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
DT Research
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In our Design Technology this term, we are going to be building a model, working Ferris wheel. We have started our learning by exploring wheels and how they work.
Welcome back!
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What a fantastic first week back we have had in Year 2! The children have come back to school refreshed and enthusiastic about starting a new year.
We have started this week by reading the book ‘The Planet in a Pickle Jar’ and doing several activities around this including making a pickle jar of our own with a special memory inside that we want to preserve. These, along with a setting description of the pickle jar library and some more artwork will be displayed in time for our first parents’ evening for you all to see.
We cannot wait for the rest of this year after such an amazing start!
ASJ Elections
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This week, ASJ went to the polls and voted for next year’s house captains, vice captains and each class’ school councillors. Congratulations to Isabelle and Ted for being selected as school councillors for our class. They are ready to go at the start of Year 3 in September.
Finished art and exhibition
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We’ve finished our art project this week and are very much looking forward to welcoming as many of you as possible for our exhibition on Tuesday.
Please enter via the Year 2 cloakroom door at 2.45pm on Tuesday 7th July.
Here’s a sneak peak at our large fabric printing!
Printing!
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Year 2 have been doing some observational drawing of flowers and then turning these into prints in art. They are very effective!
