Year 2
Hello from the Year 2 teachers: Mrs Phillips, Mrs Allen and Miss Pearson. Our classes are supported by Miss Rowe and Miss Southall. We are really looking forward to teaching the Year 2 children this year and can't wait to celebrate some of their successes and achievements with you. Please keep an eye out on our year group page for key information and to take a sneak peak at some of the fantastic learning that goes on inside and outside our classrooms.
Key Information:
- Please make sure your child brings their reading book and homework diary into school every day.
- Homework is usually handed out on a Friday and needs to be returned by the following Friday.
- Every half term your child will receive a spelling booklet detailing the spellings for each week. A copy of this will also be uploaded to the website in case these get mislaid (See below). Please make sure this is kept in their blue book back at all times.
- The children will be tested on their spellings every Friday.
- When hearing your child read, please comment and sign their diary.
- Reading books will be changed every Monday.
- Any work at home on learning 2, 5 and 10 times tables would be very beneficial.
PE:
- 2AP PE lessons will take place on Mondays and Thursdays during the Autumn term.
- 2P PE lessons will take place on Wednesdays and Fridays during the Autumn term.
Please make sure any jewellery is removed on these days and that hair is tied up.
Please keep visiting our page to see some of our wonderful learning. You may find some of the documents and links below useful.
Selly Manor Trip
Take a look at some of the highlights from our trip to Selly Manor. We made exciting discoveries about life in the 1600s and acted as history detectives as we toured a 500 year old house! We all made a fantastic start to our new history topic as we took part in a role play of the Great Fire of London. We can't wait to continue our learning back at school!
Following instructions
As part of our work in English, we have started exploring Instruction texts. Today we followed a set of instructions to make a scaly dragon head using printing. We discussed what features made the text easy to follow. Take a look at us in action. We were all very pleased with our final product!
Maths - Sorting 2D shapes
This week we have been sorting 2D shapes using all our knowledge about their different properties. Take a look at us in action:
Maths - Partitioning
Take a look at our wonderful place value skills. This week in Maths we have been using part whole diagrams to help us to partition two-digit numbers into tens and ones.
Author visit
On Tuesday 17th September, all of Year 2 and Year 3 received a visit from the Author Jessica Howard. She shared both of her picture books with us and we had the opportunity to ask lots of questions about her job as an author.
Art - Nature collage
In art this week, we worked hard to collect natural materials from our playground - we found lots of twigs, and who knew there was so many different types of leaves? Then we used them to create a collage in the style of Jeannie Baker. We really enjoyed ourselves!
Maths - Making 2D shapes
This week in our maths lessons, we have been learning about the properties of 2D shapes. Take a look at the regular and irregular 2D shapes we have been making together!
Look what we found!
On Thursday 5th September we made an exciting discovery when we found two unusual eggs in the trees next to our playground. Fortunately, the mystery was solved when we received a letter later in the day from the dragon curator explaining that he has left us some dragon eggs to look after. We are all very excited to be finding out all about dragons over the coming few weeks.
