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
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!
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!
Healthy Living Week
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Year 2 have a had a great healthy living week. We’ve learnt all about ways to stay healthy including through healthy diet, exercise and sleep. We have learnt how to administer first aid for bites and stings and considered who helps us to stay healthy.
Our DT project for the week was to design and make a wrap suitable for a balanced diet. We used skills like grating, cutting using a bridge hold and considered the food groups each ingredient was in.
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.
