Year 2

Week Ending Friday 7th July 2023

What a great week we have had in year Two! Sport's Day was amazing AND it stayed dry for us! We had a lot of fun participating in races and undertaking lots of different activities in our colour teams. There were some hidden talents discovered at the pro shoot, cricket stumps and javelin throwing!

In our maths this week, we continued learning about time. Investigating and learning how to tell the time to quarter past and quarter to the hour and then how to tell the time to the nearest five minutes. This was very tricky - especially telling the time minutes to the hour! Why don't you have a go at home? 

In English we started to read a new book called Rosie Revere Engineer. 
We had to guess what the character was doing and what she was like before we read the story! 

In our Design Technology  this week we had a go at learning how to sew a running stitch. That proved to be quite tricky but we all gave it our best shot and with practise got better and better! in R.E. we designed our own stained glass windows to show the Ascension of Jesus up to Heaven and discussed what we had learned about this event.

In geography this week, we have started to learn about a certain country. We flew on a plane! Can you use our clues to guess which country it is? 

Week Ending Friday 30th June 2023

What a lovely way to end our week with an trust wide ethos day.

We took part in zoom worships and workshops and wrote our own prayers.

We got to decorate the hands we wrote them on as well. We had a lovely day! 

This week in our maths we have been learning about capacity and measuring in millilitres and litres.

We then moved on to temperature and thermometers before finishing with a new unit on time!

have a look in your kitchen. Have you got a measuring jug?

Can your child fill it to different amounts or tell you how much you have put in?

In our English this week, we, the people of the town, received a letter from the King who was telling us why banning the dark would be a good thing!

We read it and analysed it for different features.

In our P.E. we finished our orienteering successfully and had a whole lot of fun! 
In our computing this we we are exploring digital music and made our own tunes using an app that turned our drawings into music! 

Week Ending Friday 23rd June 2023

This week in our maths we have been continuing our learning around measuring and learned about mass. We had some fun with the balancing scales and comparing the mass of different objects.  

In our English we have been reading our story The King Who Banned the Dark and considering how we would react if we were residents of the kingdom. We wrote some super diaries describing the ban and the things the king made us do!

In science we asked the question: What would we be able to do if we had no skeletons? We had some hands without bones to try and find out! It turns out that without our skeletons there is not a lot we would be able to do!

We started to think about how we could produce some pieces of Aboriginal art in our  Art and Design learning this week and used a 'wash' to prepare our backgrounds. We looked at how we have changed and grown in our PSHE and also thought about our Christian value of Thankfulness in our RE as well as looking at different places of worship such as churches, mosques and synagogues. All very special places for lots of different people.

Week Ending Friday 16th June 2023

What a lovely way to end the week! Celebrating Father's day with drinks, biscuits and donuts!

Thanks to all our dads, stepdads, grandads and uncles! We are very lucky to have you in our lives!

In maths this week, we have continued to learn about measuring using centimetres and metres. We have been comparing and ordering different lengths and heights. Can you find things to measure in metres? Can you find things to measure in centimetres? What would you use to measure across a room? What would you use to measure the height of a cup? Which would be best? I wonder if you can find three things to measure and then put them in order from the longest to shortest? 

In English we have started to explore a new story! The King Who Banned the Dark by Emily Haworth-Booth.

This is a boy who is afraid of the dark. He grew up to be the King and decided to ban it! We had great fun predicting the story and wondering how he would manage to ban the dark! What would happen if we did that?

Due to the heat this week we kept our P.E. lessons very calm and inside! We had a go with different equipment including golf! Some of us were very accurate!

In history we have started to learn about The Tudors! We have learned lots of very interesting facts about them!

Week Ending Friday 26th May 2023

A very busy end to the half term this week! In maths we have started to learn about measurements and using rulers accurately to measure and compare lengths. We have enjoyed the start to this unit very much and are getting really good at using our rulers and reading measurements.

In English, we have been busy writing reports. We wrote two different reports! One was a chronological report about our fabulous afternoon with Zoo2U and the animals we saw. The other was a non-chronological report about the animals we had chosen to find out about. Can your child tell you the difference between a chronological and non-chronological report?

We have been busy in PE this week learning about orienteering! we went out and about in our school grounds to see what we could see! We finished our Art and design with an exhibition of our flower collages! Just look how amazing they are. In our geography, we finished our learning about climates by writing about the climate we would most like to live in and why!

