Year2Abela

Homework projects

2012-01-16T07:07:00.001-08:00

Our new topic is London Landmarks. Our homework project was to create a London landmark. We made some fantastic models and we used a range of materials. Have a look at our photos. Can you name some of the London landmarks?

Zumba

2012-01-08T08:09:00.000-08:00

Y2A have enjoyed learning a Zumba dance as part of our 'Take 12.'

Happy New Year!!!!

2012-01-03T02:28:00.000-08:00

I hope that you have all had a lovely break.
I look forward to seeing your homework projects and I will upload photos of them this week.
Mrs. Abela

Viking Day

2011-11-24T02:20:00.000-08:00

We enjoyed doing different activities during our Viking day. We learnt how to weave like the Vikings and we made Viking helmets using balloons and newspaper. It was very messy!

Learning to Learn week

2011-09-16T01:51:00.000-07:00

On the first day back at school, the children and I played circle-time games so that we could get to know one another. We talked about the ways that we could improve how we carry out group work. We then practised these skills when we worked in groups to decide on the top three most important class rules.

The groups fed back to the class and we used these to form Y2A's class Rules.

The class decided to create posters explaining what the class rules are so that new children to the school will know them .

THE END

2011-07-20T13:47:00.001-07:00

Well, the end is near. I'm getting a little bit sadder everyday knowing my time in 2N is coming to an end. Ive had a great time teaching the children of 2N. I wish them all the best in their next academic year.. I won't be too far away in year 5 next year, so ill be watching closely..

Good luck

Happy holidays

MR Norris

Arts week

2011-07-11T12:27:00.000-07:00

We did a variety of different art forms this week using different mediums. The children sang, danced, performed, played instruments, used clay, painted, used felt and made paper mache lighthouses. Here's a small collection of photos for you to enjoy. It was one of favourite weeks at John Bramston so far..

Currency - Numeracy

2011-07-02T06:18:00.000-07:00

Recently in Numeracy we have been looking at everything to do with currency. Using it, spending it, keeping it, counting it and dividing it. To help our understandig we set up the classroom as if it was high st. We had a tesco, Sainsburys, a Greggs and even a butchers and sweet shop. We even had a couple of rival banks in HSBC and Llyods TSB to help those children who over spent..!!

Seagulls by Romani

2011-07-01T07:23:00.000-07:00

Listen to Romani's Podcast of her poem 'Seagulls'
http://podcast.lgfl.org.uk/channels/media/1309533841romany.mp3

Drama

2011-06-16T11:30:00.000-07:00

Over the last week or so the students have been acting out stories from our classroom discussions. The children's favourite book seemed to be Lucy long legs, which emphasises the problems of bullying other children. I've been very impressed with the children's sensible behaviour during drama lessons. I was also amazed at how good they were at remembering their lines and performing in front of the class. Well done 2N!

Transport musuem

2011-05-18T08:37:00.000-07:00

Last week 2N visited the transport musuem in Covent garden. The children had a wonderful time.I'm not what they enjoyed the most.. The tube ride in. The busy underground platforms, The lift ride, The street performers or the musuem itself.. You'll have to ask your child to find out the answer..Enjoy the pictures

HERITAGE WEEK !!

2011-04-28T08:50:00.000-07:00

Hey all hope you had a happy easter !

Well although this week was only two days we managed to squeeze in so many activities..

As it was Heritage week we decided to do all things English..As a result we had stations set up for children to participate in during the day.

The stations included, Story telling of old english tales, Cricket, Dancing, Flag making, Cucumber and Jam sandwich making and a beetle drive (ask the children about that one).

The children seemed to enjoy it with many showing great patriotic spirit.

The street party followed the forementioned activities and a slide show of the afternoon can be seen on the home page of the schools website..

Enjoy the pictures..

One reminder..

If you haven't already, can you please bring in your permission slip for the trip to the transport museum.

Thank you

Enjoy the Royal Wedding !!

Drama Centre

2011-04-01T08:38:00.000-07:00

On Thursday 31/3/11 2N visited the drama centre at Ilford. The children had a wonderful time taking part and acting out scences from an ancient pirate story. I thank the children for their excellent manners and behaviour!
The pictures tell the whole story !

