As we approach the end of another month in Primary 2, we have another monthly update for you.

In literacy we have been reading our next class novel ‘Fantastic Mr. Fox’. We are so excited to hear all about the magnificent plan that Mr. Fox has created. We now realise that we don’t need lots of colourful illustrations in our books. We know that we can put on our imagination caps to help us create a picture in our own heads. We enjoy making predictions about what will happen next and discussing the meaning of tricky words.

We have also continued to learn lots of new sounds and words in May. This month we have been showing super teamwork by helping our literacy partners to be great learners. We have been participating in dictation where we say a sentence and our partner tries their best to write it. This is a super way to practise sentences that contain our focus sounds and words.

In maths we have had a busy month indeed. We have worked on division problems by sharing and grouping items. We have also used our Minibeasts topic as a stimulus for learning about data handling. First, we counted minibeasts on our minibeast hunt by using tally marks. Then we discovered how to create and interpret bar charts. Finally, we learned how to read and create our own carroll diagrams. This was a bit tricky, but we worked so hard!  This month we have also learned all about halves and quarters in our fractions topic. We loved the story ‘Give me Half’ and we divided a variety of shapes into halves and quarters.

In R.E our focus for this month has been ‘The Month of Mary’. We dedicated our class altar to Mary and made our own paper flowers as we know that Mary loves them. We thought about the words that the angel said to Mary when he told her she was going to have a baby, and compared that to the Hail Mary prayer. We then learned about the holy Rosary, we made our own Rosary beads and tried to say a mini Rosary every day. We know that this is Mary’s special prayer. We used it to pray for our friends and family. We even made a special journey to the Church grounds to say a mini Rosary to Our Lady. We blew her lots of lovely kisses too!

We will soon be leading our school in the next first Friday Mass in Holy Family Church. Our readers, offertory children and all others are getting ready to lead the Mass beautifully. Please come to support us as this is a very important event in our calendar.

In Health and Wellbeing, we have been practising for our sports day. Our current topic is athletics and we have used our time to prepare. We are so excited about participating in all the races next month.

We have also been learning about safety within our Health and Wellbeing lessons. We have covered fire, sun, road and internet safety. During fire safety, we learned lots of important things about keeping safe around fire. Our teacher said we all deserved the title of Junior Fire Officer. We made Fire Officer badges for ourselves and wore them with pride.

This month we celebrated the King’s coronation in primary 2. We made beautiful crowns and learned about the life and work of our new king. We also learned about Fairtrade. This is very important as it ensures that farmers get paid fairly for the things they produce. We played a super Fairtrade game with our friends.

We also got to support the nursery children during their sports day. We were super supporters who motivated the younger children to perform well. We were delighted when we got to participate in one of the races.

We can’t wait for our last month as primary two children. We are looking forward to lots more learning and hopefully lots of time outdoors. Please keep an eye on Twitter for lots more photographs of our achievements.