Year 2
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Please use the link below to see all the wonderful work completed in our KS1 Spanish lessons.
Week Ending Friday 12th July 2024
What a great day we had on Thursday with Mrs Williams, learning all about Matisse and fauvism. We completed line drawings, experimental mark making and completed our own self portraits in the style of the artist. We had SUCH a fabulous time. Well done on all your fabulous art work Year Two!












In maths we have continued our learning about statistics by learning about block diagrams and pictograms.
We learned how to change data collected using tally charts into these different ways of representing what we had found out.






In English we started our stories about the inventors and their inventions. We had some great ideas: flying carpets, invisibility pants, incredibly fast growing plants; the ideas were amazing. I can't wait to read your finished stories!
In our DT we completed our unit by adding a line of running stitch to frame our art work. The children have amazed us with how quickly and independently they picked this up! Great work Year Two!









Week Ending Friday 5th July 2024
What a fabulous time we had with Year Five at Liverpool Cathedral for The Big Sing Concert. Thank you to everyone who came to support us! We hope you enjoyed listening as much as we did singing!



The Big Sing

In maths this week we have been looking at different ways of representing data and finding information. We have looked at tally charts and tables so far. Next week we will be looking at pictograms and block charts.






In English this week we have been looking at an example of an invention story and investigating what elements of writing make a good one. We can't wait to write our own invention stories!



In DT we have learned and practiced sewing running stitch. We were all very good at it!
In Computing we used the i-pads to decide if pictures would be better in landscape or portrait and investigated some of the editing features we could use. We investigated what each element of a healthy plate does for our brains and bodies in our science lesson.
What another great week we have had in Year Two!






Week Ending Friday 28th June 2024
This week in our maths we have continued learning about time by looking at telling the time to and from the hour to the five minutes. We worked out it was a bit like our 5 times tables! We found telling the time to the hour a bit trickier as you have to count backwards from 12 in fives! We have also been practising our times tables.






In our English, we have started our final text for the year. We began by making some predictions about the character and the story. Who is Rosie? What is she doing? Can you child tell you their predictions and tell you about the story so far? What do they think is going to happen next?



In our DT we made our own versions of Australian Aboriginal Dot Art. We used colours similar the ochre colours and pigments and I think you will agree - we did an amazing job! They are all ready for us to add some further detail later on using needles and thread. We just need to have a bit of practice first!




Well done to everyone for competing so well on our Sport's Day! We had such a great time! Everyone worked hard to get as many points for their teams. Thank you to all our mums, dads, nans, grandads, uncles, aunties and everyone who came along to cheer us on!




Happy Father’s Day to all our dads, stepdads, grandads, uncles and all the important men in our lives! We had a fabulous time with you at our coffee morning! 😀❤️



Weeks Ending 14th and 21st June 2024
Welcome back for our final half term of the year! Over the last two weeks in our maths we have finished off our unit on measuring by looking a temperature and moved onto time. We started with revising o'clock and half past times before moving onto quarter past and quarter to the hour. We will be moving onto five minute intervals next week.







In English we have planned and written our own stories where a king or queen banned something that should definitely not be banned. Some of the children even had their king or queen ban school! What a crazy idea!
It's a good job their characters changed their minds at the end of the story!


We have finished off our collages and evaluated them in art and design. They all looked amazing! Well done Year Two!








In geography we have started our unit learning about Australia by comparing it to the UK and by trying to learn the different territories of the continent. We learned some good facts about each country. We have also revised human and physical features and found land marks in each territory. We were able to sort them into the two categories. Can your child tell you about some of the similarities and differences we found between the two countries? can they tell you if each landmark is human or physical?
In PE we have started learning about cricket, what a wicket is and how you score a run. It's going to take us a little bit of practice I think - although one or two of us were smashing the ball a good distance!






We had a visit this week from the nurses to help us learn all about cleaning our teeth properly and eating healthily! We had a lot of fun and learned a lot. Thank you nurses!




A Sneaky Preview of our Big Sing

Week Ending Friday 24th May 2024
This week we have continued with our measuring work - working with centimetres and then solving measurement problems and comparing and ordering lengths. We then moved onto investigating and learning about mass.






In our English this week we have been analysing the story about the Queen who banned silence and investigating What a Good One Looks Like ( WAGOLL). We are getting ready to plan and write our own banning stories when we come back after the holiday.


In history we finished our learning on the Tudors by completing a quiz and seeing how many facts we could remember about King Henry VIII and Queen Elizabeth I.
How many facts can your child tell you about them?
In art we started to make our final pieces of collage using our plans to help us. I can't wait to see the finished pieces!
We have planted some seeds in our science and are wondering what will have happened to them when we return!
Another great half term Year Two! Have a lovely holiday everyone.




