Welcome to Year 2
Miss Stothert- Class Teacher
Mrs Kennedy - Teaching Assistant
Mrs Scales - Teaching Assistant
Autumn Term
RE
In RE we are learning about how Christians prepare for Christmas. Today we looked at the Advent wreath. We learnt all about the candles and what each one symbolises and then we had a go at making our own. This was tricky as we had to work together to read and follow a set of instructions ... but it will help us with our English as soon we will be writing our own set of instructions!
Christmas Crafts
Thank you to all those who attended the Christmas craft morning, the children (and parents) had a fabulous time!
RE
In RE this week we have been learning about Judaism. We have learnt all about the Sabbath and Shabbat. We even got to try some Challah bread. It was really yummy!
English
In preparation for writing our own Twisted Tales we have been doing some research on some fairy tale classics.
Science
To learn more about our topic microhabitats and to develop our Super Science skills. We have made a wormery for our class. We are now going to be observing to worms to see what they do in the soil!
English
On Monday, we received a very strange letter and a suitcase was left in our classroom! We put on our detective hats to try and work out who left them both. We had lots of brilliant ideas, but they definitely from Fairy Tale Land!
We have really been enjoying reading stories in our new outdoor classroom!
RE
Today we have been 'Brightening up for CAFOD.' We all brought in some money, wore bright clothes and even brought a bright tin for our local foodbank. We have learnt all about the fantastic work CAFOD does and together we designed our own people who "brightened up" for CAFOD.
English
This half term in English we have been looking at the story The Way Home for Wolf by Rachel Bright. We started off by thinking all about Wilf and how he was feeling and thinking during the story. Then we looked at real life Wolves and wrote a fact file about them. We were then able to choose our own animal to research! We made a fact file about them too! Inspired by our class text, we wrote our own stories with our researched animal as the main character. We even got to turn them into books. Here's some of our work.
Maths
Last week in maths, we were practicing ordering 2-digit numbers. Here we are playing greater than/ less than.... or as it's more commonly known higher or lower.
PE
With Year 6 being away, Phil kindly offered us an extra PE session. We really enjoyed practicing our curling skills. Next stop... Winter Olympics 2026.
Art
In art we have been looking for patterns in nature. So we went outside and we found out that they are everywhere!
Science
This week in science we have been learning about life processes. To help us remember them we came up with some actions.
Guess which this is: sensitivity, growth, movement, reproduction, nutrition or excretion.
PE
We started the year practicing our handball skills, we really enjoyed it and can't wait to try it again!
Summer Term
Gullivers World
Explorer Day
Morning sports day games
Spring Term
RE
In our RE lessons this half term we have learnt about the different parts of a Mass at the important stages that take place each time. He we are learning about Communion and the significance of it.
DT
After working hard to design and construct our own vehicles, we tested how well they worked using different ramps around the classroom. We the evaluated our vehicles, thinking about what we could or would change if we repeated the task again.
English
We used role play in our English lessons this week, thinking about what the characters in the Lighthouse Keepers Lunch might say to each other. We they used these ideas to write our own speech bubbles.
Art
We have continued to used our sketching skills to draw pictures of lighthouses. We looked at a variety of photos, sketches and paintings online before creating our own designs.
World Book Day
We enjoyed a day of activities about the book The Colour Monster.
Maths
We have been learning about division this week. We practically worked together dividing our class into different groups of children.
PE
We have been enjoying Dance sessions in PE this term. We worked with Louise to create a dance all about lighthouses!
Maths
We have worked hard this week to identify, name and talk about the properties of a variety of different 3D shapes.
Autumn Term
In Art lessons we have looked at different landscapes found in Scotland.
We identified different features within the landscapes including mountains, rocks and water. We then carefully sketched our own versions of our chosen landscapes.
In PE we have worked hard to carefully improve our ball skills, in particular under arm throwing. We have learnt to throw to targets accurately and have enjoyed playing team games.
Olympic gymnast Daniel Purvis came to school to visit us!
Our whole school had an assembly with him, which was very interesting. We learnt all about how he became a gymnast and how he continues to succeed and stay healthy in his life each day.
We also completed circuit activities with Daniel, look at the photos below to see us in action!
French Languages Day
Today we enjoyed learning how to pronounce some of our favourite foods in French and also enjoyed taste testing different varieties of delicious croissants from Lunko.
In Geography lessons we have been learning to name and locate the 7 continents and 5 main oceans. We have used maps and globes to help us identify different parts with growing independence.
Maths
In our Maths lessons we have worked very hard learning about the place value of different numbers.
We have used base ten to identify and create different two digit numbers, used part-whole models to partition numbers and practiced counting in 2s, 5s and 10s.
