Clowne Infant & Nursery School
‘We take our children on a journey of discovery, giving them aspirations and engaging them in lifelong learning’
Welcome
Year 2
Welcome to Year 2
2022-2023
We are Class 1.
We are Class 3
We are Class 4
The teachers in Year 2 are:
Mrs Handley & Mrs Godfrey (Class 1)
Mrs Galley (Class 3)
Mrs Sellars (Class 4)
The TAs in Year 2 are:
Mrs Clarke (Class 1), Mrs Clixby (Class 3), Miss Mason (Class 4)
Our Year 2 SEN TAs are Miss Mellors, Mrs Morley and Mrs Jennings
Our Pupil Premium supporting TAs are Mrs Stead and Mrs Davies
Class 1 PE days are Wednesday and Friday
Class 3 PE days are Tuesday and Thursday.
Children will need a PE kit in school, stored in the PE draws outside the classroom, containing a white T-shirt, black shorts and PE pumps.
Class 4 PE days are Monday and Thursday
Our first topic this year is:
How Do We Keep Ourselves Alive and Kicking?
We will be finding out about the different stages in the human lifecycle and what happens at each of the stages. We will also look at the lifecycle of a butterfly.
We will also find out how to stay healthy by looking at healthy eating, exercise and hygiene.
Click on the pictures above to find out more information about these different topics we will be learning about this term.
We will also be learning all about an amazing woman called Mary Seacole. She lived nearly 200 years ago and helped soldiers in the Crimean War. She was a brave and determined woman who overcame prejudice to build her own hospital and help many soldiers.
We will be watching video clips about her life and discussing the issues she faced during her life as well the amazing work she carried out.
This is Mary Seacole. Click on the picture of Mary Seacole to watch some videos about her life and work.
Term 1 Curriculum Plan for parents
We will also find out about another nurse who helped soldiers in the Crimean War. Her name was Florence Nightingale. Her life was very different to Mary Seacole's life. Click on the picture of Florence to compare her life to what you know about Mary Seacole's life.
Florence's work changed how hospitals worked and how nurses were trained. Many of her methods are still used today.
Music
This term we will looking at the South African style of music and will be learning a song called Hands, Feet, Heart.
We we learn how to play the glockenspiel and read some musical notes.
We sang our song at Harvest assembly. You can watch the video here.
Our hands Feet Heart song
We learnt how to play the notes G, A and C on a glockenspiel to accompany the Hands Feet Heart song
We really enjoyed our Harvest assembly. The Reverend Bryony told us all about harvest time and we all brought some food for the harvest table. All the food got taken to our local food bank.
We made a friendship potion and wrote some instructions.
As part of our Science work this term we carried out an investigation into hygiene and the spread of germs. We tested the best way to wash our hands by using glitter to show how germs spread. We washed our hands in 3 different ways 1. Wiping with a paper towel 2. Washing with just water and 3. Washing with soap and water. We then looked at our hands under the class visualiser so we could observe how many ‘germs’ were left. We found out that soap and water is the best way to wash our hands and get rid of germs.
On the last day of term we dressed up for Halloween. Class 3 did the Spooky Skeleton dance in assembly and after school our new PTA decorated all the hall and we had a Halloween disco with games, hotdogs, craft activities, glitter tattoos, dancing and lots and lots of FUN!! 🎃👻🧙🎃👻🧙🎃.
Class 3 Spooky Scary Skeleton Dance
The Year 2 Halloween disco 👻🎃🧙👻🎃🧙👻🎃🧙
Topic 2: How Do We know About The Great Fire of London
In our second topic we will be finding out all about the Great Fire of London. How the fire started, how they tried to stop the fire and how Samuel Pepys and his diary helped us to know all about what happened during the fire.
Term 2 curriculum plan for parents
Term 2 knowledge organiser
Samuel Pepys was born a very long time ago in 1663. He lived in very interesting times and wrote all about was happening in a diary. As well as The Great Fire of London, he wrote about The Plague and the Coronation of Charles II.
