Year 2
Welcome to Year 2's Class Page. The Curriculum newsletter below contains all of the information on what the children will be learning this term.
Please ensure that your child reads at least three times a week and that you signed their reading records each time. Homework will continue to be set on a Wednesday and will be due in on the following Monday. It is very important that children complete their weekly Doodle activities as part of their homework.
Curriculum Newsletter
We have been learning about fractions and finding halves, quarters and thirds of a set amount.
We wrote our own instructions in English and then had to follow them to make a boat.
We had an amazing time at Westminster Abbey to support our history learning.
For our whole school science experiment, we made lemon volcanoes
To celebrate St George's day, we made our own 'Google Doodle's'
We had so much fun in the sun at Kew Gardens!
We have been learning about water pollution and made posters to raise awareness of it
During art week, we made clay pots and clay houses
We visited the RAF museum to learn about the history of flight
To end our D&T topic, we made our own tasty wraps and rated them out of 10.
Christmas Jumper Day 2024
We enjoyed exploring 3D shapes, counting their edges, vertices and faces.
Autumn 2- Art Week- We learnt about creating textures with paint and how to collage. Look at our beautiful Christmas tree collages.
In our D&T lesson, we learnt how to safely prepare different types of food, including some fruit and vegetables as well as cheese. We explored chopping, peeling and grating.
Our key scientist this term is Noah McVicker- The inventor of Play-doh. We explored the chemistry of play-doh. We looked at how it feels, stretches, and changes when we shape it.
We explored static electricity as part of the whole school science experiment.
We have been looking at related facts in Maths. We looked at how our number bonds to 10 can help us find our number bonds to 100.
We did a sports/science cross over lesson with Ms Santos to explore how our bodies change when we exercise. We learnt all about our pulses and how to find them
We went on a school trip to Monument to learn more about The Great Fire of London.
Our Learning
