WELCOME TO YEAR 2 CONDORS
Condors are large, graceful and strong birds. They have great hunting skills and travel long distances so they can feed themselves and their families. They have brilliant looking skills and listening skills which we will be using within our own Condors class.
THIS TERMS THEME
'Around the world in 80 days'
Take a look at out curriculum map to see what we are learning about this term.
P.E AND DANCE DAYS
PE days are Tuesdays.
Please ensure that your child has the correct PE kit in school all week. We will ensure that they are sent home at the end of each half term.
HOME LEARNING DAYS
Home Learning will be set on a Friday and due in on a Wednesday.
UPCOMING EVENTS
Monday 6th January – Non-Pupil Day
Tuesday 7th January – First Day of Spring 1
Friday 14th February – Last Day of Spring 1
Monday 24th February – First Day of Spring 2
Thursday 6th March - World Book Day
Friday 4th April – Last Day of Spring 2
MEET THE TEAM
If there are any issues or concerns, please feel free to come in and see your teacher (Miss Brewer).
mbrewer@whiterockprimaryschool.co.uk
Year 2 Maths Key Performance Indicators
ACADEMIC YEAR
2024/2025
Summer Term
Summer Term Curriculum Map
Tuesday 29th April 2025 - Priest Visit
Today we were lucky to host Matt and Mollie from Bay Church, who led assemblies for all the children. They taught us about the true meaning of Easter, Jesus's death and resurrection, and his Ascension into Heaven. They also discussed the Good News that Jesus and his disciples spread about how to live and talked about the word of God being like a light that shines to light the way for all, and we shouldn't hide the light. The children enjoyed sharing their 'good news' with Matt and Mollie, listening to their stories and watching the video and we look forward to them joining us again soon.
Friday 25th April - Pantomime at Beverly Park
Year 2 have had a great start to the Summer term! We were really lucky to be invited to watch Jack and the Beanstalk at Beverly Park. The children loved participating with the story, shouting out the usual pantomime phrases and singing along with the songs. The cast did a wonderful job and even invited us on stage for a group photo! Thank you to Beverly Park for hosting us and thank you to the children who once again, did a fantastic job of representing the school.
Tuesday 1st April - PE Martial Arts
This week we were really lucky to have Richard Kelly in our PE lessons from MF martial arts, teaching the children some basic taekwondo skills. The children have been looking forward to this and have all really enjoyed the sessions! Look out for the flyer that will be sent home with your child with more information.
Friday 28th March 2025 - National Skipping Day!
Today we celebrated National Skipping Day! This morning changed into our PE kits and went onto the playground with the whole school to try different skipping techniques. It was super fun and we showed off all the new skipping skills we have learnt!
Friday 21st March 2025 - Red Nose Day!
Today we celebrated Red Nose Day! We had so much fun completing activities made by the Year 6 children such as guess the sweets in the jar, obstacle course, colouring, and guess the teacher behind the red nose! We also loved coming to school in non-uniform and dressing in red.
Friday 14th March 2025 - DT
Today we had so much fun making our own dens. Firstly, we thought about how to create a structure that is stable and strong and decided that a square-based pyramid design would work best. We designed our dens and thought about what materials to use. Then, we worked in groups to build a den structure out of wooden rods and secured the base with masking tape and string. We then used a plastic bag to waterproof our designs and decorated with dry leaves to make them camouflage.
Monday 11th March - PE
This half term Year 2 have been focusing on ball skills. They have been exploring with a variety of balls, controlling them in different ways using both their hands and their feet. They have also been throwing and catching and using balls to hit static and moving targets.
Tuesday 4th March - PE
Today we had Niall Leahy at White Rock for a Cricket engagement day. Niall and our year 6 sports captains led a variety of activities to support year 2 with the basic bowling, batting and throwing and catching skills used in cricket. This was a fantastic opportunity and the children enjoyed working together, playing games and using different equipment.
February 2025 - Computing
This half term, we have been learning how to take the perfect photograph. We have learnt that subjects that are tall need to be taken in portrait form and subjects that are wide need to be taken on portrait form. We have also learnt that the subject needs to be in the middle of the frame for the photo to look effective. Finally, we have been editing photographs using a photo editing app. We have been altering the colour of photos - some of our creations were extremely creative!
Monday 24th February 2025 - Music
Today, Sonopera’s Kip Pratt and Elfyn Jones visited White Rock to perform some music. Their performance showcased a diverse range of instruments - piano, violin, ukulele, and drums - and musical styles from Ireland and Eastern Europe. We started by singing a song about the months to warm up our voices, followed by learning a song about a penguin. We had lots of fun putting some actions to the words and working together to find the beat of the music.
Wednesday 5th February 2025
This week in Science, we did an investigation to answer the enquiry question: Why do birds have different shaped beaks?
We thought about what birds eat and represented this with different foods e.g. seeds = smarties, bugs = gummy bears, and worms = strawberry laces. We used a spoon, tweezers and chopsticks to represent different bird beaks and tried to pick up the different foods using the different objects. We recorded our data in our books and have since thought about what our data tells us about different shaped bird beaks.
Tuesday 28th January 2025 - Dance
This term, we have been creating dances about space. We have created rockets in groups which have then taken off into space and landed on a planet of our own choice. Once landed, we have moved using different levels and speeds to show what our planet is and then today, we added in running away from the aliens and hiding.
Tuesday 21st January 2025 - PE
This half term year 2 are focusing on target games in PE. We are looking at moving different objects towards static and moving targets, using underarm and overarm throwing techniques.
