steeped with coal mining history due to coal seams running underground!

We are hoping to visit the National Coal Mining Museum on the 3^rd of March (to be confirmed) where we will journey 140metres underground and learn about 180 years of mining history.

History lessons during this half term will focus on answering the following questions:

How did Britain become the largest, wealthiest and most powerful ‘Empire’ in the world during the Victorian Era.
What is coal and why is it so important?
What was it like working down the mine in the early 19^th century?
Why were some animals important to miners?
How did Queen Victoria help to change working conditions down the mine in the mid 19^thcentury and was this positive for mining families?
How did technology change working conditions down the mines over time? What were the positive and negative consequences of this?

Geography lessons, after half term, will focus on the changing landscape of our local area. We will look at mines such as Creswell to see how the community developed around the pit by looking at old maps and aerial photographs. The Model Village is a good example of how the area was developed by the Bolsover Colliery Company.

The fabulous cast of 'The INNspectors'

Art: Can I create a watercolour wash?

November 2022 - Can I carry out a fair test to discover the best material for a raincoat?

To launch our new topic we headed to the Victorian Classroom in Barnsley for a truly memorable day!

It’s the only way to travel!

This term our topic is all about transport. We will begin by looking at different types of transport with a focus on hot air balloons during our transition days. After that we will begin a historical enquiry into the sinking of the Titanic.

The Titanic

Not only is there a clear, compelling narrative that pupils can relate to, it also offers opportunities to develop worthwhile historical concepts such as diversity, causation, consequences, interpretations and source analysis. The approach to the events of the Titanic will be a problem-solving one. They will be cast in the role of experts. For example during one lesson they become historical advisers to a film director, at others they are giving reasons at an enquiry or

advising US and UK governments about future safety measures. I hope that this topic generates a lot of discussion at home as it is one of those events that attracts a lot of popular interest and captures people’s imagination.

Please see below some documents containing some useful information for the Autumn Term

Summer Term - Important documents

Ordering the main events of the Titanic's maiden voyage: A human timeline!

Here we are considering the many different reasons presented to us as to why the Titanic sank...

Line drawings of hot air balloons.

Music with Mr Botley

Going Underground!

We will begin with a history focus thinking about changes in national life within living memory. Not only is coal mining an important part of our national history, but our local area is steeped with coal mining history due to coal seams running underground!

We will be visiting the National Coal Mining Museum this half term where we will have a tour underground. We will journey 140metres underground and learn about 180 years of mining!

Please take a look at the documents below for more information about this terms learning in Class 2.

Important Documents - Spring Term

Drumming Workshop

Mining Museum Trip - January 2022

We are photographers! A small selection of our amazing photography skills.

Faith Days: Exploring Judaism

Science in Year 2: Here we are setting up our hydroponics experiment. Please ask us what we found out...

On this page you will find different learning tasks for you to complete should you need to stay at home for a few days either because you are awaiting a Covid test result or you need to isolate. Please contact me on the class e-mail address should you need any further support. Miss Broughton x

Home Learning 2020/21

Sports Day - A little bit different this year but we had a lot of fun!

Welcome to the Summer Term. Please take a look at the letter below which tells you everything you need to know about this half term!

Welcome to the Spring Term! Please see the documents below for more information.

Year 2 Phonics letter.pdf

December 2020 - KS1 Nativity. It was a bit different this year but the children were amazing. You all remembered your lines and sang beautifully. You can watch the nativity as many times as you like thanks to Rev. Dave!

December 2020 - Jingle Jog. Lots of rosy cheeks afterwards!

December 2020 - Christmas Jumper Day. Don't they look fantastic!

23rd November 2020 - Design and Technology: Making Moving Vehicles.

13th November 2020 - Children In Need and monthly birthday party!

October 2020: How can we find out which materials are waterproof?

September 2020: Hot air balloon art using pastels: We used pastels in different ways and enjoyed blending using our fingers. In the afternoon we learnt interesting facts about hot air balloons and used our new skills with pastels to add colour to our balloons!

Year 2 Lock-down doorstep challenge

"Goodbyes are not forever, are not the end; it simply means i'll miss you until we meet again"

Welcome back to the Summer Term. The start of this term is incredibly unusual and I know you must find it very strange too. I hope you managed to enjoy Easter and from the messages I have been receiving it looks like you have had a great time with the people you live with. At the moment it is important that you and your family stay safe and follow the guidance we have been given. However, having some structure and routines are also important to help you manage these strange times. To help with that I will be uploading some learning tasks for you to do at home. You and your family can decide how and when you complete them as I know your grown-ups and brothers and sisters will also be busy working too. Remember to have fun and if you find something too tricky then move on to another activity. If you have a great idea of your own linked to our learning then go for it! Please let me know if you need any help and keep emailing me with your achievements at home. Remember have fun, keep safe, look after each other and stay in touch.

