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
Post!
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This morning, Year 2 have posted our persuasive letters in the post box outside school. We have been writing to Mr Dalrymple to persuade him to change some things around school! We’ll have to wait and see if he takes on any of our ideas which included a swimming pool in the playground and non-uniform Fridays!
Yorkshire Sculpture Park
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Year 2 have had a fantastic day at Yorkshire Sculpture Park today. We had a tour of different sculptures, did various drawing and printing activities. Then in the afternoon, we made out own sculpture park and shared ideas about each sculpture. A very enjoyable day!
PE - Fundamentals Skills
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Year 2 have been doing ‘fundamentals’ in their PE lessons this half term – developing the skills of hopping, skipping, jumping, sprinting, balancing and changing direction. The children have loved some of the new games such as daisy chain tag, the car game and domes and dishes. They have been working collaboratively, taking turns and sharing ideas. Here are some photos of the children this week when they were using French skipping ropes (elastics) to jump over. They loved it!
Maths!
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Year 2 have started their maths unit of addition and subtraction this week. We started by recapping number bonds to 10 by working systematically using counters and ten frames to find them all.
Rock Star Day!
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What super rockstars we had arriving at school this morning for our rockstar day! We launched TTRockstars in Year 2 and each child has come home with a letter explaining how this works and login details. Please have a go exploring the website at home. While children are still learning timestables, the best activity to try is Jamming - this is what we have done in school today.