2011-03-11T08:02:00.000-08:00

Welcome Everyone!
If you haven't heard the news I'm the new Yr 2 teacher for 2E
(2N) until the end of the school year. So far its been a busy time in the classroom with parent/teacher nights and a school excursion but its all been in good fun.

Mr Norris

School excursion.
Last Wednesday we visited Hainault forest to view the wildlife and pleasent surroundings. We also had a quick peek in Hainault farm. Make sure you ask your child how it was as they seemed to have so much fun!

Traditional British Dance

2011-01-25T01:20:00.000-08:00

Our PE theme this half term is Traditional British Dance. We have been practising different dances and steps. Take a look at one of our performances recorded by Joshua.

Christmas class party

2010-12-10T07:24:00.001-08:00

Year 2 will be having Class parties on the Thursday 16th December in the afternoon. please bring party clothes in a named bag so that the children can get changed after lunch. we would be grateful for any party food contribution that the children can share. Please come to school in full uniform as we will be going to the church in the morning. Thank you

Our Trip to Bethnal Green Museum of Childhood

2010-11-01T07:12:00.000-07:00

On Friday 22nd October, year 2 visitied Bethnal Green Museum of Childhood to find out about games played in the past. We found out that although many games have changed, there are still games we play today that were played years ago. Have a look at some of our photos.

Exploring Games

2010-10-06T03:22:00.000-07:00

As part of our topic 'Let's Play', our class explored a variety of games - including some more traditional ones, e.g. Snakes and Ladders and Dominoes. The children commented on how they enjoyed playing games they had never played before. Have a look at some of us enjoying our games!

Welcome to 2E!

2010-09-14T13:27:00.000-07:00

Welcome back to school and I hope you all have enjoyed your first week. Our class spent the first week getting to know each other more, discussing the school and class rules, and finding out about our own talents and skills. We will be turning this work into our own class book which I'm sure you'll enjoy reading!

2010-07-07T01:42:00.000-07:00

We have been enjoying our latest theme all about the seaside. We have been creating sculptures with seaside items such as shells, pebbles and seaweed. Have a look at the pictures.We have been printing and creating seaside landscapes.

Last week the children in year two had a fantastic afternoon taking part in a drama activity all about the seaside and pirates. We also enjoyed performing our play, the Garden to parents and the rest of the school.

Remember it is open afternoon this Friday 9th July so come in and see all our good work.

Arts week

2010-06-20T23:16:00.000-07:00

This week has been a full and fun week. We have played in a football tournament against the other year 2 class and won, practised playing the Guitar with James Fresco. Heard wonderful Gypsy Roma traveller stories by Trisha and lots of other activities to do with our chosen country Germany. Take a look at our pictures.

2010-06-12T03:39:00.003-07:00

On Monday the 7th June both year two classes visited the Barbican to watch the London Symphony Orchestra perform Little Red Riding Hood. We had a fantastic time and performed a song with the orchestra.

Also this week we were lucky to have PC Laurie come in and visit us. She spoke to the classes about stranger danger and every child got the opportunity to wear a police hat or helmet. Mrs Whiteson was chosen by the children to be arrested in a role play activity.

Barbican and Polui

2010-06-12T03:39:00.001-07:00

2010-05-25T06:18:00.000-07:00

Welldone to all the year two children for completing their assessments in the heat we have had this week. I am sure they are all looking forward to the half term break and a chance to enjoy the lovely weather. Everyone has done their very best and should be very proud of themselves.

Have a great half term and I look forward to when we all return and begin our Seaside theme.

Remember to send in your reply slips and £3 for our trip to the Barbican to watch the London Symphony Orchestra perform Little Red Riding Hood.

Mrs Cheek

2010-05-12T02:30:00.000-07:00

We had an exciting start to this week when we visited London zoo. The highlights were looking at animals from the rainforest and nocturnal animals that only come out at night. Look at our picture of a Sloth that came over to say hello.

