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
Building our Ferris wheels
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This week, we have begun building our Ferris wheels in DT. It will be a couple of weeks before they are fully completed and we cannot wait to see them when they are!
Interfaith Week
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This week has been Interfaith Week in school. We have completed a number of activities and our whole school faith day was around acts of service. Our final product was a piece of artwork that demonstrated how particular religions or people come together to help others. Here is our artwork in progress.
Testing materials
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In Science, we have been learning about the properties of a variety of everyday materials. Last week, we found different objects on the classroom and tested them to see if they could bend, twist, stretch or squash. We then considered what this told us about the properties of the different materials the objects were made from.
First Week Back
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The children have come back from the week off refreshed and ready to get back into their learning.
We’ve had a very busy week, but one of the highlights was our RE learning where we were considering the link between peace and forgiveness. We did freeze frames about a situation where someone would need to apologise. We thought about how both sides felt before and after the apology and how saying sorry and forgiving can bring peace to everyone involved in the situation.
Visit to Adel Church
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Year 2 had a fantastic visit to church this week. We extended our RE learning by finding out how Christians use church for friendship, forgiveness and peace. We had a brilliant explanation of these from Rev. Alison and Karen. All the children showed so much knowledge and understanding and were very well behaved.
