Year 2 were visited by Cool Blue today to teach us all about the oo grapheme.

We had to find the words around the room and create lists showing all the different graphemes that were used. We also had to find out if they real words or alien words

What an exciting time we have had at Roebuck this week, Bob from the Lego workshop came in to teach us how to use different building techniques to create roof structures on our houses. Once we had made a building, we stuck it to a lego board and added gardens, driveways and even swimming pools. Finally, we put all our creations together along a giant road and watched how it transformed into a Lego City. At Roebuck, we are Engineers!

Later, to help us with our phonics, Yellow I visited us from Monster Phonics Land to test our knowledge on the 'I' sounds. We helped her collect lots of words around the hall, and then she challenged us to a spelling game - we managed to get all our words right and win the game! At Roebuck, we are brilliant readers!

What an exciting start back to Year 2 we have had! Our classrooms have been transformed into castles, with a knight guarding the rooms to stop any dangerous dragons from creeping in. We have been describing how ferocious and fearsome they are in our new literacy topic 'Knights, Castles and Royal Blood'.

We launched our new topic for science 'The Apprentice Gardener' with a fun RE and Science lesson learning about the Zoastrian celebration of Nowruz. We learnt how Nowruz marks the beginning of spring and is celebrated with a 'Sofaray' display that contains lots of objects that represent new life, such as herbs, fruits, eggs and flowers. We then tried some middle Eastern fruits of dates and honey dew melon -we ate these in the traditional way of sitting on the floor next to a long tablecloth. Next week we will be growing our own plants so we can observe how they grow. 

This week Year 2 had the pleasure of a visitor called Phil from the RNLI. Our topic this half term is ‘Journeys’ and it was brilliant to hear about some facts and see some flags that the RNLI use to keep everybody safe when they visit the seaside. He mentioned the story of Grace Darling and how brave she was saving people from the sea, which is where our next Literacy unit links very well to the RNLI. Thank you for visiting us.

We had our ‘Books and Blankets’ morning on Monday. It was lovely to see so many children and adults reading together. Thank you to all that came. We look forward to the next event, whenever that can be!

Last Friday for World Book Day, Year 2 took inspiration from Dr Suess’ and decided to make Green Eggs and Ham. We wrote some instructions about how we could make these in the morning and then lots of brave children tried them that afternoon after making them. It was brilliant to see everyone dressed up and immersing themselves in the essence of the day.

In Maths, we have been learning about Money. Recognising the value of different coins and notes. We even played shopkeepers to buy items from each other.

Elsewhere, we have started to build our own Ferris Wheels in DT and in science are continuing to understand materials and how they are used.

There seems to be a really good buzz in Year 2 at the moment. In Literacy, we created some wonderful stories based on the book we were focusing on called “The Magic Paintbrush’. We are all authors in Year 2!

We are now focusing on a non-chronological report about Singapore. We will then take our understanding of how they are written and write our own about China in the coming weeks. To prepare us for this we managed to face time one of Mrs Renouf’s old colleagues who lives in Singapore to tell us all about the food, animals and way of living out there.

In Maths, we have completed our Unit on Multiplication and Division. We have since looked at the 2-x table, and we have started to focus on the 3-x table this week.

In Science, we have continued to learn more about ‘Growing Up’. We have been really enjoying this topic and was great to see so many photos of everyone as babies and the changes that have happened to us……. though many of us still look exactly the same!

We have all made our Chinese money pouches, and it was great to see the children develop these sewing skills.

Elsewhere, we have continued looking at Dreams and Goals and how we can start to achieve these in PSHE, and we have been developing our Gymnastics skills in PE.