St Joseph's

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As part of our science lessons, we have been learning about materials and their properties. We finished our topic by learning about reducing waste by re-using and recycling. We made Christmas decorations out of left-over materials from other activities this half term. We created snowmen, reindeer, Christmas crackers, bells and more - all from material that would otherwise end up in landfill!

We had our Christmas jumpers on. We had a lovely Christmas dinner and listened to Christmas music. It was a great day.

Friday the 19th of November: We came dressed up as our heroes. We had doctors, police officers, WW1 officers, scientists, dads, the shoemaker’s wife, astronauts, and many more including one who came as herself because we can all be our own heroes. This was a fun day when we could talk about what inspires us.

We have completed a history topic on a significant person from history. The children have made timelines and role-played the first moon landing, this included making puppets. We had a competition to see who could make the best parachute for the module returning to Earth.

Heaven: As part of RE we discussed what we think heaven is like. We had some amazing ideas and the children created beautiful pictures.

During the first half term we had a fun afternoon den building. Chris taught us how to build a weather-proof den. Each team worked hard to build their dens. Some children got wet when Chris tested how waterproof the dens were. We all had lots of fun and learnt some new skills.

These are a couple things to help support you with learning at home that may be useful.

• common_exception_words_years_1_and_2 (1).pdf
• Year 2 Calculation methods.pdf