Year 2: Blog items
Date: 11th Feb 2025 @ 4:43pm
Today, Year Two celebrated safer internet day. After an assembly, where we learnt about what a scam is we put our knowledge to the test in class. We discussed the ways we use the internet and who is actually in charge of putting things on the internet. When we realised anyone can put anything on the internet we found it a lot less trustworthy. We focused on what information we should never share online and what to do if something make us feel uncomfortable online. Lastly, we thought about who our trusted adults are and the signs to look out for.
Date: 10th Feb 2025 @ 3:58pm
To celebrate the 100th day at school, we listened to the story, ‘How many jelly beans’ in assembly.
In class we used jelly beans to represent a number in 4 different ways, each coloured jelly bean represented a different value. We had a great time making our number in lots of different ways represented by jelly beans.
Date: 7th Feb 2025 @ 4:28pm
This week is RSE week. Our theme for RSE in Year 2 is differences. We started the journey by looking looking at differences between us and the people around us. We then looked at stereotypes and thought about whether gender really matters when it comes down to our likes and dislikes. We then moved on to looking at differences when it comes to male and female body parts. We learnt the scientific names for body parts and dicussed why it is important to know these. Finally, we look at the differences between male and female animals and how baby animals are fed.
Date: 6th Feb 2025 @ 3:40pm
This half term, Year Two have completed the Yoga unit 'I am super'. We have thought about how our body feels during certain movements and how to feel strong and powerful. We concentrated on improving our balance during the different poses and being as still as possible whilst breathing steadily.
Year 1 and Year 2 Colouring Club
Date: 6th Feb 2025 @ 3:39pm
This half term, some children from Year 1 and Year 2 have enjoyed coming to colouring club. We have completed lots of different colouring tasks, including mindfulness colouring and colouring to music.
Date: 31st Jan 2025 @ 4:06pm
We have been learning about Hindu Dharma this half term in Year 2, and today Birch Class had the absolute pleasure of welcoming a member of our class who shared her religious traditions as a Hindu. She brought in some beautiful Murtis from her home shrine to help explain who she worships at home. It was so fascinating to hear about her beliefs and the significance of the Murtis in her family’s practices. The children had a fantastic morning filled with cultural exchange!
Date: 28th Jan 2025 @ 4:17pm
Today, we used our knowledge of simple circuits to predict whether a light bulb will light thinking about what was included in the circuit and the role they had.
Date: 28th Jan 2025 @ 8:15am
This week we went up to the library, we read a story as a class before we all chose a book to bring back to class and enjoy.
Date: 23rd Jan 2025 @ 2:43pm
Today we were lucky enough to start the day off with a fantastic performance from Travelling by Tuba. They took us on a journey around the world, showing us instruments from around the world and explaining the history of instruments and how theyhave developed into what we have today.
We then attended a workshop with Travelling by Tuba where we were all given an instrument to learn how to play. We all learnt our set rhythm and came together as an ensemble to perform our piece. We had a fantastic day linking Music, History and Geography!
Dan Worsley's Storytelling Assembly
Date: 21st Jan 2025 @ 8:03pm
Today the children in EYFS and Key Stage one participated in a special storytelling assembly led by one of our school's favourite author's Dan Worsley. During the assembly, Dan put on the superpowered storytelling waistcoat and used a variety of props to perform one of his weird and wacky ‘Impossible Tales’. The children were engrossed while Dan took them on an adventure meeting the 'Boss Pirate' and enjoyed thoroughly enjoyed participating at different of the story . All the children listened carefully and were an absolute credit to Boundary.
Year 2- A visit from Dan Worsley
Date: 21st Jan 2025 @ 4:17pm
Today, after a story telling assembly, we were joined in class by author Dan Worsley who worked with us with our descriptive writing. We came up with our own penguin character, taking inspiration from 'And Tango Makes Three' and used adjectives and similes to describe it. Some of us even got to put on Dan's special story telling jacket and share our ideas with the class.
Date: 16th Jan 2025 @ 9:01am
Today, we used lots of different things we would find in nature such as leaves, flowers and rocks to create our own patterns. We thought carefully about lines we wanted to create and different shapes we could make by pulling things apart and changing them.
Date: 13th Jan 2025 @ 3:55pm
Today, we continued our Maths unit of shape by using our knowledge of the sides and vertices on 2D shapes to draw them accurately. We used the geoboards to help us make the shapes as regular as we could before drawing them in our books.