Love from Miss Broughton, Mrs Knowles and Mrs Pearson xx

Miss Broughton (Class Teacher), Mrs Knowles, Mrs Pearson and Mrs Gray (part-time Teaching Assistants) welcome you to Year 2!

Spring Term: Extreme Explorers! Scott of the Antarctic.

Take a look at our 'Knowledge Organiser' and 'Curriculum Letter'.

Learning how to combine our movements for French Skipping in PE with Miss Broughton (March 2020)

Drumming with Dan (Music Week March 2020)

Christopher Columbus Day

February 2020: Clay Thumb Pots.

February 2020 - Making Cress Heads! Today we set up an experiment to see how quickly cress seeds would grow in comparison to our broad bean experiment.

February 2020: A Hydroponics update! Look at our seedlings - we have roots and shoots. The children have been busy recording their new knowledge about seeds and making further predictions.

Science: Can you grow seeds without soil? Please take a look at our 'hydroponics' experiment...

Judaism Experience 13th January.

Year 2 art - 13th January 2020

Autumn Term: It's the only way to travel! The Titanic, Local transport and the Wright Brothers.

The Titanic

Not only is there a clear, compelling narrative that pupils can relate to, the topic will also provide opportunities to develop worthwhile historical concepts such as diversity, causation, consequences, interpretations and source analysis. Our approach to the events of the Titanic will be a problem-solving one. The children will be cast in the role of experts and be encouraged to make up their own minds about what happened as opposed to taking on board commonly held beliefs. For example, during one lesson they become historical advisers to a film director and during another they debate the reason for the sinking of the unsinkable ship at an enquiry. I hope that this topic generates a lot of discussion at home as it is one of those events that attracts a lot of popular interest and captures people’s imagination. Our English, music and art lessons will also focus on the Titanic during the first half term in order to provide depth to our learning.

September 2019 Curriculum Letter and Knowledge Organisers.

Christmas Fun!

October 2019: Farm to Fork Week

October 2019: We had a fantastic day at Crich Tramway Village learning about the history of trams as part of our transport topic!

How can we test to see which materials are waterproof?

Looking very proud of their Titanic Fact Files and rightly so!

Science Week 7th October 2019 - We enjoyed listening to Dennis Ashton from the Royal Astronomical Society. We found out about how astronauts eat and sleep in space. Dennis even told us how astronauts go to the toilet!

Farm to Fork Week - WC 30th September 2019

Exploring materials and their properties in science...

11th July 2019: Treat morning with the money raised from our sponsored spell!

Yorkshire Wildlife Park - July 2019

Congratulations girls on your winning and shortlisted designs for the Primary Engineers Award. We are extremely proud of you!

Here are a selection of Class 2 presenting their manifestos to be School Councillor in Year 3. Good Luck for the elections which will be held on the 4th July. Good luck everyone!

July 2019: Each child in school will be making and designing their own clay fish using a variety of different printing implements and designs. We will be making a beautiful display of all of us swimming together!

June 2019: Creating Computer Art: The children were introduced to French artist Georges Seurat 1859-1891 who spent two years producing his famous pointillist painting: A sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte (1884-85). Then, we tried to create our own art using Microsoft Paint, using the same technique. Well done to these boys who used lots of tiny dots to re-create a picture of an apple!

Spring Term - Class information

Curriculum Letter Spring 1.pdf

Safety Seymour - Class 2 learn all about Carbon Monoxide Safety

This week during our topic time we considered the following question. What has it like to be a young child in a 19th Century Mining Community?

19th of March 2019 - ICT/Laptops with Cameron from North Notts College - Today we recapped how to switch on, log on and log off our laptops. We used a 'web browser' to search for the National Coal Mining Museum website. Once on the website we used hyperlinks to navigate the site and launch to other websites. We found out that websites are often made up of hundreds of pages!

History - Researching the role of children in 19th Century Mining.

World Book Day - 7th March 2019. Look at our amazing costumes. We had a great day and even found time to share our favourite stories with Year 6!

National Coal Mining Museum Trip - 1st March 2019

Safer Internet Day February 2019: We discussed how to keep safe whilst using the internet and made posters to alert our friends...

January 2019: French Skipping

We have focussed on our fundamental movements such as running, dodging, jumping, skipping and hopping. We have applied our skills whilst learning the game ‘French Skipping’. We have found that this has required us to use increased balance and coordination for our jumping.