Week beginning 16th December 2024
Wow - what an amazing first term it has been! We have had the most wonderful time teaching your children and seeing how far they have come in such a short time. They have all worked their socks off and really deserve their Christmas break.
Have a wonderful, relaxing time together and enjoy making precious family memories.
We will see you all in 2025 - we hope you enjoy looking through a small selection of our Lights, Camel, Action! performance...
Week beginning 9th December 2024
Wow - what a week! This week has been our Enrichment Week where we have celebrated Black History. We had fun designing and making African masks and taking part in an amazing drumming workshop.
Our highlight of the week though was our fantastic 'Lights, Camel, Action!' performance. The children performed with confidence and enthusiasm and we couldn't be more prouder of them. I bet your were all bursting with pride too!
Have a very well deserved relaxing weekend before our final week Northern Ireland!
Week beginning 2nd December 2024
It is starting to feel very Christmassy now as we start our festive preparations! On Thursday we had a lovely trip to Crawcrook library. Kyle read the story 'Simon's Sock' to us, he then planned a hunt the sock activity for us. We did such a great job of finding all of the socks quickly that we even had time to enjoy looking at some books of our own. What a lovely afternoon we all had.
Week beginning 25th November 2024
This week I would love to celebrate our super computing work. This term we have been recapping some of the skills we learnt in year 1. Last week we talked about algorithms and this week we used our knowledge of this to write a set of instructions for our partner. They then had to program a Doc Robot to see if they could follow our algorithms correctly. A super fun afternoon!
Week beginning 18th November 2024
What a lovely week it has been this week. We have been super busy in class writing our wishing tales in English, working on algorithms in Computing and designing our own moving vehicles in DT. As well as all of this amazing work we have started our Nativity rehearsals ready for our class assembly in December. The children have worked hard to learn their lines and songs for our performance so a big well done to you all.
On Monday we also welcomed a new student teacher into our class. Miss Field will be working in Northern Ireland class full time until February. The children have made her feel very welcome and I'm sure she'll have a great time working in such a lovely class.
Have a lovely weekend and enjoy the snow if it arrives!
Week beginning 11th November 2024
This week was all about Remembrance Day. On Monday we held a two minute silence and listened to 'The Last Post', the children were absolutely fantastic by showing respect and reflecting on the sacrifices of the Armed Services. In our History lesson we learnt all about Armistice Day and listened to some extracts from various people during their experience of the First World War. The children then wrote some information and facts about what they had learnt. Our Collective Worship for the week was also based around Remembrance Day - during this session the children could remember lots of information about what they had a learnt throughout the week.
Well done Northern Ireland - a superb week!
Week beginning 4th November 2024
Welcome back to the second part of our autumn term! We have had a wonderful start to our half term and have been very excited to share both Halloween and Firework news. It has been a very busy week with lots of super learning happening across all subjects. We had a fantastic visit from Sam Kree and Reverend Janet on Wednesday with a Godly Play session which we all thoroughly enjoyed. We listened to the Creation story then had lots of fun taking part in a range of activities linked to the story.
If this week is anything to go by, I think we're in for a super half term!
Have a lovely weekend everyone.
Week beginning 21st October 2024
Wow - our first half term over already! It has been an absolute delight to work with the children for the past eight weeks. We have all settled into year 2 brilliantly and have celebrated so many achievements along the way. I have been really impressed with the children's resilience and perseverance when approaching new challenges and I am sure this will continue into the second half of the autumn term.
A great start to year 2 Northern Ireland - have a restful holiday and we look forward to welcoming you all back on Monday 4th November.
Mrs Johnson, Mrs D and Miss Freeman.
Week beginning 14th October 2024
It was lovely to see everyone at parents evening this week and be able to have a chat about how well the children have settled into year 2 and share some of their fantastic work so far this year.
This week I would really love to celebrate our French skills. We have just finished our first year 2 topic of Mini Beasts (Les petites bêtes). The children have learnt the names of ten different mini beasts and have also recapped saying hello and goodbye in French. We have used a variety of stories, songs and games during our lessons and the children have been so enthused throughout our topic. Très bien Northern Ireland class.
Week beginning 7th October 2024
For the past couple of weeks in PE we have been working on our fundamental movement skills. These skills aim to improve the children's coordination, balance and control. The fundamental movement skills are the building blocks for their future athletic abilities and include skills such as running, jumping, hopping, skipping and balancing. A great start to our PE unit everyone.
Week beginning 30th September 2024
This week we have celebrated National Poetry Day, which took place on Thursday 3rd October. Our English focus for the week was all based around poetry, specifically acrostic poems. An acrostic poem is a poem where the first letter of each consecutive line spells a word, normally related to the theme of the poem. The theme for our poems was 'Leaves'. We started off by going on a nature walk to find a leaf, we then used this as inspiration for our poems. The children did a brilliant job of creating their acrostic poem using lots of description and ambitious vocabulary. Please enjoy reading a small selection of our poems below, I'm sure you will agree that they are fantastic!
Week beginning 23rd September 2024
Wow - what a fab week we have had! We have been busy writing some amazing adventure stories, carrying out or first science investigation and cooking in DT. We also enjoyed exploring different instruments during our music lesson. We talked about how there are lots of sounds all around us and that we use different words to help describe these sounds. We then talked about the musical term 'pitch' and discussed how it is used to describe how high or low a sound is. We did a great job of making our instruments play both a high and low pitch. Super job Team Northern Ireland!
Week beginning 16th September 2024
Another super week in year 2 and this week I would really like to celebrate our amazing Makaton skills. Each week we are introducing the children to a Makaton sign of the week which we use regularly throughout the week. With the help of Mrs Di Pietro, this week we have been learning some of the actions to the song 'Cauliflower's Fluffy'. I'll add the link to our song here as I'm sure your children would love to demonstrate their brilliant skills at home. Fantastic work Northern Ireland class!
Week beginning 9th September 2024
We have had another great week in Northern Ireland class. We have been very busy looking at multiples of 10 in Maths, learning a new model text in English called 'Fraction Man' and exploring materials in Science. On Wednesday morning we enjoyed a brilliant Disney themed music workshop with Gateshead Music Service - it was lovely to see the children joining in with the singing and dancing!
A few of our wonderful children took part in the mini Great North Run at the weekend and enjoyed proudly sharing their achievement with the class - a big congratulations to you all.
Have a super weekend everyone!
Week beginning 2nd September 2024
A huge welcome to our Northern Ireland class page. We have had an amazing first week in our new class and worked our socks off! I have been particularly impressed with the children's maths knowledge particularly their use of STEM sentences and mathematical vocabulary. The children have loved sharing their holiday bags with the class - it sounds like everyone had a brilliant summer!
I look forward to seeing you all next week for our 'Meet the Teacher' session.
Have a lovely weekend!
Mrs Johnson, Mrs D and Miss Freeman