Year 2

Thank you for coming to our Parents Meeting this week. It was wonderful to be able to answer your questions and inform you of our exciting year ahead. We understand that it is difficult to…

We would like to extend a warm welcome back to the children and parents of St Joseph’s.  The children returned to school with smiles on their faces and bursting with enthusiasm to learn. The children…

This Thursday Year 2 grabbed their buckets and spades and headed for Walton-on-the-Naze! When we arrived we had the best lunch ever (just a little sandy!) as we watched the waves splashing onto the beach. After lunch…

This week Year 2 have been thinking about how to make their money grow! We had a competition to see what group could come up with the best ways to make the most money. They each had to pitch…

We have enjoyed learning about capacity this week! We especially enjoyed using colourful magic potions to measure the capacity of all sorts of different containers. We estimated how many millilitres were in each magic potion before accurately reading…

This year’s sports day was once again a sports spectacular with the children, parents and friends.  It was lovely to see Years 1 and 2 enjoying Sports Day together, cheering each other on and being wonderful spectators….

This week Year 2 took part in Walk to School Week! This was a five- day walking challenge to increase the amount of time we spend walking to and from school. Year 2 successfully completed this…

Spring is well and truly here and we were lucky enough to sow our Sunflower seeds with Sophia in the garden this week. Sophia shared some great tips for looking after our sunflowers so that they grow…

As part of our new exciting topic WWII and The Home Front, we decided it would be a fabulous idea to have a look at the Anderson Shelter and “DIG FOR VICTORY” poster we have…

Year 2 had an amazing assembly on child safety that really made us think. The NSPCC’s lovable mascot, Buddy, paid us a visit to help us recognise an unsafe situation and who we should speak to if…