Year 2

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

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.

Human or Physical

We identified human and physical features in Geography today

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.

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!

Super mathematicians

We used base 10 to add 2 digit numbers.

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.

Ordering Numbers

We have been busy in Year 2. We can order any given numbers from 1-100.

Diwali Workshop

We loved our Diwali workshop today. Thank you to our special visitors.

Diwali workshop

Year 2 had so much fun learning how Diwali is celebrated. We loved making Rangoli patterns and Dancing!

Releasing butterflies

Today we released our classroom butterflies. We have loved watching them grow from caterpillars and learning about how they become butterflies in their cocoons.

Year 2 Football Stars

We couldn’t be prouder of our Year 2 boys. They played some fantastic football today, winning every match on the way to the play off but unfortunatly losing 2-1 for a place in the city final. One of our superstars was even picked as player of the tournament. What a talented team you are.

Year 2 Dodgeball Stars

Our first sporting event of the year was Dodgeball. This group of children represented our school like the superstars we knew they were and worked so hard to prefect some new dodgeball skills. We are very proud of you.

Superstar Rewards

In PSHE we designed a superstar certificate for a friend as part of our work on rewards.

Photography fun – perfecting our skills

Today we took different photographs, decided if they were good or not then retook them to make them even better.

We loved the open top bus!

We loved the open top bus tour of Liverpool today as part of our Geography topic. We recognised lots of local landmarks and loved listening to our amazing tour guide too.

Partitioning in Maths

We were amazing today at partitioning 2 digit numbers into tens and ones.

We explored drawing techniques in art today.

Handball

We have worded hard on our pass and move skills today and then applied our new skills into a game of handball with James from Everton in the Community.

Nature art

Year 2 had lots of fun making art using materials from nature.

We are collectors. We are artists!

We loved finding out about Andy Goldsworthy and Hassan Hajjaj and how they were inspired by exploring,  collecting and recycling. We had a go at making our own natural art. What do you think?

Cake Sale

Thank you so much for all your donations towards MacMillan Cancer Support. Children had a lovely time – a lot of cake was enjoyed : )

Egg Box Dragon Kenning Poems

We worked so hard to create a kenning poem. We thought about what we know about Egg Box Dragon and used our knowledge of the suffix -er too. I am very proud of you all, good job!

Local landmark or not?

This afternoon in Geography we looked at lots of different landmarks. We decided if we had ever visited any of them before, decided which were in Liverpool and found their location on a map. We can’t wait to see them on the tour bus.

Computing – portrait or landscape?

We love our computing topic – photography. We thought about which orientation made the best photograph, portrait or landscape. We decided the school building was better in landscape but photographs of our friends were better in portrait.

Year 2 English

Year 2 had a lovely afternoon creating a Kenning poem using the suffix er.

Year 2 PE

Year 2 had a great morning with Everton in the Community.

Drawing in Year 2

Today we completed four drawings of our leaf. We used colour, sketching and continuous lines. We even did one with our eyes closed! We have some amazing artists in Year 2.

Photography in Year 2

We have started our new computing topic – photography!
Fun in the sun this afternoon.

Estimating multiples of 10 on a number line

We started to learn about a number line on Friday. We used our knowledge of 0-10 to help us to place multiples of 10 on an empty number line.

Artist Study – Year 2GH

Wow! We started our new art topic this week and had a go at our first double page spread! I couldn’t be more proud of you!
Check out some of our amazing work!

The UK

What a busy afternoon in Year 2. We named the UK countries, capital cities and surrounding waters!! Busy busy!

Year 2 artist study

Year 2 spent the afternoon exploring artists and their inspiration.

Year 2 PSHE

Year 2 explored different pictures to decide if they were being responsible or irresponsible.

Dragon Making in Year 2

We loved designing and making our own egg box dragon.

Happy Birthday Smithdown!

Year 2GH had the BEST day yesterday!

Titanic home learning

A big thank you to all our families that have helped create some art work based on the Titanic. We were blown away by all your efforts.

Celebration Picnic

A few more picnic photos

150 year celebration picnic

Thank you to everyone wo helped make our family picnic such a success, from the generous items on our community table to the fantastic Henna work in aid of Alder Hey hospital to the very generous sharing of food with staff, the day was fabulous.

Eid Mubarak

Journey around the world – Australia!

150 years of Smithdown

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150 Year Celebration

What a lovely picnic this afternoon! A big, huge thank you to all children, parents and staff for all the work and effort everyone has put in for our 150 year celebration. Thank you everyone for coming to celebrate this afternoon.

