Year 2 enjoyed an exciting start to the Summer Term today. We had a visit from Martin, Mark, Wayne and Tom who are firefighters at West Bridgford Fire Station.
Mark and Martin started our visit with a presentation in class. They told us all about their job, how they stay safe at work and what we should do if our house was on fire. Some children even demonstrated how to wear the uniform!
We then had the opportunity to look at the fire engine up close with Tom and Wayne. They showed us all of their car rescue equipment, hoses, oxygen tanks and we got to sit in the fire engine. There were lots of interesting questions for the firefighters and some huge smiles from the children.
Thank you so much to our visitors, you really brightened up our Monday morning!
Mark and Martin’s challenge:
Check that you have 2 fully working smoke detectors installed upstairs and down.
Make a family escape plan with your family to ensure that everyone knows how to get out of your house if there was a fire at night.
Year 2 have successfully completed a very busy Spring Term. They have enjoyed a visit to Twycross Zoo, watched the BRW ducklings hatch and grow, raised over £100 for CAFOD and completed a whole range of learning linked to our topic.
Take a look at our highlights.
TTRS and Numbots!
Mathletics Results
This week is the 30th Anniversary of British Science Week, so the theme this year is Time!
We got off to a super start this morning with our Science Ambassadors leading a whole school assembly. We began with learnig a little about our Science saint – At. Albert the Great, and read a prayer that last year’s ambassadors wrote. They shared the theme and lots of links to our own lifes and science that we can make with science. They launched the Poster competition and ran the lunch-time ‘Gadget Shop’ which will run Mon-Thursday this week, until all stock is sold. Prices range from 50p to £2. Itemised lists with prices are posted around the school.
Phew, and it’s only Day 1.
To enter the competition cosider the following…
Creativity in approach – Innovative angle on the content or creative interpretation of the theme – don’t be afraid to think outside the box
Content – Clear, accurate and informative about a STEM topic
Effective communication – presented and communicated in an engaging way
RULES
Entrants can be teams or individuals
Entries must be one page of A4 or A3 paper only Work must be original and created by the student(s) – please do not use any templates
Include your name, age and Year group
Please hand in to Mrs Byrne before Thursday 21st March
Entries will be uploaded to the British Science Week Website to enter the national competition. See www.britishscienceweek.org/plan-your-activities/poster-competition
We’ve had a wonderful but very busy day at BRW. We welcomed Bemma Akyeampong, author of the Ayuda stories – set in Guinea-Bissau, all about a sea turtle’s adventures and struggles against pollution. She retold her stories to all the children and they had chance to think about what they could do to look after our wonderful world.
We also had the introduction of our wonderful new furniture to spruce up our reading corners in every classroom. This will really help to promote the joy of reading, learning new vocabulary and being inspired to be authors ourselves.
As the photographs show, the reading cafe was immensely popular and the cakes didn’t last long! Thank you everyone for attending and for the cake donations.
Year 2 have thoroughly enjoyed celebrating World Book Day today! They started off the day with a special assembly where we met author Bemma Akyeampong.
Back in class Bemma came to visit us and told us her story Ayuda’s Messy Rescue. The children joined in with the story telling by adding actions and joining in with the story. They were also able to ask Bemma lots of questions about her books.
Later on in the day, we helped Mrs Cook to set up our new reading corner. We have a comfy chair to sit on and lots of lovely beanbags. We read lots of books, shared stories and read to each other. What a busy book day so far!
Year 2 are thoroughly enjoying taking part in fundraising activitites for CAFOD this year.
We started out fundraising by walking 10 laps of the KS2 playground for the Big Lent Walk. It took a long time but it was worth it as we raised over £30!
Our next fundraising task happened last Friday. Mrs Cook told Year 2 that she would bring in some doughnuts for a little treat. We were all allowed one as long as we put £1 in our jar. Year 2 were very enthusiastic about this fundraising task and the pounds came in thick and fast. We raised over £40 by eating Mrs Cook’s doughnuts! They were so yummy that we suggested that we do it every week.
We are currently thinking of our next task to add some more money to the jar. We can’t wait to see how much we can raise before Easter.
Thank you to all of the families that have kindly donated to our Lenten Fundraiser.
Thank you to the Library Leaders for getting our exciting week off to a great start. They told us about Saint Jerome who was asked to translate the Bible so that more people could know God’s word. He did such a good job that his translation was used for more than 1,000 years.
Don’t forget that if you want to be in with a chance of winning a book, return your Scavenger Hunt sheets by Thursday. Good Luck!
Year 2 are currently enjoying reading Alice in Wonderland. We have enjoyed reading the text chapter by chapter and comparing the story to the Disney animation.
This week the children have been writing missing posters for both Alice and the White Rabbit. They used success criteria to write informative posters and then edited them to make them even better.
Take a look at the wonderful pieces of work that Year 2 have created. We are all very proud of their writing!
Year 2 retold the story of the very first Christmas today through their performance of A King is Born. They sang, danced, acted and shared their story with so much confidence and enthusiasm.
We are all so proud of the Year 2 children. They really are a class full of superstars! Thank you so much to all of the parents, carers, family members and friends who came to support us.
We wish you all a very Happy Christmas!