Class photos are on Thursday 13th May so make sure you are all looking your best wearing our school colours.

Mrs Cheek

2010-05-03T07:15:00.000-07:00

This term we have begun our plants animals and mini beasts theme and the children have been describing settings and animals from the Rainforest.

Using the donations received of recycleable materials the children have designed a sculpture for a 3D minibeast and are looking forward to making them.

Our visit to the zoo on Monday 10th May will help to teach the children more about the Rainforest. Please remember to fill in the permission slip and send in.

2010-03-24T03:00:00.000-07:00

Hello from Y2C

What a busy couple of weeks we have had. We have been on a class trip to Hainault forest farm where we were able to feed the animals and ask questions about farming. We have visited the Transport Museum to start of our new theme learning about Transport and we performed our class assembly to our parents. What a great couple of weeks!

2010-03-09T08:23:00.000-08:00

We have had a good week learning about Kenya through literacy and reading the story Lila and the secret of rain. We have enjoyed using the laptops in class to research about children in Kenya. We have also been practising our recorders in preparation for our class assembly and are looking forward to our trip to Hainault forest country park next week.

Trip to the National Gallery

2010-03-01T07:22:00.000-08:00

We had an exciting day visiting the National Gallery. We looked at the work created by the artists Monet, Sisley and Pissaro. We travelled on the underground and had lunch in trafalgar square. The highlight was the performing statues who tricked the children and made them laugh.

2010-02-04T02:38:00.001-08:00

This week we have been working really hard making Viking artefacts and Viking houses. We also were very lucky to be visited by some Owls, foundation and KS1 enjoyed the visit and learning about the different types of Owl and the many places that they live. Take a look at our pictures.

2010-01-26T06:12:00.000-08:00

This Monday both Y2 classes visited the British Museum in Holborn. We travelled to the museum on the London underground. We were able to view Viking exhibits as part of our Viking theme and were also able to visit other galleries such as the Romans, The Egyptians and the African galleries. We had a fantastic time and really enjoyed the experience.

Welcome Back!!!

2010-01-10T12:04:00.000-08:00

I hope you had a good Christmas and New Year break. Our themes for the first half of the spring term are Transport, Vikings and Country and farming. I hope you have enjoyed the snow and are excited about the new term. Mrs Cheek

2009-11-28T12:17:00.000-08:00

What a busy couple of weeks we have had in Y2C, we have been learning about electricity and was set a challenge to light a bulb. We had two wires, a bulb and battery. We felt a great sense of achievement when we did it and enjoyed the challenge.

We have been learning about poetry and have performed and written poems about food. We are starting our new theme Food Hygiene and have been practising for our Nativity which we are looking forward to performing.

2009-11-15T23:50:00.000-08:00

Last week the whole of year two went on a school trip to London, we saw lots of different London landmarks such as St Paul's cathedral, the monument, the Tate gallery, tower bridge, the Golden hind, The Gherkin and many many more. The children all enjoyed the experience and were able to related the trip to their learning. WeConcluded our trip with a visit to the Museum of London to view the Great fire of London exhibition. Take a Look at our photos of the day.

Plus a big weldone to all those children that coimpleted a London landmark model for homework, they are fantastic and I am very impressed. Mrs Cheek.

2009-10-24T07:12:00.000-07:00

Over the last two weeks we have been busy in year two. We have visited the local library and completed our Games theme by making our own games. We have planted bulbs in our class planter and enjoyed a Diwali day with the year one classes. During Black history week we have been learning about the Ugangan artist David Kibuuka.

Our new theme when we return after the half term is London landmarks. We will be going on a class trip to London on Monday November 9th, so remember to complete the permission slips for the trip which can be found on the school newsletter. I hope you have fun during your half term break and i look forward to seeing your models when you return, Mrs Cheek.

2009-10-08T04:19:00.000-07:00

We have come to the end of our first theme Games. We used all that we have learned to design and make a board game and during indoor PE we were given a challenge to create a new game for teams of four to play. We worked in groups of four with a bench and mat for equipment. The games we created were played by our peers and were enjoyed by all. The names of the games are listed below.

