Shirehampton Year 2 - New York and Toronto classes 2024-2025
Welcome to Year 2!
New York
Our names are Mrs Sullivan, Miss Thomas and Miss Fox we are very excited about being your teachers and teaching assistants in New York class.
Toronto
Our names are Mr Miller and Mrs Pierce, and we are very excited about being your teacher and teaching assistant in Toronto class.
Term 5 update
We’ve had a brilliant term of joyful discovery in Year 2. We have written and reinvented the story of The Very Hungry Caterpillar, creating our own stories with fantastical transformations. We have been completing calculations using money and have begun to identify, sort and compare different shapes.
In PSHE we have discussed how to stay safe at home and ways to keep our body healthy. Remember that to have a healthy body and mind we all need the right food, exercise and plenty of sleep!
We’ve really enjoyed getting creative, designing and making money pouches as well as playing some traditional tunes on the recorder, and we loved spending time in the Green Space spotting frogs, tadpoles and many other little critters.
We’ve had some wonderful moments and are looking forward to the summer and finally going swimming!
Term 4 update
We’ve had a brilliant term of joyful discovery in Year 2. We have written and reinvented the story of The Very Hungry Caterpillar, creating our own stories with fantastical transformations. We have been completing calculations using money and have begun to identify, sort and compare different shapes.
In PSHE we have discussed how to stay safe at home and ways to keep our body healthy. Remember that to have a healthy body and mind we all need the right food, exercise and plenty of sleep!
We’ve really enjoyed getting creative, designing and making money pouches as well as playing some traditional tunes on the recorder, and we loved spending time in the Green Space spotting frogs, tadpoles and many other little critters.
We’ve had some wonderful moments and are looking forward to the summer and finally going swimming!
Term 3 update
Another busy and exciting term in year 2, filled with learning and fun! We have learnt how to make emergency phone calls and deal with burn during our first aid session. Hopefully skills we will never have to use!
We have written our own stories following the format of Little Red Riding Hood and made these into picture books to share with the children in reception. In maths we have become times tables champions- starting to master our 2x, 5x, and 10x tables.
We have explored our creativity this term too. We have started music lessons with Mr Knight, learning the recorder. We can identify different notes and are working towards our first performance. In art we have been exploring landscapes in different media and learning about Monet and Van Gogh.
Overall another great term in year 2, ready for more great times in term 4!
Term 2 update
A great term of learning and fun for year 2. We started off by learning how to keep ourselves safe on bonfire night and enjoyed watching all the fireworks. We also supported Stand Up To Bullying by wearing odd socks!
We followed this with a whole day of DT where we prepared food by grating, cutting, spreading and snipping our ingredients then tasted different combinations of fillings before designing, making and eating our wraps. They were delicious and many of us discovered new flavour combinations we didn't know we liked!
We, of course, prepared for Christmas- we learnt a beautiful carol which we shared with family and friends in church, had fun at our Christmas lunch (even enjoying the sprouts!) and made lovely tree decorations with our families during our family challenge morning. We especially enjoyed our visit to the theatre to watch the pantomime.
It has been a busy and fun-filled term and we are all ready for a break and look forward to more fun and learning in 2025.
Term 1 update
What a great start we have had to year 2. All the children have settled in really well and are working hard in class. WE have enjoyed learning the story of The Three Little Pigs and the poem The Owl and the Pussy Cat. We have learnt more about road safety and learnt about he benefits of active travel.We had a great visit to The Downs and loved looking for signs of Autumn and learning about animals that hibernate. We also shared our learning with our families during our year group assembly.
We are looking forward to the end of term after a very busy start to the year and our WOW day when we are going to dress up as significant historical figures and learn more about Mary Anning and Pauline Boty.
Newsletters
Term 1 September 2024 - Newsletter
Term 2 November 2024 - Newsletter
Term 3 January 2025 - Newsletter
Term 4 February 2025 - Newsletter
Term 5 April 2025 - Newsletter
PE Lessons
Both New York Class and toronto Class will have PE on a Monday and Swimming on a Tuesday.
Children should bring their PE kit into school so they can get changed for the lessons.
For PE, children should wear shorts, leggings or jogging bottoms that are plain and dark in colour - dark blue, black or grey. They should not have large logos on. Every child is given one coloured PE t-shirt when they start the school; subsequent PE t-shirts need to be purchased. The colour of the t-shirt represents the colour of the House every child is placed in: Cheng Ho (green), Estervanico (yellow), Sir Francis Drake (blue) and Louise Boyd (red).
Trainers are needed as footwear for PE and must also be a dark colour. No hoodies are to be worn for PE.
If you wish to contact the class teacher in regards to your child's learning, please do so on the class email addresses, these emails are monitored once a week during term time only. They are a useful way to share non-urgent but useful information that does not require an immediate response:
Mrs Sullivan: newyork@shirehampton-jun.bristol.sch.uk
Mr Miller: toronto@shirehampton-jun.bristol.sch.uk
For urgent matters either see the class teacher at the start or end of the school day or contact the school office.