Good afternoon to all,

We have had a brilliant week; the children have worked very hard, well done everyone!

In English, the children have focused on their handwriting and they are starting to form their letters correctly. They enjoyed finding a variety of animal footprints around the school and learning which animal they belonged to. The children created imaginative posters of their own mysterious creature and included exciting adjectives.

Next week, the children will be creating command sentences including verbs and learn when to use –s or –es on the end of animal names. All the lessons will be centred on our class book ‘The Journey Home’.

 In maths, the children enjoyed using base ten to solve calculations.

Next week, the children will partition numbers to 100 and find the missing numbers on a number line. 

Next week

Science

We will identify and compare the suitability of a variety of everyday materials by exploring the purposes of different objects inside and outside of the classroom.

RE

We will discuss what is important about the design of some places of worship?

History

We will continue to learn and compare what schooling was like over 100 years ago.

 ICT

The children will be discussing IT within in the school.

Spelling for next Friday are Group 1 – said, in, he, I.

Group 2 – write, written, wrote, wrong, wrap, wrist, wreck, wrestle, wriggle, wren.

Reminder 

Friday morning, your children will be having their individual photographs taken.

Home Learning – Due in w/c 20^th October 2025

500 Words Challenge

I would like all Year 2 children to enter the BBC's 500 Words Challenge. All children need to do is write a story they would love to read in 500 Words or less.  Spelling, punctuation and grammar are not marked - it's all about creativity!

50 finalists will be invited to a star-studded grand final in February 2026, which will be supported by Her Majesty The Queen. If that's not enough, each winner will also see their story be read aloud by a superstar celebrity on TV, which will be shown as part of a special 500 Words programme with The One Show. The official panel of celebrity judges, Sir Lenny Henry, Malorie Blackman, Francesca Simon, Charlie Higson and Frank Cottrell-Boyce will crown the winners. 

There are also lots of prizes to be won - each winner will take home a bundle of books and the gold winners also win 500 books for their school library. In addition to the book prizes, each of our winning stories will receive a framed illustrated cover produced exclusively by top children's illustrators.

Children can only submit one story each. There are very few rules on 500 Words but a few points to remember:

All the stories must:

• Be 500 words or less (title is not included in the number)
• Be written by an individual and not a group
• Be a child’s own original idea
• Be prose, not rap or poem

Stories must not:

• Give any personal details of the child, including their name
• Recount an historical event (but they can use a real person or historical character as a source of inspiration)
• Be created, written or developed by AI

In every 500 Words competition, all stories are judged on the following criteria:

• Characterisation
• Plot
• Originality
• Language
• Enjoyment 

If you are having any questions, please email me. 

Have a lovely weekend.

From the year 2 team.

 

Hello to everyone!

We have had a fun and busy first few days back. The children are all settling very well into their new routine.

Please see below a brief insight of the topics we will be covering for next term.

English – This will include : posters, lists, postcards, short stories, advertisements and explanations.

Maths - Securing fluency to 20, regrouping, subtraction and place value.

Science - Uses of everyday materials.

History - History of the school.

Art – Drawings understanding tone and texture.

PSHE - Being me in my world.

ICT - Understanding what is IT and how we use IT in school and in the world.

RE - Expressing religious meaning.

PE timetable: 

Monday – change of footwear. Wednesday and Friday - full PE kit. Please remember to label every piece of clothing along with footwear.

 Next week

English – we will read and discuss our new story ‘The Journey Home’ by Frann Preston-Gannon. The children will create a poster, which will include questions, statements and commands.

Maths – the topic is place value. The children will use a place value chart and partition numbers to 100.

Science – we will discuss the properties of different materials and the children will create a collage using natural materials.

RE – we will discuss religion and religious symbols.

Art – to discuss observational drawings and look at different types of shading.

History – we will discuss the history of our school and look at old photographs and logbooks.

PSHE – circle time discussing hopes and fears for the year.

ICT- to discuss what is IT? 

Spelling test will be on Friday mornings, the children can choose their group along with learning both groups if they want to.

 Group 1 – the, and, a, to.

Group 2 – knock, know, knee, knitting, knife, gnat, gnaw, gnash, gnome, gnarled.

Wishing you a great and hopefully sunny weekend,

From the Year 2 team.

Where has the year gone!

To the Year 2 superstars, what an amazing year it has been!

We just wanted to say it has been a fantastic, fun year with your children and they have all worked extremely hard, we are so very proud of everything they have achieved.

Wishing you a great summer break and thank you all so much for the very generous gifts and kind words.

From Mrs Beadle, Miss Russon and Mrs Blatch.

Where has the year gone!

The children have been very busy writing their own stories centred on ‘Toys in Space’ and in maths, the children have finished the topic on position and direction.

Next week

In maths, the children will be completing numerous problem-solving calculations along with solving escape room questions in small groups. The children will also complete an end of year assessment.

Throughout the week, the children will complete all their topics for Year 2.

Events next week

Tuesday morning, we will be watching the Year 6 performance.

Thursday morning, will be a rounders match between the Year 6's and teachers.

Friday morning, is the Year 6 leaving assembly.