Week Ending Friday 17th May 2024
This week in our maths we have started learning about measuring length and height. We have measured things in centimetres and metres and compared different lengths and heights. We had a lot of fun. We learned some facts about the measures we use. Can your child tell you which is larger? Centimetres or metres? How many centimetres are in 1 metre? Can you find and measure some things at home? Which would be best to measure a book? Which would be best to measure across a room?




In English we have been revising how to use conjunctions in our sentences. Then we read another story where something is banned! This week a queen banned silence across her lands. The children thought at first that this would be brilliant because they could talk and chat to their friends all the time but then they started to think about how tired they would get. Just like the people in the story. Can your child tell you how the people got the rule reversed?


In art this week, we planned and designed our flower collages that will be our finished pieces for the unit.
In computing we used our maps for the beebots to 'debug' our instructions to navigate our way around. Our history learning this week was all about Henry VIII and the start of the church of England. We learned that you had to be very careful to follow the same religion as the king or there were horrible things that could happen to you! We also learned that we are still following the church that he started and it is in our school name!
Another great week in Year Two!






Week Ending Friday 10th May 2024
This week we have been very busy doing lots of reading comprehension and maths calculations and reasoning.
In science this week we investigated how plants grow from bulbs and compared the stages to plants that grow from seeds. Can your child explain the cycle to you?



In English we wrote a persuasive letter to the king from our story to try to convince him to stop the ban on the dark! I wonder if we will convince him?
In PE we continued with our tennis learning - this week we worked in pairs to play doubles 'Winner stays on'. We learned that you can position yourself with a partner to help you cover more of the court.
In computing we used the beebots on our own designed maps, using position and direction commands to get to different places on the grid. We had added obstacles to the grids to make it even more challenging!






Week Ending Friday 3rd May 2024
This week in our maths we have been learning about unit and non unit fractions. We have also been looking at the equivalence of 1/2 and 2/4. We also put fractions in order of size: 1/2, 1/4 and 1/3. We found this hard because the largest denominator did not mean the largest fraction. See if you can practice this at home next time you have a cake to cut!






This week in our English we have been thinking about the ban on the dark made by the king in our story and have been planning a persuasive letter to try to convince him to change his mind. We came up with several reasons why a ban on the dark might not be such a good idea. Can your child talk to you about them?
We worked inside for our PE this week and had a lot of fun competing in different races to help us practice for sport's day. Some were easier events than others! We learned about relay races and how to pass the baton most effectively. In computing we have designed our own grids for the beebots to move around on next week.
In art we learned about shading and colour when we added colour to our still life drawings from last week.
Have a lovely bank holiday weekend everyone and let's hope the weather is kind!






A massive thank you to the Friends of Cronton PTFA for our fabulous disco! There were some great moves on show and we loved our hotdog snacks and ice pops!



Week Ending Friday 26th April 2024
This week in our maths we have been continuing our learning about fractions by finding thirds and finding the whole when we are given a fraction of an amount. Can your child tell you how to find a third? can they tell you how to find the whole from a fraction?






In our English we have been re-reading our great vehicle text: The King Who Banned the Dark. We have been sequencing the events of story and writing our own summaries. Can your child put these events in the right order and tell you a summary of the story?







In Art this week we tried our hands at drawing from real life by sketching daffodils and using colour. We looked at ways of adding depth by shading and texture and will be using what we have learned in our next lesson.
In PE we carried on with our tennis lessons and had a go at a game of stay in. We had to serve and return the ball when it was our turn on. The rest of our team had to try and defeat the server by returning the ball so they couldn't hit it. We had to stay in the court lines - which was harder than it looked!
In computing we carried on our learning about programming robots by using more complicated instructions.










Week Ending 22nd April 2024
This week in maths we have been continuing our learning on fractions by learning about quarters and thirds.
Can your child tell you what they are? How many EQUAL parts do you need to make quarters? How many for thirds? How many quarters make the same as a half? You could have a go at this next time you are making sandwiches or cutting dinner up!




In our English we have been predicting what our new story will be about. Can you discuss your child's predictions with them? I wonder what will happen in the story? Read the blurb from the back. I wonder what the title of the book could be?


We had an AMAZING adventure this week going on the Jerusalem Journey to learn about all the events that make up the Easter Story. We had a map to follow and met many interesting people along the way: one of the disciples told us about The Last Supper, we went to the Garden of Gethsemane, attended the trial of Jesus and met Pontius Pilate and visited the crucifixion and the tomb where Jesus rose from the dead! Thank you to Mrs Whitehouse and friends for helping us learn about the importance of Easter in such a spectacular way!








