St Michael's Primary School And Nursery

Year 2 - Foxes

Welcome to the Foxes Class Page 

Mrs Earle is the class teacher.
Mrs Wightman and Mrs Johnson are the Learning Support Assistants for the class.

Routines

Our class PE day is Friday.

Our expectations for PE uniform are:

•  White t-shirt
•  Red or black shorts/skorts
•  Red or black jogging bottoms or leggings
•  Plain grey, white, red or black socks
•  Trainers (Comfortable for full day of wear and suitable for all weather)
•  Black plimsolls (optional footwear for indoor PE)
•  PE uniforms must not have branded logos.

All earrings must be taken out and jewellery removed. We do not allow earrings to be covered by tape.

Homework

Reading – 15 to 30 minutes of daily reading, please record this in the reading record.

Mathletics – Homework will be assigned via Mathletics

Spellings – Weekly spellings are given out and tested every Friday

Autumn Term

In the Autumn term, Year 2 studied the topic “Wacky Races.”  We started the term focusing on Science and explored different materials and their uses.  We went on a local walk to gather ideas and completed an experiment to find the best material to make a roof for the compact Pussycat?  Our final experiment was looking at how cars move on different surfaces. 

For our history learning we looked at how transport has evolved over the years and went on to study Henry Ford, who created the first automobile.  We looked at how a production line worked and tried it out using lego. 

In our art learning we studied collage and looked at the colour wheel.  We created our own transport themed collages using a range of different textures and colours.

Throughout our computing sessions we learned about online safety, we sent emails and discussed digital footprints.

In DT we planned and created our Wacky Racer cars and used a range of different skills to construct these.

We completed our Wacky Races topic by looking at human and physical features and compared Detroit (where Henry Ford was born) and Colchester.  We thought about creating our own wacky race and discussed which would be the best place.