Koalas
Welcome to Koalas!
Class Teacher: Mrs Curran
Teaching Assistant: Mrs Hunter
Student Teacher: Mr Slater
Welcome to Year 2
General Information
This half term, our topic is 'One more step'. In Geography, we will be exploring the U.K. on a map before producing a detailed map with the four countries, major cities and seas labelled. We will explore our home county of North Yorkshire and learn about the different ways of travelling across the U.K. In RE we
will be continuing to learn about the Muslim faith and to finish, we will be thinking about questions that are hard to answer. Our PE focus will be to practise our athletic skills in readiness for sports day on 27th June.
Spellings
We aim to practice a range of spellings from the year 1/2 common exception word list twice a week to support the children within their writing. Our next spelling test is: Monday 23rd June.
Monday - Tuesday - Wednesday - Thursday - Friday - Saturday - Sunday.
Home Readers
When you read with your child at home, please write a comment to that effect (or just your initials) in the school planner. Please try and read with your child each day, even if it’s only a couple of pages or for a few minutes, every little helps. We will aim to read with your child at least once a week in school. If your child needs a new book during the week, they can pass their book and planner to Mrs Hunter who will change it for them.
P.E. Days
Koalas will be doing PE on a Thursday.
Please ensure your child comes dressed in their PE kits every Thursday, with any earrings taken out and hair tied back.
Show and Tell
Children are welcome to bring in an interesting item for show and tell on the following Fridays for this term:
Echidnas : 6/6/25
Emus : 13/6/25
Wombats 20/6/25
Kookaburras : 27/6/25
Kangaroos : 4/7/25
Exciting Learning Websites
Below are some exciting websites where you can practise your writing and maths skills.
Our learning
The transition morning at the Junior school was great fun. We did PE, body percussion and French!
Larchfield Manor
Group 1 had a great time at Larchfield Manor.
Computing
Our learning about programming beebots was a great success.
Music
In music, Koalas have been practising techniques for playing tuned percussion instruments including roll, shimmer, bounce and glissando. We then practised playing in rhythm with a beat, a seesaw motion and finally, a two-note chord.
Planetarium
DT
Pizza making in Design Technology.
PE
We've been practising dynamic balance in PE, a lot of skill involved!
Computing
In computing, we've been interpreting data and the creating a pictogram online.
Maths
In maths, we've been playing lots of games to learn about money.
Art
The Koalas finished off their amazing clay model animals by painting and glazing them.
Maths Rocks
We had an awesome day with Rock kids Uk! Koalas also practised their times tables alongside lots of jumping and dancing!
PE
In PE Koalas have been working on their dynamic balance, with the challenges getting more tricky each week!
Hepworth Gallery
We had a great day at Hepworth Gallery. We took part in an artist lead workshop in the morning, where we created sculpture designs out of natural pieces. We then created our own clay sculptures based on what we had seen so far in the Gallery. After lunch, we found our favourite pieces in the Gallery and sketched in our art books before finally having a wander around the gallery gardens.
Enchantica Elf Village
We had a great time at the Elf Village, learning all about recycling at Christmas.
Design Technology
The children had great fun designing, making and evaluating their wind up toys.
Unity Day- Brilliant Brains
Science
In science, we've been learning all about materials, working out which one would make the best umbrella for Ted, and experimenting to see which materials can be bent, stretched, twisted and squashed.
Maths Week
Structures Day
Autumn 1
The Koalas have enjoyed creating a healthy eating plate after learning about a balanced diet in our science lessons this half term. They have created some fantastic writing based on Incredible You and The Day the Crayons Quit in English lessons. In Maths we have been working on addition including number bonds to 10. When the weather has been kind to us, we’ve managed to get outside to practice hopping, balancing and different kinds of movements outside for PE. We loved learning about how to say hello and goodbye in different languages during languages week too. I think you’ll agree that our portraits based on the style of Romero Britto are coming along nicely and the end results are looking fantastic!
Pro Bike Workshop
