It's going to be another really exciting year at Hovingham Primary, and for the second year now in Year 2 we will be putting SEAL (Social and Emotional Aspects of Learning) at the heart of all we are learning.

This means that in the first half of term we will be thinking about 'New Beginnings.'

Last year we all learned our new five school rules:

We will also have a new school motto - 'We can make a difference.'

This poster will be displayed around school to remind us of the rules and the motto.

 

 

In the first half of term we will think about what these rules really mean and how we can make sure that we are really following them.

2 Red has moved classroom and we have bought special new carpets with a pattern of big, bright coloured squares. Everyone will have their own special learning space on the carpet! 2 Yellow will be in Mrs Fisher's old classroom and we know that it will also be full of vibrant and exciting displays of all that you are learning.

 

  So many exciting things to do and learn! Don't forget too that your family can come and join you too! Especially in the afternoons when we have lots of fun creative sessions.

We have started to learn how to work as a team. In our Creative Sessions we sometimes work in our Rainbow teams - different children get to be the team leaders and everyone works hard to help each other. We try to be polite and remember to share and say 'please' and 'thank-you.' We are trying to work quietly but we still are working on that!

In these new special groups we created Rainbow collages which we have put up in the window. Everytime we look at them they remind us of our school rules and the new motto -" We can make a difference."

 

Before Eid we all learned how to make 'pop up' cards, and every one made a very special Eid card. Many of the children were celebrating Eid, but some of us were not, but we enjoy joining in with each others festivals so we all made the cards together. After Eid we had a very special day and flew with Hovingham Airlines to Islamabad in Pakistan! While we were there we made flags, sent postcards to school and even learned how to do some wonderful Bollywood dancing! After lunch we all enjoyed a special Eid party.... and by the end of the day we were all ready to return home.

 

We have all been working very hard in teams to create robots, and now they are nearly finished! We will be writing some instructions so you will be able to make similar robots in other classes and at home. This week we also learned all about forces as we wanted to make the robots move. We have added wheels to the robots and now some robots move with a push and some are pulled. We know too that they will move more easily on the lino surface as it is smoother than the carpet.

Next week we are going to learn how to make an electrical circuit and also record a sound and then we will be able to make our robots light up and make a noise! We all feel really proud of our robot creations and are looking forward to them being the main characters in some stories we are going to write!

 

 Mathletics.

This term Hovingham has signed up to Mathletics for all the children from Year 2 to Year 6.

Year 2 were really lucky because Mathletics actually came to give the children a demonstartion lesson on how to play Mathletics. We are also extra lucky in Year 2 as we have some Fizz Books, which are like small laptops which we were able to purchase with a grant from the Yorkshire and Humber Grid for Learning, so the children can use these to play Mathletics at Target Time and at other times too. On a Thursday Lunchtime, Year 2 has started a Mathletics club in the ICT suite.

This week in Year 2 we have achieved 17 Bronze Certificates! Absolutely fantastic!