May 11
In Year two, we learn many different strategies to help with our spellings. We have learnt lots of new spelling rules. Our main focus recently has been suffixes and what happens to the root word when we add a suffix. We have been learning to add the suffixes ‘-ed’ and ‘-ing’. When learning about the …
May 05
Today we have enjoyed celebrating the King’s Coronation. We all came in proudly wearing our crowns and were keen to tell our friends about how we had made them. We started the day with an assembly in the hall. We learnt about what will happen tomorrow during the coronation and watched a video that showed …
Apr 27
This term in Year 2 we are looking at ‘Living Things and their Habitats’. We began exploring the differences between things that are living, dead and have never been alive. After learning all the things a living thing needs to live and survive, we then compared and sorted them . Next, we went outside and …
Apr 20
In Maths this week and next, Year 2 are learning to subtract a 2 digit number from another 2 digit number. We started our learning by recapping strategies we had previously learnt, such as ‘think 10 for subtraction’ and think addition for subtraction. Once we had revisited our prior learning we then moved on to …
Apr 01
Each year we love taking the time to celebrate our military children here at Merry Hill. Service children can face challenges with parents in the armed forces. Yet these children are also an amazing asset to families, schools and the local community. The Month of the Military Child helps us remember this and helps us …
Mar 30
Over the last few weeks in English we have been learning about fantasy texts. We learnt the story ‘My Garen’ 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 …
Mar 23
This term in Year 2 we are focusing on Food Technology and will be making our own smoothies. Our challenge is to design a new smoothie for the members of The Yanomami Tribe who live in the Amazon Rainforest. First, we were reminded that in Design and Technology lessons we have to follow a four-step …
Mar 17
This week we have been celebrating national science week. On Monday we went to an assembly. We found out more about the work that scientists do and why scientists are important. We remembered some of the past scientists that we have learnt about at Merry Hill including Dr Richards and Marie Curie. We also found …
Mar 09
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-part-wholes and physical money to show how an amount can be made in different ways. We learnt a key sentence this week which …
Mar 02
This week in English we have been learning about calligrams. Calligrams are poems which create a shape. The shape of a calligram represents the topic of the poem. Calligrams are also known as shape poems or concrete poems. Here are some of the example calligrams we have been looking at: At the beginning of the …