Click on the picture to watch a video about Samuel Pepys.
Click on the picture above to watch a video song about The Great Fire of London.
Have you ever wondered what it was like in London in 1666 at the time of the fire? Click on the picture below to find out with a virtual tour of London at the time of the fire.
Topic 3: Where is Kenya and What is it Like There?
This term we will be looking at lots of maps and globes to find out the names and locations of the seven continents and the 5 oceans.
We will be finding out all about the physical and human features in Kenya and comparing Kenya with our own country.
Term 3 Curriculum plan for parents
Here is PowerPoint with lots of facts about Kenya.
See if you can tell which of these photos show a place in Kenya and which of the photos show a place in the UK.
Are the things you see in the photos a human geographical feature or a physical geographical feature?
This term we also looked at the Christian Religion and some parables told by Jesus. We acted out the story of The Loaves and Fishes and had lots of fun sharing the bread, sequencing the story and learning the bible passage John 6:9 "Here is a boy with five small barley loaves and two small fish, but how far will they go among so many?"
During this term we had Internet Safety Day on the 8th February. We found out how to be safe when playing games online. We discussed lots of different situations and thought about what would be safe and unsafe as well as things we need to ask for permission to do when using the internet. After this, we thought about how to be kind and respectful when talking to people online. We practiced kind things to say to our friends when we are playing our online games.
2021-2022
The following content on this page shows some highlights of the work carried out by children last year.
Topic 4: Where Do Different Animals Live?
This term we have been finding out about different habitats. We learnt what a habitat was and how it needs to provide everything an animal needs to survive. We also found out it can be as big as an ocean or as small as a rock.
We looked at how different animals adapt to be able to live in certain habitats.
Term 4 curriculum plan for parents
Term 4 knowledge organiser
Click on the pictures above to find out more information about habitats and food chains.
During Science week this term we went out in our local environment to look for animals in their habitats. We found many different plants and animals in different habitats including slugs, centipedes, spiders, bumble bees, ladybirds, baby frogs, robins, magpies, pigeons, moss, trees, hedges, grassy banks and a pond.
On Friday 3rd March it was World Book day and we had loads of fun at school dressed as different book characters. We also did lots of reading and book activities in the classroom like book quizzes and riddles. The teachers did a masked reader quiz for us to which you can see on this website.
Topic 5: Whatever happened to the dinosaurs?
Term 5 curriculum plan for parents
Term 5 knowledge organiser
This term we have been finding out all about a very important lady called Mary Anning. She lived in Lyme Regis in Devon over 200 years ago and discovered a giant Ichthyosaur fossil. She helped change the way we thought about the world in the past and she is now considered one of the most important palaeontologists of all time.
Click on the picture above to watch a video about Mary Anning's life
We found out that Mary Anning was from a very poor family and she collected fossils to sell for one penny to make money to help her family. She called them curiosities because when she was younger she didn't know that they were fossils.
Click on Mary's picture above to find out how Mary became interested in fossils and palaeontology.
We loved finding out about Mary Anning and her dog Tray.
Click on Tray the dog to find out even more about the amazing Mary Anning
This term we have also planted beans and watched them germinate and start to grow roots and leaves. We used magnifying glasses to look closely at the leaves and roots.
In our art lessons we made a clay dinosaur. We learnt how to mould the clay into different shapes and how to blend the parts of the dinosaur that joined together so they didn’t fall off when the clay dried. We were really proud of our finished dinosaurs.
We’ve had a very busy time in this topic. As well as creating a 3D dinosaur sculpture we have also made a dinosaur sock puppet. We practiced using some new joining techniques for this project and even had a go at using a glue gun. We were very careful as the glue got very hot. We found this was a much better way to join the parts of the fabric on the puppet. We also used glue dots for smaller parts. We love our puppets!
