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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Forest School Painting
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Year 2 stayed together for some time in the conservation area on Wednesday this week. We spent time working in teams to build a shelter and then taking notice of our surroundings and creating these beautiful watercolour paintings. It was a lovely afternoon in the shade outside.
Healthy Living Week - Designing and making wraps
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The children sorted food into the healthy food plate and then designed a wrap with fillings of the different food groups. They chopped, sliced, spread and grated different fruit, vegetables and cheese to go in their wraps. Once made, they could eat them and then evaluate the taste, saying what they liked and how they would improve them. They loved this activity and showed really good skills using the kitchen equipment. Well done Y2!
Forest School
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Year 2 have been enjoying for a couple of weeks now. Here they are making a fire a toasting marshmallows. Some lovely time in nature.
Year 2 Science 'Plants'
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Year 2 are learning about the topic of 'Plants' in their science lessons. They are growing sunflowers from seed and keeping a weekly diary of their height. Some children have got shoots already and some are still waiting patiently. We have been measuring with rulers and recording their growth.
Leaf rubbing in art
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Year 2 have been continuing to prepare their art project this week by finding some beautiful leaves and creating rubbings of them. These will feed in to ideas for the plates we make for our printing in the coming weeks.
The results were really effective!
