Mar 14
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
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
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 …
Feb 13
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 …
Feb 06
This week in Year 2, we have been looking at money. We have focussed on making different combinations of the same amount. To do this, we used our prior learning of our part-whole models and physical money to show how an amount can be made in different ways. We learnt a key sentence this week …
Jan 30
Over the last 3 weeks in English we have been learning to write stories. We started by learning a story called The Great Kapok Tree off by heart. We used a story map and made up our own actions to help us. We thought it was a great story and really enjoyed listening to it …
Jan 21
This term in Art we are studying Yayoi Kusama, a Japanese artist known for her artwork with sculpture and bright colour. We have been learning some key skills a clay sculptor must know. First, we were given the clay tools, a rolling pin and a word mat with different techniques to manipulate clay. For example, …
Jan 16
This term our science topic is Animals, including humans and looking at growth over time. We started by thinking about ourselves and the lifecycle of a human. We brought in photos of ourselves as babies and really enjoyed looking at a gallery and working out who was who! The children then thought about the word …
Jan 09
Welcome back and a Happy New Year! The children have returned with stories of Christmas joy and new year excitement. We got stuck in straight away with our learning this week. In English, we started to learn our new story: The Great Kapok Tree. We learnt the story which is based in a rainforest and …
Dec 12
This week in Maths we have been using our knowledge of 10 to help us add and subtract efficiently. We used tens frames and counters to help use this method using concrete equipment. We have also been exploring how this might look pictorially as well as using more formal written methods. Think 10 is not …