Warren Hills Community Primary School & Nursery
Welcome to our Heroes class page 2023-24
We are the Year 2 class at Warren Hills Community Primary School. Miss Daniel is our teacher and Mrs Smith and Mrs Cooke support our class.
PE this term will be on Mondays and Wednesdays.
Please ensure that your child has an indoor kit consisting of a white t-shirt, dark shorts and plimsols or trainers. They will also need outside kit consisting of dark tracksuit bottoms or leggings, white t-shirt and trainers. Please ensure that long hair is tied back, earrings must be removed (if your child cannot remove earrings themselves please ensure that they are taken out before they come to school).
We Love Reading
In our class, we know how important reading is to help us learn and we follow a reading scheme in our school called Read, Write, Inc. We each have a home reading folder to bring our books home in every day and a yellow reading record. We enjoy reading at home and know how important it is to practise with our parents/carers regularly to help us become successful readers.
A note from the teacher: Please ensure that your child brings their home reading folder back to school every day and remember to enjoy spending some time listening to your child read each day.
Autumn Term 2 2023-24
Bounce
Throw it, catch it, roll it, bounce it, up and down and side to side. Can you catch the bouncing ball? Can you bounce too? Jump like a horse, leap like a frog or kick like a kangaroo. How many bounces can you do? Design a game, bouncy or otherwise. Then write instructions for someone else to play. Are the instructions clear enough? Can the players follow them? Who will score the highest? Then let’s create a Sporting Challenge Day for parents and carers. Can they hit it, roll it, win it? Now let’s relax. Breathe deeply and stretch those tired muscles. All that bouncing must have made you tired.
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Autumn Term 1 2023-24
Street Detective
This way or that way? Where should we go? Up to the local shops or down to the playing fields? Let’s learn about our local community, looking at houses old and new and finding out how our streets have changed since our mums and dads were young. Perhaps your granny or grandpa went to your school or maybe they worked in the baker’s shop? Make maps and plans of the streets around us, planning our routes. What can you see? What can we find? Whereabouts do you live? Do you know your address? Find out how to write instructions, directions, adverts and learn rhymes all about our community from different times. When the Lord Mayor writes and asks us to help make our street a better place, it’s time to get your thinking caps on and paintbrushes at the ready. Ready to roll, Street Detectives? Get your clipboards and cameras – it’s time to start investigating.
Welcome to our Heroes class page
2022-23
We are the Year 2 class at Warren Hills Community Primary School. Mrs Cheetham is our teacher and Mrs Smith and Mrs Cooke support our class.
PE this term will be on Mondays and Thursdays.
Please ensure that your child has an indoor kit consisting of a white t-shirt, dark shorts and plimsols or trainers. They will also need outside kit consisting of dark tracksuit bottoms or leggings, white t-shirt and trainers. Please ensure that long hair is tied back, earrings must be removed (if your child cannot remove earrings themselves please ensure that they are taken out before they come to school).
We Love Reading
In our class, we know how important reading is to help us learn and we follow a reading scheme in our school called Read, Write, Inc. We each have a home reading folder to bring our books home in every day and a yellow reading record. We enjoy reading at home and know how important it is to practise with our parents/carers regularly to help us become successful readers.
A note from the teacher: Please ensure that your child brings their home reading folder back to school every day and remember to enjoy spending some time listening to your child read each day.
Summer Term 2 2022-23
In the Coastline project, your child will use maps to learn about the location of the world’s seas and oceans and keys to learn about map symbols. They will also find out about the directions on a compass. They will learn about the human and physical features of a coastline, including the effects of erosion and how to stay safe when visiting the coast. They will have the opportunity to learn about the work of the RNLI, what happened to the SS Rohilla and about the coastal town of Whitby, including how Captain Cook is linked to the town. They will research the tourism industry and consider what features make a place a successful tourist destination.
Summer Term 1 2022-23
Grab your coat and pooter – we’re going out and about on a minibeast hunt. Sweep your nets in ponds and lift up logs to see who’s home. Then set up a minibeast laboratory and observe their every move. Add notes and labels and ask research questions, just like a real entomologist. Learn about bees and worms and butterflies too. Can you make a food chain to show who eats who? Carry out investigations to find out more, like how far a snail travels in a day and how a spider catches its prey. Then animate to show how your favourite bug transforms from one form to another, perhaps a caterpillar to a butterfly or a maggot to a fly. On your belly, legs at the ready, it’s time to wriggle and crawl.
