Welcome to Year 2
Autumn Term 2024
We have settled into our first term of Year 2 so well and have been super busy! This has included visits to our local parish, St Mary’s, to learn about baptism with Father Manny, trips to the library, improving our gymnastics skills in PE by showing fantastic balances and taking part in Parliament Week, making our own manifestos and voting for our favourite ones.
We also went on an amazing school trip to Liverpool. We had such a fun-filled day exploring, slime making, snow making and role playing at Imagine That and then visiting the World Museum.
In history, we have been learning about schools in the past. We invited Mrs Steele and Mrs Hurley into our classroom to talk to us all about what St Pius X was like when it first opened in 1974. We really enjoyed looking at the old photo albums of our school.
In design and technology, we have designed, made and evaluated fruit and vegetable kebabs, which were ‘amazing’ and ‘perfect’. We practised cutting skills and discussed how we can prepare our fruit and vegetable kebab safely.
This term, we have also had the excitement of preparing for Christmas! We have been learning all about the Christmas Story and have even narrated the infant Nativity this year.
We are ready for our Christmas break after a very busy first term in Year 2!
Spring Term 2023-2024
What an exciting half term we have had! We have had an excellent half term going on trips. We visited Liverpool on the coach and spent the full day with Eureka in their Interactive Science Museum and exploring the World Museum. At Eureka we were lead on a guided tour through their interactive zones. We took part in activities that covered: The body, Nature, Home and construction.
The World Museum was equally as wonderful. We explored their: aquarium, ancient Egypt and their natural world. It was fascinating to see real life mummies and develop our understanding of the mummification process.
Autumn 2 2023-2024
Our final half term of the calendar year! This term we have been very hands on and practical. We have been building up to our Nativity with weekly practices and we were also lucky enough to have a snow day! We had an amazing time outside marking snowmen and having snowball fights.
we also made a healthy snack for break time within our DT lessons. We made fruit kebabs from scratch. Choosing, cleaning and cutting our own fruit and veg.
Autumn 1 2023-2024
The first half term of the new academic year!
The children have settled in brilliantly and we have made a great start to the year. This half term we have had Barrow Community Sports in teaching us some multi-skills during our PE lessons. We also had lots of fun creating our class Gospel values poster and finally we have enjoyed listening to, playing and composing musical beats using the glockenspiels!
Summer 2 2022-2023
Our last half term in Year 2! What a brilliant year we have had. It has been filled with hard work and exciting events. In our last half term we have been learning all about nurturing nurses and the emergency services and how they have changed throughout time. Within our topics we created some medals to replicate that of Florence Nightingale’s out of clay. We also created our very own emergency service vehicles out of recycled materials in DT.
Summer 1 2022-2023
This half term n Summer 1 we have worked extremely hard. We have completed our SAT's. The children were amazing and really showcased what they had learned throughout the year. This half term we were also very creative. We had a professional artist come in to class to teach us how to sketch and paint using water colours and we also had sewing masterclass in DT by our very own Mrs Chatfield.
Finally, we sang our hearts out at St Pius Calling! Even though it rained this didn't dampen our spirits! We sang charanga songs that we have practised throughout the year.
Spring 2 2022-2023
In Spring 2 we continued developing our Geographical knowledge. This half term we have been answering the Geography enquiry ‘Why don’t penguins need to fly?’ We thought that the best way to answer this would be through a trip to the South Lakes Safari Park. Here we had a brilliant time feeding and taking park in a penguin workshop. Taking advantage of local expertise.
In Re this half term we have been learning about the life and work of Jesus and how he was able to perform unexplainable miracles. The children were able to retell and re-enact some of these through role play. This is what we based this terms class assembly on.
Spring 1 2022-2023
This half term we had the arrival of our wonderful student teacher Miss Cairns, who will be with us for the next 11 weeks.
This half term we have been learning all about significant explorers. This included the life’s work of people like. Amy Johnson, Walter Tull, Matthew Henson and Ibn Battuta. Within this History module we invited our parents in for a class assembly and hopefully taught them something new. Autumn 2 is also a time for the nativity. The Year 2 class did a fantastic job of narrating the story!
Autumn 2 2022-2023
We have well and truly settled into the work expectations of Year 2.
This half term was full of exciting school trips! Our first one was the the Manchester Museum of Science and Engineering. Here we had an interactive experience exploring all of the different exhibits. Our second school trip took us to the Manchester Airport Visitor Centre. Here we spent the day being pilots and cabin crew. We had an immersive day on board a Boeing 747 taking part in some creative role play.
Finally, Autumn 2 is Nativity time. We had the very important job of narrating while Year 1 and Reception acted on stage.
A very exciting half term!
Finally, we also enjoyed an amazing trip to the Manchester Airport Visitor Centre.