Please remember we finish at 1.15 pm on Friday.

Wishing you a fun and sunny weekend.

From Mrs Beadle, Miss Russon and Mrs Blatch

Happy Friday everyone!

Today was 'The Apprentice' which the children loved. It was good to see them working out their money and enjoying a shopping session!

It was lovely to see so many of you for parent consultations this week and discuss how fantastically your children have done this year, well done everyone.

Next week

English – the children will continue writing their version of the story ‘Toys in Space’.

Maths – the children will continue with the topic ‘position and direction’.

Science – the children will learn life cycles on a selection of animals.

We will also be finishing our topics for this term.

On Thursday 10th July it will be 'transition day.' This means that each class will move to their new class for one hour to give the teachers time to get to know them and the children to ask any questions they may have and familiarise themselves with their new room.

 

At 3.30pm and 5pm there will be meetings for the parents. Parents will meet with the new class teachers to discuss any changes, ask questions and generally get to know their child's new teacher.

Spellings for next Friday are-

Group 1 – that, this, said, then.

Group 2 – played, raced, walked, closed, stared, wondered.

Group 3 – travelled, forced, watched, wedged.

Have a great weekend

From the Year 2 team.

Good afternoon, 

This week has flown by and the children have worked extremely hard, well done everyone!

Next week

English – the children will plan and start to write their own version of the story ‘Toys in space’ and include adjectives, commas, adverbs, noun phrases and conjunctions.

Maths – we start our new topic on position and direction.

Geography – discussing how do people use our local coast and collect data using a pictogram and tally chart.

Science – to identify that most living things live in habitats to which they are suited and describe how different habitats provide for the basic needs of different kinds.

PSHE – to recognise the physical differences between boys and girls, using the correct names for parts of the body and appreciate that some parts of the body are private.

Spellings for next Friday are:

Group 1 – you, they, she, was, said

Group 2 – oldest, fastest, loudest, softest, bravest, greatest

Group 3 – smoothest, smartest, sharpest

Have a great weekend

From the Year 2 team.

Happy sunny Friday!

Well done everyone at sports day. 

Please see below lessons for next week.

English – continuation on our class book ‘Toys in Space’. The children will write a fantasy setting description, explore the meaning of the story from different perspectives and use noun phrases to create a character profile.

Maths – we will start our new topic on statistics. The children will create block diagrams along with drawing and interpreting pictograms.

Geography – continue discussing, how do people use Weymouth?

Science – to have a nature walk around the field and create bug hotels for mini-beasts.

Please could your children bring in an empty plastic bottle for their bug hotel.

PSHE – to recognise how their bodies have changed since a baby

RE- to discuss who made the world and creation stories.

Spellings for next Friday are:

Group 1 – said, he, of, was.

Group 2 – diary, sitting, looking, laying, playing, feeling.

Group 3 – wondering, staring, watching, stopping.

Have a great sunny weekend.

From the Year 2 team.

Happy sunny Friday!

The children have a fantastic and productive week. They worked incredibly hard, tackling English and maths SATS practise papers including completing the 2025 English papers.

Throughout the afternoon, the children have been exploring clay techniques, focusing on pinching and joining by scoring lines and applying slip. They have designed and created a house-themed tile.

Next week, we will continue with revising all key maths topics, and the children will complete the 2025 SATS papers.

In the afternoons, our focus will be computer programming; the children will work on designing, modifying and creating their own programs.

Remember sports day will be on Thursday morning subject to weather and will start from 9.15am.

Wishing you all a sunny weekend.

From the Year 2 team.

Good afternoon to all,

I hope you all had a lovely half term; the children have settled back quickly into the daily routine and have worked extremely hard this week.

In English, the children are enjoying our new book ‘Toys in Space’ by Mini Grey. They have created a found poster using expanded noun phrases and used commas in lists to write an invitation.

In maths, the children learnt to tell the time o’clock, half past, quarter past, quarter to and to 5 minutes.

In geography, the children located the countries, cities and oceans around the United Kingdom.

In science, the children explored the difference between things that are living and not living.

Next week, throughout the week, the children will be completing practice SATS papers on reading and maths. To support this, our lessons will focus to how to approach and effectively answer the types of questions they may encounter. The children will sit the SATS papers the following week, these are only to support my end of year assessments and will not be published as they are optional and not mandatory. The children will be unaware they are tests as I will explain they are to support my planning of lessons until the end of the year.

During the afternoon, the children will be creating clay shapes using pinching techniques and modelling tools.

The spellings will be revisiting the Year 2 high frequency common words, which the children will practice daily in the mornings.

Have a great weekend.

From the Year 2 team.

 

 

 Good afternoon to all!

The children had an amazing, fun day at Go-Ape.

Please see below an insight of our topics for next term.

Maths – time, statistics, position, direction, and consolidating all the topics throughout the year.

English – fictional worlds and fantasy.

Science - living things and their habitats.

Geography - what is it like to live near a coast?

Art – sculpture and 3D clay houses

ICT - programming.

PSHE - changing me

RE - who made the world and creation stories

Wishing everyone a fun half-term.

From the Year 2 team.