Year 2 News
Year 2 News 30.01.26
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Florence Nightingale Workshop On Monday we really enjoyed meeting Florence Nightingale. She told us all about her life. We enjoyed a teddy hospital activity and then looked at some objects that Florence would have used in Scutari Hospital. English We have really enjoyed planning and writing our stories this week. First we acted out Read More
Year 2 News 23.01.26
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English We finished our recipes earlier in the week, working hard to write the steps for making our magic medicines and adding a warning at the end. We then moved on to some narrative work, creating a new character for a story. Next week we will be developing ideas for a story where a Read More
Year 2 News 16.1.26
16/01/2026 · 1 comment
George’s Marvellous Medicine Inspired by Roald Dahl’s story, we made our own Marvellous Medicines with the gloopiest, stinkiest ingredients we could find. Children rehearsed verbal instructions while directing others to add things to the pan. We have started to write up our recipes and will finish these next week. Spelling This week we have Read More
Year 2 News 9.1.26
09/01/2026 · 2 comments
Happy New Year! We hope you all enjoyed the break and that those celebrating had a happy Christmas. Year 2 seem raring to go this term after two weeks off! George’s Marvellous Medicine This week we have begun our new class text- George’s Marvellous Medicine by Roald Dahl. The children have been at once Read More
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