Famous people around our school!

As part of our 150th anniversary, Year 2 have been researching famous people from our local area. We combined this work with our computing topic! We’ve made posters about Natasha Jonas (who went to our school), Tony Bellew, Gerry Marsden, Ali Al-Hamadi, Ringo Starr and Cliff Marshall

Shape

2TD have been working really hard looking at the properties of 2D and 3D shapes

Using the atlas to locate continents

We have loved exploring the atlas to find continents and oceans.

Sorting 2D and 3D shapes

We have enjoyed learning the names and properties of 2D and 3D shapes. Today we thought of different ways to sort the shapes

Continents balloons!

We have enjoyed making our balloon globes. We know the names of the continents and oceans.

2GH Martin Mere

We have had a lovely day at Martin Mere today.
we helped Ava find out which way she had to migrate, went on a treasure hunt, explored the wetlands and enjoyed the play area too!

Blue Planet 2TD

A wonderful science filled day at Blue Planet

What is it like in the dark…

We have been to the basement to find out what it feels like in the dark.

This is a clue to our new English book!

Chinese New Year celebrations

We had lots of fun taking part in a Chines a New Year workshop. We also made some of our own snakes to celebrate the year of the snake.

2GH Lion Workshop

Blue Planet! The BEST day!

We absolutely loved Blue Planet!

Ball skills and Goal Ball!

We loved learning a new game with James from Everton in the Community today! Goal ball is our new favourite.

What could our new story be about?

We discovered some clues to our new story today! We made predictions and discussed if the clues reminded us of any other stories too.

Our Finished Moon Buggies

We have loved making our moon buggies today. Do you like them?

Making our Moon Buggies

We have loved making our Moon Buggies this moring.

Sawing Skills!

Year 2 have been busy sawing their doweling to make their wheels and axles for a new moon buggy!

Everton in the Community

We loved our first session with James from Everton in the Community. We showed him our ball skills and had a VERY competitive game of dodgeball too.

Adding two 2 digit numbers

We used apparatus today to add two 2 digit numbers.

DT – Vehicles

In DT today we looked at a range of our own toys. We analysed how they moved and started to learn all about wheels and axles.

Product Analysis

Today we looked at some moving vehicles in preparation for designing our own. We thought carefully about the object’s design features. We were very confident at identifying the object’s wheels and axle.

Year 1/2 had lots of fun in the snow this morning!

Sign Language sessions

We loved our first Hands session today. We learned lots of colours in sign language.

Algorithms in Year 2

We have been working on our barefoot computing skills. We followed patterns and created our own for a partner too

Year 2 Nativity

Our Nativity Slideshow.

Thank you all for coming to watch. We loved performing for you.

Our leaf drawings using wax crayons and Brusho

We are really proud of our drawings. Our sketching skills have improved so much.

Acting out our new story

We really enjoyed listening to the story of The Lonely Beast. We acted out different parts of the story and retold the story to each other

Year 2 Artists

Come and look at our incredible leaves!

Gymnastics Fun in Year 2

We started our new PE unit – gymnastics!
We worked had perfecting our balance and hold shapes.

What a mess!

We came back into our classroom and found that someone or something had been in there! We looked at the disaster that had been left behind and asked questions about what we thought had happened!

We found

– a globe

– a map

– broken biscuits

– teapot and cups

– footprints

and…. a lot of mess!!

Who has been in our classroom?

Today we were very shocked to find a character from our new story had been in our classroom and made quite a mess. We made some predictions of who this character could be.

Catching Skills

Great Job!

PHOTOGRAPHY FUN

We are loving our photography work in computing! We are getting so good at taking pictures and recognising when we need light, dark, flash, close ups etc

PSHE – Our Learning Charters

We have made a class learning charter in PSHE this week.

Fact Families in Maths

We have enjoyed working on fact families this week. We persevered and now we are doing so well. I am so proud of you all.

More ball skills!

We enjoyed our throwing and catching this week.

Diwali lanterns

We have been busy painting our Diwali lanterns this week.

Diwali workshop!

Thank you to our wonderful visitors for speaking to us about Diwali. We loved our workshop.

Diwali 🌟

We have really enjoyed learning about the celebration of Diwali this week. We are very excited to see our lanterns lit for our Diwali lunch tomorrow

Thank You Danny Butler

Year 2 loved the visit from Danny Butler today. We enjoyed our workout with him too!

Observational Drawing

2GH have created some wonderful observational drawings of our leaves today! Check out the details in these images! Good job Year 2!

