Year 2
Welcome to Year 2.
In Year 2 we always try our very best and come to school ready to learn with big smiles on our faces. We ae excited for the year ahead and can’t wait to see all the wonderful work that you produce.
Our Year 2 Team
Our Year 2 Team: Miss Hathaway, Miss Meneely, Mrs Carpenter, Miss J Wilson, Miss G Wilson, Mrs L Ryan and Mrs Lawson.
Information for Parents
Please click here for our Spring 2 Term Overview
Please click here for 2GH Timetable
Please click here for 2KM Timetable
PE
PE kit consists of navy blue shorts or leggings, a sky blue polo shirt and trainers or pumps.
Year 2GH have PE every Monday
Year 2KM have PE every Monday.
Reading
Please encourage your child to read every night for around 5-10 minutes. Please send reading books into school every day as we try to listen to the children across the week. Reading books will be changed throughout the week when children have read at home and school.
Homework
Homework and Spellings are given every Friday.
Chatter
Keep up to date with our latest news by following us on the school app and on our Year 2 page of the school website
Year 2 Chatter
Super scientists
Our super scientists conducted an experiment to test a property of materials. We discovered whether they are waterproof or not.
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Our world is beautiful

In RE we read the story of Bilal and the butterfly fro, the Quran. We then talked about the things in our world that we find beautiful and that we are thankful for.
Multiplication using number lines

Today we used number lines to show multiplication facts.
World book day

2KM are all looking fantastic today, Dressed up to celebrate World book day
Down in the basement…
We were so brave today and went into the basement just like Laszlo in our new story ‘The Dark.’
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Year 2 were so brave today. We went down to the basement to experience the dark. Some of us found it creepy and scary while some of us found it relaxing.
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Staying Safe
We spoke about what you should not share online. We then created posters using Pic Collage to tell others how to stay safe online too.
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Favourite Books
We started our new RE topic today – Sacred Books,
we started by thinking of our own favourite books and shared them with each other.
We then watched the parable of the two frogs and thought about what the special message was.
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How does the dark make you feel?
We listened to music and repsonded with charcoal. We then wrote one word or phrase on black paper and put them together in teams to make a poem.
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Freeze frame!
Today in English we started our new book “The Dark” . We acted out the thoughts and feelings of character.
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For safer internet day we looked at how to use AI safely and who our trusted adults are.
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Mark making
We have enjoyed an afternoon of painting and mark making to create our final art piece about the Titanic

Repeated addition
Today we have been using repeated addition of equal groups to help us with multiplication.
Year 2 – Gymnastics
We loved our first gymnastics lesson. We focussed on 8 key balances.
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Cleaning up!
We have started our new class book ‘The Secret Sky Garden’ and we were inspired to get outside and clean up our playground. We even braved the rain to do it!
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Here We Are
Today we started our whole school book – Here We Are by Oliver Jeffers. We started by reading the book together and then, in teams, we thought of everything that we can find on Earth. What a great start to the new term.
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Yummy Christmas dinner
2KM loved their Christmas Dinner today. Telling Jokes from our crackers was so much fun!
Space workshop
On Friday we learned so much about space and how Neil Armstrong explored the moon. We also used teamwork and communication skills to recreate images about space .
Year 2 Poppy Art
Year 2 worked so hard on their carbon printed poppy art for Remembrance Day
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Remembrance Day 2025
Year 2 had a beautiful remembrance morning. We wrote acrostic poems and created some beautiful poppy artwork.

Final Art class of the term
A lovely afternoon spent bringing an to end this half term’s topic of nature. Using crayons and paint we produced our concluding piece.
Once upon a time…a dragon came to school! Teach Rex
What a day! I don’t even know how to pick from all of the pictures we took. Videos coming soon! Thank you for the best possible day. We can’t wait to hear our podcast too.
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magical visitors in our class
Today we had some very special visitors in our class. We were very brave and loved making friends with the dragons. We will be looking into the sky this week hoping to spot Roger!

Messy Maps!
We made our own messy maps of our tour bus route. We even made our own key to help you to read our maps. Two little superstars went off and made their own maps too.
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Ordering Numbers
We have been busy in Year 2. We can order any given numbers from 1-100.
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Diwali Workshop
We loved our Diwali workshop today. Thank you to our special visitors.
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