Year 2 have been learning all about seaside holidays in the past and comparing them to holidays we have now.

Freshwater theatre company came in to work with the children taking them through the different decades form the last century.

Dance for the Olympics day.

Year 2 took part in the Dance for the Olympics day. A dance teacher came in for the day and taught the whole school a Bhangra dance that they all performed together at the end of the d

The end of another term

The children in year 2 shared their love of books with year 5 on Friday reading with a partner and talking about the stories and texts they were reading. As this has proved to be so successful we will be doing this regularly every last Friday in the month.

 The children have now completed their science topic learning all about electricity and making thier own simple circuits.

 Year 2 have also been writing stories using their non negotiables to help them.

These are paragraphs, finger spaces, full stops, capital letters, adjectives and connectives.

We have also learned how to use each of our senses to describe a setting or character more fully and to use similes to add more detail.

Don't forget to come and hear the children sing tomorrow morning at about ten past nine.

Happy Easter.

Dates for your diary

Monday April 2nd is the first day for bringing in all the decorated Easter eggs for our annual competition.

Make sure you don't miss the opportunity to show how egg - stremely talented you are and eggs - cited about the competition! (sorry!!)

The more imaginative the better. Go wild and be brave!

Years 2 and 4 will be raising the roof in the hall with their Morning of Music performances on Tuesday the 3rd at about 9.10. Friends of Howes are very kindly serving refreshments afterwards so please come and join us for what I'm sure will be a very enjoyable morning. 

The end of term is on Wednesday the 4th. 

Have a great holiday and enjoy the well deserved rest.

Topic information

Our topic this half term is all about France.

The children have been doing research using the following web site -

www.kids.nationalgeographic.com

They are going to use the information they have found to create their own leaflets and pamphlets in literacy over the next week.

Any more facts they discover and pictures they can find could be added to their work. 

Please bring anything relevant into school to enhance the children's learning. 

Many thanks.

Morning of Music

Year 2 took part in The Morning of Music at Howes on Friday 23rd March.

They looked very snazy in thier custom made head dresses.

We were joined by St. Thomas More, Grange Farm and Manor Park.

All the children sang a varity of songs all about transport and accompanied their singing with percussion instruments.

We all had a fabulous morning and thoroughly enjoyed the experience.

World Book Day

These are photos of year 2 on World Book Day 2012.
It was very strange teaching Harry Potter and Buzz Lightyear.
The children wrote some fantastic stories imagining they were really their book characters.
They also used philosophy for children to decide whether or not Cinderella should have been able to go to the ball!
Mrs. Henshaw came in dressed as The Tiger who came to Tea and read her book to the class.