Year 2
Welcome to Year 2
2023/2024
Key Class information 2023/2024
| Monday | Spelling test and new spelling words sent home. Please return spelling books to school. |
| Tuesday | Outdoor P.E. - Please remember to wear the correct kit to school - navy blue shorts /jogging bottoms, white t-shirt, navy blue sweater. Forest School - Please bring wellies for this! (Autumn 1/Spring 1/ Summer 1- 2A/C, Autumn 2/Spring 2/Summer 2- 2B/C) |
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| Friday | Indoor P.E. - please remember to wear the correct kit to school - navy blue shorts (to be worn under jogging bottoms in cooler months), white t-shirt, navy blue sweater. Please return reading records and reading books to school. If children read 5 times in a week they will be given a sticker. We will also write your child's times tables test results in their reading record. Times tables tests - please practise at home. |
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.