Welcome to Dolphins Class
Years 2 & 3

Class Teacher - Mrs Bowles 
Teaching Assistant - Mrs Robinson

Welcome Back Everyone!

We have had a fabulous first few weeks back in Dolphin Class, with everyone settling straight back into learning which is fantastic. We have been so impressed with everyone's collaboration and resilience as they get used to a new school year.

A welcome back letter detailing PE days, homework, class routines, etc has been sent home but please do ask if you have any futher queries. This half term we are learning about the Creation story in our RE lessons and investigating rocks, soils and fossils in science. In maths we have started expanding our place value knowlege and working on our mental maths skills in times tables in Times Table Rock Stars and Big Maths Beat That. In English we have been working on our sentence structure and noun phrases throught the sharing the story 'Look Up' - which has got us fascinated about all things space! We also have guided reading and DEAR time every morning.  What a fabulous start to what I am sure will be an outstanding year!

September 2025

Science

In our first few science lessons we have been learning all about rocks, natural vs man-made, and how the 3 natural rock types are made. We used our working scientifically skills of observation, questioning and recording -  using magnifying glasses and our handheld microscope to examine different rocks and sketch our findings with labels.  In our last lesson we recreated how the 3 natural rock types are formed using sweets to create sedimentary, igneous and metamorphic edible 'rocks'. Super scientists all round - well done Dolphins!

RE

We have started our RE learning by learning all about the Creation Story. We recalled our learning from previous years and examined the scripture realising the repetition and poetic style in which it was written. We reflected on what the darkness was before the first day of creation and how God created the light - how this links to God bringing light to our lives everyday showing us the way to live.  We have examined creation art work, studying how the artists have interpreted the scripture and represented it - we then created our own creation art work. Finally today we gave thanks for God's creation in our prayer time.

Maths

In maths we have been expanding our place value knoweldge up to 100 and 1000, identifying the value of each digit and how we can partition them into hundreds, tens and ones or more flexibly. We have also been completing number lines, estimating postions of numbers, ordering and comparing numbers too. In addition, each week we work on our mental maths skills, including our number bonds, times tables and maths fluency doubling and halving - using Times Table Rock Stars, Big Maths Beat That, chanting and singing our counting! Marvellous mathematicians all round!