Silkstone Primary School

Welcome to Class Two 

Welcome to Class 2

In Class 2, the children will be working with Miss Felton and Mrs Cale. Our priorities are for your child to feel happy, safe and secure in order to help them make the most of their learning.

Please help us to develop your child’s independence, by allowing them to come into the cloakroom on their own each morning and get themselves organised.

To help your child with their learning, it is really important that you hear them read at least three times a week at home and support them in learning their spellings each week too. Children need to bring books in to change on a Monday. I will also be uploading homework onto seesaw each week, for children to do with parents at home.

Our PE sessions for this half term will be on a Monday and Tuesday, so please make sure your child brings their PE kit on these days.

We will also be using TTRockstars and Purple Mash, alongside seesaw, to support learning both at home and at school.

Curriculum Overview Summer 2024

RSPB Old Moor

We spent a wonderful day at RSPB Old Moor as scientists exploring the natural world.  We found lots of different creatures when pond dipping and identified them using a key.  We enjoyed bird spotting in the hide and watching the birds on the ponds.  

World Book Day

We enjoyed dressing up as our favourite story characters and immersing ourselves in reading on World Book Day.

Sketchbooks

We brought in 10 small items from home and had to sketch them carefully with pencils and pens in our sketch book.  We shared our results with Year 5, who gave us some constructive feedback.

Gymnastics

We enjoyed our first gymnastics lesson, developing our balancing skills.

Curriculum Plan for the Spring Term

Father Christmas

We all enjoyed having a chat with Father Christmas when he came to visit us.

History

As part of our learning about the history of our local area we went for a walk around the village and looked at significant buildings.

R.E.

We visited Silkstone Church as part of our learning in RE.

Maths

Making 2D shapes.

Science

As part of our Science work, we were testing types of paper to see which one was most absorbent.

Running a Mile

We ran around the school six times to raise money for Macmillan and had a great time doing it.

DAN the Skipping Man

We all enjoyed our skipping workshop and have been using our new skipping ropes at playtime.

Learning new knowledge and skills

Class 2 are enjoying their Tuesday afternoons of recorders and PE.

Curriculum Information for the Autumn Term

Learning in Year Two 2022 - 2023.

Cleethorpes

We had a fantastic time at Cleethorpes.  The sun shone for us.  We built some amazing sandcastles, enjoyed our cafe lunch and our ride on the Lollipop Time.

Sports Day

We all had a fabulous time at Sports Day and enjoyed taking part in all the different events.

RSPB Old Moor

We had a wonderful visit to Old Moor to develop our knowledge in Science.  We loved pond dipping and identifying our minibeasts and using the binoculars to spot a variety of birds.  

Class Two Assembly

We loved sharing all our learning with our parents in our assembly.  We played the recorder, sang a song, read a story and shared what we had learnt this year.

World Book Day

We really enjoyed dressing up as book characters for World Book Day.  We shared our favourite books and had a book swap.

Baking Treat

We have enjoyed baking buns and decorating them with sprinkles. We used money from our DT project and it was on our list of treats for filling our gem jar in class. They tasted yummy!

NSPCC Number Day

We celebrated Number Day by dressing up and taking part in a times tables challenge on Times Tables Rockstars.

Art 

We have enjoyed printing in our art lessons using carbon paper. 

Christmas Party

We all had great fun at our Christmas party.

Christmas Craft

We had a lovely afternoon making our Christmas crafts.  We made reindeer baubles and iced gingerbread men.

Father Christmas

We loved our visit to Father Christmas in his grotto.   We had a chat about Christmas and then he kindly gave us an early Christmas present.  It was a lovely start to the Christmas Fayre.

Victorian Kitchen

We had an online visit from the Victorian Cook at Cannon Hall.  She told us all about her life in Victorian times and then showed us how to make sugar mice.  We were really pleased with our results and think they look too cute to eat.

We all enjoyed dressing up in our spooky costumes today!

We are Scientists!

We worked collaboratively to investigate which paper was the most absorbent.

On your Marks...

The sun shone down as we ran one mile around the field to raise money for the Trussell Trust, which supports Barnsley Food bank.

Recorders!

We are enjoying learning to play the recorder in Year 2 and hope that we will soon be creating some wonderful music!

Football

We are enjoying our football lessons.