This week in the classroom

Friday 4th April 2025

Year 2 have been absolute super stars this half term. They have worked incredibly hard and should be very proud of everything that they have achieved.

This week we have been busy writing our own non-chronological reports. The children created their own animal and facts related to them. The children worked very hard to create gramatically accurate sentences about their animals and then add extra information to them. Our highlight was being able to take our writing to show the year 5 and 6 children - they were very impressed by what Year 2 had created.

In maths we finished our learning on 2D and 3D shapes and are becoming more confident in the naming of the shapes and their properties.

In geography we carried on our learning of the UK and focused on England this week. We enjoyed looking at different places in England especially the Lake Distruct and all the mountains and lakes.

On Friday we had a wonderful end of term treat where we created Easter cards with moving parts, made chocolate crispy cakes and created Easter themed decorations. 

We are now ready for a well deserved Easter break! 

Friday 28th March 2025

Year 2 have been busy again this week and have really impressed with their increasing independence and motivation to be the best they can be.

In English we have been writing a non-chronological report about monkeys. We have enjoyed finding out lots of fascinating facts and inclusing them in our writing. Next week we will be writing a port about a creature we have imagined and seeing if our reports are better than those being created in Year 5 and 6!

In maths we have been learning about 3D shapes. We have investigated the properties of the shapes and learned their names.

In DT we have continued our learning on different mechanisms and we made our own sliding mechanism this week. The children love DT and are very creative.

In science we have learned about herbivores, carnivores and omnivores and sorted animals according to their characteristics. 

Friday 21st March 2025

Year 2 have worked hard again this week.

In English we have started our new unit and will be writing a non-chronological report about an animal. This week we have been focusing on writing accurate and independent sentences and questions. We have been really impressed by the children's determination to write their sentences independently and up level them.

In maths we have started our learning on 2D and 3D shapes. We have learned about polygons, quadrilaterals and triangles and have explored their propertes. We are looking forward to moving on to 3D shapes next week.

We have continued our learning about the UK in geography and enjoyed focusing in on Scotland this week. We especially enjoyed using Google Earth to explore parts of Scotland and see if we could spot the Loch Ness Monster!

This week has been Neurodiversity Week. We have talked about what neurodiversity is and why we should embrace and celebrate difference. The children gave very thoughtful and insightful thoughts towards this and some of the videos we watched. The children have created work based on who they are and have enjoyed sharing their similar interests, likes/dislikes etc but also their differences.

Well done Year 2 - you have been amazing again this week. 

Friday 14th March 2025

Happy Science Week everyone!  We have had a wonderful science week this week. On Monday we thoroughly enjoyed the Zoolab visit - we thought that the animals we met were incredible and we loved learning all about them. We especially loved being able to hold and touch them too!

On Wednesday we headed off on our sponsored walk. We had a great time stomping around the field taking in the sights of upcoming spring and chatting to our friends as we walked. Thank you to everyone who sponsored us.

We also loved dressing up on Wednesday - there were lots of amazing costumes and we enjoyed talking about what kind of scientist we each were.  

On Thursday we were set a water balloon challenge. In teams we had to work together to design and build a carrier that would safely carry our water balloon to the ground when it was dropped from height.  We made sure that the balloons had lots of cushioning. Most of our balloons survived the initial drop however we enjoyed throwing them on the ground afterwards with no protection and seeing how big a splash we could make!

In English we finished our versions of The Papaya that Spoke. All children worked very hard to think of and write their own sentences and every child should be incredibly proud of what they achieved.

In DT we had a great lesson designing a mechanism that allowed an image to move. We learned about what a lever and a pivot was and applied this to create our own moving picture.

We finished our week with a very relaxing forest school session where we spent time painting our surroundings. A perfect end to a brilliant week!

Friday 7th March 2025

WOW! What a busy week Year 2 have had!  Again we have been super impressed by the children's enthusiasm, team work and positivity.

In Maths we have continued our learning on division. The children have tried super hard with this and are becoming more confident with basic division in different contexts. 

In English the children have continued to learn the story 'The Papaya that Spoke'. We have planned our own versions of the story which we will be writing next week.

In science we continued our learning on life cycles. The children loved learning about the different offspring that animals have and were very enthusiastic to create life cycle diagrams of some of them.

In geography we continued our learning on the United Kingdom. We revised our knowledeg of the four countries of the UK and are now moving on to learning the capital cities.

We really enjoyed World Book Day. The children were super enthusiastic about the drama workshop and they created some beautiful book marks. The costumes worn by the children were amazing and they loved showing the off to each other.  

Year 2 finished the week with a forest school session with Mrs Whiteway.

Well done Year 2!

Friday 28th February 2025

Year 2 have had an amazing first week back.  We are so impressed by their superb attitudes to learning, resilience to change and fantastic behaviour - it has been a super week and we cannot wait to see the children again on Monday.

in English we have been learning the story 'The Papaya That Spoke'.  The children have been working hard to learn the story with lots of actions and have started their learning of the key grammar fetures that they will need to include.

In maths we have started our learning about division. We have worked hard to practically divide in to groups in lots of different contexts. The children have shown super listening skills and determination in these lessons this week.  The children have also had a go on TT Rockstars, which they will continue to acccess regularly in school - their log in information is in their reading diaries so they can have a go at home too if they wish!.

In science we started learning about human life cycles and the children did a super job of talking about how humans change during their lives and how we develop.  

In geography we learned about how the United Kingdom is structured and the bodies of water that surround us. The children discussed continents too and were brilliant in our continent quiz showing they were able to remember the names of all 7.  We were really impressed by how enthusiastic the children were in this lesson and how much they enjoyed learning lots of geographical facts.

We are making some timetable changes in Year 2 and children will now have PE on a Monday and a Friday.

A brilliant week year 2 - well done!