Comparing 2 digit numbers

Today we compared 2 digit numbers using our tens and ones knowledge

Sponsored event with Danny Butler

We’ve had such an exciting day doing our sponsored exercises with Danny Butler. We Worked very hard and completed them all. We were mesmerised by his fantastic biking skills. I think we have some extreme cyclists in the making!

Art and Nature!

Year 2 have made their own pictures out of natural materials that we have collected.

Placing numbers on a number line

We worked hard to place numbers on a number line. Why don’t you have a go at home on this game too.

https://mathsframe.co.uk/en/resources/resource/37/placing-numbers-on-a-number-line

Partitioning 2 digit numbers in Year 2

We worked hard to partition 2 digit numbers today.

Year 2 Dodgeball

A group of children from Year 2 represented our school at a dodgeball festival today. Exceptional behaviour and lots of fun had by all!

Making sandwiches for Anna and Crocodile

Anna and Crocodile asked us for our help today. We thought about how to make a sandwich, created some plans, made some sandwiches and of course had to taste test them! Yum yum!

Making sandwiches for Anna and Crocodile

Anna and Crocodile are trying to make a sandwich. We wrote our first set of instructions and then made a sandwich to check we had included all the steps. We learned that a set of instructions needs a ‘What you need’ list and a Method.

Portrait and Landscape

This week we have explored using portrait and landscape when taking photographs. We identified when it was better to use portrait and when it was better to use landscape. Great work Year 2.

Noun or Verb?

We went on a noun hunt and then acted out verbs to help us to identify the difference between the two.

Our Homes

Today we used Google Earth to locate our homes. We used our postcode and explored our local area. We also tested our UK knowledge on our new Velcro maps!

Where do I live?

Today in Geography, we used Google Earth to locate our homes.

Arts and Craft Club

Lots of fun creating autumn crafts in after school club this afternoon!

Making maps

Today we made our own maps in preparation for our instruction texts. We had to think carefully about where the gold was hidden and then give our partner instructions to find it.

Geography map skills

Today we had lots of fun locating the countries and capital cities of the UK. We then worked in teams to create our own maps labelling the surrounding waters.

Greater Than and Less Than

We compared multiples of ten today using the greater than, less than and equal to symbols today.

The United Kingdom

We used an atlas today to label the countries of the UK and the Capital Cities too.

Rolling at a Target

We loved exploring our rolling skills today. We aimed at targets and between gates after lots of warm up games with our ball.

Good job 2GH

Number lines to 100!

We worked hard to place tens numbers onto a number line. We used dienes to make our number line and recognised the value of each number. We challenged our partner to place the numbers in the correct place. Good job Year 2.

Super Reading!

We are enjoying our new phonics groups and have worked so hard on our fluency this week.

Number lines to 100

Today we built our own number lines. We used dienes to show the relationship between the tens and ones.

Photography Fun

We have started our new topic in computing – photography! We decided which objects could take photographs before playing photography bingo. We took selfies, objects, close ups and action shots. We then reviewed our work and picked our favourite photographs.

We shared our special things with each other

As part of our new topic we shared special things from home. We explained why they are special and what they mean to us.

Black History Month ‘24

Some AMAZING entries for the Merseyside Police competition! Children have worked hard creating lovely pieces of work with great messages as well. Well done to everyone who has submitted already. Last day tomorrow (Friday 13th September).

Great teamwork Year 2

Today we discovered treasure chests full of jigsaws in our classroom. We made the picture and looked for clues for our new class story.

Year 2 Maths – making groups of ten

What a great start to maths this week. We have made groups of ten and worked on our counting in tens.

Welcome to Year 2

Wonderful first day in 2TD. Lots of time to catch up with friends, learn some new class routines and to think about our hopes and dreams for the year ahead!

Our final musical instrument designs

Take a look at some of the fantastic musical instruments we have made in our Art lessons this term.

Cheque Presentation

A massive thank you to all parents and children who donated money to Alder Hey. The children on the school council were very lucky to be invited down to Alder Hey for a cheque presentation.
The money raised is going to help brighten the lives of children and their families, all over the country, who require the help of Alder Hey.

Throwing fun in Year 2

We loved our throwing lesson, especially the flip it game at the end. It got VERY competitive!

Retelling Lila and the Secret of Rain

We retold the story in teams and performed the story to our friends.

Blooket fun in Year 2

In Year 2 we have discovered Blooket and we can’t get enough! We’ve used it to test our times table knowledge this week (as well as lots more too.)

