Bridgetown Primary School
Ready, Respectful, Safe
Year 2
(Home) School's Out For Summer!
Well done! You've made it to the end of the school year and we are SO proud of all you've achieved at home following our home learning plans. School may now be 'out' but the learning never stops so why not challenge yourself to complete as many of our Summer 2020 activities as you can? We've put together a range of experiences that will help to enrich your understanding of the world and give you lots to talk about when you come back to school. How many can you tick off during the summer? We look forward to seeing and hearing all about it when you return in September. Until then, stay safe and well and have a wonderful, relaxing break.
With best wishes from Mrs Pinkerton and the Foundation and Key Stage One Team.
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Summer 2 Home Learning Pictures
Happy Half Term Holiday!
We hope you all have a happy, restful and safe half term break. Please do take a break from home-schooling to help you and your child make the distinction between term-time and holidays. Here are some lovely, fun activities if you would like some ideas to keep you all busy. Take care and stay safe and well.
Kind regards,
The EYFS and KS1 Team.
Year 2 Home Learning Pictures...
KS1 SATs Parent's Information Evening
Please find below the PowerPoint and handouts from our Parent's Information Evening about the statutory assessments that will take place during May.
KS1 SATs Information
Pirate Adventures!
We are excited to be back after half term, full of excitement about our new topic - Pirates!
Please see an outline of the half term below:
| Week | English | Topic | Maths | Science |
| 1 | Questions | Blackbeard | Fractions | Growing and Changing |
| 2 | Poetry | Pirate Postcards | Fractions | |
| 3 | Assessment Week | Basic Needs | ||
| 4 | Talk 4 Writing Unit - Captain Flynn and the Pirate Dinosaurs | Pirate themed writing | Fractions | |
| 5 | Position and Direction | Habitats | ||
| 6 | ||||
Dinosaur Class Assembly
Please find links to the songs we will sing on Youtube and also the lyrics below. If children could practice these songs at home it would greatly help our performance!
Our class assembly is on Wednesday 12th February.
Song Lyrics Dinosaur Assembly
Spring 1
We are so excited to get stuck into our most awesome topic, Dinosaurs! Many children can already name some dinosaurs and have clearly been reading exciting non-fiction books to find exciting facts over the Christmas holidays.
We look forward to sharing our learning with you on the morning of Wednesday 12th February at our class assembly.
| English | Maths | Science | Topic | |
| 1 | Peter and the Wolf - Warning Story | Division | Grouping Animals | Locate UK and Europe on a map |
| 2 | Statistics | Identify continents of the world | ||
| 3 | Animal Bodies | Label continents and oceans of the world | ||
| 4 | Dinosaur report - Non Chronological reports | Geometry | Where did we find the dinosaurs? | |
| 5 | Trip to All Things Wild: Animal Encounters! | Mary Anning | ||
| 6 | What do I eat? |
Christingle Practice Songs
Our rehearsals for Christingle are in full swing and we are looking forward to performing at Holy Trinity Church on Thursday 12th December.
Please listen and practice to our songs that are listed below:
Winter Nights
Tell Me Somebody
Glory to God
Razzle Dazzle
Christmas Dinner
The Bucket Chain 1666
Today Year 2 recreated the 'bucket chain' form the Great Fire of London. They had to pass teh heavy buckets of water between them, being careful to conserve water to get to the fire. Great teamwork Year 2!
Autumn 2
Swallows and Kingfishers will be diving into their new topic - Fires and Festivals - as we begin to prepare for a magical time of the year. We will be thinking about a range of celebrations around the world.
Take a look at the table below to see what we will be up to this half term:
| English | Topic | Maths | Science | |
| Week 1 | Poetry | Gunpowder Plot | Addition and Subtraction | Uses of Everyday Materials |
| Week 2 |
'On The Way Home' Journey Story - Talk 4 Writing Unit
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Diwali | Measurement: Money | |
| Week 3 | Great Fire of London | |||
| Week 4 | Multiplication and Division | |||
| Week 5 | Recount - Diary Entry - Samuel Peyps | Samuel Peyps | ||
| Week 6 | ||||
| Week 7 |
Science - Investigating our local habitat
The children explored our local habitat - the garden. They search for microhabitats and thought about what creatures might live there. Some children were lucky to find real life examples of minibeasts living in the garden!
Lighthouse Sketches
Today Year 2 sketched some wonderful lighthouses. They looked carefully at the shapes and details that made up a lighthouse. What a talented class of artists we have!
RNLI Visitor
Today Jackie from the RNLI kindly visited us to share information about staying safe near water. The children learned a lot from Jackie, and we were really grateful for her time.
Year 2 Autumn 1
Welcome back to our Year 2 children! The Swallow class and Kingfisher class have had a flying start to the new academic year. Take a look at what we'll be up to this half term in the table below:
| Subject/ Week | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 |
| Maths | Number Bonds | Place Value | Place Value | Place Value | Addition and Subtraction | Addition and Subtraction | Addition and Subtraction | Addition and Subtraction |
| English | 'Getting to know me' writing | Seaside Writing | The Lighthouse Keepers Lunch | Instruction Writing: How to make a Lighthouse | ||||
| Topic | Class rules and routines | Seaside vocabulary and coastal cities | Questions for our RNLI visitor | Visitor from the RNLI/ Seasides past and present | Disaster and rescue at sea | Grace Darling | ||
| Science | Living things and their habitats | |||||||
Welcome to Year 2 Swallows and Kingfishers!