We wish you all a very happy half term!

Week Ending Friday 19th May 2023

We started the week with our Eurovision celebration - coming into school dressed as rock stars. What a great concert we had in the afternoon!

In our maths this week we have returned to money. We have been making amounts using notes and coins and solving problems. We also completed our Year Two maths 'special work' and I am so proud of the children. They have worked so hard and showed exactly how much they have learned this year!

In our English this week, we have been looking at non-chronological reports and how they are set out and what they include. We have chosen a jungle animal to write our own reports on and planned them out ready for next week. Can your child tell what a non-chronological report is and how it is different to a chronological one?

We have also been reading a fabulous book based on a real life gardening project in Brooklyn. It is called The Bear's Garden and is written by Marcie Colleen and illustrated by Alison Oliver.

in our Art and design this week we have been working on our finished plant collages. I am sure you will agree - they are going to be amazing when they are completed! In our science we have learned what the different parts of a plant do.

Week Ending Friday 12th May 2023

This week in our maths we have been continuing to look at fractions and looking at equivalence and counting in fractions. We are definitely getting to grips with numerators and denominators, unit and non-unit fractions!

Well done Year Two. Can you help your parents with the questions below?

In our English this week we have been writing our very own return stories based on our text, Grandad's Island.

Some of the descriptive phrases you have written have been amazing!

In our science this week - we investigated the microhabitats on our field and collected data on the creatures we found living in them. We sorted our data into pictograms using a program on our i-pads.

In art and design  we have been busy preparing and planning for our final collage pieces. I think these are going to be amazing Year Two!

In geography we have been learning about the climate in the UK and thinking about the difference between climate and weather. I am sure we are going to have another great week next week! I can't wait to see all your rock star appearances on Monday for our Eurovision Day!

Week Ending Friday 5th May 2023

We had a fabulous time celebrating the coronation of King Charles on Friday. We made collages, learned about our new monarch and had a lovely coronation picnic. We designed our own crowns and had our own parade as well as a disco! God Save the King! 

In maths this week, we continued to learn about fractions. We know about unit fractions so we investigated non- unit fractions as well. This is where there is more than one equal part used, for example three quarters. We learned a new word - ‘equivalent’ which means equal to or the same as and explored the equivalence of one half and two quarters. 

In our English we planned and started to write our own ‘Return Stories’ - to be continued next week! 
 

We have explored different ways of using paper for a collage in our Art lesson and learned about habitats and micro habitats in our science. I think an investigation into micro habitats on our field is looking very likely! 

Week Ending Friday 28th April 2023

This week in our maths we have continued to investigate and learn about fractions. We have found out about thirds and what a unit fraction is. We have been working out and finding fractions of shapes and amounts as well as using fractions to find the whole.

In English this week we have been analysing the example story text from Grandad's Island and looking for the different features the writer uses to engage the reader. We found: noun phrases, conjunctions, adverbs, time adverbials, commands, questions and prepositions! We also wrote our own letters from Grandad to tell Sid all about his life on the island.

In our reading and comprehension lessons we have been reading There's a Tiger in the Garden by Lizzy Stewart and using our reading vipers to retrieve information, identify vocabulary, sequence and summarise. We are getting very fluent in our reading and great at comprehension!

In P.E. we have been playing team games involving placing cones in or out of hoops and balls on and off the cones to help with our co-ordination and speed! It got very competitive and was lots of fun.

In PSHE we thought about touch and how different kinds of touch can be kind or unkind.

In Geography we have been learning about different climates. So far in this unit we have learned about polar regions, rainforests and deserts. Next it is the climate in the UK.

Week Ending Friday 21st April 2023

This week in our maths we have been investigating fractions and finding halves and quarters of objects and amounts. We have learned some new words: numerator, denominator and learned the importance of equal parts when we are using any fractions. We have also been busy practising our two times table to start our times table challenge. 

In English we have been busy reading our new text Grandad's Island and learning about possessive apostrophes and writing setting descriptions. Year Two - I was VERY impressed by your noun phrases and super descriptive phrases!

In Geography this week we have used atlases to find remind ourselves of where The Equator, North Pole, South Pole and the Northern and Southern Hemispheres.

In P.E. we have been practising our throwing and catching skills and starting our tennis learning!