Shark catcher
Flat on the mat
Pirate numbers
Musical statues
Copy
Crocodiles

Ask us the rules and we will explain the game to you. Look at our pictures below.

2009-10-04T11:09:00.000-07:00

This weeks highlight was our visit to our local park in search of signs of Autumn. We found lots of intersting things such as conkers, acorns, leaves, dandelion seeds and lots more. We used the experience to write acrostic poems using adjectives to describe the signs of Autumn.

2009-09-26T05:12:00.000-07:00

What an exciting week we have had. Bubble G a new girl group performed their debut song to us during our Tuesday assembly, a great track. You can see the video on the school blog. We have been learning about materials in preperation for making our own board games next week and learning lots of different games through our PE lessons.

2009-09-16T08:20:00.000-07:00

This week the Y2 classes visited Redridge Sports Centre for a taster session on the trampoline.
The children had a fantastic time even though they got rather wet on the journey back!!

2009-09-07T14:27:00.000-07:00

Today was fun and exciting as we began our new creative curriculum. In year 2 our first theme is Games, we enjoyed learning about them as well as playing them.

2009-09-07T06:45:00.000-07:00

WELCOME BACK Y2C!
I hope you all had a fun filled holiday and enjoyed your break from school.
I enjoyed our first day together and am looking forward to the coming year.
Mrs Cheek.

2009-06-29T01:41:00.000-07:00

Last week was Gypsy traveller week. We had a fun and interesting week learning about the history and lives of Gypsy travellers. The highlight of the week was when the story teller came in and told us different Gypsy traveller stories. Many of us were chosen to role play the characters from the stories and we all enjoyed learning some traditional dances. Take a look at our photos we hope you enjoy looking at them as much as we did taking them.

Using maths to dance!

2009-06-21T15:14:00.000-07:00

In numeracy we have been combining maths with dance. Using mathematical vocabulary we were able to instruct the other children and teach them the dance.

Asking Questions!

2009-06-02T04:28:00.000-07:00

The chiildren have been making interview questions they could ask eyewitnesses from The Fire of London. They took it in turns to be the interviewer and eyewitness. Here is an example of the excellent work they did.

St. George's Day

2009-04-27T14:20:00.000-07:00

We learnt about St. George and the dragon. We celebrated St.Georges by making posters, puppets and a whole class collage of a dragon!

Easter Parade

2009-04-03T15:00:00.000-07:00

We had a fantastic time parading our Easter hats. All the hats were amazing. Well Done to Rashima who won the prize for the best hat!
We hope you all have a restful and relaxing two weeks off and hope to see you on the 21st of April 2009.

Poetry

2009-03-23T13:15:00.000-07:00

Last week we looked at different kinds of poems and even tried to make some of our own!

This poem is called 'The Whale' which we made as a class...it's fab!

Red Nose Day!

2009-03-13T08:12:00.000-07:00

We all supported Red Nose Day by wearing our pyjamas!

Reading with expression!

2009-03-11T05:15:00.000-07:00

We have been learning to read with expression...Emily and Ben have been reading the poem 'Silly Old Baboon.'

Counting in Chinese

2009-03-11T05:08:00.000-07:00

For Book week we were looking at a story from China. We have been researching China and have learnt to count up to ten in Chinese. See if you can count along!

Welcome back!

2009-02-23T12:49:00.000-08:00

We hope you have had a good half term and are eager to get back to school! Next week is Book Week and we will be focusing on a book called 'The Dragon's Tears' by Guo Le. We will be making and learning lots of fun new things!

Our visit to Kielder Close Day Center

2009-02-09T05:54:00.000-08:00

The children enjoyed spending part of the morning at Kielder Close Day Center. We were able to ask questions about life in the past and compare it to today. Both children and teachers realised how lucky we are now!

Place value

2009-02-03T13:08:00.000-08:00

We have been learning about place value in maths. We used jumps to show tens and claps to show units.

Speech Marks

2009-01-16T10:12:00.000-08:00

We have been learning how to use speechmarks in literacy. We used our hands to help us remember how to use them.
We have also been practising our words in Polish, ask your child how to say hello!

