It has been a FANTASTIC start to the Summer Term for the children in Year 2. Everyone has been working tremendously hard!

English:

We have began our new topic in English. On Monday, we came to a disheveled classroom and went on a trail to find out who did it. We discovered some clues whilst walking ‘in the woods’. A red cloak, a basket filled with delicious food and some large pawprints with claws were spotted.

Our intrepid investigators quickly worked out our new story was ‘Little Red Riding Hood’.

Please find attached our Story Map below:

Watch out for more exciting updates!

Marvelous Maths:

In Maths, children have been recognising 2D shapes. Children will be counting the sides and vertices on 2D shapes.

Super Scientists:

In Science we are learning all about “Ocean Animals” this half term. Children will think about what an ocean is before thinking about which animals live in oceans and which don’t. They will then start to identify a variety of ocean animals. They will also look at different broad groups of animals, such as mammals, fish and birds, and consider why some are suited to living in the ocean and others aren’t.

Topic:

Our new topic for this term is “Seaside Holidays in the Past”. This week children have been identifying the human and physical features of a seaside holiday. We have been using photographs to find clues as to what seaside holidays were like in the past. We will be finding out when and how seaside holidays became popular. We will also be ordering seaside
holidays in chronological order.

We are working tremendously hard preparing the Year 2 children for SATs. These will be taking place week beginning Monday 16th May 2022.

Please find attached a link to the KS1 SATs 2022 Parents Guide in case you missed out on Parents Evening: https://www.theschoolrun.com/system/files/attachments/articles/ks1_sats_2022_guide_for_parents.pdf

For KS1 SATs Past Papers click on the following link to download past papers: https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/national-curriculum-assessments-practice-materials#key-stage-1-past-papers

On a final note, for any other questions that you may have please feel free to speak to your child’s class teacher. We thank you for your continued support with your child’s learning.

Many thanks,

The Year 2 Team.

There has been so much great work in Year 2 recently, we don’t know where to start!

In English we completed our work about the Storm Owl by writing our own non-chronological report about our own owl. We worked hard to include lots of features of a report text, for example titles and subtitles, technical vocabulary and generalisers (usually, mostly etc.) The children worked so hard and were rightly proud of their work.

Next term we are moving onto the story of ‘Little Red Riding Hood’.

In maths we have been working on the unit of statistics. We have been making and interpreting tally charts, pictograms and block graphs. In Aspen class the children had to complete their own individual tally and block graph for the counters they had in their envelope. Look at the awesome job they did!

We are now moving on to measuring length and comparing lengths. We will be working with both centimeters (cm) and meters (m).

In science we have been working on our unit of plants. We have learnt that all plants need sunlight to grow. We did an experiment to show this. We put some cress seeds in the cupboard where there was no sunlight and left one on the table near the window so it had plenty of sunlight. Look at the photos below. Can you guess which of the cress seeds were in the cupboard?

We have also found out about how plants grow, from seeds to growing plants, flowers and flowers with seeds.

After Easter we are beginning our new topic in science which will be all about ocean animals which ties in nicely with our new topic for the summer term –  ‘Seaside Holidays in the Past’. In DT children will be creating their own sea creatures using clay. In RE we will move on to ‘Inspirational People’.

Thank you for your continuing support.

The Year 2 team.

In English we have been looking at the ‘Supertato’ story. It has been very exciting, especially when we got to make our own superhero masks. Take a look at some of our alter egos!

We have been practicing our use of adjectives to describe our superheroes and villains and learning about how to add commas to a list to separate the different items. We have also been learning about adverbs. They are words which describe the verb (the doing or action word). We found three in our model text – they were gingerly, carefully and silently. We noticed they all ended in ‘ly’ – so we thought of some more: proudly, calmly, sadly and greedily. May be you can think of some of your own?

In maths some classes have been working on our money unit and others have been working on our multiplication unit. In money we have focussed on learning the different values of the coins and notes as well as adding them together to find the total amount. We’ve also been using the coins to make the same amount in different ways – for example can you make 15p in 3 different ways?

In the unit of multiplication the children have been finding out about equal groups and about how to make an array. They will be moving on to recognising that 2×3 is the same as 3×2.

In other lessons we have begun our science topic of habitats. The children have been able to define what a habitat is and the types of animals that might live there. To develop our learning further we are going to be looking at how the different animal species found in some habitats have adapted to their surroundings. This might include camouflage or adaptations to their body.

Our Geography topic is ‘Fruits of the World’. We are taking a look at the continents and oceans of the world as well as how some parts of the world are hotter than others and why. We will be moving on to look at the physical and human features of a place and also where different fruits are grown around the world. We will be making links to our habitats topic in science.

In our art work we have finished our unit on colour creations where we have been able to work in the style of some famous artists, as well as mix primary colours to make new colours. Look at our amazing work in the style of Piet Mondrian and Wassilly Kandinsky. Both artist liked to use bright, bold colours…so did Year 2!