Red Team had a great day celebrating ready for St. George’s Day.

Week Ending Friday 31st March 2023

A very Happy Easter to you all from all of us in Year Two!

We have had a super finish to the term with a fabulous Easter bonnet parade and a visit from the Easter Bunny! We were all super excited to go on his egg hunt! 

Well done to the winner of the poster award for the OCA science competition! 

We led the Thursday Worship by telling everybody the Easter Story and all about the symbols of Easter. You were amazing Year Two, learning all your lines and delivering them so confidently in front of the whole school and relatives. Thank you to everyone who came to watch us! 

In our maths this week we have been investigating and using facts from the five and ten times tables. We are getting good with these but keep practising Year Two! 

We finished our DT this week by making and testing our roly polys. What a lot of fun we had! 

Week Ending Friday 23rd March 2023

More fabulous science experiences this week with Mrs Dvininov who came and delivered some super demonstrations! Year Two are certainly shaping up to be super scientists of the future! 

In maths this week we have investigated odd and even numbers, doubling, halving and multiplying and dividing by ten. We are getting to grips with our times tables in Year Two! 

In English this week we finished off our reading of The Bog Baby by writing instructions on building a habitat for our own imaginary creatures. Lots of instructional language, bossy verbs and adverbs.

In DT this week we were busy designing our final role polys using what we had learned in out previous research and exploration lessons. 

In history we finished off our unit on Victorian houses by comparing them to our own and started to get ready for Easter by learning the Easter Story and the events of Holy Week. 

Week Ending Friday 17th March 2023

Happy Mother's day to all the wonderful women in our lives who help us every day. We had a fabulous coffee morning with our favourite ladies. 

Science Week this week to coincide with British Science Week and what a week we have had!

We started with some fabulous science with students from Cronton College, extracting banana DNA and lighting a bulb with a lemon. Then had a great time doing some forensic science with Dr Laura Randle - taking finger prints and identifying our patterns.

We had a visit from Tess who is a biochemist at Alder Hey to tell us all about bacteria and blood cells. We learned why soap is so important. Watch our experiment! What happens to all the bacteria (pepper) when we put soap into the water!

We undertook a stem activity where had to make a moving vehicle powered only by elastic bands and sorted out animals into carnivores, herbivores and omnivores in our class science unit.

We finished the week with OCA who helped us identify salt and other things under microscopes, quadrat sampling, more finger printing and exploring colours using wet blotting paper and felt tips. 

It has been a GREAT week. All our visitors were SUPER impressed by our science knowledge and we were the best class at finger printing and had the least amount of finger print dust scattered about! 

In maths this week we have been exploring division, using the division sign and looking at the 2 times table.

Any practice at home with times tables - especially 2, 3, 5 and 10 up to 12 x will be great as we need to know these off by heart by the end of the year.

In DT this week we made out test roll polys and some test faces for them as well! 

Week Ending Friday 10th March 2023

This week we have been busy doing lots of independent work in maths, reading, grammar and spelling.

We have worked very hard indeed.

In our Science this week we have continued to learn about living things and looked at the different body parts of different types of animals: mammals, fish, amphibians and reptiles. 

Can your child name all the body parts of these animals?

In our history this week we learned about a Victorian wash day! It looked like a lot of very hard work for the poor laundry maids and we learned that if they were lucky they had a pump and a copper in the kitchens to help! If you were not so lucky, you had to go and fetch your own water and heat it over the fire!

Can you name these pieces of very important equipment and the order they were used in?

How does the washing get done in your house?

Week Ending Friday 3rd March 2023

We have had a lovely week in Year Two. We have celebrated World Book Day and read the Rainbow Bird. This is an Aboriginal Dream Time story and we really enjoyed listening to it and writing our own versions.

We learned some things about Australia as well. We sorted out important physical and human geographical features and learned some other key facts. 

We have also been planning our own set of instructions to create a habitat for our imaginary creatures we wrote about in our stories. 

In maths this week we have been continuing to explore multiplication and division and learning about the related facts we know when we work out the answer to one calculation. We also learned a new way to add two 2 digit numbers in our arithmetic lesson. It is called expanded column addition.

In science this week, we started our new block of learning around Living Things and Their Habitats. We started off by revising our Year One learning and then sorting things into three groups: alive, dead and never been alive. We had a very interesting discussion about where we should place a chocolate cake. Where would you place it?

