🌈✏️ Welcome to Year 2’s Class Page✏️🌈

Our teacher is Miss Rafferty and our classroom assistants are Miss McFlynn and Mr McLaughlin. This page will keep you updated on everything we get up to this year. 

🐛🦋 Caterpillar to Butterfly 🐛🦋

We took wonderful care of a delivery of tiny caterpillars and watched them change and grow into the most beautiful ‘Painted Lady’ butterflies. When they were fully grown, we released them! We hope they enjoy spending time in their new home around the grounds of St. Columba’s. 

 🚌 Our School Trip 🚌

We had fantastic fun on our school trip to the beach and the park with Kilrea Primary School. We loved building sandcastles, eating a delicious picnic and playing in the park with all our friends. 

🌳🐝🐛 Outdoor Garden 🌳🐛🐝
 We have been spending time exploring our outdoor garden during Spring. It was great fun being able to identify some of the wildlife we spotted. Hopefully we will continue to see more plants and animals making a home in our school grounds in the coming months. 
 

Article 24: Each child has the right to a clean and safe environment.

📚World Book Day📚

As part of our World Book Day celebrations, some of the boys and girls in Year 2 made excellent ‘Book Boxes’. We had so much fun listening to the clues and trying to figure out which books the box belonged to. Well done to all for showing such creativity! 
 

Article 29: Each child’s education should help develop their talents and abilities. 
 

🐅🌿🐾🦜🌴The Jungle 🌴🦜🐾🌿🐅

We have been very adventurous while exploring our new Jungle topic during PBL. 

Article 28: Each child has the right to access education.

🐅✏️🎨 Tiger Art 🎨✏️🐅

We have been studying tigers during Art lessons. We sketched them using different materials. First, we used charcoal pencils and then, we sketched them again using oil pastels. Next, we mixed paint colours to paint their striped pattern. 
 

Article 29: Education should develop each child’s talents and abilities. 

🧩🧸 PBL with Our Buddies 🧸🧩

We are so lucky to have fabulous buddies from Year 7. They joined us for a PBL session and we had so much fun. They were so kind and helpful. We can’t wait to do lots more activities with them in the future.

Article 31: Each child has the right to rest, play, culture and arts.

💫💖Grandparents’ Day💖💫

We were delighted to welcome some of our wonderful grandparents to St. Columba’s to share our special assembly with them. We also remembered all of our Grandparents who couldn’t be with us. We love our Grandparents! 
 

Article 5: Each child has the right to family guidance as they grow and develop.

🧸🧥 Finding a new material for Teddy’s coat🧥🧸

Our class teddy needed a brand new coat to keep him dry in wet weather. We conducted an experiment and tested a range of materials to find out which materials are waterproof. We found the vinyl material was the best to keep our teddy warm and dry.

Article 28: Every child has the right to access education. 

Our Toy Museum 
🧸🧩🤡🪀🏏

We investigated old and new toys and how they move. We loved finding out about the toys our parents and grandparents loved playing with when they were young. 
 

Article 17: All children have the right to access information.

💫 It’s A Party 💫 

Year 1 and 2 produced a wonderful Christmas performance. Our audience were delighted to see such fabulous acting and singing. 
 

Article 29: A child’s or young person’s education should help their mind, body and talents be the best they can.
 

🎅🏼🎄 Christmas Jumper Day 🎄🎅🏼
Check out our fabulous Christmas jumpers. 
 

💫🧦Anti-Bullying Week🧦💫

We celebrated Anti-Bullying week by donning our finest odd socks. We know that our differences make us special and created a Kindness Heart to remind us to show kindeness to everybody.💖

Article 2: Every child has the right to live without discrimination.

✏️Shared Education✏️
We were delighted to begin our Shared Education journey with our friends from Kilrea Primary School. We enjoyed two wonderful mornings listening to stories, creating masks and shields and lots of play. We can’t wait to see our friends again soon! 
 

Article 31: Every child has the right to experience culture and arts.

💫🛕👑 Castles and Fairytales 👑🛕💫

We have been loving our new topic learning all about Castles and Fairytales, especially during PBL. 
 

Article 31: Every child has the right to play.

🧙🏻‍♀️2D Shape 🧙🏻‍♀️
We used what we have learned about 2D shapes to make spooky witch pictures. Aren’t they scary? 
 

Article 28: Every child has the right to access education.

🇪🇺 European Day of Languages 🇪🇺

Year 2 celebrated European Day of Languages by becoming Spanish Superheroes for the afternoon.🇪🇸

🍃🪵🐿 Outdoor Play🐿🪵🍃

We love exploring our Outdoor Garden and discovering new areas to play in.
Article 24: Each child has the right to a clean and safe environment. 

🚧🏗The Building Site 🏗🚧

Our topic at the moment is ‘The Building Site’. We have been having so much fun during Play Based Learning exploring the different parts of a construction site.
Check out some of our activities! 
 

Article 31: Every child has the right to play.