Year 2: Blog items
Date: 26th Jun 2025 @ 3:42pm
This week we've had health week. Today, we enjoyed a scooter workshop focusing on balance and even managed to do some scooter skills. This afternoon, we looked at the life of a famous lioness, Lauren Hemp looking at what she has achieved so far in her career and how she got there.
Date: 25th Jun 2025 @ 3:58pm
This half term, our computing focus is data and information. Today, we explored ways to collect information and presenting data. We created a human pictogram to show our favourite fruits before completing a mini beast hunt to collect data about things found. Once we created a tally chart to represent our data we created a pictogram online.
Year 2- Gets taken over by Year 5
Date: 20th Jun 2025 @ 3:06pm
Yesterday, year two were taken over by year five. Miss Hester-Hopwood and Mr Cooke were in our class teaching us all about homophones and number bonds. We did a matching activity to match the correct spelling to the picture before doing Maths recapping our number bonds to 20. We loved the Year 5 children teaching us!
Date: 20th Jun 2025 @ 3:03pm
This week, we were visited by the school nursing team who talked to us all about keeping ourself healthy focusing on hygiene. They talked to us about what germs were and we did an experiment to show how easily they are spread every time we touch something. Finally, we practiced washing our hands correctly to remove those germs and keep healthy.
Date: 10th Jun 2025 @ 3:41pm
Today we looked at what plants need to grow to be strong and healthy. Once we had learnt how to care for plants and identified plants that were healthy or unhealthy we planted a sunflower seed to take home and practice our new learning. We look forward to seeing how your sunflowers grow!
Date: 10th Jun 2025 @ 3:38pm
This week our Skills for life theme is innovation. Today, in PSHE we used our creativity to design our own educational board game. We chose a topic and made dice, question cards and designed it how we wanted. We also thought about all the subjects where we have to be innovative to help us in all areas of the curriculum.
Date: 22nd May 2025 @ 2:08pm
Today we completed our DT food unit and used our knowledge of fruits and where they come from to make our fruit smoothies. This morning, we carefully cut our fruits before we blended them to make a smoothie and evaluated their taste, texture and appearance.
Date: 15th May 2025 @ 9:15am
In music, Year 2 listen and appraised the music from ET- The flying theme. We also watched the clip from the film to see how the music had an effect on the scene. We thought about the instruments, dynamtics, pitch, tempo and we shared our thoughts and feelings on the piece. We then had a final practise of the song 'I wanna play in a band' and performed the peice with actions.
Date: 15th May 2025 @ 9:12am
In computing year 2 have been looking at creating their own mats for their beebots to navigate. Once we had designed our mats, we then created algorithms for our beebots to reach destinations. We then added obstacles to make our algorithms harder to nativigate.
Date: 15th May 2025 @ 8:05am
What an exciting afternoon we had in Year 2! Rev Thompson came to visit, and he was absolutely brilliant at introducing our young learners to the fascinating symbols of Christianity. He shared the meaning behind each symbol with such enthusiasm that the children were captivated from the very start.
One highlight was when he explained the Holy Trinity—what a thoughtful concept for the little ones to grasp! The difference between a cross and a crucifix was another important lesson; the kids were intrigued to learn how these symbols each tell a part of the Christian story.
Rev Thompson also wore his dog collar, which sparked a lot of curious questions. He told the children how this symbol represents his role and commitment as a priest, which they found really inspiring. All in all, it was a lovely afternoon filled with learning, and our Year 2s now have a better understanding of Christianity. Thank you, Rev Thompson!
Date: 15th May 2025 @ 7:48am
This half term, Year Two have been doing Gymnastics. We have explored how to create a range of shapes including: pike, tuck, straddle and star as well as practicing our rolling techniques to accurately complete a teddy bear roll, egg roll and log roll. We have used these skills to try and create a short sequence and performed them to our peers.
Date: 9th May 2025 @ 1:04pm
Our Keystage One pupil have enjoyed working together, developing their communication and teamwork skills while building a boose out of loose parts. This developed into a role play activity which everyone enjoyed being part of. Super work !
VE Day - 80th Anniversary Celebrations
Date: 8th May 2025 @ 5:28pm
Date: 8th May 2025 @ 7:40am
This half term, Year Two are exploring programming using the beebots. We started the unit by pretending to be robots and giving instructions focusing on giving clear and concise instructions so they are easy to follow. This has lead us nicely into programming floor robots with different algorithms and making predictions of where we think it will finish it's program before testing it.
Date: 8th May 2025 @ 7:38am
This week, Year Two have been learning how to measure lengths and heights. Yesterday, we looked at why we wouldn't measure everything in centimetres because it would take too long and be hard work to do it so we can measure things in metres. We used metre rulers to measure a variety of different things around our classroom and rounded it to the nearest whole metre.
Date: 1st May 2025 @ 9:20am
Throughout the half term, we are going to design and create our own healthy fruit smoothie. Today, we tried a variety of fruit smoothies that already exist as well as trying a variety of different fruits to find out which ones we liked or disliked. This will help us when designing our own smoothie as we have evaluated their taste, texture and appearance and thought about how this might change when blended. We are looking forward to creating our smoothies in the next few weeks!
Year 2- Immersed in twisted fairytales
Date: 1st May 2025 @ 9:18am
This half term, we are exploring the genre of Twisted fairytales. Over the last few days, we have enjoyed reading a variety of fairytales with a twist on the original. We have been identifying how they are twisted from the original as well as some of the key features including characters, settings, adjectives and adverbs to inspire us for our own twist on a classic fairytale.
Date: 24th Apr 2025 @ 9:00am
Year Two completed their dance unit to the song 'I just can't wait to be king.' We explored how to show emotions through our dances and expressions. We loved dancing to the song and working together to try and piece a dance together.
Date: 22nd Apr 2025 @ 4:28pm
Today, we participated in Art Day based upon the book 'The Dot' inspiring that anyone can be an artist by starting with a mark. First, we explored making a portrait focusing on practicing how to draw our key features and drew them on an orange dot as this was our colour of focus. Finally, this afternoon we explored creating patterns using three colours: red, orange and yellow.
Year 2- Making moving vehicles
Date: 10th Apr 2025 @ 9:20am
This half term we have been making our own moving vehicles. We decided what we would use to create our wheels and axles and designed our boxes to create the shape we wanted for our car. Then, we used our marking out skills to cut out windows and added designs once they had been painted. We loved our cars and were excited to take them home to use.
Date: 10th Apr 2025 @ 9:14am
This week, Year 2 participated in no pen morning. In reading into writing, we continued looking at non-chronological reports by sorting facts into the correct subheading which will help us when writing our own this week. In maths, we exploring recognising a quarter, we sorted shapes and amounts into whether they were quarters or not.
Date: 3rd Apr 2025 @ 9:09am
On Wednesday a range of children across school performed in our music concert. We had choir, peripatetic drummers, samba, Shakespeare, peripatetic guitars and School Alive. All the children were wonderful, and should be very proud of their hard work!
Date: 31st Mar 2025 @ 4:04pm
Date: 28th Mar 2025 @ 10:30am
Today we held our second Spelling Bee of the school year. 4 children were chosen from each group to represent their house and were given 3 spellings each. They have been learning these words over the last few weeks and we could all tell. The children did brilliantly and did themselves (and their house) proud. We are already looking forward to the final Spelling Bee in the Summer term.
Date: 25th Mar 2025 @ 3:32pm
Today we enjoyed our final Forest school session of the year. We explored the areas, built some dens, looked at the frog spawn and continued emptying the pond. Finally, we used the firefighters to create some sparks so we could toast marshmallows and make smores.