In P.E. we used our learning from last week on sequences including jumps, balances and rolls on the large apparatus. We were very inventive and worked very safely as well!

Week Ending Friday 24th February 2023

This week we have continued to learn about multiplication in our maths work. We have investigated grouping sets of objects further and revised repeated addition and how it relates to multiplication. We have started to use the multiplication sign in our equations.

In English this week we have started to look at instructions and how they are set out and written ready for writing our own set next week. We have looked at the key features and identified the language used in them as well as the sentence types.

In our computing this week we used what we have learned about algorithms to write programs for the Beebots. 
This needed lots of trial and error and plenty of debugging and perseverance! In our history we learned about Kitty Wilkinson who started the very first wash houses in Liverpool to help people keep clean and healthy during an outbreak of cholera. We learned that Liverpool was the very first place in England to have wash houses when Liverpool council saw what Kitty was doing from her own house and built public wash houses across the city.

P.E. This week saw us starting a new block of gymnastics learning. We had to make a sequence of movements that included: a starting position, a roll, a jump, a balance and a finishing position. We were all great at these! Onto the big apparatus next week! 

Week Ending Friday 10th February 2023

What a fantastic end to a very busy half term! 
On Thursday we went off to the Blue Planet Aquarium to learn more about the dangers of plastic pollution to sea life and about habitats ready for science learning later on in the year! We had such a great time and the staff were VERY IMPRESSED by what we had already learned!

Perseverance

On Friday everyone went to St. Luke’s in Farnworth to lead a service for our parents and careers on this half terms Christian Value - Perseverance. It was a fabulous service and the children taught everyone their poem! 

In maths this week we have started to learn about multiplication by looking at groups and deciding if they are equal or unequal. We have completed some repeated addition and explored different ways of grouping numbers.

In English we have been very busy writing our stories about the creatures we drew and how they were found. We also learned how to put commas in a list of adjectives in our writing.

We had a great time finishing off our music for this half term by performing the song we learned. 
In science we learned a little more about magnets and their poles. We explored how they can attract or repel each other. We had a lot of fun learning! 
Are these magnets attracting or repelling? 🤔

Week Ending Friday 27th January 2023

This week we have been investigating 3D shapes. We have looked at faces, edges and vertices. We have named them and sorted them into groups based on their properties.

In English we have been analysing our class text The Bog Baby and looking at different sentence types. Do you know your exclamations from your statements? Your questions from your commands?

Year Two certainly do! 
We also learned about time adverbials. These tell us when something happened or how long it happened for. They are important to help move a story along. We explored what would happen if they were moved around in the text.  

In R.E. we continued our learning about Jesus and his kindness and friendship to everyone. We learned about the miracle of The Ten Lepers. We thought about how it showed Jesus was God’s son and what the lepers would have thought. Here is Max on the hot seat as the leper who said thank you, taking questions from the class about what happened to him.

More science this week investigating what effects forces have on objects.

Can a force change the shape of something? 
Can a force make an object do something? 
Great finding out Year Two! 

KUNG HEI FAT CHOI!

We learned all the Chinese New Year this week. We learned the story of The Great Race and the traditions and customs of this amazing celebration. Here are some of fact sheets to help you! 

Week Ending Friday 20th January 2023

This week in maths we have been investigating shapes and symmetry. We have counted edges on 2D shapes, counted vertices and sorted them into groups. We learned about vertical and horizontal lines of symmetry and investigated which shapes have the. And which shapes have no lines of symmetry. We have used lines of symmetry to complete drawings of shapes.

In English we have been immersing ourselves in The Bog Baby and investigating the descriptive language the author has used. We wrote our own fact files on the Bog Baby. We have done lots of reading and learning about comprehension using our VIPERS. 

In science we investigated forces and friction by running cars down a ramp using different surface coverings. Lots of predicting, observing, measuring and concluding! We are super scientists!  We discovered that plastic causes the least friction.

We are learning about the contemporary artist Maeve Wright in our Art and Design unit and had an explorative go at drawing a townscape using her techniques. Great work Year Two! 

Week Ending Friday 13th January 2023

We have a very busy week this week starting off lots of new units of learning.