We had fun in computing programming the beebots to get to a specific destination on a map and had a fabulous music lesson with Liverpool Cathedral teachers! In PE, we further developed our tennis skills hitting the balls over the nets to our partners! What a great week!






Week Ending Friday 12th April 2024
Welcome back everyone to the start of our summer term. This week in maths we have been looking at fractions - starting with halves. We have been identifying halves and finding halves of shapes and amounts.



In English this week we have been writing our non-chronological reports on an animal of our choice from Grandad's Island. We have found out lots of interesting facts and information about them and considered how to best present our findings.



In geography we have continued our learning on hot and cold places by looking at the UK and the climate and weather we have. We learned that even though the UK is quite a small country, there are still small climate differences in different parts of the country. Can you match the weather and climate to the different parts of the UK?
In computing we started our learning on algorithms by trying to give instructions to our 'robot' friends. It turns out that giving very specific instructions to a robot to move around is quite difficult! We also tried to make a drawing based on instructions without having a picture to reference! We ended up with quite a few different variations!
In science we have learned about habitats and micro habitats. Can your child tell you which ones these pictures are? Are they habitats or micro habitats? what might live in a micro habitat?








Week Ending Friday 29th March 2024
What a fabulous end to the half term! Just look at our amazing Easter bonnets! A great Easter Egg hunt as well! Year Two, you have worked so hard this term and I am very proud of you all. Have a very Happy Easter and I told the Easter Bunny that you all deserve lots of eggs and he delivered!








Week Ending Friday 22nd March 2024
What a great week we have had in Year Two this week! We spent a day with B Tales writing an assembly all about the true meaning of Easter which we performed for our parents in the afternoon. We had such a lot of fun and learned an important message as well.





We had a great Times Table Rock Star day on Friday. We spent the day practising our times tables ready for going on TTRS in the afternoon. Check out our rocking and rolling while we work out the answers to mixed two, five and ten times table questions!
The Two Times Table Song

Rocking’ and Rollin’ While We Are Workin’ 😀

We had a great time in geography using the atlases to find The Equator, the North Pole, the South Pole and the Northern Hemisphere and the Southern Hemisphere. We then found countries above, on and below The Equator.



In DT we made and tested our final roly polys before evaluating them. They looked amazing and worked brilliantly!




Week Ending Friday 15th March 2024
Science Week!
What an amazing week we have had in Year Two learning lots more about Science. We started off with practical workshops with a science teacher from OCA, one of our local high schools.
There were experiments around making circuits and testing different materials to see if they were conductors or insulators, microscopes to examine different cell samples, quadrat surveys, colour exploration and fingerprinting: were we whorls, loops or arches? We had an amazing time.








Next up was a workshop where we learned all about carbon monoxide and keeping safe in our houses with Safety Seymour and his friends. We wrote and performed a drama all about what we had learned. We all got a little Safety Seymour to make at home and a carbon monoxide alarm for our houses.




We had a great Mad Science assembly where we got to see lots of amazing science in action!



We undertook a STEM activity to build an elastic band powered car in groups. We had to use lots of perseverance and testing to get these going as the construction was tricky!




Finally we learned a little bit more about animals and their habitats with our friends from Hackback CIC. Anita brought in Murray and Mango to help! They are both owls but live in very different habitats and have very different skills. One of them is a very good runner. Can you guess which one? Look at their legs to help you figure it out!




Happy St. Patrick’s Day to Green Team!
Week Ending Friday 8th March
Happy Mother’s Day to all our fabulous mums, stepmums, nans and aunties! We hope you have a fabulous day! We certainly had a lovely time making your cards and spending time with you at our coffee morning!









We have had a fabulous Book Week this week. Drop Everything and Read, Mystery Readers popping in to tell us a story and of course World Book Day where we read the story of The Rainbow Bird, an aboriginal traditional tale and learned some facts about Australia.




In maths, we have been looking at the 2 times table and how the times tables relate to each other e.g. 2 X 4 is the same as 4 X 2. We have been practising our 2 times table with our 2 Times Table ( google Justin Timberlake) song and doing lots of speed games on the board.
In PE we have been working with a partner to throw and catch a ball and aiming to bounce the ball so it reaches our partner! 🎾🎾 In DT we have been busy drawing our final designs for our roly polys. In science we looked at different types of animals and their different characteristics and body parts.
WHAT a week we have had! Science week next week and we CAN’T WAIT!




Week Ending Friday 1st March 2024
Happy St. David's Day! Yellow team came in their team colours to celebrate!
In maths we have continued with our block on multiplication and division by looking at grouping and making groups. We have learned how these relate to multiplication and used arrays to help us understand that there are two multiplication sentences we can make for each array. We then looked at the division sign and how division is the opposite of multiplication and how they work together in families.

