Good afternoon to all!

We had a wonderful trip to the British School Museum; the children thoroughly enjoyed the role-play acting and learning about Victorian school especially, the gallery where they learnt how to add up in shillings and old pennies. Please see photos taken below.

Next week

Maths

The children will count in 2s, 5s, 10,s and 3s and solve number facts within 20 addition and subtraction.

English

The children will write a persuasive piece for a campaign and present their campaign on endangered animals to Year 1.

Science

The children will continue to find out how various objects are made and carryout an experiment to understand that some materials can be changed by squashing, bending, twisting and stretching.

History

The children will write a recount on our visit to The British Schools Museum.

 RE

The children will explore the Christian religious symbols.

0ur annual book fair will be held after school in the hall on Thursday 2^nd until Tuesday 7th of October. We hope you and your children will come along and enjoy exploring some great books!

Friday is Harvest Festival and we look forward to seeing you all, timings for our class are 9.30-10.00am in the hall.

Spellings for next Friday are:

 Group 1: they, on, she, is.

Group 2: badge, edge, bridge, dodge, fudge, age, huge, change, charge, village

Wishing you a fun weekend

From the Year 2 team.

 

 

Good afternoon everyone!

Next week

Maths

The children will be solving missing numbers on a number line to 100.

English

The children will create a narrative based on a known story.

Science

The children will find out how various objects are made and carryout an experiment to understand that some materials can be changed by squashing, bending, twisting and stretching.

Spellings

Group 1 – of, it, was, you.

Group 2 – race, ice, cell, city, fancy, face, space, bicycle, circle, spicy.

Reminder

On Tuesday, we are on our class trip to Hitchin British schools museum, which myself and the children are very excited about. Please could your child bring in a pack lunch (please remember we are a nut free school and no fizzy drinks or glass bottles, thank you).

Have a great weekend.

From the Year 2 team.

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.