Class 2 is a Year 2 group of 18 children. The class is taught by Mrs Ati Charlesworth, along with Miss Jo Walker and Miss Leslie Connell. Miss Jo Walker covers Mrs Charlesworth's PPA on a Tuesday afternoon. If you ever need to get in touch, please do not hesitate to contact Mrs Charlesworth at acharlesworth@harrowbarrowprimary.co.uk or ask to speak to her via the school reception on 01579 350576.

Please find above the Curriculum overview for the Spring term 2026. You can also download this as a PDF document by clicking the PDF icon below. You can also find a copy of the KIRF focus for Spring term 1 below. 

This last week of the half term has been a fun filled learning adventure in class 2. 

We have spent a lot of time reflecting on and consolidating our learning from this half term. In Literacy, we have all finished writing our "triumph over terror" stories, and have been illustrating our stories so that we can have our very own picture books. We can't wait to share them with you when we come back after the break! In Maths, we have consolidated our understanding of multiplication and division, especially multiplying and dividing by 2, 5 and 10.

In Science, we completed the final recording of our experiment and spent some time discussing our findings and drawing our conclusions from it all. We have found that water is very essential for a seed to germinate, and that it does not really need soil to do the same. In History, we wrapped up our learning from this term by answering some key questions on the topic of the history of flight. On the left is a photo of Roma's beautiful write up about the key facts we have learned in this unit. In Computing, we consolidated all our learning about word processing by creating a document with details about a friend. We typed our text, formatted it in our friend's favourite colour and inserted a photo of them.

Finally, a very well done to:
> Roux for getting the Ready Award for his fantastic progress in Maths, especially his knowledge of multiplication and division.
> Harriet for getting the Respectful Award from Mrs Connell for her fantastic attitude during RWI lessons.
> Emily for getting the Safe Award for being a super helper to Mrs Connell, helping her with the gates every morning.
> Isla for being nominated for the Safe Award by the Positive Potato Police for letting others join in her game.

Have a lovely half term break, and see you all bright and refreshed on Monday, 23 February 2025.

This week in Class 2 we have been working as a team to try and understand multiplication and division, and the relationship between these two operations. We learned that division as an operation is nothing but the simple task of sharing or grouping. There were oodles of counters and cubes strewn all around the classroom during our Maths lessons this week. In Literacy, we have looked at special words that tells us more about verbs called adverbials. Today, we also investigated different sentence types and the punctuations associated with them.

In History, we have continued our enquiry into the history of flight by learning all about the first African American woman to earn a pilots license - Bessie Coleman. We looked at a reproduction of her license and became history detectives as we tried to figure out some details about her life from it. We ended up with more questions than answers this time. Below is an image of Sofia's observation and notes from this exercise. In RE, we learned about some of the teachings from the Qur'an and discussed how they applied to our own lives. In Art, we used our experiments with mark making using primary colours to create our own collages in our sketchbooks, while in Computing we continued learning how to use a word processor by learning how to select a text and change some of their attributes.

Finally, a very well done to:
> William for getting the Ready Award for persisting and not giving up during Maths learning.
> Freya for getting the Respectable Award for always being a kind and responsible member of the class.
> Darcey for being nominated for the Safe Award by the Positive Potato Police for being a kind friend and sharing her play equipment with others.

It has been a very exciting week of nativity performances and singing all round. Christmas is really in the air!

Thank you Class 2 family for all your support in helping your children learn their lines, getting their costumes together and being there to support us during all 3 performances.

This week, in Maths, we have continued our enquiry into shapes by investigating the properties of 3D shapes by counting their faces, edges and vertices. In Literacy, we have completed our instructions on how to catch Santa. No, no! It is not to trap him on his rounds on Christmas eve, and spoil Christmas for the rest of the world. No! We are planning to set an alarm so that we wake up when he comes down our chimneys because we have tons of questions and presents for him... while some of us just want to hitch a ride with him on his sleigh.

Between all the chaos of last minute nativity rehearsals and performances, we also managed to squeeze in a really fun Computing lesson where we learned about the use of loops to make our algorithms cleaner and clearer.

Its has been an exciting week of rehearsals, dress ups and trips!

Despite our topsy-turvy time tables, we have managed to get oodles of learning into our days this week. In Literacy, we have started a new unit of work - we are learning how to write instructions. We had a go at writing our own instructions for our learning partners and then looked at how we could have made them better. Then we looked at some different instructions and compared them to find out what we could include in our own. In Maths, we continued our inquiry into shapes by looking at the vertical line of symmetry. We have even had a go at completing different 2D shapes by using our knowledge of the vertical line of symmetry. Who knew using a ruler was this tricky!

We have also been working super hard at learning our cues and timings for our Nativity next week. Thank you Class 2 families for helping your children learn all their lines and for making time to get their costumes ready. We can't wait to see you all next week for our 3 super-duper performances. If you haven't got them yet, please make sure you contact the office for your tickets before its too late. However, the best part of the week was our class trip to the Sterts Theater for a fabulous puppet show. It was so awesome to see all the children so engaged and its was joy to watch their tiny eyes light up with wonder!

Finally, a very well done to:
> Sofia for getting the Ready Award for her diligence and hard work, especially during Literacy lessons.
> Ivy for getting the Respectful Award for always being polite and kind.
> Jimmy for getting the Safe Award for listening to and following instructions, and keeping safe during our trip.