Welcome to Year 2
Welcome to Autumn Term in Year 2! Please find on this page all the information you might need this year. There is a long term plan as well as Autumn's knowledge organisers below, which will be updated termly. Should you need anything further, please get in touch!
Mrs Moleele will be teaching on a Monday and Tuesday and Miss Christie will teach on a Wednesday, Thursday and Friday. Miss Smith will support the children throughout the week with Mrs McDonald and Miss Battye sharing the week between them.
Year 2 Class Blog
Yorkshire Sculpture Park
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The children had a great day at the Sculpture Park on Tuesday, with beautiful weather too! They enjoyed seeing lots of the sculptures and even more, had the chance to learn skills from a real artist. Thank you to our parent volunteers for helping make it such a great day!
Year 2 Spelling Homework
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Tonight we are sending home our weekly spelling homework. This is a list of words taken from our previous learning in phonics and the National Curriculum Year 1 and Year 2 spelling list.
The children can practise spelling the words by saying and writing the word on one side of the sheet and exploring the word further on the opposite side.
Please feel free to practise the spellings in other ways if that better suits your child eg use magnetic letters, using technology or painting.
You do not need to return the sheet to school as we will use the words in a dictation the following week to check the children's learning.
Getting into Routine
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This week has been the children's first full week with all their lessons! It's been a busy one but there has been lots of fun and learning. They have started their DT topic on fairground rides, got engrossed in James and the Giant Peach and had lots of practical maths, creating and partitioning numbers to 100.
Welcome to Year 2!
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It’s been a great first week in Year 2! The children have all seemed excited to be back and have got stuck in with all their new learning!
We have been looking at a book called The Planet in a Pickle Jar, which is all about preserving our favourite things so they never disappear and our week’s learning culminated in us making our own pickle jars to save the world this afternoon! It was lovely to see so many creative ideas - trees, weather, animals, food - see for yourselves below!
We have also been working practically in maths, making numbers to 100 with various apparatus, counting in groups of 10 to help us count more quickly and easily.
Well done, Year 2! Have a lovely weekend ready for more next week!
Money challenge!
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In PSHE we have been learning about money and jobs. We had an additional challenge to work out the total if we had one of each note and coin.
We spent time using the money resources in class and working systematically to find the answer.
Year 2 Class Blog
Adel Walk
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Yesterday, Year 2 had a lovely walk around Adel looking for all the historical things in our area. We identified the place or object, considered whether it was more or less than 100 years old and also said whether it was a human or physical feature of the area - combining our history and geography learning!
After the holidays, we will be writing a recount of our walk and plotting the route we took on a map.
Road Safety
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Year 2 have had a fantastic morning learning about road safety with our visitor from Leeds City Council’s Road Safety Team.
They discussed in class the different ways to stay safe as a pedestrian, a passenger in a car and while riding a bike or scooter near the roadside. Jake taught us the Green Cross Code - Think, Stop, Look and Listen!
Then the children went out to the road in smaller groups to practise crossing the road safely with all the information they had learnt.
The children were a credit to ASJ and listened attentively, were responsible when crossing the road and polite at all times!
Money!
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Year 2 have been consolidating their learning about money by making the same amount using different coins. They worked together with a partner to make the same amount and drew the coins chosen.
Friction Investigation
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In science, this week, Year 2 have been investigating friction. We learnt that friction is the force between moving objects that slows things down and that the rougher a surface is, the more friction there will be. We felt each surface and made a prediction then put it to the test with toy cars and the different surfaces. The sponge surface created the most friction with bubble wrap a very close second.
Forest School
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Half of Year 2 have thoroughly enjoyed starting their Forest Schools lessons with Miss Griffin this week. They have been whittling, making knots and even lighting fires.
