Thomas Willingale School and Nursery
Summer Term
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 learnign 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
