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Welcome to Class 2 Dragonflies 2024/25

These are the staff who work in Class 2

Spellings - Friday 31st January 2025

Spellings - Friday 24th January 2025

Spellings - Friday 17th January 2025

Spellings - Friday 10th January 2025

Thank You!

 

A huge thank you for our incredible Christmas presents.  These were unexpected and your generosity was overwhelming.  Thank you so much, we were both very grateful!  We hope all our Dragonflies and their families had a wonderful Christmas break and a very happy new year.

From Mrs Waller and Ms Hill smiley

Term 3 Overview

Rapid Recall Facts -Term 3

We had a fantastic trip to Oare Gunpowder Works with Anna Outdoors.  We learned all about how gunpowder was made; explored the site, including looking at the remains of buildings and waterways; made charcoal and charcoal 'pencils' from alder branches and toasted marshmallows.  It was a wonderful day that extended and consolidated our Term 2 learning about the Gunpowder Plot and the Great Fire of Learning.  Thank you so much to all our adult helpers, your support was very much appreciated.

Nativity Songs

If you would like to practice some of the songs for our class Nativity, copy and paste the links below into your browser.  These will last until our performances on 18th December.  Happy singing! 

 

The Stable Hoedown

https://app.sparkyard.com/shared/song/872/9d92e904-62c2-4bb9-bb2a-5d23589f9b65

 

Working in a Stable

https://app.sparkyard.com/shared/song/873/0ccc9e07-c3e3-42a5-a49e-182b219a7bb2

 

Clip-Clop Little Donkey

https://app.sparkyard.com/shared/song/874/697f11cc-dd9d-4cee-8ed5-65567da2a568

 

Mary's Lullaby

https://app.sparkyard.com/shared/song/875/9ccbb611-e423-4252-a297-6746832481be

 

Three Wise Men

https://app.sparkyard.com/shared/song/876/479fc726-13ef-454b-acf5-c16784427834

 

 

Spellings - Friday 13th December 2024

Spellings - 6th December 2024

Spellings - 22nd November 2024

Spellings - Friday 15th November 2024

Spellings - Friday 8th November 2024

Rapid Recall Facts -Term 2

Term 2

Halloween Fun Run!

What a great way to end our first term in Year 2!  Thank you so much to everyone who sponsored children in Dragonflies Class.  The run was great fun and your sponsorship is very much appreciated.  We wish all the children and their families a relaxing half term break.  

Mrs Waller and Ms Hill

DT - Mechanisms

We've had a wonderful week learning about mechanisms in Design Technology.  We have learned how sliding, lever and pivot, and wheel mechanisms work.  We practiced making the mechanisms then designed our own moving minibeast pictures then had a fantastic afternoon making them.

Spellings - Friday 18th October 2024

Spellings - Friday 11th October 2024

Spellings - Friday 4th October 2024

Spellings - Friday 27th September 2024

Homework - Friday 20th September 2024

We had a fantastic session acting different scenes from our current English story book, 'Oi! Get off our Train!'.  We developed speaking and listening skills, not only learning about how to project our voices, but also how to be an appreciative audience!

Oi! Get off our Train - Hot Seat

We had a really fun 'hot seat' activity during one of our English lessons this week.  Some members of our class took on the roles of different characters from 'Oi! Get off our Train!' and we composed thoughtful questions to ask them, such as "Were you scared when you had to leave your home?" and "How was your train journey?".  We then wrote our questions using question marks.

Forest School Art Afternoon

We had a really inspiring Art afternoon, mostly outdoors in the Forest School area.  We began by learning about the work of Japanese painter and woodblock printer Utagawa Hiroshiga, then we went outside where we made leaf and bark rubbings, and sketched leaves and trees.  We were fortunate that it was a beautiful sunny Autumn day.

We're Going on A Bear Hunt - Drama

This week we have been reading 'We're Going on a Bear Hunt'.  We have been using the story as inspiration for a variety of writing and today we worked in groups to act out the various scenes in the book.  It was great fun!

Thank You from Mrs Hammond

Hello to the new Year 2's! I just wanted to say a huge thank you for all of my beautiful gifts I received. You were so generous and they were so appreciated! I hope you had an amazing Summer.

Thank you again,

Mrs Hammond

Term 1 Overview

Term 5 Overview

Rapid Recall Facts

Spellings: 05/07/2024 - Tested on 12/07/2024

Sports Week - Olympic Medals

Happy Father's Day

Forest School - Motte and Bailey Castles and Coats of Arms

Performing Arts Week

James Dasaolu - Olympian Visit

Reverend Peter - Why and How do Christians care for the world?

