Hello and welcome to Year 2.
Our Year 2 Team: Miss Hathaway, Miss Dudley, Mrs Carpenter, Mrs Kelly, Miss Wilson and Mrs Lawson.
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 of the wonderful work that you produce.
Information for Parents
Please click here for our Autumn Term Overview 2023
Please click here for 2GH Timetable
Please click here for 2TD 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 Wednesday.
Year 2TD have PE every Thursday.
Homework
Homework and Spellings are given every Friday.
Reading
Please encourage your child to read every night for around 5-10 minutes.
Keep up to date with our latest news by following us on X (formerly Twitter) @SmithdownPrimY2
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).
Today we discovered treasure chests full of jigsaws in our classroom. We made the picture and looked for clues for our new class story.
What a great start to maths this week. We have made groups of ten and worked on our counting in tens.
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!
Take a look at some of the fantastic musical instruments we have made in our Art lessons this term.
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.
We loved our throwing lesson, especially the flip it game at the end. It got VERY competitive!
We retold the story in teams and performed the story to our friends.
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.)
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,
We made our own maps of Lila’s village and used compass point directions to direct a friend around the map.
We know the names and properties of so many 2D and 3D shapes now! Great work Year 2!
A fantastic community picnic. The sun shone.
An amazing community food table with so many lovely dishes to share.
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
Today we explored the bold, italic and underlining tools (as well as recapping our knowledge of fonts, colour and size.)
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
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.
This Friday (3rd May) there will be a camp fire for year 2 children and their grown ups. Look forward to seeing you there.
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We had lots of fun using different joining techniques to build our own chairs. Take a look at some of our fantastic structures 
We made chairs as part of our DT topic on stable structures.
We worked so well in teams to start to build our chairs in DT
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.
We worked hard in art today to make expressive collages of the Titanic.
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.
We have started our multiplication journey. We have been busy learning about repeated addition this week.
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! ?
We have been investigating our first explorer Ibn Battuta in Year 2. We researched the countries he visited and how he travelled today.
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.
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 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!
2GH made some beautiful poppies to help us remember 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. It was lovely to hear some of our fabulous new vocabulary being used independently #smithdownsci @SmithdownPrimY2 @baronbedford @Edu_Meadows
After learning about life cycles, @SmithdownPrimY5 kindly invited us to watch their butterfly release this afternoon. 4 classes of pure excitement ? #smithdownsci @SmithdownPrimY2
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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 @SmithdownPrimY2 counting and discussing precious items important to us @misshath2 #smithdownre
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 #smithdownmaths
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. We then spoke about lighting, used torches and other light sources to improve our pictures #smithdowncomputing
Year 2 were hard at work on Friday – ordering numbers #smithdownmaths
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! 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 had to place the numbers where we thought they would go. #smithdownmaths
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! Today we thought about what makes a good photograph and had to capture a range of different images using different criteria. #smithdowncomputing
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 and your behaviour was exceptional too #smithdowngeog
Working hard partitioning 2 digit numbers in maths today #smithdownmaths
We worked on our dribbling skills in PE today #smithdownpe
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 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 than Anna and Crocodile #smithdownreaders #smithdownwriters
Subtracting multiples of ten in maths #smithdownmaths
So proud of these superstars adding in multiples of tens today #smithdownmaths
Roll and stop in PE. We explored stopping the ball with our hands and feet this week #smithdownpe
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 completed a jigsaw of the UK and used a map to help us to label the water around us. #smithdowngeog
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
On Friday we put Anna and Crocodile in the hot seat #smithdownreaders @clpe1
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. We recognised that ten ones made a ten too. #smithdownmaths
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. We found some clues about our new story. #smithdownreaders @misshath2 @SmithdownPr
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
