Year 2 News
Year 2 News 19.12.25
19/12/2025 · 1 comment
English We have been writing sentences about the Arctic. Children described the northern lights, polar bears, icebergs and other features. We then read the story ‘Poles Apart’ by Jeanne Willis. The story tells of a family of penguins getting lost and meeting a polar bear in the North Pole! The children wrote sentences about Read More
Year 2 News 12/12/25
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English The children have worked hard writing their reports on polar animals this week. They wrote a title and introduction followed by three paragraphs under subheadings! Well done Year 2! Spellings This week we have been looking at words with alternative spellings for the n sound: kn and gn. We found lots of homophones Read More
Year 2 News 5.12.25
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English The children have shown great interest in learning about polar animals and this week we have been researching ready to write our own non-chronological reports. We have explored different sources of information including non-fiction texts and the internet. Spelling This week in spelling, we learned that c makes a s sound when followed Read More
Year 2 News 28.11.25
28/11/2025 · 1 comment
Polar Animals In our English and Geography lessons this week, we have been finding out about polar animals and in particular how they keep warm in the cold conditions. We have read some reports about different polar animals. We have looked at the features of this type of text. Next week we will start Read More
Year 2 News 21.11.25
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English We continued with our story Follow the Swallow, and created our own postcards from one of the characters to another. We then looked at some non-fiction writing about swallows and the children developed their sentence skills by using conjunctions. Next week we will be looking at some non-chronological reports. Spelling We have been Read More
Year 2 News 14.11.25
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Follow the Swallow In English, we have enjoyed reading this lovely book by Julia Donaldson. We have been working on developing sentence writing this week by building sentences to describe the characters and writing sentences in the first person from a character’s point of view. The children are really starting to understand and apply Read More
Year 2 News 7/11/25
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Fireworks Poetry This week we have been reading and writing poetry about fireworks. We collected words and phrases and discussed features such as alliteration and rhyme. Finally we created our own acrostic poems. The finished poems were fantastic! Spelling This week we have learned the different spellings for the oa/ow sound. Maths This week Read More
Year 2 News 24.10.25
24/10/2025 · 1 comment
Reading Buddies! Year 2 had a wonderful time sharing books with their year 6 reading buddies this week. English We have been writing character descriptions of our super veggies or veggie villains. The children have really impressed us with their writing this week, trying hard to include right choice adjectives, conjunctions and correct punctuation. Read More
Year 2 News 17.10.25
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Supertato! We started the week reading and reviewing Supertato by Sue Hendra. The videos below show children interviewing each other about the book. We have collected vocabulary to describe Supertato and wrote some brilliant character descriptions. We have created our own superveggie or veggie villain to describe next week! Spelling This week we have Read More
Year 2 News 10.10.25
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Traditional Tales We had fun writing alternative versions of The Little Red Hen this week. We have stories featuring mighty dragons, wiggly tadpoles and slippery snakes, set in dark gloomy caves, busy cities and on volcanoes! Children have been working on including adjectives and extending sentences using conjunctions. Children have also been learning how Read More