Friday 10th January 2025 - Science
This week in Science we learned about habitats. A habitat is where an animal lives! We also learnt what a micro-habitat was and then went outside to our woodland to see if we could find any! We used microscopes to help us with this and spotted a range of insects like worms, spiders and woodlouse!
January 2025 - Computing
This half term, Yr2 are focusing on the Education for a Connected World document produced by the Government. As the world of technology is constantly changing, so are the perimeters of online safety and there a now many areas which need covering. The section we are focusing on at the moment is Managing Online Information. We have learnt all about search engines and how these are used to search for information on the internet. We know the child friendly search engines we should be using to keep us safe and know that only key words need to be used (typed or spoken) to reduce the amount of information provided.
Friday 13th December 2024 - Christmas Disco
This afternoon was our school disco. We had lots of fun dancing and playing games!
Tuesday 3rd December 2024 - Dance
This half term we have been learning about Victorians and in Dance, created a Victorian portrait in groups to be our start and end positions. We looked at some family portraits from the time and saw that they did not smile, so we made sure we didn't as well!
Monday 2nd December 2024 - DT
In DT, we made fruit kebabs! Firstly, we designed our fruit kebabs and picked what fruit we wanted to include and thought about how we wanted it to look. Then, we took part in the 'make' process. We learnt how to cut up our fruit safely and slide it onto our bamboo skewer. Finally, we evaluated our fruit kebabs to think about what went well and what we would do differently next time. We will now use this to help us write instructions about how to make a fruit kebab. Check out our pictures!
Tuesday 26th November - PE
This half term year 2 have been focusing on sending and receiving. We have been rolling and stopping different size balls with our hands, as well as tracking a ball and rolling a ball towards different targets.
This week we put these skills into a very exciting roll ball game which the children really enjoyed!
November 2024 - Computing
This half term, we have been focusing on What is IT? The children have learnt that IT is anything that is a computer or that works with a computer. they have also learnt that many IT can be used in many different ways. The children completed an activity where they had to move and enlarge IT items into whether they did a job, helped people to talk to others or whether they were used to play games on. The children showed what great computing skills and knowledge they all have!
Friday 22nd November 2024 - Library Trip
We were very excited to be visiting Churston Library today. We enjoyed a short walk and then had an opportunity to enjoy a story, read to us by Diane the librarian. She told us how to apply for a library card and how to join the reading challenge. We loved looking at all the different books and sharing them with our friends. Did you know, we can take TWENTY books out at a time? There are also puzzles, toys and colouring to do at Churston Library. Lots of us are really excited to come again with our parents. Our teachers were really proud of us. We listened really well as we were walking to the library which helped keep us safe. When we were at the library we were all incredibly polite and superbly wonderful! :)
Tuesday 12th November - Odd Socks Day!
This week is Anti-bullying Week! We had a whole school assembly where we discussed what the word respect means and how we can be respectful towards each other. Today we wore odd socks to celebrate our uniqueness! We know that it doesn't matter if somebody is different to us. We must remain respectful and kind :)
Friday 25th October 2024- Spanish
We had lots of fun in our Spanish lesson this week. iQué bien! We learnt different types of transport and played lots of interactive games to practise the new vocabulary. We also sang lots of Spanish songs. iQué maravilloso!
Here are the words we learnt.
barco=boat
tren=train
autobús= bus
avion= plane
moto= motorbike
Thursday 17th October - PCSA Sports Festival
Condors were lucky enough to be invited to Paignton Academy for an afternoon of Tag Rugby Skills! The children took part in 7 different activities including lots of running, kicking and throwing. The children had a great time and worked very hard.
Tuesday 8th October 2024 - African Dance
We were very excited today to have two African dancers in to dance with us. We learnt some traditional dances and some traditional songs and put them together. We all had such a fun time with them.
Tuesday 1st October 2024 - PE
Year 2 have had a fantastic start to PE this term. We have been looking at movement skills including hopping, skipping and jumping, as well as being able to move and change direction at different speeds.
Friday 1st October 2024 - Computing
In Computing, we have been focusing on how to keep ourselves safe when online. The main messages we have discussed are
- We must NEVER share our personal information with anyone online.
- People online are strangers - we do not know who they are.
- Not everyone we meet online can be trusted.
- If we see anything online we do not like, we tell a trusted grown up straight away.
Tuesday 24th September 2024 - European Languages Day
Today we celebrated European Languages Day! We started our day with a special assembly with Senorita Head who spoke to us about why we celebrate different languages and taught us how to say 'Hello' in different languages. We then had a special, extra Spanish lesson with Senorita Head.
Friday 20th September 2024 - Writing
Our first class text this term is The Three Little Pigs. At the end of our writing journey we will be rewriting the story but with a few changes. We have been learning about how to create noun phrases. A noun phrase includes a noun and an adjective. Take a look at the pictures below of some of our noun phrases we created about the Three Little Pigs houses!
Tuesday 10th September 2024 - Our first week in Year 2!
We have had a fantastic start to Year 2! In Maths, we have been learning about the value of numbers to 100 by using Diennes. We talked about how to create a happy classroom thinking about our Rights and Responsibilities and then wrote our own Class Charter. We enjoyed our first Year 2 PE, Dance and Computing lessons - they were so much fun! Our theme in Science is Animals including Humans and we ordered pictures of babies, toddlers, children, teenagers, adults and elders. We also started our class read book - The Stinky Cheese Man!
