Author: year2

This term we have been focusing on structures and used our History topic ‘The Great Fire of London’ to re-create our own Great Fire of London houses. The children spent time learning about which shapes would be best and how to make them stronger before designing, creating, adapting and painting their houses.

This term we have been busy learning about The Great Fire of London and have spent the last couple of weeks focusing on newspaper reports.

To help us with this writing we used a range of drama activities to support our imaginations and understanding of the events.

Over the course of the term, year 2 have been working hard on their place value understanding. They have used a ranged of manipulatives to support their learning and are beginning to develop their reasoning skills.

It was has been a brilliant start to the academic year with lots of exciting learning.

Here is our curriculum map and KIRFs to show you what the children have been busy learning about so far this term.

Curriculum Web Term 1

Y2 KIRFs T1

Miss Reynolds, Mrs Bader and Miss Kay

Year 2 were able to go over to the Marsh Academy to participate in the infant games. They spent the day there and got to experience 5 different sports; Squash, American football, Martial arts, Cricket and Golf. All the children enjoyed competing in their teams and loved their new infant games t-shirt that they got to wear and keep.

KS1 had a fantastic sports day. They completed a carousel of activities in their teams with the help of the year 6s before competing in their individual races.

We have reached the final term of the academic year.

Lots of exciting things will also be taking place:

Sports day

Trip to Rochester castle

Creating our own campfire

Meet our year 3 teacher

Making our own wraps linked to the lighthouse keeper’s lunch.

Please find attached our curriculum overview for this term as well as our KIRFs for Maths.

KIRFs

Topic Overview for website

Towards the end of term 5, we had an arts week, with a focus around the Platinum Jubilee. We had to learn a song from during the Queen’s reign and then were challenged to use our DT skills to design and create a castle fit for a queen. The children worked hard on all of these events.

To end the end we then had a Jubilee picnic and party on the playground and field. We also showcased our DT work for all our parents to see.

In the last week of term, we were lucky to go to Dungeness on the RH&DR. The children loved the steam train and enjoyed learning about the lighthouses, exploring native plants to Dungeness and then going on a bug hunt. They were also able to get close to moths and then release them back into the wild. To end the day, we spent some time sketching the lighthouses and the power station before playing lots of fun games on the train back to New Romney.

As part of our history learning, we learnt about where people lived during the stone age, talking about the changes that had happened over time. To help us, we created our stone age caves using clay.