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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Habitats Trail
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To round off our science learning from last half term, we have completed a habitat trail around the school grounds. We searched for things that were living, dead or never alive; micro habitats and dependent pairs.
Walk around Adel
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This week, we have rounded off our local history topic with a walk around Adel. We looked at various different historical landmarks in our locality and linked in our geography understanding by identifying which were human and physical features. We will also be looking at some maps to find the route we took at a later date.
Online Safety Week
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This week, we have been focusing on keeping ourselves safe online. We have done lessons about different types of rules; rules that keep us safe and rules that keep us happy and healthy; and thought about when rules might have to change.
Here we are doing some role plays about situations that might mean rules have to change.
Volleyball in PE
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It’s been another busy week in Year 2! This week, we enjoyed playing volleyball and practising our throwing and catching skills in PE. We were focusing on competing against ourselves and trying hard to improve our technique to get batter and be more accurate.
Science and Art
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In Science, this week, we have been continuing our learning about habitats by looking at micro habitats. We had a scavenger hunt in the classroom to identify which mini beasts lived in each micro habitat.
In Art, this week, we have been exploring our use of colour and texture in painting. We used the primary colours and different tools to add paint in different ways. We learnt the terms ‘sgraffito’ meaning to scratch and ‘impasto’ which meant to build texture by not shooting the paint. It was lots of fun!
