Brunel Class 2024-2025

English Week

This week we have been celebrating books and literacy. We have taken part in lots of fun activities. Here are some of the highlights !

On World Book Day we dressed as our favourite book characters. We looked amazing and had lots of fun looking at each others costumes. In the afternoon we took part in a World Book Day Tea Party in the hall. 

We also entered a competition run by our School Council. We had to design a book front cover.

Our Class Spelling Bee was very exciting. We all did well and made it through quite a few rounds but eventually we had two finalists- Lily and Max. After a few more rounds Max finally became our Class Champion. He will receive a prize at our World Book Day Assembly. Well done Max and Lily.

Term 4

Welcome back! 

We hope you all had a great holiday. We have another fun and action packed term for you. 

This term we have a geography topic - Why is our World wonderful?

Passports at the ready - we will be exploring some of the wonders of the World!

In Literacy , we will be studying 'Heroes and Villains' in books including Supertato, wolves and Traction Man.

In Maths, we will be practising our 2x,5x and 10x tables and learning about measurements and fractions.

Please see our curriculum overview for all the other exciting topics we will be covering during Term 4.

This term our P.E days will be Mondays and Wednesdays.

Spelling Tests are still on Wednesdays.

Please remember to read regularly at home and bring your reading book and reading record book to school everyday.

Marmalade Sandwiches !

Today in Literacy we were learning how to read and follow instructions. Paddington gave us his recipe for making marmalade sandwiches ! We followed the instructions carefully and made some delicious marmalade sandwiches. We were all very sticky by the end! Tomorrow we will write our own instructions.

Fire brigade visit!

We had a fire safety talk from the fire brigade. They showed us all the equipment on a fire engine. They also taught us how to 'Stop, drop and roll' if our clothes catch on fire.

Then we were lucky enough to all hold the hose and spray water!

Tree Planting

Today we had a muddy time planting some trees in our School grounds. We have given our trees names and they are planted along the fence by the road coming into School. We hope with some sunshine and rain that we will be able to watch them grow taller as we come to School over the next few years.

Term 3

Happy New Year!

We already have lots of fun learning activities planned for this term.

Please see the curriculum overview for our topics this term. We will be learning all about the Fire of London and in literacy we will be reading 'Paddington Bear'.

In DT we will be making fire engines and houses. In maths we will be learning how to use money.

This term PE will be on WEDNESDAYS and FRIDAYS.

Please ensure you help your child read regularly and we will be sending out weekly spellings linked to Level 6 phonics.

Mrs Ford and Mrs Collins

Wicked Weather Watch Visit

This afternoon Noel from Wicked Weather Watch came to our Classroom and delivered a fantastic workshop about the Polar Regions and Climate Change. It was a great way to end our Term 2 Geography topic. 

Science

Micro Habitats and Mini Beasts

As part of our Science lesson today we took a trip up to the Wildlife Area to look for micro habitats and the mini beasts that live there. We loved searching carefully under leaves, rocks and branches and found lots of worms, woodlouse, spiders and slugs !

Visit from Artist Nik Courtney

Nik came to visit Brunel Class today. Nik bought some of her amazing portraits in to show us. She talked about what a portrait is, where we would see portraits, why people have portraits and the different styles and media that can be used to create portraits. We loved looking at Nik's own portraits. At the end of the session Nik taught us a quick portrait  drawing game which we played with our friends. The results were very funny ! Thank you Nik for coming in to School. We loved your visit.

NSPCC Visit Speak Out Stay Safe

Jill and Sue from the NSPCC came to visit Year 2 today and did a workshop with us about speaking out and staying safe.

They brought in their mascot Buddy to visit too!

We learnt about keeping ourselves safe and who are safe adults are if we ever need to talk to someone.

We filled in a fun activity booklet and all went home with a sticker!

Fireworks !

After learning about how to keep ourselves safe during Firework Night and writing our own set of rules using commands we used pastels and card to create firework pictures this week. Now we are looking forward to watching Brentry's Fireworks at our Spooktacular Event on Thursday !

Term 2

We hope you all had a great holiday!

We are looking forward to starting our Geography based topic during Term 2- Wonderful World- finding out about our continents and oceans. In Literacy, we will be researching information about polar bears and penguins linked to our Class texts. In Numeracy, we will be working on our addition and subtraction of 2 digit numbers before learning about shape. In Science, we will be studying living things and their habitats. And that's all before we start our Christmas production and celebrations! Brunel Class will be the stars of the show this year !

A reminder that PE will be on Mondays and Wednesdays this term.

Spelling Tests on Wednesdays.

Reading Books everyday !

Mrs Collins and Mrs Ford

Our Class Trip to the SS Great Britain

We had a wonderful day during our Class Trip!

The sun shone all day!

We walked across the Clifton Suspension Bridge and back again.

Then we were off to the SS Great Britain.

We explored  Brunel's Ship- top deck, the hull and the First Class and Steerage cabins.

We visited 'Being Brunel' - a museum all about the great man himself!

In the afternoon, we took part in a workshop called 'Brunel and His Ship'.

