Year 2: Blog items
Date: 11th Sep 2025 @ 4:26pm
In Year Two, we have begun our Mastering Number. We have been focusing on the composition of number and which two numbers make the whole. We used the stem sentence ‘ ____ and ____ makes _____’.
Year 2- Investigating materials !
Date: 11th Sep 2025 @ 4:21pm
In Year Two, we have looked at investigating different materials. We looked at seeing what different qualities they have and through about which materials are absorbent. As a class we post-it note planning to see what we would keep the same, what we would change and how we would keep it a far test. Then the children conducted this experiment and saw how high the water had absorbed in the material, we then recorded this in a results table.
Date: 11th Sep 2025 @ 4:12pm
In Year Two, we have started looking at one of our Skills For Life ‘Respect’. We focused on what respect was and how to show it. We then looked at how manners and compliments link to respect, and thought about how to give compliments. We then filled a cup of compliments, thinking about which different attributes we could compliment people on.
Date: 11th Sep 2025 @ 3:58pm
In Year Two, we have started our Design Technology journey by looking at existing products. We looked at shadow, marionette, finger and hand puppets and thought about the purpose, user, material and how it was joined together. We will then use this when we go on to plan and design our own puppets.
Date: 10th Sep 2025 @ 10:18am
Today, we started off the lesson by recapping our previous learning about God and to recap
key vocabulary from year 1. We then went on to look at a variety of photographs of the world
with good and bad aspects. We shared our ideas thinking about the impact it shows on the
world and how the photographs make me feel. We then went on to work in mixed ability
groups to answer questions about our world. Finally, we discussed why the world should
matter to us all.
Year 2- Listening and Appraising!
Date: 8th Sep 2025 @ 4:56pm
In Year Two, we have begun our new music journey with listening and appraising. The children thought about what skills they needed to be successful in this topic and then we went on to listen to the song ‘Music in my soul’. We thought about what we liked and disliked about the song, linking our thoughts to the elements of music. We then focused on the tempo, articulation, beat and dynamics of the song and made notes in our partners, linking to this song.
Year 2- Fantastic photography!
Date: 8th Sep 2025 @ 4:52pm
In Year Two, we have started our topic of Digital Photography. We have begun by looking at why we make take a picture and when it is appropriate. We also thought about what can and cannot take pictures. The children then had a go at becoming photographers and thought about how best to hold the camera so that they could take in focus pictures of their subject. We then moved on to consider the difference between landscape and portrait and which would make our subject look the best.
Date: 4th Sep 2025 @ 9:10am
In Science, Year Two are looking at the use of everyday materials. In our first session we were focussing on the question ‘How can materials be changed?’. The children looked at a range of materials to see if we could bend, stretch, pull, bend, snap and twist them and recorded our results in a table. We then explored a challenge question thinking about if every solid is hard.
Date: 4th Sep 2025 @ 9:07am
Welcome back! We hope you had a wonderful summer!
Here is some information which was shared during the Meet The Teacher session this week.
- Overview for the year (attached)
- PE days- Monday and Tuesday. Please keep your PE kits in school all week.
- Homework - set online every Friday to be completed by the following Friday (Spag.com, Mathshed)
- Spelling - set online every Friday. Tested the following Friday (Spelling Shed)
- Reading books will start to go out next week. Please aim to read at least 3 times a week.
- We can be contacted using the class email address- birchteacher@boundary.blackpool.sch.uk and elmteacher@boundary.blackpool.sch.uk
Date: 16th Jul 2025 @ 3:06pm
This half term, in reading into writing we have explored persuasive adverts and in Geography we have looked at hot and cold places. To link the two topics together, we wrote a persuasive advert to persuade someone to visit either the desert, rainforest or Antarctica- we even used the computers to create our hot write to make them look bright and colourful as well as improve our digital literacy skills.
Year 2- Looking after the environment
Date: 16th Jul 2025 @ 3:02pm
Today, we explored the key question how does rubbish affect our environment? We read the story a rubbish day at the beach, thinking about the problems we saw in the story and how we could improve the problem. We then made a pledge to do one thing to help the environment including: giving things to charity, recycling more or picking up litter.
Year 2- The day the Farm visited Boundary!
Date: 10th Jul 2025 @ 10:01am
Today was such an excitng day! The farm came to visit us at Boundary. We were lucky enough to go and meet sheep, goats, pigs, rabbits, cows, donkeys and the cutest dog ever! We stroked the animals, brushed them and learntsome new vocabulary. We had a great time!
Date: 10th Jul 2025 @ 7:41am
This week in Year 2, we got our hands doughy and made Challah bread, a special treat for the Jewish weekly celebration of Shabbat. This half term, we've been diving into the fascinating world of Judaism, exploring everything from the story of Moses and the Ten Commandments to understanding why the Sabbath Day is so important and how it's celebrated. The children thoroughly enjoyed shaping their own loaves and learning about the significance behind this delicious bread. Join us as we reflect on our tasty experience and the important lessons we’ve uncovered about faith and tradition!
Date: 2nd Jul 2025 @ 3:09pm
Today, we enjoyed our annual sports day. We competed in lots of different games and activities that tested our agility, speed and stamina. Thank you to the year 6's for running the event and helping everyone succeed. We look forward to hearing which house won the most points!
Year 2 Heritage Day- Showtown and Rock tasting!
Date: 1st Jul 2025 @ 2:42pm
Heritage day was amazing! We went on a trip to Showtown in Blackpool Town Centre. We learnt all about how the seaside has changed throughout the years. We explored the seaside using our senses and thought about what we would hear, see, taste, smell and feel.
We also looked at how Blackpool developed throughout the years and how summer clothing changed. Finally, we got to explore the museum learning all about the fantastic thingsin our seaside town.
When we returned to school, we learnt about Blackpool Rock and how it is made. We tasted lots of different flavours, including fish and chips flavour! EW!
We then went on to design our own stick of Blackpool Rock and we learnt to sing the song 'My little stick of Blackpool Rock'
We all had a brilliant day learning about our home town and it's history!
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!
