Wc 14th July 2025 

Week 7 

A busy week in year 2! 

In maths, we have continued learning about directional language and repeating patterns. 

In English, we wrote our instructions of how to bake oven chips! The children pulled the potatoes and carrots that we planted back in Spring 2 and we were so excited by the results! The children then followed their instructions and peeled and prepared the potatoes for chips! 

On Wednesday, Mrs Johnson with the help of others in the school created a fantastic whole school art gallery in the activity hall for open evening! The children loved visiting and seeing all the fantastic pieces across the school! 

On Thursday we enjoyed a beach afternoon thanks to the money we made as a year group from our enterprise. It was a great treat to have the ice cream van come to school! 

With just two days left of this academic year. We would like to take this opportunity to say we are so proud of the children and have loved teaching them this year! We wish them all the best in year 3. 

Mrs Ayaz, Miss Higgs and Mrs Johnson

 

W/C 7th July

A warm week this week. 

In Maths, we have been exploring positional language and are able to describe position, direction and turns. We have explored the difference between clockwise and anticlockwise. This learning is linked to our geography learning of using north, east, south and west to give directions.

In English, we explored the features of a recipe and started to plan our recipes, which we will be continuing next week. The children will be making homemade chips from the potatoes that they have grown themselves. They are all very excited. 

We also had our local area walk on Thursday. The children had an excellent time, and we discussed what different areas of land are used for locally and whether it was a human geographical feature or a physical geographical feature, linking to our geography but also our science by thinking about which animals would live in the habitats. 

Sadly, we had our final forest school session of the year but had a joyful time making smores and reminiscing about all they had learnt in forest school with Mrs Lovell. Next year the children won't have a regular forest school session but will have a special occasion throughout the year with Mrs Lovell. 

Enjoy the sunshine, 

Mrs Ayaz, Miss Higgs and Mrs Johnson

 

 

W/c 30th June 

A super exciting week this week! 

We began by having Aspirations Day on Monday. The children came into school dressed as what they aspire to be when they grow up. It was so lovely to see them engaged and excited to share with their peers. We were also lucky to have 2 guests visit us in year 2 to talk about their careers. We had Rachel a professional opera singer and teacher and Baloo a retired police dog. 

On Tuesday we had a CO2 (carbon monoxide) workshop and Miss Annalea educated the children all about this gas. The children had an excellent time, had opportunities to do some drama and even received a goodie bag. On Tuesday we also had another drama workshop from the people at Perform the children were transported on a magical journey through the jungle. 

In English, we explored riddles and the children were able to plan and write their own riddles. The riddles were about a fruit or vegetable linking to our topic this half term. They loved solving these! 

In maths, we continued to explore pictograms. The children drew and interpreted some. 

Have a super weekend. 

Mrs Ayaz, Miss Higgs and Mrs Johnson

W/c  23rd June 2025 

Week 4

A short week this week as we started off with 2 inset days to extend the weekend. 

In English, we finished off our play scripts based on the three little pigs and the children have done brilliantly.

In maths, we started to look at pictograms and drawing pictograms. We learnt that pictograms represent data in the form of a picture and the importance of the key. 

In PE, we had an excellent time, introducing how we can play a game of rounders. We looked at the rules and the set up and had a go at batting and fielding. 

Then to end the week we had transition day. Where the year 2s become year 3s for the day and spent some time with their new teachers. 

Have a super weekend. 

Mrs Ayaz, Miss Higgs and Mrs Johnson

 

W/C 16th June 2025

Week 3

A great sunny week this week. 

In maths, the children have began exploring tally charts and tables. We learnt how to draw a tally and that on the fifth line it crosses the other 4. We practiced counting in our 5s using the tally. We also answered a range of questions with tally charts and tables. Interpreting data can be a tricky skill but the children all tried hard!.

In English, we continued to write our playscripts and we are nearly finished!. We were also super lucky as a group of year 5 students had written their own playscript and have been rehearsing for weeks and they performed it to the year 2s. It was so great to see the older children enjoy themselves and be creative through English and drama. It truly inspired the children with their learning. 

In D.T we learnt the skill of plaiting, we definitely have some experts in year 2! See some photos below. 

Enjoy the extra long weekend.

We will see you on Wednesday. 

Mrs Ayaz, Miss Higgs and Mrs Johnson

W/c 9th June 2025

Another super busy week in year 2. 

In maths we have been revisiting lots that we have learnt since Autumn, exploring and reminding ourselves of the four operations and fractions mostly. This revision is super helpful as it keeps what we have learnt in our working memory and hopefully into our long term memory. 

In English we planned and started to write a playscript based of the classic story the 3 little pigs. The children are so excited to when we have completed these because it means even more drama opportunities. 

In Science, we have been learning about plants and we set up a fair test today to see what is absolutely essential for plants to grow. The children are excited to observe this over time. In addition, we checked our potatoes and carrots that we planted back in the spring term to check the progress and we were super impressed and excited that they have started to really grow successfully!. Please see photos below. 

Have a fab weekend. 

Mrs Ayaz, Miss Higgs & Mrs Johnson

W/c 2nd June 2025

Summer 2

Welcome back- our final half term in year 2. 

