St Minver School

Greenaway Class

Mrs Cudmore

Class Teacher

Mrs Mably

Teaching Assistant

Our Lovely Greenaway Class

WELCOME TO GREENAWAY CLASS

Greenaway Class is our Year 2 Class.

Dear Parents and Carers,

I hope you’ve all had a lovely half term break and enjoyed the recent sunny weather. Finally it feels like summer has arrived! I can’t believe we are entering the children’s final half term in Year 2. Where has that time flown by?

The children have really enjoyed exploring the question ‘Why were castles first built in England?’ and are looking forward to visiting Restormel Castle later this term to explore the remains of a Motte and Bailey Castle.

We begin this half term with a poetry focus linked to our work on castles before we move on to explore the question ‘Do dragons really exist and if they do how many different types of dragons are there?’ We will spend some time looking at the book ‘Tell Me A Dragon’ by Jackie Morris which describes the beautifully illustrated dragons inside her book. We will also be thinking about ‘real life’ dragons around the world. If you have any books at home linked to our topic we would love you to send them in so that we can share them with the class. We promise to take good care of them until the end of term.

Thank you so much for all the wonderful projects that have been sent in so far. The castles and dragons made at home look amazing and the children have enjoyed sharing them with the class. It is not too late to take part in our termly challenge if you would like to do so. Please see further details on the back of this booklet.

This half term we will spend our story time sessions listening to ‘The Boy Who Grew Dragons’ by Andy Shepherd.

Termly Challenge

Each term we would like the children to contribute towards the class topic. This term we would like the children to use recycled materials to make either a castle or dragon. It would be nice to have these in just after half term, (or earlier if you would prefer). Thank you!

Here is an outline of the things that happen every week:

Monday - Homework and spellings are given out.

Monday - PE with Mr Rickard and computing with Mr Hawtin.

Thursday - Visit to the library to choose a new book.

Friday - Active mile, spelling test, maths homework returned. PE with Mrs Cudmore.

Please can the children bring in a named water bottle each day. Please remember to send your child's PE kit into school in a named carrier bag ready for their PE lessons on a Monday and Friday afternoon. Don’t forget to send your child to school wearing their trainers and jogging bottoms on a Friday ready for our active mile in the morning.

With very best wishes,

Mrs Cudmore

Meet our wonderful Greenaway stars!

This term we are exploring the question 'Are Rainforests Important?'.

We enjoyed painting different animals and plants that can be found living in the rainforest for our class display.

We have learnt that the rainforest can be split into 4 different layers. The forest floor, the understorey, the canopy and the emergent layer.

We thought about which layers of the rainforest different animals and plants can be found living.

We enjoyed working with a partner to match different similes.

Great team work to match the different similes together.

We enjoyed using the xylophones and glockenspiels during our music lesson today.

We are learning to sing and play the song 'I Wanna Play in a Band'.

We enjoyed using our wellbeing journals outside this afternoon.

We looked closely at the different trees near our science garden and chose one to sketch.

We compared them to the different trees that can be found growing in the rainforest.

This week we have been learning about the properties of 3d shapes.

We enjoyed making 3d shapes today to help us count the number of edges and vertices on each shape.

Great teamwork boys. Look at all the cubes you made to create this super aeroplane!

We enjoyed our visit from the Wadebridge Neighbourhood Team and finding out the many ways that they can help us.

We couldn't believe how many different hats they have.

We enjoyed having our finger prints taken.

We had fun testing out the police car and hearing the loud sound of the siren.

We enjoyed searching our school grounds for microhabitats. Luckily we managed to avoid the rain.

We used the book creator app to record the living things in each microhabitat we found.

We thought about the conditions of each microhabitat and how the living things were suited to them.

Great partner work Greenaway Class!

We completed our fact file about the living things we found during our science investigation.

We had great fun on our trip to the Eden Project.

We looked at the different types of shelters that can be found in the rainforest.

We enjoyed crossing the wobbly bridge.

We enjoyed sharing our favourite book with our friends as part of our World Book Day celebrations.

Thank you for all the lovely books you kindly brought in for our book swap. We enjoyed being able to take home a new book.

Thank you for all the wonderful habitat boxes that were made to support our science topic this term.

We enjoyed looking closely at each others habitat boxes.

In D.T. this term we have been learning to design and make a healthy wrap for an explorer.

We enjoyed tasting different foods to see which ingredients we would like to include in our wrap.

We enjoyed trying different combinations of food to see what they tasted like together.

We enjoyed making our healthy wraps. We tried to follow our designs carefully.

Our healthy wraps were delicious!

We hope you liked your Easter card that the children were busy making in the last week of term. Happy Easter!

Spring Term Photos

We enjoyed planting our own runner bean seed.

We enjoyed using the book creator app to capture different plants growing around our school.

We had fun investigating the different types of seeds inside fruits.

We were surprised to find out that some fruits only had one seed inside them.

Some fruits, like the passion fruit and pepper, had over 100 seeds inside them!

Carefully counting the passion fruit seeds. They were so tiny.

There were so many tiny seeds inside this cherry tomato.

We have enjoyed playing the glockenspiel and xylophone during our music lessons this half term.

We enjoyed sketching different plants in our well being journal this afternoon.

We can't wait for the colour run to start this afternoon!

We have been busy writing our own castle poems.

We made the most of the lovely weather and enjoyed performing our poem to our friends outside.

We thought carefully about our performance having listened to some top tips from Michael Rosen.

Well done Greenaway Class. Your castle poems were brilliant!

We enjoyed creating a tally chart to record the number rolled on a dice.

Great team building skills boys.

Great teamwork!

Super tally charts.

This tower was too tall to stand up on its own for a photo.

We enjoyed using our VIPERS skills to see if we could match the descriptions to the different dragons around our classroom.

We enjoyed acting out the Battle of Hastings through a game of PE.

We had great fun pretending to be the Normans and the Saxons.

We had great fun playing 'Guess Who?' with our baby photos.

Some of the baby photos we were able to recognise straight away.

Other baby photos were trickier to work out especially when a few of us had blonde hair as a baby but have darker hair now.

Welcome

Admission

Policies & Procedures

Funding

EYFS Curriculum

Our Staff

Our Learning Journey

Transition

Greenaway Class

Mrs Cudmore

Mrs Mably

Greenaway Curriculum Leaflet Summer Term 2.pdf

Topic Words Summer Term 2.pdf

Counting in 3s

Counting in 5s