In English we have started to study our new text: The Bog Baby by Jean Willis and Owen Millard. 
We started out by thinking about the question: What kind of habitat is bog? We used the beautiful illustrations to help us think what might be there. 

In our maths lessons this week we have been investigating 2D and 3D shapes. We have looked at naming them, counting sides and recognising that shapes can fit into a group without being one of the most common ones. 

More questions in our other subjects this week! 
What is an algorithm? 
We learned that robots and computers have to be given instructions before they do anything and we had a go at being human ‘robots and programmers’. We learned that to be a programmer you have to give VERY CLEAR instructions!

Our next question of the week was in history.

Who was this woman?

What did she do?

We are going to start to find out about houses and homes in this period of history next week. 
 

Happy New Year!
What a great start to the new term and the new year! 
We were very lucky to have a pantomime performance of Aladdin on our first afternoon back! 
The school were in fine pantomime form ..”Oh yes we were!” and Year Two loved every minute.
 

Genesis 2:15

The Lord God took the man and put him in the garden of Eden to work it and keep it.

We took this quote from The Bible as our starting point for our art work this week and decided to link it to our learning in Science around plastics and the environment.

We decided to make a seascape from rubbish materials to remind us of how dangerous our waste can be to marine life if we do not dispose of it properly.

We made paper batik fish and a fabulous sea for them to live in, as well as using packaging paper to draw more fish! We are very pleased with the results so far! 
Reduce.Reuse. Recycle. ♻️ 

For a final challenge we decided to conduct an experiment to answer these two questions:

Can we change the shape of these polystyrene blocks without cutting them?

Can we recycle them to make fish for our seascape?

We have investigated compass points in our yard and used our sketching skills to draw maps of what we could see in each direction.

Week Ending Friday 23rd December 2022

What a lovely end to a very busy term! 
We learned about and made Christingles with Year Four and finished with a lovely candlelit service in the hall and also learned about Hanukkah and the importance of the Menorah.

We finished with breakfast with a VERY special visitor which was arranged by the fabulous Friends of Cronton.

We would also like to thank all the children and parents for our gifts. Your generosity is overwhelming. Thank you so very much. 
Wishing you all a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. 

Weeks Ending Friday 9th December and Friday 16th December 2022

What a great two weeks we have in Year Two!

We performed our Nativity play to our families, once in school and once in church and we were FANTASTIC! Such confident acting and delivery of loads of lines to tell the Good News and the most important story! Mary, Joseph, angels, shepherds, sheep, wise men, inn keepers and the Star - you were all amazing and we are very proud of you! The Year One choir were also brilliant! Definitely ready for Christmas now! 

We had a great time at our Christmas party, pass the parcel, musical statues, musical bumps and lots of dancing. 

We got to make our sandwiches using the delicious ingredients we had selected and had a great time using our spreading and cutting skills and of course eating our finished products! YUM! 

We have learned about human and physical features in our geography lessons as well as continents and oceans. We learned what a continent is and their names and also the names of the five oceans. Can you remember them children and tell your parents about our continents and oceans? 
In R.E. We have learning about Good News. We discussed what good news was and times they have had good news in their families. We then learned about Good News in The Bible and what it was and how it was delivered before thinking about how the people in The Nativity story felt when they were told the Good News. 

In our maths we have learning to exchange tens for ones and ones for tens when we are adding or subtracting using two 2 digit numbers. It has been a bit tricky but we are getting the hang of it now!

As part of reading of The Night Gardener in our English we have independently written detailed setting descriptions and a diary entry where we ALL had to be Williams! (The main character from the story.)  

Week Ending Friday 2nd December 2022

A very busy week this week. Lots of very good independent work in our assessments and plenty of Nativity practices! We also managed to squeeze in some geography work where we learned about compass points and looked at different scale maps and had fun learning some new Spanish phrases! In PSHE we looked at stereotyping and how everyone likes different things and it doesn’t matter what you like or if you are a boy or a girl. Everyone has worked really hard this week and we are very proud of you all! 

Week Ending Friday 25th November 2022

We started our week by celebrating the start of The World Cup and watching the England match. We have chosen Mexico as our country to learn about and follow as well and we completed some lovely fact sheets all about the country. We were really pleased to find out that they speak Spanish in Mexico and that we could use some of our new Spanish learning if we ever visited!

