Ramsgate Arts Primary School Blog Feed - Team Amin-McCurry (Yr2)

Happy Easter from Team A-M

Thu, 2 Apr 2026 15:27:06 GMT

What a fabulous end to Term 4 with the KS1 Easter Bonnet Parade! Year 2 had so much fun walking up and down the KS2 corridor and around the playground sharing their stunning creations (and trying to stop them from blowing away)! Happy Easter from all the Year 2 team! We will see you on Monday 20th April after a well-deserved and hopefully sunny Easter break :)

Team A-M perform poems

Wed, 1 Apr 2026 11:57:45 GMT

Year 2 have been writing poems inspired by our core text, 'Beegu.' We discussed alliteration, onomatopoeia, rhyme and repetition. Their poems were fantastic! They represented the emotions and events in the story. Today we practised and performed our poems, focusing on using expression and a clear voice. Well done everyone!

Team A-M do Theme Day!

Fri, 27 Mar 2026 12:45:04 GMT

Year 2 Theme Day!

Team A-M design 'useful' inventions!

Thu, 26 Mar 2026 18:16:54 GMT

This week, we have been learning about significant inventors, including the Wright brothers and Caroline Haslett. Inspired by our learning, we partnered up and designed our own inventions that would make our everyday life easier! From creations that would feed our pets for us to pens that would read our minds and write for us, from robots to do jobs our adults ask us to do to portable machines that give us any snack we need when we are hungry, we had a lot of fun using our imagination to be 'inventors'! Ask us all about it!

Team A-M investigate division

Wed, 25 Mar 2026 11:58:08 GMT

In maths, Year 2 have started to explore division! We thought about what the division symbol means and about what division sentences represent – sharing equally! Then, we had a go at working out some division questions with our talk partners using counters and our steps! Grouping is much easier than we thought and we had lots of fun.

English: Team A-M explore poetry!

Fri, 20 Mar 2026 12:24:03 GMT

Next week, we are going to be planning and writing our very own poems inspired by this term's core text! Today, we discussed features of poetry such as rhyme and rhythm, lines and stanzas and repetition! We explored a range of different poems from writers like Christina Rossetti and even Michael Rosen, listened to some poems and some of us had a go at performing them to the class as well! Ask us all about it!

T4Wk5 Spelling Team AMc

Wed, 18 Mar 2026 12:27:37 GMT

Attached are the spellings for this week...

Team A-M explore equal groups!

Fri, 13 Mar 2026 12:53:44 GMT

Today, we recapped our understanding of what an equal group is, before having a go at making some equal groups ourselves! We were able to represent equal groups using concrete resources and by drawing pictures, including fixing mistakes too! Well done, Year 2!

Team A-M explore significant artists!

Thu, 12 Mar 2026 17:55:35 GMT

This week in Year 2, we have been learning about two significant artists, Minnie Evans and Henri Matisse. We explored Minnie Evans’ detailed drawings, noticing the repeating patterns, nature themes, and imaginative designs she used. The children created their own drawings inspired by her style, carefully adding shapes and patterns. We also looked at Henri Matisse, thinking about how his artwork changed over time. Check out our inspired and beautiful responses to our learning!

Term 4: Love to Learn - Team A-Mc

Fri, 13 Mar 2026 07:42:29 GMT

Spelling T4Wk4

Thu, 12 Mar 2026 15:37:21 GMT

Team A-M do World Book Day 2026!

Thu, 5 Mar 2026 15:30:02 GMT

What a day! Happy World Book Day!

Working with money!

Wed, 4 Mar 2026 11:39:51 GMT

Year 2 have been studying British money. We have learnt how to identify the different coins and notes. This week we practised adding different amounts of money to find the totals, finding change, using different coins to make a given amount and matching coins to totals.

T4.Wk3 Spelling Team AMc

Wed, 4 Mar 2026 10:32:24 GMT

Attached are the spellings for Wk 3.

T4.Wk2 Spelling Team AMc

Wed, 4 Mar 2026 10:30:18 GMT

Attached are the spellings for Wk 2

Space Ship Crash - Team AMc

Tue, 24 Feb 2026 15:38:03 GMT

Our Year 2 children arrived at school to discover something incredible — a mysterious spaceship had crash-landed on the school field! The shiny wreckage, scattered “space rocks,” and strange footprints sparked instant excitement and curiosity. The children became space explorers, investigating clues and writing brilliant questions about its alien pilot. Who was on board? Where had it come from? Why did it land here? Throughout the term, the crash will inspire creative writing, teamwork, and imaginative role-play. What an unforgettable way to launch our new English text — learning truly blasted off in Year 2!

Welcome back to Term 4, Team A-M!

Sun, 22 Feb 2026 18:37:40 GMT

We hope you have all had a lovely week and that you were able to relax and recharge ready for this Easter term. Keep an eye out via the RAPS newsletter, our class blog and classroom windows for more information about the term ahead. Parent reading will be on alternate Wednesdays at 2.40pm, World Book Day approaches, and we also have a Topic Theme Day to come! Best wishes, Year 2 team :)

World Book Day 2026

Sun, 22 Feb 2026 18:21:27 GMT

World Book Day is coming! Thursday 5th March!

