Halloween’s Coming!

It’s been a non-stop term for Lower Primary 2! The children came back from their summer holidays, excited to start a new school year. We welcomed some new friends from other countries and lots of our Upper Pre-Primary learners from last year were very keen to move upstairs to start Year 1 with us.

We kicked off the year with an IPC unit called ‘Brainwave’ where we learned about all of the amazing things our brain helps us to do. We also thought about the ways that our brain makes connections and how something may be new and difficult for us to learn now, but the more we practise, the more connections will be made and the easier it will become. With a growth mindset, anything will be possible in Lower Primary 2!

Through our second IPC unit ‘Who Am I?’ we’ve spent the term sharing the similarities and differences of our friends from all over the world and considering what makes us unique. We worked on pieces of writing about our families and home countries and used our map skills to find where each of us comes from. Through work on portraits, Year 1s and 2s were able to complete their own self-portrait design, as well as creating artwork in the theme of Surrealism by studying the Belgian painter René Magritte. Our Who Am I unit has also helped us to find out some amazing facts about the human body, the hard work that our heart does and how we can fuel ourselves and stay healthy by eating foods from all of the major food groups.

Year 2s helped our new friends to get to grips with our Daily 5 literacy programme, where we practise and learn new skills through Read to Self, Listening to Reading, Read to Someone, Work on Writing and Word Work. We’ve also been working hard on our grammar this term with Year 1s working at sentence level with unscrambling and word-ordering activities and Year 2s furthering their understanding of different types of punctuation, including commas, speech marks and apostrophes.

In Maths, Year 1s have been practising their counting skills within 100 and using addition and subtraction to solve problems to 20. They were also very excited to learn about Venn diagrams with some spooky monsters and loved sorting their class members onto charts depending on their sports preferences. Meanwhile, Year 2s have been furthering their numeracy skills through addition and subtraction within numbers to 100 and place value to 1,000. They’ve also been looking at shapes, angles and symmetry in Maths, and particularly enjoyed creating their M.C Escher tessellation artwork.

To keep up fitness up, Lower Primary 2 got back to their swimming lessons with Ms Julieta and were very excited to welcome Mr Tom to the school as our new Sports teacher. We’re looking forward to all of the fun, sporty activities that we’re going to be doing this year!

In amongst all of this busy work, we also found the time to celebrate Maru’s 6^th birthday and Ayaan’s 7^th birthday – big milestones!

After a busy eight weeks, Lower Primary 2 have definitely earned their holidays. Have a lovely break everyone!