Pic Collage – Kenyan Village

As part of our Geography topic we are comparing Kenyan villages and cities with Liverpool. We are making pic collages in computing to depict life in each area. On Thursday we made our Village posters of Maasai. Keep your eyes peeled for more next week as begin to compare and contrast in more detail,

Map Making and Directions

We made our own maps of Lila’s village and used compass point directions to direct a friend around the map.

Shape

We know the names and properties of so many 2D and 3D shapes now! Great work Year 2!

2GH on the way into ISing 24

Look at those smiles! Ready for a day of singing!

Eid Mubarak!

We loved celebrating Eid last week.

ISing 2024

A few more pictures! More videos to come soon!  We are so proud of Year 2.

ISing has started and we are so excited!

We are loving iSing so far

Fantastic Family Picnic

A fantastic community picnic. The sun shone.

An amazing community food table with so many lovely dishes to share.

Modifying Text and Images

We created posters on Word.

We shared our favourite animals, changed the font, colour, size and style and even added images too,

Amazing work Year 2

Computing – using bold, italics and underlining tools

Today we explored the bold, italic and underlining tools (as well as recapping our knowledge of fonts, colour and size.)

Money

We had lots of fun making different amounts in Maths today. We can’t wait to go shopping with our families to help with the money

Changing fonts, colours and size

Year 2 have started to usePowerPoint in Computing. We have looked at how to add text, change the font, colour and size. We also started to change the theme.

Investigating money

2GH have been busy using coins to make different amounts today.

Cricket

Camp Fire

This Friday (3rd May)  there will be a camp fire for year 2 children and their grown ups. Look forward to seeing you there.

DT – Making our chairs

We had lots of fun using different joining techniques to build our own chairs. Take a look at some of our fantastic structures

2GH – ?Continents???

We have been busy learning the continents song today!

Check out our finished chairs!

We made chairs as part of our DT topic on stable structures.

Teamwork – we started to build our chairs

We worked so well in teams to start to build our chairs in DT

Building our prototypes!

Year 2 Outdoor Club

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We’ve had a great time over the last few weeks in Outdoor Club! We’ve played games, created dens and ended with a campfire. Huge thanks to the children of Year 2 for coming along each Tuesday.

Should Jack go up the beanstalk?

Should Jack climb the beanstalk? We tried to persuade him and we took sides in class. We came up with some great reasons for and against the idea.

Expressive Collages! Titanic Art

We worked hard in art today to make expressive collages of the Titanic.

Painting – Impasto!

2GH have been painting using primary colours. We made sure that the paint was thick so that we could move it around the page and created our own ‘impasto’ techniques.

Repeated Addition in 2GH

We have started our multiplication journey. We have been busy learning about repeated addition this week.

Santa Dash 2023 ??????‍♀️????‍♂️

This Friday, 8th December 2023, we will be having our very own Santa Dash! A chance to squeeze in an extra fitness session whilst having some festive fun ??‍♀️????‍♂️?????

Watch this space! ?

Where did Ibn Battuta travel?

We have been investigating our first explorer Ibn Battuta in Year 2. We researched the countries he visited and how he travelled today.

Starting our new RE topic

We started our new Christianity topic by looking at Christian symbols and artefacts. Christians believe God has many titles so we thought about the different labels we have.

Y2science

Year 2 have been sorting things into 3 categories-alive, dead and never been alive. We had a lot of fun looking at the things that were alive too!

Year 2 science

Year 2 have been sorting things into 3 categories – alive, dead and ever been alive. We had a lot of fun looking at some living things from the playground too!

Diwali candles in 2GH

We have enjoyed creating our own Diwali candles today

Year 2 have made remembrance poppies today

2GH made some beautiful poppies to help us remember today.

We investigated the question are the oldest children the tallest today

We investigated the question are the oldest children the tallest today in @SmithdownPrimY2 #smithdownsci

Lots of discussion with our connect retrieval task today matching features of different stages of development

Lots of discussion with our connect retrieval task today matching features of different stages of development. It was lovely to hear some of our fabulous new vocabulary being used independently #smithdownsci @SmithdownPrimY2 @baronbedford @Edu_Meadows

After learning about life cycles with Years 2 & 5

After learning about life cycles, @SmithdownPrimY5 kindly invited us to watch their butterfly release this afternoon. 4 classes of pure excitement ? #smithdownsci @SmithdownPrimY2

Today we kicked off our topic and Curriculum project

Today we kicked off our topic and @Curriculum_USP project in @SmithdownPrimY2 by recapping what an animal is and learning about vertebrates/invertebrates @baronbedford @Edu_Meadows #smithdownsci

First day back for me today and a lovely day spent with year 2

First day back for me today and a lovely day spent with @SmithdownPrimY2 counting and discussing precious items important to us @misshath2 #smithdownre

We are ready to write our own circular story now…

We retold the model text. We used picture clues to help. We are ready to write our own circular story now #smithdownwriters #smithdownreaders

This week we have been busy using flexible partitioning

This week we have been busy using flexible partitioning #smithdownmaths

We reviewed our favourite photographs…

We reviewed our favourite photographs and discussed the impact the darkness or light had on our pictures #smithdowncomputing

In computing we took photographs in dark places.

