Year 2 weekly blog Friday 2nd May "Love Our Lady. And she will obtain abundant grace to help you conquer in your daily struggle." Josemaria Escriva

This week we turn to Our Lady. The month of May has begun and so does our adoration for Jesus’ mother. Our Worship table has a beautiful statue and next week we will share the Rosary during worship time. If you have rosary beads at home please bring them into class and they can sit on the altar ready to be used. In RE we explored the Ascension of Our Lord and paid attention to what he asked the disciples to do - “wait in the city for the power to come”. We understand that they didn’t know what Jesus was telling them but they trusted him and waited. Now we wait too trust for Pentecost.

GOING DEEPER IN CONVERSATION

Next week we start our new Geography Topic - we’ll be looking at the rainforest. What is the rainforest and where would you find it in the world? Unfortunately, the rainforest is being chopped down it is so important to our world. Watch this Laudato Si' video for our common home - a message from Pope Francis - click the picture to open the video.

MAGIC MOMENTS OF LEARNING

The highlight of our week was our trip to the Theatre. We watched The Tempest with our lovely Year 4 partner class. The characters came to life and even though it was tricky to follow it was a visual feast and we really empathised with Ariel and Caliban. In class our drama lessons led to writing and we’ve written as Ariel once more - this time we were responding to feedback - this is something that we will keep doing so that we strive to achieve all our Year 2 goals. We’ve had fun with Mrs Mather in Art and Miss Bassett is really enjoying teaching time - this is the time to get a learning watch to wear in school- I’ve attached an image here. We’ve set up a germination experiment in science and we complete the week with -Theatre Reviews and gardening!

LET’S CELEBRATE

This week our Star Virtue goes to Heidi - Heidi is such an active and curious learner - not only that but she shares her friendship openly and lovely every single day.

Our Learning award goes to Alfie. Thank you Alfie for being a super enthusiastic scientist (again). You have consistently demonstrated resilience with your writing and maths. Thank you for being a great role model.

REMINDERS

FOREST SCHOOL FOR THE DAY - Thursday 22nd May. Please come to school on this day in old clothes.

Please bring rosary beads for the month of May

Have a lovely Ban Holiday weekend - form the whole Year 2 team

Sponsored Walk

Tomorrow -

We will be joining the whole school for the Last Supper assembly then setting off around 10am. The weather is forecast to be very sunny all day. We will all require SUNCREAM - applied before school. Please dress in PE kit - nice comfy trainers. All children need a hat preferably one that protects ears and neck. I hope to be at Fairhaven Lake for an early Lunch/Picnic - school packed lunches provided. We will have visiting the churches on the way to stand outside their holy doors. Returning on the bus around 1’ish. Thank you to the volunteers who will be joining us - we have the right ratios but if want to join us - you are more than welcome. The bus fare has been sorted so you don’t have to think about that.

Backpack - required to carry lunch and water bottle.

Year 2 Forest School Information

Dear parents,

The whole class will be joining Ms Lavelle at forest school this week. Year 2 have been invited to have story around the campfire on the following dates:

28th Feb

21st Mar

25th April

16th May

27th Jun

These are all Friday afternoons. Miss Lavelle will involve us with games outside and then we’ll come together around the campfire. The children will need to wear their PE kits on these Fridays. As you can see this Friday is our first session - I’m really looking forward to it!!!

Thank you Mrs Hotchkiss and Ms Lavelle