Spring Term 2 2022-23
See the castle ahead? Get ready to invade its mighty walls. Shoot a projectile with an archer’s aim. Head across the drawbridge, over the moat and up to the top of the tower. Meet Rapunzel who lives in a tall, tall tower. Let’s build a brand new one. Whose is the tallest? Can you measure it? Then dig deep, deep down, making burrows and tunnels, just like the animals who live underground. What’s that sound? I hear little hooves going trip, trap, trip, trap, over the rickety bridge. Watch out for the angry troll underneath. He likes to gobble up little girls and boys. Make sure your bridge is sturdy enough to take our weight and get us safely to the other side. And finally, meet three little pigs who need your help to build a strong fortress. Inside its strong walls, they’ll be safe from the big, bad wolf. No huffing and puffing will blow your fortress down.
Spring Term 1 2022-23
Muck, Mess and Mixtures. Let’s get messy. Muck and mess are good. In fact, they're marvellous. Dive in and get your hands and feet all sticky and covered in paint. Play with liquids, squish some dough and check out the slushiest and mushiest foods. Pour, mix, stir, splat. How does it feel to get your hands covered in goo? Make a wobbly jelly and draw with wibbly clay. Write recipes, instructions, riddles and poems – there are loads of scrummy words to describe messy mixtures. Work with paint and other squelchy stuff to create a new gallery space. What will you make? How will you arrange it? How will the gallery make you and your visitors feel? Don’t worry about the mess – it’ll always wash.
Autumn Term 2 2022-23
Throw it, catch it, roll it, bounce it, up and down and side to side. Can you catch the bouncing ball? Can you bounce too? Jump like a horse, leap like a frog or kick like a kangaroo. How many bounces can you do? Design a game, bouncy or otherwise. Then write instructions for someone else to play. Are the instructions clear enough? Can the players follow them? Who will score the highest? Then let’s create a Sporting Challenge Day for parents and carers. Can they hit it, roll it, win it? Now let’s relax. Breathe deeply and stretch those tired muscles. All that bouncing must have made you tired.
Let's Bounce! We 'bounced' into this half term on our animal hoppers as part of our Bounce topic! We thought about the muscles we were using to move around the hall on the equipment. We continued the topic thinking about healthy living and considered different animals that 'bounce' such as kangaroos.
Our class pet, Rosie has been busy! Rosie has been keeping us busy, going home each weekend with a member of the class. Here she is after a weekend stay at one of our pupil's houses, where she got to visit a pumpkin farm and came back her own miniature pumpkin.
Amazing Art We used a paint and bubble mix solution to create patterns for our bubble artwork. Don't they look fantastic? We talked about layering to create pattern and texture, as well as colour mixing to obtain different effects. They are on display in our classroom gallery.
Autumn Term 1 2022-23
This way or that way? Where should we go? Up to the local shops or down to the playing fields? Let’s learn about our local community, looking at houses old and new and finding out how our streets have changed since our mums and dads were young. Perhaps your granny or grandpa went to your school or maybe they worked in the baker’s shop? Make maps and plans of the streets around us, planning our routes. What can you see? What can we find? Whereabouts do you live? Do you know your address? Find out how to write instructions, directions, adverts and learn rhymes all about our community from different times. When the Lord Mayor writes and asks us to help make our street a better place, it’s time to get your thinking caps on and paintbrushes at the ready. Ready to roll, Street Detectives? Get your clipboards and cameras – it’s time to start investigating.
Local Area Walk We became 'Street Detectives' by going out into the local area and looking at the geography around us. We noticed key buildings and landmarks and considered how the local landscape has changed over time. We developed our map skills by following simple maps and practised using directional language when giving and receiving instructions to get from one place to another.
Working Together in PSHE This half term in PSHE, we have been developing our cooperation skills by completing puzzles and tasks alongside one another. We have been developing skills such as patience, comprising, sharing, turn taking and communicating effectively with one another to achieve a shared goal.