Happy New Year

2009-01-05T07:05:00.000-08:00

Happy New Year Everyone!!!

Hope you all had a great Christmas break and are bright eyed and bushy tailed for Tuesday morning! We have got a fun packed term coming up which I'm sure the staff and children will enjoy.

Christmas party!!!

2008-12-16T14:20:00.000-08:00

Check out some of our party pics!

Star of the week!

2008-12-10T07:33:00.000-08:00

Well done to Jenny and Ben for being stars!

Science

2008-12-05T03:48:00.000-08:00

We have been learning about how materials change state. A solid can become a liquid and a liquid can become a gas. This can be reversed. So a gas can become a liquid and a liquid can become a solid. It depends on whether you add heat or cold.

Stars of the week!

2008-12-01T02:17:00.000-08:00

Well done to Kassim, Nathan and Emily-Jane!

Paper bag masks

2008-12-01T02:14:00.000-08:00

We followed instructions in literacy to make paper bag masks in design and technology.

Linking science and literacy

2008-11-28T05:18:00.000-08:00

We have been very clever in Year Two by linking our literacy to our science work. In literacy we have been looking at instructions and in science we have been looking at how materials change......so we used instructions to bake a cake!

Check out our pictures!

Games

2008-11-28T01:02:00.000-08:00

As a class we have uploaded some games on our blog...please check them out!

Presentations!

2008-11-14T08:44:00.000-08:00

Here are our presentations...hope you enjoy them!

Instructions!

2008-11-14T08:24:00.000-08:00

This week in litercay we have been looking at how to write and follow instructions. In groups we have been writing instructions on how to make sandwiches. We worked very well as a group and did some great presentations.

Star of the week!

2008-11-14T07:57:00.000-08:00

Well done to Shakeira who was our star of the week!

More Eid activities

2008-11-12T07:33:00.000-08:00

Awesome Autumn (Eid Celebration)

2008-11-12T06:58:00.000-08:00

As you know last week we celebrated Awesome Autumn. In Mrs Ehsan's class we were celebrating Eid. We talked about why Eid is important to Muslims and what Muslims do on Eid. After that we made some Eid biscuits and ended the session with a little Eid party!

More pictures!!!

2008-11-12T06:55:00.001-08:00

Mrs Ehsan got carried away taking pictures!!!!

Visit to St Paul's Church

2008-11-12T06:46:00.000-08:00

2CE visited the church toady. Before we went we had a list of very interesting and sensible questions for Reverend Cant to answer. The children represented John Bramston in a very positive way by being very well behaved and respectful. We enjoyed ourselves very much and learnt a lot of interesting facts.

Coconut Calypso

2008-11-06T06:18:00.000-08:00

Now we are just showing off!!!!

I've got a 'B' in my bonnet!

2008-11-06T05:53:00.001-08:00

This term we have been learning to play the recorder. We hope you like what we have learnt so far.....HIT IT!!!

Non-fiction books

2008-11-06T04:21:00.000-08:00

For the next two weeks we will be looking at non-fiction books. This week we have learnt about the features of a non-fiction text. See if you can guess them before watching the video!

Counting in Urdu

2008-11-06T03:27:00.000-08:00

In 2CE we have been learning to count in Urdu. Some countries that have Urdu spoken in them are Pakistan, India and Kashmir. Lots of children in our school speak Urdu.

Half term homework

2008-11-03T08:47:00.000-08:00

Look at the fantastic homework created by our class. We are sure you will agree that it is absolutely fabulous! The children have worked really hard and put a lot of effort into their constructions. Well done children!

Welcome back

2008-11-03T08:27:00.000-08:00

Glad to see all of you back after the half term. Hope you all had an amazing break. Well done to all of you who completed your homework, we were so impressed with all of your hard work.

Just before half term we had a fantastic day with arts and crafts. We spent the day making divas for Diwali and learning about the amazing life of Gaudi; which included sketching some of his buildings, constructing buildings with blocks and making our own Gaudi masterpiece. This was a well deserved break after assessment week and both teachers and children enjoyed the experience.