Team A-M meet Rachel Tilda Wolf!

Wed, 11 Feb 2026 09:45:23 GMT

What a super start to our final week of Term 3! We loved welcoming the author and illustrator Rachel Tilda Wolf into RAPS to share her book Bear’s Perfect Dance! She talked to us about her writing and her beautiful illustrations, and how stories can develop over time. It was such an inspiring visit that got everyone excited about books and writing, and we loved taking part in a draw-along session afterwards with her! Thank you, Rachel!

Eat Well Plate - Team AMcC

Tue, 10 Feb 2026 07:28:34 GMT

This week, Yr 2 are learning about balanced diets in Topic. We have learnt about all the different food groups and what they help our bodies to do. We have also looked at the Eat Well Plate which shows us the different foods we should be eating and the proportions we should eat them in. Over the week the children will be using the eat well plates they have created to plan a healthy lunch box meal.

Day 5 STEAM week: fabulous Pfizer!

Fri, 6 Feb 2026 17:54:33 GMT

What a fantastic morning for Year 2 today with a series of experiments and activities with the Pfizer team! Ask us all about it!

Day 4 of STEAM week - Team A-M

Thu, 5 Feb 2026 19:34:48 GMT

We started day 4 of STEAM week with an 'hour of code.' We created a code to play a game on the iPad. Team A-M showed fantastic resilience and perseverance as they overcame the challenges involved in this activity. Next, we collaborated in small groups to design and make a marble run. We were able to test out, troubleshoot and then adjust our designs so that the marbles ran smoothly down the ramps. After lunch, we used lollipop sticks and elastic bands to make catapults. Then we practised firing at a target. Finally, our busy day ended in a hands-on workshop called 'School of Noise,' where we got to experiment with interesting equipment to produce different noises (ask us about the vegetables!)

Safer Internet Day 2026

Wed, 4 Feb 2026 16:55:52 GMT

Safer Internet Day 2026 – 10th February

Testing vehicles and Board Games

Wed, 4 Feb 2026 16:48:16 GMT

Today we finished decorating our fabulous vehicles. Then we tested them in different places to find how fast we could get them going!

Later, we worked together to create and then play board games.

Number Day in Team A-M

Tue, 3 Feb 2026 15:50:24 GMT

Today was Number Day at RAPS! We had great fun with mathematical problems. We also got to meet some other great teachers. With Miss Bullard the children explored making patterns with triangles, with Miss Hayzelden they used cubes to help them count and worked what happened when they added double or 4 times the number of cubes. Then with Mr Brun-Cialis the children used their methodical thinking to work out the problem of the chicken, fox and corn. While finally they solved a dice challenge in Team Amin-McCurry

For each of the activities, we had to show our creativity, collaboration, and resilience.

Full STEAM ahead in Team A-M

Mon, 2 Feb 2026 15:53:00 GMT

What a great start to STEAM week. In year 2, we followed directions to build a vehicle. Thank you to all the adults who came in to help! We will continue to decorate our vehicles before testing them out on different surfaces later this week.

We also investigated microbes with 'Glo-Germ.' We had great fun using special equipment to locate the germs on our hands and around the classrooms. We will all be washing our hands much more thoroughly now we have seen what is on them!

Team A-M diversity creations!

Mon, 2 Feb 2026 13:46:52 GMT

Last week, we recapped the value of diversity! We know humans can look, talk, think and act in different ways and that our differences make us unique and special. Regardless of our appearance, beliefs, preferences, religion, financial situation, background etc, we are all important and should be celebrated. All living things have rights and we all have the responsibility to protect those rights, especially by protecting others’ bodies and feelings. After playing some games to show our differences and to generate conversations about diversity, we worked hard to create a class piece of art showing our personal responses to our learning! Take a look just outside our classroom doors at our lovely artwork!

Classifying 3D shapes in Team A-M

Wed, 28 Jan 2026 10:51:18 GMT

Team A-M final T3 spelling

Wed, 28 Jan 2026 08:48:20 GMT

Please find attached the next set of spellings! There will be no spelling test during STEAM week however, so please note children's spelling test will be the following Friday (last day of term) and date on printed sheet is wrong!

Team A-M prep for an emergency!

Mon, 26 Jan 2026 13:40:07 GMT

Last week, Year 2 class explored what to do in an emergency and how to speak to emergency responders if needed. We clarified what makes an ‘emergency’ and recapped the types of emergency responders (police, firefighters, paramedics, coastguard etc.), before exploring what dialling 999 actually means. We practised how to stay calm and ask for help and what important information to share, such as our name, where we might be, and what has happened. We also talked about what we could do if we were in an emergency but unable to call 999 – e.g. being lost. To build our confidence, we roleplayed dialling 999 and having a conversation with a responder in an emergency. Our challenge now is to learn our key personal information if there ever was an emergency.

Mindful Mondays in Team A-M

Wed, 21 Jan 2026 17:41:13 GMT

Monday mornings start with some mindfulness activities in year 2.

Team A-M Spellings: T3W4

Wed, 21 Jan 2026 08:43:11 GMT

Please find attached next week's set of spellings! Don't forget, you can always hand in your spelling sheets for house points and our spelling test is every Friday morning!