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May 23
Year 2 science and computing!
In Science recently we have been thinking about habitats and what that means . We learnt a simple definition as part of our Word Aware program – ‘A habitat is a place where an animal or plant lives‘. We have been doing a lot of work understanding why different species of animal live in different …
May 16
Art
Our Artist this term is Edgar Degas whose main focus in his paintings are people and figures. So, we started the term with a whole class follow along to sketching a person’s figure. We had to use our light sketching lines and think about the proportions of the body parts. Lots of us found it funny when our teacher drew …
May 09
Maths in Year 2!
This week in Maths, Year 2 have been very busy learning to multiply by 5, following learning how to multiply by 2s and 10s. 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 any order and …
May 02
Explain, Explain, Explanations!
For the last two weeks, year two have been working really hard learning how to write explanation texts in English. An explanation text is a piece of writing that explains how to do something. We began our unit of learning like every other English unit, with a cold task. This is when we complete a …
Apr 26
Purple Up Day in Year 2!
April is the month of the military child and we are glad to have some children whose parents are in the Armed Forces within our community here at Merry Hill Infant School. Today we learnt a bit more about what it means to be part of a military family. We started our day by …
Apr 18
Summer Term Begins!
Welcome back to all our Year two pupils and families! We hope you thoroughly enjoyed the Easter holidays; we know the children did from their many stories of adventures they have had. As usual, we began the week with our Mindful Monday lesson. Our Artist this term is Edgar Degas whose main focus in his …
Mar 21
Guacamole Dip!
In Design Technology this half term we have been evaluating, designing and making our own guacamole dip! The children have been such active and curious learners during these sessions. Plus we as teachers have been really impressed with the teamwork and independence that the children have shown. We started by thinking about dips in general; …
Mar 14
Science in Year 2
Happy Science Week! This week we have been celebrating Science, started by an assembly lead by Miss Honnor our Science lead, which got us excited about our scientific learning! This year the focus is on Science and the passing of time, which ties in well with our Year 2 topic of plants and growing. For …
Mar 07
World Book Day!
Today was a book-packed day! What a marvellous day celebrating World Book Day! Ahead of the day, the children have been sending in photos of themselves reading in unique places. Take a look below: We began our day with an assembly as a whole school! We were informed about what World Book Day is for …
Feb 29
Year 2 Maths
The children have returned to school on great form after half term, ready to learn! In Maths this week we started to work on written addition methods. As calculations increase in difficulty and become harder to solve mentally, it is important for children to be able to record these. We started the week by revisiting …