Kookaburras: Year 2

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Project and Phonics
Remote Learning

The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse Story

Maths Recources

Number Formation with rhymes

Printable Shape Dominoes

Listen to the St Mary's adults read some of your favourite stories

Phonics Resources

Set 1 Sounds, Videos and Resources

Set 2 Sounds, Videos and Resources

Read, Write, Inc Phonics Sound Mat

Read Write Inc. Set 1 Ditties to read at home

Set 3 Sounds, Videos and Resources

Read, Write Inc Phonics Information for Parents

Welcome to Kookaburra Class!

In Y2, we are a friendly, caring class, who are keen to welcome new learners and make them feel at home in our classroom. We enjoy working and playing together and you will often find us learning together outside.

Kookaburras are curious learners who like to find out about the world in which we live and generate questions for our projects. We like being active learners by exploring new ideas and shared experiences.

We love listening to stories of all kinds and are keen to choose books from the class library to share at home. Our class project books are already well thumbed!

Class Prayer

Our Teacher

Miss Gascoigne,

I am very happy to be working full time in Kookaburra Class this year and am looking forward to working with all the other pupils and adults in Key Stage One.

I have a degree in English Literature and a PGCE from Bangor University and have taught in London, Paris and Eton as well as several schools in Oxfordshire. I love working in an investigative way because I enjoy finding things out for myself. I am really looking forward to all of our projects this year ,but especially ‘Hear our Voice’ as History is one of my favourite subjects.

When I am not at school, I like to go walking with friends, spend time cooking in my kitchen, working in my garden or just chatting to my cat, Betty. I have really enjoyed recording stories for our school website while we have been apart as I love good quality picture books. When I retire I would like to write books for children. They might feature a very curious and courageous camel as these are my favourite animals.

I admire the work of the illustrator Quentin Blake who has drawn the picture for some of my favourite picture books. ‘Mister Magnolia’ and ‘Mrs Armitage on Wheels’ are two that always make me smile. I will look forward to sharing lots of stories with Kookaburras in September.

I know that we are going to have a lot of fun together next year.

Good News and Town and Country, Spring 1 Projects

For the first part of this term our project is called 'Good News!'. We will be asking the question 'What is the good news Jesus brings?'. As part of project we will be looking at stories from the Gospels and linking these to our school values.

We will also be thinking about whether Jesus' good news is only good news for Christians or if there are things for anyone to learn, exploring different ideas.

To help us answer this question we will use the key text 'Stories Jesus Told' by Nick Butterworth.

We will be launching our project with a Drumming workshop where we think about how good news can be conveyed through music. We will be sharing our learning on the school blog!

This project looks at stories from the New Testament. 'Good News' builds on our previous RE learning in Year 1 where we looked at the story of Creation from the Old Testament. We will build on our knowledge by thinking about the wider global impact of Jesus' messages.

We will be building on the music skills taught in Year 1 by developing children's understanding of rhythm and how complex rhythms are used to convey messages with on drumming and percussion within world music.

Our linked texts are

For the second half of our project we will be looking at 'Town and Country', focusing on Geography and Art.

As part of our project we will be comparing physical and human features consistent with town and country dwelling. We will be developing our mapping skills and building our vocabulary by comparing maps of different scales containing our local area. We will be building on our Geography from year 1, where we looked the home nations within the British Isles, by looking deeper into the size of settlements.

Our art will be developing our painting skills with a focus on landscape using the techniques of colour wash, colour mixing, fine brushwork and perspective. Building on our learning from Year 1 where we explored basic colour mixing and portraits.

Our key text is 'The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse' retold by Susanna Davidson