A wonderful final trip to the library! As always, thank you to all of our parents and carers who joined the Year 2 trips to the library, and for your help with sending in library cards and returning books. Without volunteers, we would not be able to do these visits and we know the children love having you there whenever possible!
This week in Topic, we are exploring fashion over the years and how clothes have stayed the same and how they have changed as well! We have started to look at fashion styles with photos from the 1940s compared with the 21st century, and we have also started to reflect on just how many similarities in types of clothing there are! Why not help us compare clothing and fashion by telling us or even showing us what our family members wore in the past when they were younger!
Year 2 are looking forward to KS1 Sports Day on Wednesday 17th June from 1:00pm to 2:45pm. It promises to be a fun-filled afternoon of sporting activities, teamwork and friendly competition! Please ensure all children:
Attached below are this week's spelling words. The spellings this week come from the Yr2 Spelling list and words for our upcoming topic lessons.
On the morning of the 7th July, years 2-5 will be taking part in a really exciting project called Dance for Rights. Along with thousands of other children, we will be joining in with this nationwide dance event, livestreamed from the Royal Opera House, to celebrate children's rights.
Here is a link to more information if you would like to find out more:
https://www.rbo.org.uk/schools/resource/danceforrights
Please remember that all children need to come to school wearing a T-shirt in their House colour on this day.
It will be a really fun morning and a chance for the children to channel their creativity and express themselves through movement for a very important cause!
Our RAPS Topic unit this term is called “What We Wear”. For our Art to Start, we created our own clothes and accessories using newspaper, inspired by various fashion designers. We made skirts, waistcoats, T-shirts, shoes, hats, hairbands, necklaces, handbags, watches and so much more. We had so much fun making these, were extremely creative and even chose to wear some of our designs home!
Huge congratulations to our Year 2 engineers who visited CCCU yesterday to take part in a celebration of their vehicle builds during STEAM Week. They took part in interviews with leading professors and engineers talking about their incredible vehicle builds with such confidence and were fantastic ambassadors for RAPS! Well done indeed.
Support Thanet Families – School Donation Drive
On Friday 12 June, we’ll be coming together as a school to support Mama to Mama, Thanet’s local baby bank.
We’re inviting the children to bring in one item from the attached list (or more if they wish) to help families in our community who are facing poverty.
Supermarket own brands are absolutely fine - there’s no need to buy expensive products
Thank you for your support.
To learn more about Mama to Mama and their work, visit:
👉 https://www.mama-to-mama.co.uk/
Personal Development: Big Question: How can we work together to create a collage?
This week, Yr 2 have been learning about different plants that live in local habitats. Today, we got outside to draw and name some plants on the playground and field. We learnt lots of plant names and enjoyed comparing some different plants.
We've had a great time in Yr 2 writing our follow-on narratives for The Lonely Beast. We designed a friend for the Beast and imagined what they would do together. We thought carefully about constructing verbs and adverbs to describe what activities they'd do together. We then wrote our story over 3 lessons and edited our work.
After we had published our stories, we had a writing celebration where we read each other's work and enjoyed eating cakes (just like the beast). Ask us about our story.