We hit the ground running and have been super busy. 

In maths, we have continued to explore time and telling time in 5 minute intervals past the hour and to the hour. We also explored minutes in an hour and how we can begin to problem solve with this. Why not use analogue clocks around the home with the children?

In English we started to explore playscripts and the features of them. We also talked about our likes and dislikes of a range of playscripts and even acted one out! See photos below. 

In art we used fruits and vegetables to print using different coloured paints. We are really excited as you will be able to see this work displayed at our open evening!

Have a great weekend 

Mrs Ayaz, Miss Higgs and Mrs Johnson

Week commencing 19th May 2025

Week 5 

A great busy week in year 2. 

We had a surprise visit from some unexpected guests. We first noticed them as they had left piles of stones all around the school. As a result in English, we have been writing persuasive letters and using lots of creative language to convince the Hoebbles that TWS is not a suitable habitat for them. The children have really enjoyed this. Please see some photos below. 

In maths we have started exploring time we have learnt how to read o'clock, half past, quarter past and quarter to. We have also learnt how to write the time of these. Why not encourage the children to read the time using this language at home. 

In DT, we planned how we could LIFT A TEACHER! Using our knowledge of mechanisms, we decided that a level mechanism would be ideal and we lifted Mrs Brandon! 

We have also had our KS1 Sports day, which was fantastic. 

On Tuesday we also had our OPAL stay and play sessions. 

Please see photographs below. 

Have a great half term

Mrs Ayaz, Miss Higgs and Mrs Johnson.

Week commencing 12th May 2025

Week 4

A great, sunny week in year 2. 

In English we completed our stories and we are so impressed with the children and all of their efforts. The children used lovely language throughout their stories. We have also started to explore persuasive texts and looked at the features of persuasive writing. 

In Maths, we continued our work on fractions. We explored how 1/2 is equivalent to 2/4 and how to find 2/4 of an amount. We then learnt how to recognise 3/4 and 3/4 of different amounts. Then we finished the week with learning how to count in factions passed 1. 

In Science the children finsihed their topic of living things and their habitats with food chains. In DT we have designed our own games using catapults. The children worked in small groups and are excited to make them next week. 

Enjoy the summer bounce and your weekends. 

Mrs Ayaz, Miss Higgs and Mrs Johnson

Week commencing 5th May 2025

A shorter week again this week with the bank holiday. 

We have been super busy in the afternoons prepping things to sell for our VE Day Enterprise. This week the children continued with their keychains and also decorated biscuits. We then sold them at the VE day picnic and we nearly sold EVERYTHING. The children are so pleased and we are so proud of them and look forward to treating the children. 

In maths we have have continued our fractions work by developing our knowledge about quarters and also exploring thirds. The children ended the week looking at the difference between unit fractions and non-unit fractions. 

In English, we continued our story writing inspired by Audrey the amazing inventor. The children are loving this story and are excited to finish them next week. 

Have a lovely weekend

Mrs Ayaz, Miss Higgs and Mrs Johnson

Week commencing 28th April 2025

Week 2 

A super busy week in year 2. 

In maths we started our fractions unit. We learnt that fractions are equal parts of a whole. We then recognised halves and quarters. We also were finding 1/2 and 1/4 of an amount. The children used the sharing method to help with this. 

In English we planned and wrote the opening of our inventor stories. It was very exciting to think about different inventions we could include in our stories whilst also using literary techniques including adjectives, adverbs, conjunctions and a range of sentence starters. 

In computing he were creating our own stop motion animations the children had the best time!

We also enjoyed a whole class forest school. Please see some photos. 

This week we have been very busy preparing for our Enterprise next week. We have been making a range of things so far we have made,posters to advertise, flags, bracelets and keychains. We made keychains by learning the running stitch, cutting two pieces of felt and joining them together. We first practiced the running stitch using binca before we took things to the next step with the fabric. We are so excited to continue making things next week before selling them at the VE day picnic. 

Have a great bank holiday weekend. 

Mrs Ayaz, Miss Higgs and Mrs Johnson

Welcome to the Summer term. 

Week commencing 22/4/25

 Week 1 

A short but busy week. We welcomed the children back on Tuesday this week. 

In maths we continued and finished our unit on measurement the children explored volume and capacity, temperature, ml and l. The children read scales and calculated using measurement. 

In English we read the fantastic story, 'Audrey the amazing inventor'. This story is all about a young girl that would like to be an inventor but she invents lots of things but they all go wrong, then after a conversation with her adult she realises that you make mistakes and learn from then. She then takes her time to come up with a great plan and then she was successful. The children then acted this story out in a short drama session. We also explored past progressive verbs and present progressive verbs. 

We introduced a new topic Marvellous Mechanisms, the children were given the opportunity to explore different mechanisms including wheels and levers. The children then learnt about a new artist named Jonathon Pradillon and he has a famous piece named Mechanics, created in 2015. The children took inspiration from this and recreated his artwork. 

Have a great weekend. 

Mrs Ayaz, Miss Higgs and Mrs Johnson