We learnt how the ship was built and had a go at attaching the rivets to the iron hull.

We celebrated the launching of the Ship just like it was 19th July 1843.

And there was dressing up...lots of dressing up!

And fun...lots of fun!

Brunel Homework Projects

Thank you for the most amazing models and artwork we received last week. So much time, effort and work had gone into them. We saw models of many of Brunel's different designs from the Suspension Bridge to the SS Great Britain to the Box Hill Tunnel. The children enjoyed telling the rest of the Class how they made their models and we have displayed the models around the School so they can be enjoyed by all. 

Hello Yellow day 2024!

Thec hildren looked great in their yellow clothes. We talked about what things we do that make us happy. We thought about how to be kind to someone who was not feeling happy. We painted a kindness rock with a positive message.

Snail Race 2024!

Well it got off to a flying start... the snails sped down the line leaving a slimy trail behind them! There was a clear winner who crossed the line in record time! Blink and you would have missed it!

Nature Sculptures

As part of our art unit 'Nature sculptures' we made some land art using lots of things from nature that we collected.

We make a spiral shaped snail's shell and then tried making faces.

History - Brunel

We are learning all about Isambard Kingdom Brunel this term in History. This week we learnt some amazing facts about this brilliant engineer. By the end of the lesson we all seemed to have grown some side burns and turned into mini Brunels !

First Day of Year 2 !

A fantastic start to Brunel Class. The children settled back into school life brilliantly on Wednesday. Here we are making name cards and mini me models !

Welcome to Brunel Class!
We hope you have had a great Summer Holiday. 

Starting a new Class can be exciting but it can also make you feel a bit nervous ...for Teachers too ! But we have lots of fun activities and learning for you to do in Term 1 and we know you will soon settle into life in Year 2.

Our History topic is all about a very clever man called Isambard Kingdom Brunel. Can you find out why he is so famous ? 

In Literacy, we will be studying the books written by Julia Donaldson. Have you got any books written by this author at home?

We have already written to your parents and carers about the start of term and telling them more about what you will be learning. There are copies of the letter and curriculum map below.

Looking forward to hearing all your holiday news!

Mrs Ford and Mrs Collins

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Summer Term 2024

Welcome back!

I am very happy to be returning 'home' back to Year 2.  I hope you've had a lovely Easter break - I look forward to welcoming all of the children tomorrow morning.

Mrs Ford and I will be resuming back to our normal routine where I teach for the first half of the week - Mon and Tues, Laura teaches on Thurs and Fri and we take it in turns to teach on the Wednesday.  Just to confuse everyone..... For this week only, we will be slightly out of sync and I will teach on Mon, Wed and Thurs and Laura will be teaching on Tues and Fri.  From next week onwards we will be back to normal!

This term we have a new set of wonderful topics - please see our attached curriculum overview to get a better understanding of what we will be covering.  Our main history topic will focus on nursing and the children will be exploring the lives of Florence Nightingale and Mary Seacole.  I was wondering if we had any connections to any current/retired nurses/doctors?  If you do know anyone who wouldn't mind paying us a visit to talk about what is like to work in that profession please do get in touch.

Finally, a few reminders for dates to help with organisation.  For the rest of the year, PE will be on Monday and Wednesday.  Spelling tests will be on a Wednesday (new spellings to be given out this week).  Friday, the children will complete the 30 Club test.

Please do feel free to contact us with any questions.  See you tomorrow.

Claire Moore & Laura Ford

Term 4

A busy start to this term already! We have introduced Traction Man to the class! He is an action hero who is always ready for adeventures. We will be writing our own adventure stories for Traction Man to go on.

We will learning about Kenya in Africa and finding out about safari trips and animals you might find there.

Term 3

We have been busy already this term! We have all written a New Year's Resolution! We will see if we can keep them.

We have had a class visitor all the way from Peru! His name is Paddington and he will be joining the class this term. We have enjoyed reading stories about him and writing letters to Aunt Lucy in Peru.

In History we have started learning about the Great Fire of London. We will be having a visit from the fire brigade this term to teach us all about fire safety.

Term 2

Welcome back! After a wet start to the term let's hope the Spooktacular event can go ahead this week!

This term will be based around our geography unit 'What a wonderful world'. We will be learning about hot and cold places in the world. We will be finding out about animals that live at the North and South Pole.

In literacy we will be writing information texts about these animals.

We will be starting to practice for the Nativity play and year 2 children will have parts with many having a speaking role. We will also be learning some songs.

Mrs Ford

Snail and the Whale by Julia Donaldson

Brunel class have enjoyed reading this book and are writing our own stories based on the book. We also created some snail and whale art work.

Welcome to Year 2

2023 - 2024

Please read our welcome letter to find out about life in Year 2 as well as find out what we are learning this term in our curriculum overview.

Mrs Moore & Mrs Ford

Please keep checking this class page as we will keep updated with everything which is going on in Monet class.  Remember to pop in to say hello/ask questions and you're more than welcome to take a look at the children's work anytime.

Claire Moore & Laura Ford