Year 2 News

This week has included lots of Nativity practising, and the children are very excited to perform to the school this week (Friday 9th Dec) and to all the parents next week (12th and 13th December). They cannot stop singing the songs and speaking their

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This week, Year 2 have been practising how to write a letter, imagining they are different characters from The Jolly Postman in order to practise how to write in first person. In Maths, the children have been using number lines and picture representa

This week we started by exploring World Mental Health day, and talked lots about how to look after our minds, bodies and hearts to be happy and healthy. Across the week we have been learning how to use first-person perspective in our writing, as we imagined we were Florence Nightingale and wrote up our diary. In Maths, we have been adding and subtracting numbers using number lines and ten frames to help us understand how to make bridges across a ten. In History, we earned about Mary Seacole and how she was both similar and different to Florence Nightingale. Finally, we have finished the week by making a material monster, which the children have decorated wonderfully. We were also lucky enough to have a visitor to tell us all about Diwali and let the children dress up and take part in the story he told about the origins of the holiday.

This week the children have been telling us all about how to use adjectives to describe characters from ‘Giraffes Can’t Dance’ – “Gerald is a silly, crazy giraffe with long bendy legs.” In Maths they have been reviewing some of the learning from the last few weeks, which includes counting in 2s,3s,5s and 10s, as well as understanding what makes 2 digit numbers and how we can partition them in different ways. In Science we have explored how many materials we can find around the school, and talked about why we use these materials differently. We explored the word significant in History, and drew some images of people we thought were significant to us and the world around us. In Computing we have explored the idea of an algorithm being a way of giving instructions to a computer, and in R.E. we have started to investigate why a church is a special place for Christians. The children have been very settled when moving around the school and going into different classrooms for various Reading, Spelling or Phonics groups, and we hope that you find practising reading and spellings at home with your children is a success.