Year 2
Welcome to Year 2
2024/2025
Key Class information 2024/2025
| Monday | Spelling test and new spelling words sent home. Please return spelling books to school. |
| Tuesday | P.E. - Please remember to wear the correct kit to school - navy blue shorts /jogging bottoms, white t-shirt, navy blue sweater. Shorts should be worn for indoor P.E. sessions but children can put jogging bottoms over the top of the shorts in the colder months. |
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| Friday | P.E. - Please remember to wear the correct kit to school - navy blue shorts /jogging bottoms, white t-shirt, navy blue sweater. Shorts should be worn for indoor P.E. sessions but children can put jogging bottoms over the top of the shorts in the colder months. Times tables tests - please practise the 2, 5 and 10 times and division tables with your child at home. |
Phonics Workshop 3rd February 2025
KS1 Curriculum Information Meeting - 25th September 2024
We have attached the slides from the meeting for your information. Thank you to all who attended. It was lovely to see so many of you.
KS1 Curriculum Information Meeting September 2024
2023/2024
Summer Term 2024
Spellings
Topics covered in the Summer term:
Maths - fractions, time, statistics, position and direction
Science - Gardens and allotments (Summer 1), Animal life cycles (Summer 2)
Geography - Australia (Spring 1)
History - History of transport (Summer 2)
Art - drawing techniques (Summer 1)
Design and Technology - bird scarers, moving pictures (Summer 2)
French - In the jungle (Summer 1), Super-heros (Summer 2)
RE - Christianity and Judaism (Shabbat)
Computing - data (tally charts, pictograms etc), making digital music
18th July 2024 - 2B class picnic
July 2024 - Trip to The Shuttleworth Collection
July 2024 - cooking the potatoes from our playground allotment
MADD Week July 2024 - Bollywood dancing
MADD Week July 2024 - Drama workshop
Forest School 2nd July 2024
MK Music Festival 19th June 2024
Science - April 2024 - creating playground allotments
Spring Term 2024
Spellings - Spring Term
Topics covered in the Spring term:
Maths - money (Spring 1), multiplication and division, measurement (length, height, mass, volume, capacity and temperature) (Spring 2)
Science - Plants (Spring 1), Habitats (Spring 2)
Geography - Australia (Spring 1)
History - The Great Fire of London (Spring 2)
Art - Aboriginal art (Spring 1), collage techniques (Spring 2)
Design and Technology - Aboriginal rainsticks, Anzac biscuits (Spring 1)
French - Transport (Spring 1), Under the sea (Spring 2)
RE - Christian and Jewish celebrations (New Year, Easter)
Trip to Woburn Safari Park 28th March 2024
R.E. - Easter symbols - hot cross bun tasting session 27th March 2024
Art - making habitat collages March 2024
Maths - measuring
Science Week 2024
World Book Day 7.3.24
Art and Design Technology (February 2024)- making Aboriginal rain sticks
Design Technology -Making Anzac biscuits (12/2/24)
NSPCC Number Day (2/2/24) - Wearing numbers
Maths (26/1/24) - Money - making amounts and finding change
Autumn Term 2023
Spellings - Autumn Term
December 2023 - Nativity - "Backstage" photos
December 2023 - Science - Making and testing paper bridges
November 2023 - Science - Investigating which is the best material to make a toy boat
November 2023 - Raising money for Ride High by taking part in a gymkhana with our hobby horses
November 2023 - Design Technology - Making hobby horses (Ride High project)
October 2023 - Geography/Design Technology - Designing towns and making 3D maps
28th September 2023 - Science - Making wax-resistant pictures
21st September 2023 - Science - Carrying out an investigation to find out which materials are the most waterproof
14th September 2023 - Science - investigating which materials are the most absorbent
7th September 2023 - Science - Investigating how many drops of water different materials can hold on their surfaces
September 2023 - Maths - making and ordering numbers
2022/2023
Transport Project Activities July 2023
2B Picnic with parents 7th July 2023
Science 6th July 2023 - making toy boats out of different materials and testing them for durability
Sports Day 4th July 2023
From the year 2 team!
Tasting Hot Cross Buns 24th March 2023
2B's Class Worship 23rd March 2023
British Science Week March 2023
Trip to Woburn Safari Park 16th March 2023
World Book Day - Thursday 2nd March 2023
Holiday Homework Packs (February half-term)
As promised during our SATs information meeting, we have sent home a holiday homework pack for each child to help them to prepare for their SATs in May. In the pack, you will find reading comprehensions, maths problems, SPAG activities and a blank handwriting sheet which you might like to photocopy for your child to practise their handwriting. We are encouraging children to form their letters correctly, to keep their letters to a consistent size, to remember finger spacing and to try to join letters if possible. The homework we have set is of course completely optional, but the more the children practise at home, the more prepared they will be for their SATs in May.
Have a lovely half-term!
Cookery 7th February 2023 - making Anzac biscuits
NSPCC Number Day 3rd February 2023
Science (Outdoor Learning) 2nd February 2023 - hunting for woodlice and recording results on a tally chart
Science
We have been using (and will continue to use when possible) the outdoor learning area (Forest School) in our science lessons this half term.
The first week, the children looked for things that were dead, alive or have never been alive.
This second week we looked at what minibeasts could be found in different microhabitats (grass, mud, logs, leaves, water, trees etc) and then discussed why they chose to live there.
The children have enjoyed exploring the area and have found lots of interesting things to talk and write about back in the classroom.
It is very wet and muddy out there at the moment, so wellies are a must!
Science (Outdoor Learning) Thursday 12th January 2023
Science (outdoor learning)Thursday 5th January 2023
Happy New Year !
Decorating Christmas biscuits 13th December 2022
Christmas Jumper Day 8th December 2022
KS1 Nativity December 2022 - Year 2 backstage getting ready to perform
Visit to St Mary's Church - November 2022
Emergency Services Visit
Today, Friday 21st October, the children will be coming home with a transcript from the parents' evening appointments this week. Together with this, they will have some activities which they can complete at home over the half term period. Please do not feel that this is compulsory but if you can support your child to complete some of these it would help to reinforce some of the learning we have been covering this half term.
The Year 2 team wish you all a very happy half term and enjoy the rest!
Great Fire of London Topic - Children's work (art and history)
Science: Wax-resistant Paintings
In science, the children have been learning about different materials and their properties. They have performed various experiments to test different materials to see which ones absorb water and which ones are waterproof. After discovering that adding wax to a material can make it waterproof, the children tested the waterproof properties of wax further by making wax-resistant pictures, using wax crayons and watercolour paint. Here are some of their pictures:
Curriculum Subjects
Keystage 1 - Year 2
What subjects do we cover?
English: Writing, Reading and Communication
Mathematics: To know and use numbers, Multiplication and division, fractions, properties of shape,
position, direction and movement, measures, statistics and algebra
Science: working scientifically, biology, chemistry and physics
Art and Design Technology
Computing
Music
History
Geography
Physical Education
Religious Education
Personal development and Citizenship
French
Although there are all these discrete subjects, many are taught through a themed approach in school where subjects are combined.
KS1 SATs Support Materials
Please, read these for further information about KS1 SATs. We have included practice questions in all areas of the English and mathematics curriculum that is tested, but it is entirely your choice whether you look together with your child at these.