In computing we took photographs in dark places. We then spoke about lighting, used torches and other light sources to improve our pictures #smithdowncomputing

Year 2 – ordering numbers

Year 2 were hard at work on Friday – ordering numbers #smithdownmaths

Jewish creation story with each other this week

Year 2 have worked so hard to share the Jewish creation story with each other this week #smithdownre

So proud of these boys in Year 2 who have represented our school in the first sporting competition of the year!

So proud of these boys in Year 2 who have represented our school in the first sporting competition of the year! Exceptional behaviour, some amazing football and lots of smiles! Thank you @Liverpool_SSP for a great afternoon #smithdownpe ⚽️

We used a range of different scales on our empty number lines

We used a range of different scales on our empty number lines. We had to place the numbers where we thought they would go. #smithdownmaths

Estimating the position of numbers on a number line

On Friday Year 2 were hard at work estimating the position of numbers on a number line #smithdownmaths

We are loving our computing topic – photography!

We are loving our computing topic – photography! Today we thought about what makes a good photograph and had to capture a range of different images using different criteria. #smithdowncomputing

Voting for our new School Councillor today

We loved voting for our new School Councillor today #smithdownextra @IrelandIreland1 @SmithdownPr

Year 2 had such a good time on the tour bus looking for local landmarks

Year 2 had such a good time on the tour bus looking for local landmarks and your behaviour was exceptional too #smithdowngeog

Partitioning 2 digit numbers in maths today…

Working hard partitioning 2 digit numbers in maths today #smithdownmaths

We worked on our dribbling skills in PE today

We worked on our dribbling skills in PE today #smithdownpe

Today we explored our local area using Google maps

Today we explored our local area using Google maps. We used our postcode to find our own homes and spotted familiar places around school too. #smithdowngeog

We then went back to class and reviewed our work…

We then went back to class and reviewed our work

We started our new computing topic and became photographers this week

We started our new computing topic and became photographers this week. We played photography bingo and experimented with different subjects #smithdowncomputing

We worked in teams to make a better map

We worked in teams to make a better map than Anna and Crocodile #smithdownreaders #smithdownwriters

Subtracting in multiples of tens today

Subtracting multiples of ten in maths #smithdownmaths

Adding in multiples of tens today

So proud of these superstars adding in multiples of tens today #smithdownmaths

Roll and stop in PE…

Roll and stop in PE. We explored stopping the ball with our hands and feet this week #smithdownpe

In maths this morning we…

In maths this morning we started to estimate the position of multiples of ten on a number line. #smithdownmaths

We then moved onto learning about the surrounding waters of the UK

.We then moved onto learning about the surrounding waters of the UK. We completed a jigsaw of the UK and used a map to help us to label the water around us. #smithdowngeog

We worked so well with a partner In Geography

In Geography this afternoon we used an atlas to help us name the countries of the UK and the capital cities. We worked so well with a partner #smithdowngeog

We put Anna and Crocodile in the hot seat

On Friday we put Anna and Crocodile in the hot seat #smithdownreaders @clpe1

PE IS BACK!!

PE IS BACK!! We had a lovely PE lesson in the sunshine today. We aimed at a target from different distances #smithdownpe @misshath2 @SmithdownPr @SmithdownPrimY6

Today in maths we put objects into groups of ten and then counted them.

Today in maths we put objects into groups of ten and then counted them. We recognised that ten ones made a ten too. #smithdownmaths

Predictions about our new story

Wow 2GH, I am so impressed with your predictions about our new story. You also asked some really inquisitive questions @misshath2 @SmithdownPr

This morning we found some treasure chests in our room.

This morning we found some treasure chests in our room. We found some clues about our new story. #smithdownreaders @misshath2 @SmithdownPr

Year 2 have been reading ’The Beautiful Oops’…

Year 2 have been reading ’The Beautiful Oops’ and thinking about how we can celebrate our mistakes and turn them into something special. #smithdownart @SmithdownPrimY2