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
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.
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!
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Move a Mile!
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Thank you to everyone who sponsored us to ‘Move a Mile’ for the NSPCC. We have great fun completing the challenge and move in lots of different ways. We ran, jumped, did lunges and even a conga!
Christian Value Dioramas
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This week, children across school have been making dioramas to represent each of our Christian Values. We considered what symbols and phrases might explain each value, came up with a design in a group and then spent some time making them. The finished creations look fantastic and children had some wonderful discussions about what our Christian Values mean to them.
Sunflowers!
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As part of our new science topic about plants, Year 2 have planted some sunflower seed this week. We will be taking care of them and observing their growth over the next few weeks. We will measure them and see which can grow the highest.
Basic hygiene in science
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This week we have finished our science learning about Animals including humans by investigating whether we need soap to wash our hands. We used pepper to act like germs and etched as they were repelled by a finger that had soap on it.
We then followed steps to wash our hands thoroughly.
Shabbat Artwork
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This week, Year 2 have been continuing with their learning about Jewish people by exploring the weekly celebration of a Shabbat meal. They have created silhouette artwork on a sunset background to show important items in a Shabbat meal and then labelled these with explanations about how they are used during the meal.
