Croeso i Flwyddyn Dau

Teacher: Mr Green

P.E. days - Monday - Outdoor PE and Tuesday - Indoor PE

Forest School - Friday afternoon, alternate weeks (Week 1)

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Class update

Spring 2025

10.3.25 - 21.3.25 

Prynhawn da. This half term is flying by and we have accomplished so much already. The pupils have been applying their maths skills to carry out a shop and calculate the change given; the total spends and the difference in prices. They have also been learning to tell the time; drawing the hands for o’clock and half past on a clock face. In literacy we have been writing up a non-chronological report based on a Welsh celebrity. We have found out so much about sports stars, Hollywood stars, historical figures and authors to name a few. We have been learning to name relations in Welsh and we are starting to ask the time and answer in hours and half past too. Da iawn year 2!! We have enjoyed the last swimming session and pupils really have improved with confidence in the water and with their swimming strokes. Lots of skills have been demonstrated in our County in the community sessions. The pupils are really increasing in speed and control when dribbling and shooting at goal in our hockey lessons. 

17-21.2.25 & 3-7.3.25 

Prynhawn da, hope you have a restful half term. Thank you very much for all the wonderful entries for our Eisteddfod. Beautiful photography, bunting and baking. It was a pity I had to send them back home! Eisteddfod was a complete success, pupils demonstrating a wide range of talents.Before half term we were very busy with our singing, art, handwriting and poetry for the Eisteddfod. The pupils worked extremely hard. Our numeracy has involved revision of partitioning, doubling, halving, number bonds and times tables. We have also been writing down numbers to and above 1000. In Literacy the pupils have been writing free verse poetry including stanzas, alliteration and similes.  The pupils have loved celebrating World Book Day. I have thoroughly enjoyed reading these. Our first Forest School of the year involved making 3d dragons from natural materials. 

3.2.25-14.2.25 

Prynhawn da, during the last few weeks we have had a lovely time in Y2. In Literacy we have been learning about St. Dwynwen and the Great Race, linking with Welsh the Welsh Valentines Day and Chinese New Year. We enjoyed creating our own individual clay Welsh love spoons. Our skills in Expressive Arts have flourished as we have been comparing the work of 2 Welsh artists inspiring them to start creating their own 2D artwork in the style of their chosen artist. Numeracy has been focussing on weighing and comparing weights of different objects and sequencing which has been supported by using their times tables. We have been completing our National assessments in Reading, Maths Procedural and Reasoning and have been working hard and trying our best. Da iawn children for showing great composure undertaking your assessments! We can now finish our week with an exciting Friday, supporting World Angelman Day by wearing colourful socks and looking forward to a fun filled Valentine’s Disco! Enjoy a wonderful weekend. A bientot Y2! 

20.1.25-31.1.25  

Prynhawn da, it has been another busy fortnight in year 2. The pupils have been very creative, helping Mrs Worrall and I to create our role play area. This area will include maths skills, Welsh language skills and expressive arts. We have made a shop selling souvenirs that have been made by the pupils. These include Welsh love spoons (celebrating St Dwynwen’s Day) and post cards displaying scenes from Wales. We are putting out thinking caps on to decide what else to make and ‘sell’ in our shop. In numeracy have been learning about and recognising fractions as well as using reasoning skills to solve problems and we have also been estimating and weighing objects. In literacy we have been sequencing the story of St. Dwynwen and retelling it in our star write lesson. Da iawn to the pupils as we are up to twelve different questions and answers in our Welsh. We are carrying out quick daily Welsh activities which includes pupils volunteering to answer their peers’ questions. The pupils have also enjoyed producing algorithms to direct a sprite. 

6.1.25-17.1.25  

Blwyddyn Newydd Da! I hope you have all had a peaceful, relaxing festive period. It flew by didn’t it? The children are settling into our routines again and really working hard already. We have written a recount of a favourite day over Christmas, and it’s been lovely finding out about all the things they’ve done and the places visited. We have also started to learn about the features of instructions and have been planning a set of these. In numeracy we have been using checking strategies to check whether given answers are correct.  To do this the children have counted on or back or used fact families to help solve. We have also been doubling and halving numbers and adding and subtracting multiples of 10. It’s been wonderful to see how much Welsh the pupils are retaining, and we have been enjoying oracy games to learn language patterns. The children have been brave enough to take questions from each other infront of the class and are doing extremely well. Bendigedig! We have enjoyed PE with Newport County in the community. Here the children have been learning thinking skills, communication skills, teamwork and raising their fitness levels. 

