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Supporting Your Child At Home in Year 2

Welcome to Porthill Class

We have been doing lots of great activities for the Queen's Platinum Jubilee. For our art lessons we have been improving our drawing skills by sketching out the facial features of a skull. Today we traced and then drew our own portraits inspired by the artist Julian Opie. We have been learning about position and direction in Maths and played a game to direct one class mate correctly to another. In science we have been learning about everyday materials, we have been describing objects using the correct vocabulary. In groups we made a suitable house for the Three Little Pigs, using straws, Lego and sticks. We then came back together to see how strong our houses were when a big gust of wind came! The group who used the Lego won! We also loved taking part in a our trial for 'Now Press Play', it was great listening to and taking part in a story. What a busy few weeks! Amazing work everyone, we are so proud of you! :)

Today we recapped on contractions, we are learning to understand how to write words as contractions and write them in an expanded form. Please ask your child to give you some examples, they worked very hard this morning, well done everyone! :)

Our class 3D spider sculpture!! Fantastic teamwork :)

In Maths we are learning about measuring in centimetres and metres. We measured objects around the classroom and understand why we need to start at 0.

During our cool challenge time, the children made fairy tale story puppets and created their own story. We have been learning about the features of different fairy tales, comparing Jack and the Beanstalk and Little Red Riding Hood.

We hope you've had a lovely Easter break. We have had a great first week back! Our new Darwin Value for this half term is Stickability. I'm sure if you ask your child about this, they can tell you all about it. It was great fun making windmills and we didn't give up!

KS1 Recycling Assembly. Today we learned about the importance of recycling and where different household waste goes. Your child will bring home a pack of colouring pencils and a colouring sheet as part of a competition.

Africa Afternoon! We had great fun making African masks and necklaces. We recapped on what we have learned about Africa and learned some new information too.

Super readers! Great job everyone :)

Super reading once again!

For Design and Technology this week we made a healthy wrap, we tried different combinations of food to see what we liked and didn't like. They were delicious!

Nesscliffe trip! We had a great time, the children did amazing!

The children really enjoyed learning about 2D and 3D shapes properties. We have been learning about how many sides each 2D shape has and what vertices are. I wonder if your child can tell you at home about what they have learned.

World Book Day- We had great fun creating our story spuds, well done everyone! A photo to show all of our entries.

We have been learning all about 2D and 3D shapes. In groups we matched up the shapes and names correctly, described shapes in our magic bag and sorted shapes correctly. Super teamwork!

Some more reading prizes, well done everyone!

The week we have been learning about our new Darwin Value Growthability for this half term. We created hot air balloons to write about what we are proud of and what we can't do yet. As a class we discussed that it is okay to not to know everything and that we need to practise to get better at things.

We have been busy in Art last week using clay and creating our own art inspired by Clarice Cliff’s Circle Tree.

Well done to the children who received their reading prizes, keep up the great work!

We worked as a class to find equal groups in our problems.

We had a great week learning all about Africa. The children tried different foods and voted for their favourite one, we even had a go at playing some African drums!

This week in PSHE we have been learning about what it means to be a good neighbour. As a class we talked about what you can do to be a good neighbour. We worked together in pairs to think of positive solutions to different problems.

Well done to the children who received their reading prize. Great effort with reading at home!

This week we have been very busy in History. We have been learning all about the about the Royal Family. As a group we ordered a timeline and discussed important events about Queen Elizabeth II.

This half term our Darwin Value is Bouncebackability. Porthill class began 'Inventors' and created their own paper aeroplane! They had to use the ability to bounceback when investigating how their paper aeroplanes worked.

Last day before the Christmas holidays. Have a lovely Christmas everyone

Home Learning - Wednesday 15th December 2021

Enjoying some Christmas challenges, opening the Christmas advent sack and our chocolate calendar

These children have got their next reading prize for lots of reading at home... amazing!

Lots of wonderful Christmas plates created, well done Porthill

Ready to film our nativity

Posting some Christmas cards at the post box

Christmas jumper day!

Porthill were amazing at the KS1 Carol Service

Our Elf has been busy having a house point bath and reading stories to our teddies.

This week we had a really special arrival! We have been sent an Elf to enjoy December with us, it arrived without a name so we had a vote to decide, his name is Buddy!

