Good morning Year 2 and welcome to my final blog before the summer holidays. It is also our final Show and Tell on Teams this morning; your new Year 3 teacher Miss Walker will also be joining us to hear your news, which will be lovely.

Your Learning Project this week is Around the World, which sounds very exciting and I’m sure that you will enjoy completing the learning tasks.

I have thoroughly enjoyed teaching you all during the last two years and I wish you all continued success with your learning, as you move into the juniors.

I am going to have a busy summer holiday looking after our new  black labrador  puppy called Lily.

I hope you all have a lovely summer and I look forward to seeing you all return to school in September. I know Miss Walker is looking forward to welcoming you all into your new class. Till then have a lovely time with your family.

With love to you all,

Mrs Phillips

Good morning Year 2 and welcome to a week learning about famous and significant people. Two of the famous people in your Learning Project this week are called Florence Nightingale and Mary Seacole. Both are remembered for nursing the sick during the Crimean War.

There is also a Design and Technology challenge to invent a new gadget that would help a doctor or a nurse. I’m sure that at this moment in time you have lots of ideas to help the NHS in the future. I look forward to receiving lots of emails or tweets to see your inventions. Caitlin completed some lovely informative writing last week for the Rainforest Project. Fleur sent me some beautiful writing and a wonderful picture too – thank you.

There is also another design challenge you may be interested in, which is to invent a new gadget to keep your family entertained. If you go to the STEM website you might get some ideas.

I really enjoyed listening and talking to you all during our Show and Tell on Teams last week. I was an extremely happy teacher to hear about all the wonderful learning that has been going in your homes. I was particularly delighted about the great books you are all reading. I am so pleased to hear that you have been able to read some of the sixty books on our school reading challenge. On that happy note I will say goodbye for this week and look forward to sharing my final Year 2 Blog  with you all next Monday. Until then have a great week learning at home, I shall be thinking of you all.

With love to you all,

Mrs Phillips

Good morning Year 2 and I am looking forward to seeing you all a little later on this morning, as  it is our Year 2 – Show and Tell at 11a.m.

Also what a great topic you have this week for your Learning Project which is about Rainforests. Did you know that there are lots of different species of plants and animals in the rainforests? The weather can be like our weather at the moment, wet and humid too.

Goodbye for now and I look forward to seeing you all a little later.

Mrs Phillips

Good morning Year 2 and welcome to a this bright Monday morning.  It was so lovely to see and hear from lots of you on screen last week for our Show and Tell session. It was wonderful to catch up with all of the things that you had all been doing. Also the  Learning Project last week seemed to inspire lots of creativity amongst lots of you, which was great!        I think this week you will like the Learning Project which is about sport. I know there are lots of footballers, rugby players and cricket players in our class so I’m sure you will enjoy it.

Did you know there are some very strange sports that people take part in? There is a sport called swamp football, which looks as if you get very muddy when you play it.

Some people play Quidditch as well, just like Harry Potter! They don’t fly around on broomsticks instead they put the broomstick between their legs and run around a field.

There is also cycle football which is played on specially adapted bikes that have no brakes. I think that sport sounds quite dangerous!

I hope you all have a good week, learning lots of new things and keeping active practising the skills for the sport that you enjoy.

With love to you all,

Mrs Phillips

Good morning Year 2 and I am really looking forward to seeing you all at 11a.m. for our Show and Tell session on Microsoft Teams. I thought I would share my Monday news with you all first, then find out all about your news later this morning.

As you can see from the photograph above Charlie has been getting some new shoes. Russell is the farrier who puts the new shoes on Charlie and he brings all his tools with him such as an anvil, hammer and lots of special nails for horseshoes.

When Russell started his career as a farrier he used to make much bigger shoes than Charlie’s. That was because he used to shoe the horses that pulled dray carts which were very big. They carried kegs of beer from Vaux Brewery in Sunderland which is no longer there.

What a wonderful sight it was to see these gorgeous horses pulling the dray carts around Sunderland! Your learning project this week isn’t about dry land it is all about ‘Under the Sea’. To continue the horseshoe theme there are some crabs 🦀 in North America called Horseshoe Crabs.

I wonder what else you’re going to find out about this week?

Goodbye for now and I am looking forward to seeing you all at eleven o’clock.

Mrs Phillips

Good morning Year 2 and welcome to a fabulous Friday. It was so lovely to see the video Miss Walker posted on Wednesday, I know that you are going to have a great time in Year Three with your new teacher. Miss Walker worked with Mrs Bedford and myself a few years ago, when she was training to be a teacher; so it is great to see her back at All Saints’.

Why not write Miss Walker a letter and send it to school by post, email or Twitter? It would be great to include a picture too. Remember to tell her about all the subjects that you like, what hobbies or sport you like, your family, your pets, your favourite book or anything you can think of that you could share with her. I know some of you are already reading the same books that she is reading📚.

I hope your Learning Project is going well this week. I heard from Andrew and he has had a great time making a delicious celebration cake for Super Mario; as well as making a birthday card and other things linked to this topic.

