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
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.
ASJ’s Got Talent!
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What a fantastic afternoon celebrating the brilliant talents of our ASJ family! We were joined by ‘Ant and Dec’ who hosted the talent show. We watched some great talents including juggling, dancing and piano playing! Well done to everyone involved, it was such a fun end to the week!
Character description
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In our English lessons this week, we have been writing a character description about Peter Rabbit. We started with an experience lesson where we watched an episode of the TV series; tried some of Peter’s favourite vegetables and drew a picture with adjectives to describe Peter around the outside.