Autumn 1 2022-2023
What a brilliant first half term we have had this year in Year 2. The children have been working extremely hard settling into new life in Year 2.
In RE we have been learning all about 'The Chosen People' and reflecting on why we have all been chosen by God to be on the Earth. We incorporated some D and T into this and created some sliders based on the story of Moses. We also took part in a fantastic musing session which was all about telling stories through music. The children really impressed us with their creativity.
We are very proud of how the children have settled into their new class!
Summer 1 2022
This half term has been our busiest yet! The children have worked their socks off in the run up to the KS1 end of year assessments, we couldn’t be more proud of them. To celebrate the end of our assessment week we enjoyed a personal visit from a local ice cream van!
This half term we have also enjoyed the Queens jubilee celebrations, we became show jumpers for the afternoon and the Queen came to watch! We also quality checked and tested out our brand new fixed gym equipment, we tested our physical strength and coordination.
In history this half term we have been learning all about The Great Fire of London. As part of this we took the classic ‘London’s Burning’ and gave it our own twist. We enjoyed editing and creating new imaginative verses.
Spring 2 2022
This half term we have been extremely busy and had the wonderful opportunity to go on some school trips. The first trip we went in was to help further our understanding of the Titanic and to explore some modern art. We visited Liverpool’s Maritime Museum where we were lucky enough to take part in an interactive workshop and re-enact a true story of a child who boarded the Titanic.
We also had the chance to visit the Tate Gallery. Here we were able to view and sketch some fantastic modern art.
our second trip of the term was to the South Lakes Safari Park where we took part in a penguin workshop to help with our Geography topic. We learned some amazing facts about then and we were even able to feed them some fish.
Spring 1 2022
This half term has been another busy and exciting one. In DT this half term we have been learning all about our food and eating healthily. We have designed and made fruit and vegetable kebabs as a healthy snack for break time. Within this we had great fun learning about knife safety and skills.
This half term we have also been learning about shadows and tone in Art. We had great fun exploring natural shadows that are created by the sun in the playground and when the weather wasn’t so nice we created our own shadows in class using torches.
Autumn 2 2021/22
This half term brought with it an amazing experience at the Manchester Airport Visitor Centre. We all had the opportunity to act as pilots for the day as well as learn about all of the important roles on board an aeroplane.
This half term was also our first opportunity to take part in ‘Well being in the woods’. We spent the afternoon creating leaf rubbings and hunting for woodland animals in their natural habitats. What a brilliant half term!
Autumn 1 2021/22
This half term we have had a great time settling into life as Year 2's! We have had lots of fun learning new things.
In Geography we have been learning all about where our food comes from and the importance of buying food locally. We have also had a good time in Music learning and performing the song 'Music in me'. This lead up to a whole school concert. Finally in PE we have been very lucky to have the expertise of Kyle from Barrow AFC in the community. He has been teaching us a variety of multi-skills games and activities.
Spring 2 2021
This half term we have been back in the classroom together! We have had a fantastic half term so far. We have enjoyed doing some art and doing lots of work in English based around 'The day the crayons came home'. It was World Book Day while we were remote learning so the first day back we enjoyed a second World Book Day where we dressed in bright colours.
We have had some lovely sunny weather and have spent lots of time outside, learning new skills, using equipment and enjoying the sunshine. Mr McGoldrick even arranged for us all to have an ice cream!
Spring 1 2021
This half term we have been learning remotely. We have spent lots of time on Zoom and using Showbie to help us with our work. We have worked super hard on our handwriting and our phonics and enjoyed creating lots of mess on Friday afternoons! We have made some hand gel soap in class and at home have made lava lamps using oil and food colouring.
This half term it was also number day so we decorated our own number T-Shirts to wear for the rest of the day.
We are looking forward to having all of Year 2 back very soon!
Autumn 2 2020
This half term we have spent lots of time remote learning! We have all worked super hard from home and have adapted very well to learning on Zoom! Year 2 have blown me away. We have learnt all about Advent and made our own Wreaths and even made our very own musical instruments in Design and Technology.
We have also been looking at The Great Fire of London and have spent lots of time learning about this. We have made timelines and even began creating our very own pictures in Art using paint, tissue paper and silhouettes of buildings. We enjoyed pretending we were Fire Fighters in 1666 by filling buckets with water as quickly as we could and throwing them out the door!
As Christmas has approached we have been lucky enough to have an Elf visit out classroom and enjoyed a Christmas party in our classroom!
Autumn 1 2020
This half term has been super busy in Year 2! We have settled back into school really well and enjoyed learning lots of new things. We have spent lots of time learning about The Hoad in Ulverston and have even used google earth and paper maps to locate the monument.
We have spent lots of time outside exploring how Autumn looks and enjoying the sunny days. We have even enjoyed Mass from our own classroom.
