Jun 29
This week Year 2 were very excited and full of magic when they began their trip to the Roald Dahl Museum. When we arrived we were buzzing with excitement as if we we had received our very own Golden Tickets! We were quick to get unpacked and ready to begin the day of adventure. We …
Jun 22
Last Friday Year 2 had a great time taking part in Sports Day. Our teachers were impressed with how well we kept going with all of the activities even when they were a bit tricky. We were also really good at cheering our friends on and saying well done to them when they did something …
Jun 16
This term in Year Two, we have been working hard on a type of non-fiction text called explanations. We have learnt that an explanation text often explains how to do something. We had some great fun this term learning the class explanation text called ‘How to be a teacher’. It has made us laugh a …
Jun 08
In RE this week we have really enjoyed talking about and handling a range of artefacts linked to Christianity and Judaism. When learning about Christianity, we looked carefully at a bible, cross and rosary beads. We also looked at a Torah, seder plate and a prayer shawl. It was lovely to hear lots of …
May 25
This week in Year two we have been focusing on trust in our Jigsaw session. We thought about how we know if we can trust someone, for example are they a family member or a teacher. We also discussed why it is important to know who is a trusted person. Lots of us thought that …
May 18
Year 2 had a great time today at the University of Hertfordshire celebrating the Festival of Outdoor Education. We took part in lots of different outdoor activities throughout the day. Activities included -Fairy village making, Art like Goldsworthy, Den Building, Music of Nature, Sun Prints and Rope Ladders. Here are some photos from our day. …
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 …