Book Week 2024

This year each year group chose a non-fiction book from the Little People Big Dreams series. Year Two chose to learn about Sir David Attenborough as we’ve been learning about animals and habitats this term, we knew that some of our pupils were huge Attenborough fans!

We have read about him, watched films and then invented a new animal for him to discover.

We wrote descriptions of our new animals and then the children used these descriptions to design a picture of what they looked like. We wrote letters to Sir David Attenborough and will post these next week – we are keeping our fingers crossed that we get a reply from the man himself!

Find our animals here:

To start this term we have been reading and delving into the gorgeous story of the Snail and the Whale by Julia Donaldson.

We began our term by looking at some garden snails, we watched how they moved and researched by watching videos and reading books. The children all had the chance to make their own snails and many children had collected shells over the half term break so we could study those to see which was closest to the shape of the tiny sea snail in the story.

Our learning so far has looked at describing settings, working collaboratively with our peers to think of the best and most suitable adjectives to describe the scenes from the book. We have looked at the different spellings igh/i-e/ie which are often found in the story, and have begun to look at contractions (don’t / won’t / didn’t).

The children have been immersed in the scenes and have been able to use all their senses to describe the settings.

You can even download this page to practice your lovely cursive handwriting!

cursive handwriting sheet

 

RWI Spelling

This term has seen the start of all children in Year Two having daily RWI spelling sessions.

They have been working really hard and helping each other with their work, one of the new skills they’ve been learning is dictation. The children work in pairs to dictate a sentence to their partner and then help them check if it’s correct. The patience and support they’ve demonstrated has been lovely to watch.

Each week the children are sent spellings home which will be tested on a Friday in the RWI spelling sessions. We will work slowly through the programme to ensure that all children are getting what they need from it.

You can log into the Oxford Owl website to find further books to read online. If your child really likes playing on a tablet then you can find lots of books on the site to read on the tablet, there are also so audio recordings of some of the stories we have at school!

https://www.oxfordowl.co.uk/

We will soon be pointing you in the direction of further online activities that you can do with your children to help them with their learning in school, keep an eye on DOJO for further updates

Welcome back and Happy New Year!

It’s all change in Year Two and we are really excited to explore some fantastic topics this term.

The children have settled in brilliantly to their new classes, and of course classrooms.

Find below our Topic Web for Term 3 which gives you all of our objectives for each subject.

 

This term we are looking at multiplying numbers by 2, 5 and 10.

T3 KIRFs y2

Here are some links to websites that have great resources for you to practice at home:

https://home.oxfordowl.co.uk/maths/primary-multiplication-division/help-with-times-tables/

https://play.ttrockstars.com/

We love these Times table songs!

 

Welcome back after a fantastic Easter Break.

We hope you’ve had some quality time with your families and eaten all the Easter eggs already!

This term we are learning about the Stone Age, our literacy will be linked to the story of the Cave Baby by Julia Donaldson and we have some exciting activities in store linked to our topic.

Here is our curriculum overview for this term:

Curriculum Overview Term 5 2024

Each term in maths we give you some key learning facts, these are facts that the children need to practice regularly at home to help them become instantly recalled. Through regular practice these facts are then retained and act as building blocks for further number work which we do in class.

KIRFS

Welcome to Year Two, the home of Fox, Hare and Rabbit classes

This is where you will find a summary of our learning, photos of our hard work and some helpful links and documents to help support your child.

Here is our curriculum map for Term 1

Term 1 curriculum map

Here you will find our Key Instant Recall Facts

Y2 KIRFs T1

To practice your maths at speed log on to Numbots

This term our English work is all linked to our lovely text ‘The Lonely Beast’

We’ve begun by exploring our feelings towards this enormous black creature of whom we know nothing about!

The children have been looking at the illustrations and using role-play to develop understanding about our main character.

We’ve mapped out the story and look forward to creating some interesting descriptions of the Beast next week

This term we have thoroughly immersed ourselves in our Stone Age topic. We have looked at Cave art, the types of houses from the different periods of the Stone Age and learnt about the settlement at Skara Brae.

We have some examples of Owl’s Cave Art paintings here, we used charcoal for a more authentic experience.

In DT we have been learning about sewing, we have designed and made our own pouches, we learnt how the Stone Age people were believed to have had a food pouch made from leather, and their inventions of needles from bones.

Here are some examples of Eagle classes Stone Age Pouches:

This Term we are immersing ourselves in the Great Fire of London

On September 1st 2023 just a few days before we started back at school the topic made national headlines

Great Fire of London: Man who first raised alarm identified

How fantastic to study a topic that is still making the headlines!

We began our DT project by building some Tudor houses, we wanted to identify if they were stable, and how we could improve them when we build our own Tudor houses later in the term. The children were fantastic at cutting out the templates and worked hard together to create the 3D shapes.

This term we have been learning about Mary Seacole and Florence Nightingale in our History lessons.

The children have learnt some key facts about how these amazing nurses helped injured soldiers in the Crimean war, and how their work changed nursing forever!

They have looked at old pictures and some photos to identify how poor the conditions were for the soldiers. They’ve dressed up and practiced being nurses themselves and we are looking forward to meeting a doctor next week to learn more about how to help protect current patients from further illness and infection.

Here are just a few samples of our work, our collaborative work and us pretending to be nurses!