In our English we have been reading our new text - The Night Gardener by the Fan Brothers. We looked at the cover and predicted the title and used one of the illustrations to help us use noun phrases (adjective + noun) e.g. the wooden houses, in our sentences. We also learned about prepositions (words that tell us where a noun is) and used these in some more sentences.

In our maths we have been learning to subtract one digit numbers from a two digit number. We have been learning to use number lines, base ten and 100 squares to help us work out the answers and learning how to make it easier by getting to the nearest ten first. We also started to learn about ten more and ten less than a given other and how the tens number changes but the ones number stays the same.

Week Ending Friday 18th November 2022

Anti Bullying Week this week! We started the week with Odd Sock Day to celebrate all our differences and reading Odd Dog Out by Rob Biddolph which proves that being different is a great way to be! 
On Thursday there was a new teacher in town! After reading Murray the Smallest Owl we were delighted to welcome Murray himself and his friend Axel into class. Murray was very interested in all our learning and the children had a great time learning all about burrowing owls and learning some falconry skills! We made some fabulous anti bullying posters after his visit. Thank you to the charity Hack Back, who work with birds of prey as therapy animals to support children and adults who are facing various difficulties.

In maths this week we have been looking further at subtraction and learning some strategies that are more efficient for us to use. Those number bonds certainly are needed! 

We have been busy practicing our spreading and cutting skills in DT using the bridge method. We are nearly ready to decide what ingredients we will use in our healthy sandwiches now that we have conducted all this research! I am sure they will all be delicious! 

Week Ending Friday 11th November 2022

This week in our maths we have been learning about adding three numbers and looking for a ten we can make to simplify the equation. We also used lots of concrete resources and  number lines to help us add to the next ten to help us with other calculations.

We have had another visit from the Road Safety Team and had lots of fun using the interactive resources to identify dangers on the road and finding the safest place to cross.

We continued our science theme of plastics and recycling by reading a fabulous book called “A Planet Full of Plastic” by Neal Layton, where we learned all about how plastic is made and what happens when we both throw it away responsibly and when we do not. This book shocked us a little bit and made us a little bit sad. We also read The Wide Wide Sea by Anna Wilson which looks at the rubbish that is left on the beaches and gets into the sea. We will be thinking very hard and in a little more depth about what we can do to help in the next lesson.

We had another great tasting session as we tried out possible fillings for our healthy sandwiches. Yum! 

We learned about one of our Christian Values - Truthfulness this week and read a story called The Boy Who Cried Wolf. We wrote about how important it is to always be truthful.

Finally, on Friday we learned about Remembrance Day and why it is important. We looked at the poppies on the front and at the wreath that was taken up to the memorial on Sunday. We held a two minute silence in class at eleven o’clock and thought about all those affected by war across the world and across different times.

Week Ending Friday 4th November 2022

What a busy week we have had in Year Two!

In our maths we have been working very hard on our addition and learning how to add two numbers using our number bonds to help us by making ten first and then adding on the rest. This has been very tricky but we kept going and tried our hardest and now we are beginning to see how this helps us solve addition problems in the most efficient way.

We have had some visitors in this week as well. On Monday P.C. Hazel came in to talk to the whole school

about how we can help our careers park their cars sensibly when they drop us off  or pick us up from school. We learned that we should park our cars across anyones drive way or park so that it makes it dangerous for us when we are walking or trying to cross a road.

On Wednesday we had another visitor from the Road Safety Team. they talked to us about crossing roads safely and making sure we were always careful near a road.

We have had lots of fun in P.E. practicing our balances, rolls and jumps before making up our own sequences of movement using those elements. We were brilliant!

In D.T. we tested out and tasted lots of different breads as part of our research for making our own sandwiches! We REALLY enjoyed that! 
We learned about Florence Nightingale in our history lesson and learned how and why she is considered the person who started the proper nursing profession and why she is called The Lady of the Lamp.

Week Ending Friday 21st October 2022

This week has been filled with lots of addition and subtraction as we explored number fact families in our maths.
Here is an example:

11 + 6 = 17

6 + 11 = 17

17 - 6 = 11

17 - 11 = 6

17 = 11 + 6

17 = 6 + 11

11 = 17 - 6

6 = 17 - 11

Our number bonds are really important to help us with lots of other mathematics so any practice at home is great to support our learning in school. 
We started to write our letters to the little boy in our story so we could help him with his journey by warning him about what he was going to find.

