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
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.
Alfresco Learning Workshop
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We had such a fantastic morning with Alfresco Learning to round off our topic about Neil Armstrong. The workshop had elements of history, science and maths with the focus being outdoor learning. Watching our rockets fly was a WOW moment! So much fun, learning and awe and wonder!
Forest School Painting
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Year 2 stayed together for some time in the conservation area on Wednesday this week. We spent time working in teams to build a shelter and then taking notice of our surroundings and creating these beautiful watercolour paintings. It was a lovely afternoon in the shade outside.
Year 2 Class Blog
Art and PSHE
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In Year 2 this week, we have started our art topic by making prints of our hands on fabric. It was a lot of fun getting a bit messy outside before the rain started!
We have also finished our PSHE topic about keeping safe by recapping the message of staying safe online. All the children made a bookmark as a reminder.
Learning about empathy
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In PSHE this week, we have been thinking about feelings and how everybody can have different feelings about similar situations. We looked at different feelings and how part of being a good friend is being able to understand the feelings of others. We considered how we could show empathy by ‘putting ourselves in someone else’s shoes’ to understand their feelings. We finally came up with advice for someone who might be anxious about moving house.
Teddy Bear Chairs
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Welcome back to the summer term! We have had a busy first week back and completed our DT project of structures. The children had designed a chair for a bear and this week we have made them. The children showed some excellent skills thinking about measurements, different joins and how to make the most stable chair for their bear. They each brought in a bear from home to test their chair too. The results were fantastic!
End of Spring Term!
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What a wonderful Spring Term we have had in Year 2! There has been so much learning and memorable moments this half term. It has been great to see the children learning and changing - they’re nearly ready for that jump into key stage 2.
We have been finishing lots of learning this week, including our science where we were looking at the importance of basic hygiene. We read about why and how we need to stay clean; read some instructions about the proper way to wash our hands and then all washed our hands to demonstrate.
A wonderful week!
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We’ve had a wonderful week in Year 2!
Firstly, thank you to all the parents and carers who attended our celebration event on Tuesday. We were too busy having fun to take any pictures but it was wonderful to see so many of you children loved sharing their learning!
Yesterday, we had our trip to Nell Bank. The weather was perfect and the children impressed the leaders at the centre with their science knowledge. We did several activities to link in with our learning about animals and ended the day with pond dipping.
