Emmaville Primary School

Wales Year 2

Welcome to the Wales Year 2 Class Page.  Here, you can find out about everything that we've been doing this term.
Friday 10th October
 
KS1 Indoor Athletics Festival
 
We were lucky to earn a place to take a group of 15 children to a KS1 Indoor Athletics Festival at Gateshead College this Thursday. The children went with Mrs Priestley and Mrs Hunter and had a fantastic morning taking part in seven athletic activities including throws, long jump, hurdles and many team games. The children blew Mrs Priestley and Mrs Hunter away by their positive attitude, impeccable behaviour and real team spirit. We are very proud of all of them! Throughout the year we will have many other sporting opportunities for our Year 2 children to participate in.
Those who stayed at school were equally as amazing and had a wonderful morning taking part in their fundamentals PE lesson and enjoyed some autumn art using their observation, sketching and drawing skills. The autumn sketches they produced are fantastic and they all thoroughly enjoyed their morning.
Friday 3rd October
 
National Poetry Day Fun!
 
We had such an exciting time celebrating National Poetry Day! We created amazing acrostic poems at the beginning of the week all about play, filled with creative ideas and fantastic vocabulary. Everyone took great pride in publishing their poems beautifully to share with others. Together, we also learnt and performed My Magic Telescope by Sean Taylor. We added fun actions and lots of sign language to help bring the poem to life. The children used their creativity, teamwork, and imagination to put our own twist on the poem.
Friday 26th September
 
Science- Investigating Materials
 
Wales class were all young scientists this week investigating which material would be the most durable for Traction Man's new suit! Working in teams, they used their observation skills to test and compare different materials, recording their results carefully. Everyone showed fantastic teamwork as they shared ideas and worked together to find the best superhero fabric. There was lots of fun, laughter, and brilliant scientific thinking as Wales class became real-life superhero suit designers for the day!
Friday 19th September
 
Music Workshop- Sea Theme
 
We always look forward to welcoming Gateshead Authority Music Company to deliver one of their music workshops and this workshop didn't disappoint. The children absolutely LOVED it and a real buzz could be felt in the room. The children had the chance to play a range of musical instruments from drums to a large harmonica. We even finished the workshop with a whole key stage singalong to Sponge Bob Squarepants. A lot of fun was had by all and we are already excited for our Spring term workshop.
Friday 12th September
 
Take One Book- Pip and Egg
 
We always look forward to our termly Take One Book weeks where we delve deep into a new picture book and explore the author, illustrator, characters and themes of a story. The children loved this story of Pip and Egg based on the true meanings of friendship. We danced around the classroom to Toy Story class 'You've got a Friend in Me' and discussed the qualities of a friend.
 
This beautiful book captured the children's interest as the Pip and Egg grow up, begin to change and go their own way but true friendship always finds its way back to each other. I wonder what our next book will be? The children in Language and Literacy reading group are enjoying digger deeper into their current text 'Long Way Home for Wolf' by Rachel Bright and Jim Field.
Friday 5th September
 
It has been a brilliant first week in Year 2 and the children have settled into class really well. I am so proud of every single one of them for their amazing listening skills, enthusiasm and such great teamwork all week. We've had a fun-filled first week with parachute games, friendship jenga and creating some collage artwork to show how we are all unique but fit together as 'Wales Class Family'.
We look forward to Meet the Teacher next week and we know it is going to be a great year!