Feb 09
This week, Year 2 have been on their class trips to St. Peter’s Church in Bushey. In Religious Education (R.E.) we have been studying Special Places and their importance to people. We began this topic thinking of what makes a place special and then drew our own special place; some of us said our house …
Feb 02
In Geography this half term we have been learning about rainforests. We found out that rainforests are found near the equator and that they are hot, wet and humid places. The biggest rainforest is the Amazon rainforest. We used atlases to identify the locations of the rainforests on a world map. This week we have …
Jan 27
This term in our science, Year 2 have been looking at living things and what they need to survive. We have thought hard how each living thing has four basic needs: oxygen, shelter, food and water. Further than this, we dived into learning our new science word of the week: offspring. We learnt about how …
Jan 19
This week in Year 2 we have been learning to rebalance number sentences to make them easier to solve. This is the vocabulary we use when discussing addition and subtraction. When we add 2 numbers together we can rebalance the number sentence by adding an amount to one of the addends and taking it away …
Jan 12
In English this week we started learning our new story The Great Kapok Tree. As we are in the imitation stage of the learning sequence, we have been doing lots of oral rehearsal of our story and have been learning the different parts. We were reminded there are five parts of a story: opening, build …
Dec 15
In Design and Technology this term Year 2 have been learning about how cars are made ready for when we would make our very own vehicle! We have learnt about the parts of a car: the chassis, axles, wheels and body. First, we experimented different ways to make the body of the car, we decided …
Dec 08
This week in maths Year 2 have been learning to rebalance number sentences in order to make them easier to work out. First we learnt about rebalancing when adding 9. We used tens frames and counters to help us. To solve 9 + 6 first we made each number on a tens frame using counters. …
Dec 01
As I am sure you are aware, we have been learning about the Great Fire of London which has created fantastic excitement for our children this term! We have learnt a bit about Samuel Pepys and most importantly, how he recorded the events in the form of a diary. So, we thought let’s practice writing …
Nov 24
In History we are learning about The Great Fire of London. We started our learning by using a range of sources to find out about the fire. We used websites, videos, pictures and books. We wrote down one fact from each source. We were particularly interested to find out about a man named Samuel Pepys; …
Nov 17
This week in Year 2, we have begun our lesson with the word absorbent. We discussed its meaning using our Word Aware strategies at Merry Hill. First, we said the word, next we clapped the syllables in the word, then we discussed its meaning, and finally we rapped the word! We especially enjoyed that last part! …