Year 2 News
Year 2 News 27.06.25
27/06/2025 · No comments yet
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
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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
Year 2 News 9.5.25
09/05/2025 · 1 comment
English This week in our English lessons we have been building up the skills needed to write an explanation text. We looked at a range of artefacts from the 1960s and discussed what they were used for and how they worked. We had a go at writing captions to match photographs. We then moved Read More
Year 2 News- 02/05/25
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English The children have been writing their own versions of ‘The Tiger who Came to Tea’ this week and have done a fantastic job. We began by making a plan for our story by drawing our ideas onto a story mountain. This then helped us to write coherent stories with a clear beginning, middle Read More
Year 2 News 25.04.25
25/04/2025 · No comments yet
Welcome back Year 2. It has been a busy few days and children have come back after the holidays with lots of enthusiasm for learning. Please read the April Newsletter for information about what is happening in Year 2 this half term. English The week we read the story ‘The Tiger who came to Read More
Year 2 News 4.04.25
04/04/2025 · 1 comment
English This week in English we have been reading, performing and writing poems about African animals. We have talked about patterns, alliteration and rhyme. Spelling This week we have been learning how to spell contractions such as don’t, can’t, I’m, shouldn’t, they’re. Children can still bring in their completed spelling homework sheets for a Read More
