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May 15
Division and multiplication
Understanding Division in Year 2 This week in Year 2, we’ve been diving into the world of division—and it’s been a lot of fun! We’ve explored different ways to divide, helping us to understand what it means to share and group numbers. Here’s a little peek into what we’ve been learning and how you can …
May 08
Year 2 Artists Inspired by Edward Tingatinga!
Year 2 have been busy getting creative and colourful in their recent art lessons, inspired by the vibrant work of Tanzanian artist Edward Tingatinga. We’ve had so much fun exploring his unique style, full of bold patterns, bright colours and imaginative animals. To begin our unit, we studied some of Tingatinga’s most famous paintings. The …
Apr 29
Multiplication – Horray Array’s!
This week in Maths, Year 2 have been very busy learning to multiply by 5, following our previous learning of how to multiply by 2 and 10. The children have been excited to learn the mathematical terms ‘factor’ and ‘product’ and to know that multiplication is ‘commutative’ which means you can multiply the factors in …
Apr 24
Poetry in Year 2!
In English our focus over the last week has been poetry. First we read ‘At the Zoo’ by William Makepeace Thackery (1811-1863). We recited this together with our teachers and noticed how at the end of each line was a comma. At the Zoo First I saw the white bear, then I saw the black, …
Apr 02
DT- Making dips!
This week in DT we have been making dips. In Bears we made tzatziki and in Giraffes we made hummus. We practised many skills including peeling, chopping, crushing, ripping, mixing and eating! We loved making dips and having ownership over our very own dip! Firstly, we discussed how to follow a recipe and we read …
Mar 27
Holi
This week we learnt about the spring festival Holi. This is a Hindu festival that celebrates colour! Holi is all about good overpowering evil. In the Holi story we learnt that Prahlad faced several challenges due to not wanting to follow the evil king. Instead, he prayed to Vishnu and he was saved. First we …
Mar 20
RAF Museum trip
On Thursday this week, our Year 2 children took an adventure to the RAF museum to support their current learning on the history of aviation. We began our journey through the sky by exploring the different Hangers and worked on some activities alongside our peers. There were some exciting monoplanes, biplanes and we found our …
Mar 14
Science week 2025
This week in Year 2 we have been busy completing an investigation all about height. Mrs Ineson held an assembly telling the whole school how we are going to be scientists this week. She discussed with us how we are all going to be part of a whole school experiment. The question we needed to …
Mar 06
World Book Day!
Today has been World Book Day and at Merry Hill a love of reading is at the core of everything we do, so today was especially exciting for us. We began the day with our parents visiting us for a morning read, what fun it was sharing some of our favourite books with our parents! …
Feb 26
Fantasy Stories!
Over the last few weeks in English we have been learning about fantasy texts. We learnt the story ‘My Garden’ using a story map and actions to help us, and of course remembered to practise telling it with expression. Once we knew the story really well we looked at a written version of the text …