Autumn 2024

25.11.24-6.12.24

Prynhawn da, yet another busy fortnight in Year two. We have been using descriptive writing for an autumnal scene; using verbs, nouns, adjectives and adverbs. I have been really impressed with the language used. In numeracy we have been carrying out surveys and creating tally charts based on the data. We have also started to interpret bar chart data by answering questions. In ICT we have been creating databases based on different rooms and gardens in our homes. Children have been working on their Tudor houses, making Christmas enterprise products and learning songs and words for their Christmas afternoon in Expressive Arts lessons. In RVE the children have been looking at Christian calendar events, ordering these or researching information about them. Although Forest School was freezing, the pupils worked really hard on their habitats for different animals to hibernate in.

11.11.24-22.11.24

Prynhawn da. What a really exciting couple of weeks we have had! The pupils have really enjoyed their visit from The Principality Building Society learning about bank accounts and budgeting - hopefully budding accountants of the future!! The pupils have created ‘Tree spirits’ out of mud and natural objects to decorate the trees at Forest School. This was really messy but so much fun. We have also celebrated Children in Need with a Pudsey Run. Da iawn year twos on running 128 laps altogether. Amazing!

We have been planning the rewrite of the 'Owl Babies’ story, writing sentences with time, question and ‘ly’ openers. In numeracy we have been recognising the properties of 2D shapes such as vertices, parallel lines and symmetry. We have started to create our Model Tudor houses and I am looking forward to seeing the finished products.

21.10.24-8.11.24 

Prynhawn da. Here we are in the second half of the Autumn term. I hope that you have all had an enjoyable break and the children are ready for a busy several weeks. The pupils have rewritten the story of Greta and the giants, demonstrating a variety of time openers and some question openers also. They have been doubling numbers using the doubling diamond method and revising work covered so far in numeracy such as ordering numbers, partitioning, creating fact families and adding and subtracting single digits. In Welsh we have been developing a wider range of questions and answers such as ‘Beth yw d’enw di?’ (What is your name), Sut mae’r tywydd? (How is the weather?) and Beth wyt ti’n hoffi? (What do you like?). Pupils have been developing awareness of online safety by creating posters to help others use technology carefully and sensibly. The Halloween disco was amazing and the pupils looked fantastic in their spooky costumes. 

23.9.24-4.10.24 

Prynhawn da. It has been lovely to see the children settling down more to their tasks and becoming used to the new routines. During the last fortnight the children of year two have been learning a little about Greta Thunberg and her campaign for a more eco-friendly attitude towards our planet. They have listened to the story ‘Greta and the Giants’ and have begun to plan their version of it using a range of sentence openers in our literacy lessons. In numeracy, we have been recognising odd and even numbers; partitioning 2 and 3-digit numbers and adding and subtracting single digits from 2-digit numbers. We have been working on incidental Welsh language sentences such as ‘Beth yw d’enw di?’ ‘Ble rwyt ti’n byw?’ and ‘Faint ydy d’oed di?’.  In Humanities, we have looked at the similarities and differences between both poor and rich homes during Tudor times. In P.E lessons, the children have been circuit training with Mrs Fawcitt and learning how to hold and pass a rugby ball using the ‘Tick - Tock’ method. I have been impressed with their ball handling skills! In Art we have been creating beautiful pieces for Autumn/Harvest. We are starting to organise our class for block play, craft, reading and role play areas.  

2.9.24-20.9.24 

Welcome back to/Croeso i nol i Trellech Primary. I hope you have all had a wonderful Summer despite the disappointing weather. We are certainly seeing an improvement of late though. The pupils have been getting used to different routines and to different members of staff, so this first few weeks have been about expectations, settling in and taking assessments for health and wellbeing, reading, spelling and numeracy. These will help us to identify both areas of strength and areas to work on. This term’s topic is ‘There’s no place like home’. We will be looking at types of homes and how they have changed since the Tudor period. The pupils will have the chance to make their own Tudor house as well as design an environmentally friendly home, thinking carefully about the types of energy needed and the materials for building. The pupils have really enjoyed making masks for the Usk Show. Aren’t they great? The children have been revisiting Welsh language patterns; partitioning two-, three- and four-digit numbers in numeracy; using the Creative Writer method to order a story and beginning to rewrite it using different sentence openers. In P.E we have been honing our throwing and catching skills in readiness for our rugby lessons.