Welcome to Rowan Class 2024-25

The class teacher is Miss Darrie. The children are supported by Mrs Spires. Mrs Cox will teach Music and French weekly.

Key information

• Learning practice for home is set on a Monday and is due in the following Monday. Please see below for further details.
• P.E days are Wednesday. Children are expected to come into school wearing their school uniform. P.E will take place either inside or outside. 
• Weekly Forest School sessions will begin in April.

Learning Practice

• Children are provided with a learning practice folder. The learning practise sheet for each week will be added to this each Monday and will be completed and brought back to school by the following Monday. Below are the expectations for Year 2:

Reading Daily: Five -Ten minutes of reading a school reading book every night. Record in contact book for each read. Children following the phonics progression will have books linked to their assessed phonetic/reading level accompanied by key Green and Red words.

Maths Daily: Numbots and Times Table practise using TTRockstars – games-based website supporting times-table learning. Times Tables Rock Stars: Play and Numbots Numbots Game

Weekly: 10 spellings for all children

Weekly: Maths, English grammar or English comprehension practice activity.

Termly: Topic-based menu of activities for children to complete (minimum of 2 across the term).

Our Class News

Friday 10th October

In Year 2 we are all artists! We have been working on expressing emotions through weather in our art lessons. We have considered how a storm could make us feel vulnerable and how paintings depicting Spring scenes can bring a feeling of hope and energy. We have explored some famous artwork that demonstrates the impact of weather, pieces by JMW Turner, David Hockney and Hokusai. The children will develop their skills and produce their own weather scene. 

In History, we have continued to discover more about Mary Seacole and the impact she had both nationally and internationally. We have learnt that Mary Seacole's life was beyond our living memory and made links on our learning linking Mary Seacole's life to the Victorian era. 
 

In Maths, we have been learning to counting in steps of 10s, 5s, 2s and 3s! We have discovered patterns and looked at odd and even numbers. We have learnt a special counting song to help us remember our 2s and 3s. Keep practising these at home Year 2 and if you find or learn any other great songs to help you remember ways of counting on in different steps, please share with us. 

Friday 26th September

Over the last two weeks, Rowan Class must be praised for their courage and growing confidence. This was most evident during our recent class worship in front of the whole school. The children retold the story of the Ten Leapers and reflected on how Jesus showed us the importance of being thankful to those who help us and how looking in, looking out and looking up can have a positive impact on ourselves and on the world around us. 

In Reading we are enjoying the story of Paddington Bear. We discovered some oranges, bread and a jar of marmalade. We inferred that Paddington Bear would like to discover such items as he always kept a marmalade sandwich in his hat. We have sequenced events in the story and considered how life in Britain would be very different from life in Peru. Our Reading has also allowed us to explore maps and find the continent of South America. 

The arrival of some cute and very still animal figures has got the children talking! In our Science lessons we will be discovering the types of habitat each animal will be found.

Friday 12th September

The children have made a brilliant start to the year.

Thank you, Rowan Class, for the effort, engagement and respect you have shown in your learning and towards each other. The compassion and friendship demonstrated has helped make our new start a happy one. 

We have been very excited about our new class topic – Movers and Shakers. This topic connects our History, Geography and English learning. We are excited about our forthcoming Mary Seacole and Isambard Kingdom Brunel workshop that will bring all our learning together.

In Reading, we are enjoying 'Coming to England.' The children have learnt about the life of Floella and her memories of Trinidad.

We have also taken our learning outdoors and enjoyed forest school, exploring microhabitats and identifying insects. We learnt what a habitat provides and classified living and non-living things.