Welcome to Yellowhammers!

Hello, I'm Mrs Penney and I am very excited to be teaching Year 2 this year. We have lots of fun and interesting topics ahead of us! I am the Music and History lead and this will be my tenth year at Coates Primary School. I love to sing and play the piano and also love sewing in my spare time. I also love to spend lots of time with my family. 

In Year 2 our topics we will cover are:

Autumn 1- Help! The Aliens are Coming

Autumn 2- Toys

Spring 1- Superheroes

Spring 2- Pride of Britain

Summer 1- Once upon a Time

Summer 2- The Seaside

Useful Information

• PE days this term will be on Mondays and Wednesdays.
• Children are expected to read regularly and bring their reading book and diary to school every day.
• Homework is uploaded to Google Classroom every Thursday and is due in on Tuesday. 
• Spellings are uploaded to Google Classroom every Thursday and your child will be tested on these the Wednesday after they have been set.
• If your child is having a school dinner then please share the different options available to them so that they know whether they are having the meat, vegetarian, jacket potato or pick 'n' mix option.

Autumn 1

Little People, Big Dreams

We really enjoyed dressing up as someone from the Little People, Big Dreams series. We had lots different people in the class from Lewis Hamilton to Taylor Swift! We researched our person as part of our weekly homework and then enjoyed writing about them in our Big Write.

Music

We have been learning about different pieces of music from the Carnival of the Animals and looking at the instruments that are used in the orchestra. We were very excited when Mrs Penney brought some of the actual instruments into the classroom and showed us what they sounded like and how to play them. We also had lots of fun having a go at playing a violin and a cello!

Teach your Monster to Read! 

We have a fab new platform for the children to practise their phonics skills at home and at school. It is called  Teach your Monster to Read. It is free to use on an internet browser. The children have been shown how to use it and are very excited to use it! 

Please see the link below.