Year 2 News

Goodbye from Year 2 18/07/25
18/07/2025 · 2 comments
We have had a fantastic final week of the year. We’ve finished our bee books in English; we hope you will enjoy reading these! The children made honey biscuits and then shared these with their reading buddies. We have also completed our maths unit on position and direction. The children enjoyed watching the year Read More

Year 2 News 11.7.25
11/07/2025 · 1 comment
Bee Books In English we are making our very own non-fiction books all about bees. We have been learning lots of facts and are becoming bee experts! We welcomed our Farfield beekeeper, Nicole, to school on Monday. She told us all about our Farfield bees and brought in a demonstration hive, tools and suits. Read More

2LA Skelton Grange
03/07/2025 · 2 comments
2LA have had a great day out at Skelton Grange. The children explored the grounds to look for minibeasts in different habitats- the pond, woods and meadow. The children found so many interesting creatures and were very ‘hands on’! In the afternoon, they enjoyed playing in the woods doing different activities such as den Read More
2BW – Skelton Grange
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2BW had the most wonderful trip to Skelton Grange on Tuesday to find out all about different minibeasts and their habitats. We began the day by playing some games and answering some quiz questions before splitting into our three groups for the morning. We had lots of fun using nets to find different minibeasts Read More

Year 2 News 27.06.25
27/06/2025 · 1 comment
English This week we have created some super diamante poems about minibeasts. We started the week collecting lots of nouns, verbs and adjectives about different minibeasts. We then used these to follow the diamante poem structure (below). We loved the children’s finished poems. Spelling This week we have focussed on another spelling of the Read More

Year 2 News 20.06.25
20/06/2025 · No comments yet
English and Art We began our week with a bog baby hunt in our conservation area! We took some magic magnifying glasses to help our search. We were so lucky to ‘see’ some! We then made our bog babies from clay! For the rest of the week we have written some non-chronological reports about Read More

Year 2 News 13.6.25
13/06/2025 · 1 comment
English A letter arrived in this week’s post addressed to Year 2 all the way from Leeds University. Professor Bigbrain had found an unusual creature with small wings and a spiky tail and wondered what it could be. Of course, we knew it was a bog baby! We created a plan of things the Read More

Year 2 News 6.06.25
06/06/2025 · 1 comment
Author Visit We thoroughly enjoyed meeting Jenny York on Tuesday and had lots of laughs ‘meeting’ her characters Sugar and Blaze amongst others. If you want to read ‘Walk the Plank’, please feel free to download your free copy of this. https://jennyyork.com/free-ebook/ English In English this week we read our new class text called Read More

Year 2 News 23.5.25
23/05/2025 · 3 comments
English We packed our bags and journeyed to the moon in our English lessons this week! We acted out the different things we could do on the moon such as collecting rock samples, hopping around and planting a flag and discussed how we felt at different points in our adventure. We then created a Read More

Year 2 News 16.05.25
16/05/2025 · 1 comment
English At the start of the week, we wrote explanation texts to show how objects in the 1960s were different to today. The children were able to organise their writing into clear paragraphs with subheadings. We then read a new text called, ‘The Sea of Tranquility’. We enjoyed making predictions from the front cover Read More