Welcome to Year 2

Frequently Asked Questions

faqs for year 2 parents 2024.pdf

 

Term 1 Topic Map

Year 2 Learning Cafe

year 2 learning cafe monday 23rd september 9am.pdf

 

Term 1 

Across the oceans and under mossy logs! This term, our learning has taken us on local adventures around the school site, where we observed microhabitats and the living things found within them. As scientists, we even thought about habitats found around the world and have started to construct simple food chains. As geographers, we have been exploring some of the countries found in Europe. We can name their capital cities and are regularly comparing the weather in these places to the weather we are experiencing in the United Kingdom. We have been learning how to use a compass and have written our own riddles. Can you follow the clues to solve this one?

I am located in the northern hemisphere. I am north of Africa. I am a continent.

In art, we began the term by developing our sketching skills and have had a go at illustrating our own simple story. We know how to add detail to show expressions and have been using scuffling and scumbling pencil techniques to add texture and pattern to our pictures.

In maths, we have been using our knowledge of known number facts to add and subtract efficiently. We have explored odd and even numbers, number bonds and doubles. We have been using number lines and part part whole models to support our calculation strategies.

Our citizenship lessons focused on friendship. We have thought carefully about how to build new friendships and identified the qualities we might look for in a friend. These lessons helped us to make inferences about the characters in our class book, ‘Troll Swap’. In this story we met Timothy and Tabitha who were feeling lonely at first, but don’t worry the story has a happy ending. Whilst exploring this text, we wrote letters, diary entries and even our very own version of the story. We hope you get to come and look at our wonderful work at the next walk in Wednesday.

Term 2