I have been catching up with the program ‘Celebrity Supply Teacher’ on CBBC. I really enjoyed hearing about growing tomatoes and herbs yesterday. I also enjoyed the history program on Tuesday about Martin Luther King, who won the Nobel Peace prize because he wanted everyone to be treated equally.

Barack Obama, the first black president of America also won the Nobel Peace prize for the same reason as Martin Luther King.

Malala Yousafzai was the youngest winner, she won it because she wanted everyone in her country to have the same rights to education as we do in this country.

Another lady called Mother Teresa also won the prize for her work in helping others, who are not as fortunate as us.
So there is a lot to celebrate about the work that all of the Nobel prize winners have done for others. On the television program on Tuesday one little girl asked Martin Bashir, why we should learn about history. His reply was that we could learn from the mistakes that were made in the past, so we could do something better or different in the future. All of these people who won the prize wanted to make the world a better place for everyone to live in and that is certainly a cause for celebration.

Therefore join me for a celebration dance 💃 to the song – Celebration by Kool and the Gang.🏆🥇

Have a lovely weekend and I look forward to catching up again with you all on Monday.

With love to you all,

Mrs Phillips

Miss Walker would like to say a big hello and introduce herself to Year Two; she cannot wait to be your Year Three teacher next year!

Good morning Year 2 and I am delighted to share lots of news with you today. Libby and her brother sent a message to say hello and I have heard about all the fabulous learning they have been doing at home. They have also been cooking pancakes and cakes with their mum, which sound delicious. They are also growing potatoes, peas, cucumbers, tomatoes and strawberries .🍓 I heard more news about strawberries from Lilly and Will. Will has been growing strawberries and Lilly has been making fruit kebabs with them!

I think we need to celebrate all of the wonderful achievements of those children in our Year Two Team 🌟. I do hope your Learning Projects about celebrations  are going well this week. Sometimes it is nice to celebrate the little things in life. It may be something like continuing to hold a pencil ✏️ using the correct pencil grip, just like Harrison is continuing to do this week; well done Harrison! Or it may be in the form of a display like this one for Roly the dog.

Everyday Roly’s owner takes Roly for a walk and takes lots of photographs, so that people who may not be able to get out and about can see what is happening in their community. Roly loves to meet people and is always very polite, so the rainbow is a celebration first for our wonderful key workers, to say thank you and for dogs like Roly and his owner Jack who spread a little joy wherever they go. One of those people I know who can’t get out and about at the minute,  loves to knit 🧶. She ran out of wool so I took her some wool. She was delighted and she certainly celebrated the fact that she could carry on knitting to keep her busy. So celebrate and be proud of yourself for those little things because those little things turn into big things.

If you write a sentence really well today; celebrate and be proud of yourself, because that one sentence could be the start of a wonderful story.

With love to you all,

Mrs Phillips

Good morning Year 2 and welcome to a new week. Yesterday was Trinity Sunday the first Sunday after Pentecost and trinity means three in one. This can be best explained by using an apple 🍏.

An apple consists of the peel which could represent   God the Father who creates and protects. The flesh of the apple represents God the Son who became human flesh. Finally the seeds in the core of the apple, which represent God the Holy Spirit and these seeds plant the faith in our hearts which continues to grow day by day.

If you want to start your day in a different way today you might like to try out a new television programme, called Celebrity Supply Teacher.It  is on CBBC at 9:25 each day for the next four weeks. It has numerous famous faces giving you information about lots of different subjects.

I was delighted to hear about learning at home that had gone well last week. Harrison achieved learning the correct pencil grip, which will help him to complete some lovely neat writing ✍️.

Caitlin completed some successful baking by making some chocolate chip cookies. Well done for following the recipe and measuring the ingredients correctly, I can imagine they tasted delicious.

I had a message from Mrs Douglas to say that Layla sent  a hello to me when she was out walking with her mum and dad. I can imagine that Layla might have included some dancing in her walk! So lovely to hear from you Layla 😊. It’s great to hear from everyone so keep me updated with your learning or even just to say hello, because I miss seeing you all.Have a good week completing your new Learning Project and I will be back with another update on Wednesday.

With love to you all,

Mrs Phillips

Good morning Year 2 and welcome to the first Friday in June. I hope your Learning Projects have gone well this week and that you have had a chance to read some books. I lost my bookmark the other day and then someone told me about these great origami corner bookmarks that you can make with a piece of paper. Just go to the ‘easypeasy’ website and there is a video to show you how to fold the paper to make your bookmark step by step.

The book  I am going to use my new bookmark in is about a man called Nelson Mandela.

Nelson Mandela believed that everyone was equal and he wanted everyone to be treated in the same way. There was a wonderful exhibition in London to mark his centenary in 2018 and I went to see it. I really enjoyed finding out about what happened in his life at the exhibition. During his lifetime  he encountered isolation from his family, which was very difficult for him. Eventually, he became the first black president of South Africa.

I hope you have a lovely weekend. Can you guess one of the things I will be doing this weekend?👓📚 If you have read or are reading a good book please let me know and I can share your book review with the rest of the class.

With love to you all,

Mrs Phillips