Year 2- Where in the world am I?
Date: 9th Jan 2025 @ 9:20am
This week, we began our new Geography unit 'Continents and Oceans'. We started by recapping our learning from Year 1 focusing on the United Kingdom before looking at Google Earth at where we are in the world. We started really small with us at school and kept zooming out to explore: which town we live in, the closest city to us, the county we live in, the country we live in, the continent we are in and finally which hemisphere of the globe. We loved looking at Google Earth and learning about our place in the world.
Date: 9th Jan 2025 @ 9:11am
Today we started our new Art journey by looking at Alice Fox and thinking about how she uses nature to influence her work. We then created a page dedicated to Alice Fox in our sketchbooks. We were inspred by her work, information about her, nature and colours that she would use.
Date: 17th Dec 2024 @ 4:14pm
Today, we celebrated our Christmas party. We came in our fancy party clothes, enjoyed a drink of juice in the classroom, did lots of dancing, played some party games such as pin the nose on Rudolph and pass the parcel and EVEN got a very special visit from Father Christmas himself! We had a great time celebrating together and wish everyone a fantastic Christmas!
Date: 17th Dec 2024 @ 4:12pm
Today, we have created art based around Nativity. The children used watercolours to create a stained glass window effect. After, we reflected on the Nativity story and the true meaning behind Christmas for Christians.
Date: 17th Dec 2024 @ 1:02pm
This half term we have been looking at architecture. We began our Art journey by exploring what architecture is and we looked at the work of Hunderwasser. We learnt that he liked bright, colourful buildings and would often use topsy turvy designs. We then designedour own buildings and chose a colour palette for our building. Over the last couple of days, we have been building, painting and decorating our houses ready to evaluate.
Year 2- Christmas Jumpers, Elf Run and festive lunch
Date: 9th Dec 2024 @ 9:48pm
Today, Year Two celebrated all things Christmas. We wore our Christmas jumpers for our annual Christmas lunch and completed the Elf Run to raise some money for charity. We enjoyed the festive activities and loved our delicious lunch!
Year 2- Writing a Christmas Story
Date: 5th Dec 2024 @ 11:02am
Year Two are beginning to write a christmas story based on the John Lewis advert Excitable Edgar. So far, we have immersed ourselves in different stories that have been told through a variety of Christmas adverts including the Christmas truce, Monty the penguin and the man on the moon. Throughout, we have discussed the problem and solutions for a story, main characters and the different settings. We noticed, good stories have lots of descriptive language so through our GPS sessions we have explored using adjectives to describe characters and settings as well as adverbs to describe actions. We are looking forward to planning and drafting our final stories.
Date: 5th Dec 2024 @ 10:54am
This half term, Year Two have been exploring Opera and used it to retell the story of Hansel and Gretel. Throguhout the unit, we have listened and appraised a variety of different songs before learning them and practicing singing together in unison. Also, we explored body percussion and used it to add into pauses and instrumental sections of songs in time to the beat.
Date: 27th Nov 2024 @ 3:47pm
Today, we celebrated no pen morning by completing activities without picking up any writing devices. In Reading into Writing, we began our Christmas story unit by immersing ourselves in a variety of christmas adverts that tell a story. We enjoyed watching the adverts before discussing who the main characters were, what the problem and solution were in the story as well as generating adjectives to describe characters and settings. In Maths, we explored adding two 2-digit numbers using base 10 and place value counters to help us; we learnt we need to add the ones first to help us in the future when it crosses a ten.
Date: 25th Nov 2024 @ 9:11pm
Last week, we had a visit from the Fire Service who came and talked to us about all the ways they help in the community. They taught us what to do if we accidentally caught on fire and what to do if there was a fire in the house including how to get out safely. We were tasked with testing our smoke alarms and checking they all work to help keep us safe. We really enjoyed learning about how to keep safe.
Date: 25th Nov 2024 @ 9:07pm
Today, we were joined by some parents for our Maths lesson. We completed a problem solving activity using our knowledge of number bonds to 10 to form a big triangle. We were then challenged to create our own puzzle using number bonds to 20 for a friend to complete. Thank you to the parents who joined us, it was lovely showcasing our learning with you.
Date: 20th Nov 2024 @ 4:49pm
