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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Art
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This week, we have started our new art topic all about expressive painting. We began by finding out about two different abstract artists and making some visual notes about what we thought of their work.
Welcome back!
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We’ve had a lovely start to the new year with lots of exciting learning going on.
In RE, we have begun learning about Jewish People by looking at some different items that could be special or significant. We asked questions about these before finding out what they were.
In Science, we sorted some different items into the categories living, dead or never alive.
Happy Christmas!
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What a fabulous end of term we are having, the culmination of which has been our Christmas party with the rest of key stage one. It has been a fabulous afternoon!
We would also like to take this opportunity to thank you all for your very generous gifts, they were lovely and much appreciated.
Have a very happy Christmas, from Miss White, Mrs Appleton and Mrs Milne.
Science and DT
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We’ve had such a busy week in Year 2! Not only have we done some fabulous performances of our nativity - ‘Lights, Camel, Action’, we have also completed our Ferris wheels and done a science investigation about friction and resistance.
Building our Ferris wheels
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This week, we have begun building our Ferris wheels in DT. It will be a couple of weeks before they are fully completed and we cannot wait to see them when they are!