Fantastic Friday - Paired Reading with Year 4

History Day

We had a great 'History Day' where we focused on the history of our School. We got hold of some old school documents that listed the address and vocation of children/parents that came to Sheldwich. We then plotted these places on an old map of Sheldwich, while also comparing to where children travel from today to come to school. As well as this we worked with quills and visited the old Georgian School House in Sheldwich Villiage. 

Thanet School Trip

We have enjoyed a fantastic school visit to the Turner Contemporary and Margate combined with a visit to Ramsgate and District Reform Synagogue. It was an excellent day, full of activities and jam-packed with learning. We got to see the Turner's exhibition on form and line-focused creation. We also completed some geography focused field work on the beach and in the town, working out where the key features of Margate seaside were and looking at the wildlife we find on British shores. Our Synagogue visit was lead by Rabbi Cliff and was so insightful. We were able to see a 200 year old Torah scroll, of which Rabbi Cliff read from and explained how the synagogue cares for such a precious Holy Book. The children were also able to see some great examples of Jewish artefacts that they have been learning about in their RE sessions.

Easter Service

PE - Tennis Skills

Music - Graphic Scores on 'Ally Ally Oh' instrumental

Fantatsic Friday - Boat Construction

HSBC Fairytale Banking

Science - Materials

The children conducted an investigation about light, to see which materials let through the most.

"The wood was definitely opaque" Alex

"The card was translucent" Annabel

"Plastic materials were completely transparent" William

Arts Week - Pieter de Hooch (A courtyard of a House in Delft)

Dinosaur Photo Editing

Dinosaur Information Posters

Happy New Year and Thank You!


I hope you all had a fantastic Christmas and New Year.

 

Just a little note to say thank you for all of our wonderful Christmas gifts - You're a very kind and generous class! Both Ms Hill and I were thrilled!

 

Mr Daintree and Ms Hill

 

Nativity - The Inn-Spectors

Christmas Panto

Charcoal: Fire of London Cityscape

RE Day - Christmas!

Spellings 04/12/2023 - Tested on Monday 11th December 2023

Butterflies and Dragonflies had such a fun time in the snow! We were very excited to see it arrive and settle!

Spellings: 27/11/2023 - Tested on Monday 4th December 2023

eBook - Week 5

Spellings: 17/11/2023 - Tested on 27/11/2023

STEM Week

We had such fun during our STEM week, which was themed on 'Movie Magic'. We watched a clip from a different children's film each day and completed an investigation or activity based on it! We watched ratatouille and learnt about a balanced diet - making omelettes along the way. We also watched Luca and worked out how much water would be wasted if we left the tap running while we brushed our teeth. Our biggest challenge was making a solar system in a box after watching a Star Wars clip - the children tried their best to make the planets to scale!

Spellings: 13/11/2023 - Tested on 17/11/2023

eBook: Green Pets

Oare Gunpowder Works School Trip

We had a brilliant time on our school trip to Oare gunpowder works. We learnt all about how the site was used to make gunpowder in the past and about it's current role in Faversham as a protected nature site. We enjoyed the outdoor learning and forest school activities along the way too!

 

Spellings: 03/11/2023 - Tested on 10/11/2023

eBook 03/11/2023

DT - Levers and Linkages (Rainforest Animals)

Music Term 1 - Samba Rhythm

Essential Letters and Sounds

Please click on the link below to access videos which will help you to support your child/ren with their phonics.

 

 

These sounds are taught in Phase 5. Reception, Year 1 and Year 2 children will be taught these sounds. 

https://vimeo.com/753933192/43104a30e0

‘High Frequency’ Words

All children in Classes R, 1 and 2 bring home a pack of ‘High Frequency’ words every week on a Friday. Some of these words are very difficult to sound out the normal way so they need to be memorised. It is very important for the children to learn these words as they will come up consistently in reading books. As the children move to Class 1 and 2, the words form the basis of the childrens’ writing.

We would like the children to spend just 5 minutes per day learning the words – you may like to devise a game with the words or write the words on paper to stick around the house!

Please keep the words in your child’s school bag so they can be used in school on a daily basis.

If you have any questions regarding ‘High Frequency’ words (HFW) please speak to your class teacher or Mrs Fairs, the Key Stage 1 Manager.

 

Find below, a large list of HFW to check off throughout the year.

 

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