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
TTRS
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The children have had a fab day dressed as rockstars! Thank you all for such an amazing effort with their outfits (photos on the newsletter). They were very excited to get the chance to try TTRS in class, and this will continue weekly going forwards. The children should all have brought home their logins to practice this weekend - can't wait to see their progress in the coming months! The best game for them to practice at the moment is probably Jamming, when they can select to just have multiplication questions (no division yet) and they can choose just their 10s or 2s until they get more confident. Once they get confident enough, the programme will automatically make them choose something more challenging. For the meantime, it's just about being exposed to mulitplication and having fun so there is no pressure but some practice at home at least once per week is what we would hope for. Enjoy!
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!
Year 2 Class Blog
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.
Happy New Year!
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Happy New Year and welcome back to a pretty chilly Spring Term! Despite a shorter week, we have been super busy in Year 2 starting our new topics. We have begun learning about architecture in art and started with an rowdy activity about which house we would prefer to live in.
We have started our RE topic about Jewish people by looking at some different artefacts and trying to work out what they were used for.
And we have completed a science investigation about how different materials can be forced to change shape.
DT Ferris Wheels
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Year 2 have been testing out stability in DT this week in preparation for making their Ferris wheels. They used plasticine formed into different shapes and tilted them to see if they would roll or stay stable. The most stable shape was a pyramid.
Choose Respect!
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This week has been anti-bullying week and the theme for this year is ‘Choose Respect’. We have learnt about what respect is and how we can show it by writing some respect pledges. To finish off the week we had a Diversity Workshop where we learnt the importance of being yourself and valuing everyone for being themselves too. We listened to the story ‘Odd Dog Out’ and drew a sausage dog that would represent our personalities.
Church Visit
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Last week, we had a lovely visit the church. The weather was kind to us for our walk and when we arrived Rev. Alison and Karen talked to us about how the church gives Christians friendship, forgiveness and peace. We were then able to explore the church and ask any questions. The children’s questions and answers were very thoughtful and thought provoking.