Porthill class have created some fantastic baubles for the school competition

This week in Science we have been learning about the weather and the seasons! We made our own sundial

Children in Need 2021

In English we went on a Autumn walk and then wrote some wonderful senses poems

Our wonderful Porthill bakers! Thank you for bringing in these for the bake off and the bake sale

In geography we did some fieldwork and explored our school surroundings

This week we have started to learn how to type on the laptops

Well done to these children who have received their reading prize! Great reading at home!

Porthill have enjoyed using our new listening centre!

In Geography we are studying our local area, today we made our own passports!

Porthill have enjoyed their rainbow challenges this week, lots of wonderful writing and creations, well done everyone!

Porthill have enjoyed the creative rainbow challenge this week - creating a firework!

A big thank you to two of our children who have helped sell the poppies to raise money for the poppy appeal

Remembrance Day 2021

On Tuesday Porthill class celebrated World Adoption Day

Our school project - this week we have been learning about compasses and directions!

In Maths we have been using coins to show amounts of money in different ways

We have enjoyed completing maths challenges this week

A mystery door has appear on our playground! Porthill have so many questions about it!

Well done to everyone who has received their first reading award for lots of reading at home

The Pumpkin Trail! Porthill class added some wonderful pumpkins and all enjoyed looking at the rest of the schools creations

We had another visitor to the book vending machine! Amazing home learning

Gymnastics with Passmaster

In science we have been learning about different groups of animals, we did some fantastic sorting and discussing

A visit to the book swap!

Porthill have enjoyed the recycling competition, lots of crisps packets have been contributed!

Harvest assembly and our harvest donations

Just some of the amazing work completed in our challenge time this week.

We had another visitor to the book vending machine! Well done for completing some amazing home learning in one of our borrow bags

Every morning we love completing some morning Maths!

Some more amazing home learning! Well done everyone.

Creating our own habitats!

In Science we became mini beast explorers! We searched for habitats and discussed why some habitats are more suited to different mini beasts than others.

Art Week - This week children have loved using paint, crayons and sketching to explore pattern, tone and texture in art! Great work everyone.

Another visit to the book swap!

Some more wonderful home learning this week! Well done everyone

Our COOL time challenges this week, we have completed lots of activities about Charles Darwin. These will continue next week.

We had our first visitor to the book vending machine for so many wonderful pieces of home learning

In English we have been researching and writing facts about Charles Darwin

In computing this week we have been learning about different technology, we went on a technology hunt around school to see what we can see.

In English we have been learning about features of a non chronological report, children were able to find lots in non fiction books.

Enjoying the adventure playground during our golden time this afternoon

In PE we have been doing some gymnastics, this week we focused on creating shapes with our body. Can you spot the letters and numbers we created?

This week our COOL time challenges have been ‘Friendship challenges’

In History we have been learning about Charles Darwin. Today we went off into the forest and became mini Darwins! We observed nature and sketched four different things.

In Music we have created a soundscape. We used our body parts to make music that represented the piece of music we listened to. Excellent partner work!

In English we have planned our own diary entry about a day on the moon inspired by the story “The Man on the Moon”

We have had some excellent home learning shared this week! Well done everyone!

We enjoyed using the iPad to take photos of each others creations

Our every day exercise and calm brain activities have been really great at helping our bodies get ready for learning

In Maths we have been thinking about partitioning numbers into tens and ones.

Well done to our School Councillor and Eco Councillor for attending their first meeting this week!

Our Darwin Value activity for Changeability was to create a flower, we made some wonderful ones!

Exploring our new library books!

Practicing our Maths in our challenge time

Hit the button! This is a fantastic Maths website to help recall lots of Maths facts. https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/hit-the-button

Exploring Porthill Class

Termly Forecast and Knowledge Organisers

⭐️ PE will be on a Monday and Thursday, please ensure your child has their kit on a Monday and leave it in school until Thursday. ⭐️

⭐️ Reading books - children will receive school books on a Monday. Please encourage your child to read three times per week. ⭐️

⭐️ Water bottles - please ensure your child has a water bottle in school everyday. ⭐️

⭐️ Please contact me via email on staffporthill@mountpleasantsbmat.com if you have any questions, comments or concerns. Please remember to check your app messages as I regularly send home class messages. ⭐️

I’m really excited about the year ahead and I look forward to sharing lots of activities on here with you,

Thanks,

Miss Pharo

In our English lessons we are focusing on the skills that we need to help us read. Our reading dogs are helping us learn each of the following skills:-

Vocabulary Predicting Sequencing Inference Retrieval

The document below introduces the reading dogs and what their jobs are.