We finished the week by spending a day learning more about the festival of Diwali. We learned about all the preparations and special celebrations people have for The Festival of Light.

Happy half term everyone! 

Week Ending Friday 14th October 2022

What a great week we have had in Year Two! We started on Monday with a workshop making telescopes as part of the Planets in the Pasture project. We learned about telescopes and their inventor.

Ralph, one of our School Councillors, had a very special letter from The Houses of Parliament!  We were all very excited to hear what it said! 
In maths this week we have been exploring number bonds to ten and using related facts.

In English we have been finding out about different sentence types; commands, questions, statements and exclamations.
We found out all about a very special lady called Mary Seacole as part of our Black History learning and what a very determined lady she was.

We finished the week with a dance workshop. 

Week Ending Friday 7th October 2022

Very well done Year Two on leading EYFS and KS1 Harvest Festival Service! You were amazing and worked so hard to learn all your lines! We are very proud of you. As well as being busy learning all those lines we have had a fantastic visit from local farmer Olly Harrison who brought along his tractor, written our own circular stories, produced our finished weaving pieces and had great fun in PE practising our throwing skills! 

Week Ending 30th September 2022

This week we have been very busy in Year Two. We had a great start by learning about Sweden for the European Day of Languages; we learned some geographical facts, facts about the food and culture and of course learned about some of Sweden’s greatest exports - which involved a bit of dancing to ABBA! We also got to have some Swedish foods. On Wednesday we had a live zoom with children and teachers from the Arise school in Tanzania! 
We have been estimating where numbers go on a number line which only have start and end numbers. We talked about using these numbers to work out what steps the number line is counting in and learned how to place the middle number to help us. We compared amounts of objects and numbers and used the symbols < and >. 
We have been analysing what makes a great circular story and found good opening phrases to start our paragraphs and found noun phrases that help us ‘see’ the settings.

We had a special visitor this week as well. Mrs Whitehouse came in to talk to us about why The Bible is so special to her and even brought it in to show us. 
We learned about Sir Christopher Wren and what happened after the Great  Fire 🔥 and how parts of London were rebuilt with special rules about how the houses were to be built. We also explored which materials could be made to change their shape in science and used paper and found materials to weave in art. 

Week Ending Friday 23rd September 2022

This week we have been looking at different number lines in our maths work and making sure we knew what steps the numbers were going in before we put any missing ones on! We learned about Samuel Pepys and how important his diary was in recording the events of The Great Fire of London for future generations. We conducted an enquiry in science - poor Ted needed an umbrella - but which material would be best? We needed to make sure it was a fair test and worked out what we thought we would change and what we needed to keep the same. We practised our weaving skills with paper using the weft and warp (important words!) and the correct under and over technique. Another  great week.

Week Ending Friday 16th September

Another exciting week in Year Two! We have partitioned numbers in different ways - not just into tens and ones and learned about common and proper nouns and adjectives! In history we learned about and considered all the reasons why the Great Fire of London got so big and took so long to go out. We had a go at putting out a ‘fire’ in our bin using the technology from 1666 using the ‘river’ at our classroom door. 
we also held our School Council Elections: hustings and voting! Results to be announced next week. Good luck everyone! 

Year Two were very sad today when we learned that HRH Queen Elizabeth had died. We did some finding out about her life, discussed how we felt and made some lovely hearts to send in the school’s book of condolence. We then joined the rest of the school in a lovely service to remember her. I was very impressed by the children’s response and how kind and caring they are. ❤️

What a great first full week back we have had! We have started lots of new units in lots of different subjects. We have started to learn about The Bible in R.E. and looked at all the different Bibles we had in class.

In Science we started our unit on Materials by investigating lots of different objects and trying to work out which material they were made from.

We have read our class text A River by Marc Martin. We did lots of predicting about this book before we read it, using illustration clues and trying to guess the title by looking at the cover.

In maths we have been doing lots of place value and partitioning.

We also started learning about The Great Fire of London in History- one of my favourite subjects and one of my favourite significant events to teach! We can’t wait for next week.

Welcome to Year 2

This year, it will be Mrs Jones and Mrs Buckley looking after you! We are both very excited to welcome you into Year 2 and cannot wait to have some wonderful times learning new things together.