YEAR 2 (PINK)
Miss Stocks (Covering for Miss C Dunn)Welcome to class 2D
My name is Miss Dunn and I am one of two year 1/2 class teachers. We are supported by our wonderful teaching assistant Mrs Edmondson & Mrs Livingstone.
On our page you will be able to find out all about the extraordinary and exhilarating learning that takes place in our class every day.
Please take a look at our page and see what we’ve been learning so far this year.
We welcome any positive comments you’d like to share so please keep checking back to see what new adventures we’ve been on.
Feel free to add/share pictures of homework completed throughout the year.
Thank you
Miss Dunn
Our Class Blog
Hands On Approaches to Well-being
Gateshead Psychology Service have been sharing some great resources and sources of information, one of which is this link to a CAMHS (Children and Adult Mental Health Services) website. It has loads of useful information about how to support children and young people...
Safer Internet Day is on the 9th February 2021…
We have been learning about how to stay safe online...
Birdwatching
In Early Years we love going outside and looking at the birds we see and are very fortunate enough to see the beautiful Red Kites often flying above us. We all got involved in RSPB Big Garden Birdwatch and we all went out to see what birds we could see in our gardens...
Spring Online Book Club now open for orders
World Book Day 2021 is on Thursday 4th March and to celebrate it, Rowlands Gill Primary School will be hosting an online book fair. As we are unable to welcome everyone on-site at the moment due to COVID restrictions, we will be hosting our book fair virtually so that...
Cross-stitching
Today, in our life skills lesson, we have been learning how to do a running stitch and a cross stitch.
Helping out
Looks like one of our children had a very keen pet to help him write his story mountain. I think they were both doing a great job!
Making Mountains
This week we have been planning our stories. To help us we have been using a story mountain. This helps us to think carefully about the different parts of the story- we even added ideas for dialogue.
Getting Arty
We have been learning about the artist David Hockney. Look how he inspired us!
Marshmallow 3D shapes!
In our maths lesson today, we were counting how many vertices there are on 3D shapes (that's a tricky word for 'corners'). To help us, we used cocktail sticks for long sides, matchsticks for short sides and marshmallows for vertices and we made a range of 3D shapes....
What and where is the UK? 1.2M Geography
The children have been learning about where the UK is in the world and what countries it makes up. They have worked hard today to explain where the UK is using all of their Geography vocabulary and knowledge. We will be going over this in the coming weeks.
#INSPIRE Virtual Torch Design
Hello Everyone! In conjunction with our Gateshead School Sport Partnership, another virtual challenge has made its way through our school! A few of the children who were in school became our torch bearers last week. It was their job to engage others in being...
The Mayan civilisation – art and DT
In 5/6A we have been studying the Mayan civilisation. Look at what we have created in art and DT during this topic... Traditional Mayan hot chocolate (the secret ingredient is chilli) North and central American inspired clay monkeys Mayan death, event and battle...