Welcome to Year 2.
Our Teachers are Mrs Carter, Mrs Garcia and Mrs Wood. Our Teaching Assistants are Miss Kotrcova and Miss Moss.
May 222026
What a Sporty week!
The week started and finished in a very sporty way. We started with a visit from the athletics Olympian Jodi Williams and our sponsored exercises and ended with a really fun sports day. Weren’t we lucky with the weather?
In Maths we have had fun learning about capacity. We have linked this with our work on George’s Marvellous Medicine and been inventive in our discovery time. In small groups we ordered different sized and shaped containers into largest to smallest and then filled them with water, reading the scales and noticing how the capacities varied. We were surprised that a tall skinny container actually had a relatively small capacity.
We hope you all have a great half term and enjoy some sunshine, wherever you are.
Best wishes
The Year 2 Team
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May 152026
Stickman, oh Stickman!
We have had lots of fun this week transforming our sticks into a stick person. We started by playing with materials to create something that grew from a ‘seed’. Then over the rest of the week, creativity and techniques have been oozing in Year 2. We’ve used sticks, wool, felt, fabric, pipe cleaners, lace, cotton wool and anything we could lay our hands on! The process and results are fantastic. We love them and can’t wait for you to see them.
In Maths we have been finding fractions of shapes and numbers. Look how hard we have been working.
We had a sports day practice at the field today and feel ready to have some fun next Friday morning. Hope to see lots of you there. Thank you to parents who have signed up to walk down with us over the next few weeks.
Hope the sun shines for us this weekend.
The Year 2 team
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May 082026
Friday fun!
We have thoroughly enjoyed celebrating Sir David Attenborough’s 100th birthday today and all the incredible things he has done for our planet. We wrote some lovely letters to him telling him how much we have loved his films (we watched a few clips today) and all about our favourite animals.
It was fantastic to go to the field this afternoon. We were mini-David Attenborough’s, and enjoyed completing a nature hunt, where we had to find a daisy, cow parsley, an orange tip butterfly, to name a few. The children were great at spotting most of the things, but one of the high lights was rolling down the grass hill together!
On Wednesday we used our observational skills and various drawing methods to draw the twigs that we will be transforming next week in Art. Brilliant focus and concentration Year 2!
Have a great weekend.
The Year 2 Team
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May 012026
A polar bear in a rainforest?
What a lovely week we have had in Year 2 made all the better by the sunshine.
In English we have all used our imagination and created a ‘habitat Swap’ for an animal. Imagine seeing a penguin in the city, a tiger in the Arctic or a polar bear in the rainforest! We have all decided on an animal and a habitat and written a plan for our writing next week. We have thought about how our animals would feel, what they would see and hear and what they will eat in their strange habitat!
In Maths we have progressed onto division with remainders. We have grasped this really well.
Micro habitats has been our topic in Science and we have learnt all about how creatures have adapted to live under logs and in rockpools. Ask us how a beetle has adapted to living under a log or how a sea anenome catches its food.
Next week we are looking forward to our first Field Friday this year. Thank you to those of you who have signed up to walk to the field with us – the sign up sheet is outside the classroom if you have a spare hour on a friday afternoon.
On Friday we enjoyed another yoga lesson as a perfect end to our busy week.
Have a lovely weekend
The Year 2 team
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Apr 242026
Freezing cold and boiling hot!
We have had an exciting week learning about how animals have adapted to life in the arctic and the rainforest. Did you know that in rainforest Tree Frogs have sticky pads on their paws to stop them from falling off slippery leaves? Did you know that reindeer dig through the snow to find moss to eat? We showed this in Discovery time.
In English we have been reading The Kapok Tree and we were all very upset about the amount of rainforest that is being destroyed so we wrote letters persuading man to stop cutting down the trees. We imagined we were one of the animals and thought about how losing our home would impact us.
In Maths we continued to practise our division skills practically and in worded problems. We are getting really confident with this.
Crimson class had a wonderful PE lesson with a Spurs coach. Everyone focused really hard on their dribbling skills. It’s Scarlet Class’s turn on Monday!
We are enjoying doing yoga in our PE lesson on Fridays. What a great way to end a hectic week!
Have a great weekend.
Year 2 team
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Apr 172026
Rainforests and temples
Welcome back to the Summer term. We hope you all had an enjoyable break.
Our English this week has involved immersing ourselves in the rainforest. We have imagined what we would hear, see, smell and feel if we visited a rainforest. Our discovery time has given time to show the rainforest in so many creative ways.
In RE we have been looking at Hindu temples and some Hindu worshipping rituals. The children have been fascinated and were very interested to hear Mrs Kohli speak from personal experience about her religion. They asked very thoughtful questions.
The children have focused on amazing temple drawings. It is not easy to draw such detailed mirror images but with a lot of amazing observation and perseverance we have some incredible works of art to feel very proud of.
This term’s homework is coming home in the purple homework books. Please support your child to complete their weekly task and encourage good presentation if the task involves writing.
We hope you all have a lovely weekend.
The Year 2 team
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Mar 272026
Easter fun!
Fabulous learning has continued into the last week of term, despite everyone being very tired and more than ready for a break!
In English we have written some excellent instructions for making bread rolls, using ‘bossy verbs’. Why don’t you try making your own bread rolls over the holidays? You will definitely have some keen, experienced helpers.
We have also enjoyed learning about the Last Supper as part of the Easter story this week. As usual the children have been very creative in their ways of showing their learning during Discovery time. We also role played the supper, which was fun and something everyone will always remember!
Well done everyone who joined in the TTRS Battle for homework. The results between the classes were so close. Scarlet class won by only 3 points. You will have received an individual TTRS ‘heatmap’ in book bags this week. This will help identify where your child is at with their times tables. The more practice, the better.
Thank you for all your support this term and we look look forward to seeing you back again after the holidays.
Have a great break.
The Year 2 team
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Mar 202026
All about bread!
It was really good to get to see you all in the Parent Consultations over the last two weeks, and get to show you all the great work and learning your children have been doing.In Maths this week we have been having fun with our times tables and arrays. The week began by making human arrays in the playground! 3 x 2 = 3 groups of 2 children. Thankfully it didn’t rain!
The fun continued into D&T as we have been baking this week. Our theme has been ‘bread’ and on Monday we tasted a variety of types of bread and then had a ‘talk time’ discussing which ones we liked/disliked and why. Later on in the week saw us making our own bread rolls – using all sorts of skills including following instructions, measuring ingredients, mixing and kneading and then showing patience while we waited for the dough to rise. The results were impressive and very tasty.
We can’t believe we are embarking on our final week of the Spring term. Where has the time gone?We hope you have a wonderful weekend,The Year 2 team.-
Mar 132026
Spot the difference!
This week we have been focusing of what is the same and what if different about St Albans and Lyme Regis. Did you know that Lyme Regis doesn’t have a train station ? We created some impressive venn diagrams.
Later in the week we thought about how St Albans has changed from ‘then to now’. The Cathedral, Clock Tower and Roman remains have been part of St Albans for a very long time and now there are also lots of shops and new houses. We looked at old photos and noticed that horses, carts and carriages were the way people moved around, but now we use cars.
In Maths we revisited subtracting two 2-digit numbers with regrouping. We used dienes to help us see the exchanging. Lots of practice has made us very competent with this strategy.
In English we have been busy making maps to help the dragons find their way home and we found out what their land is like and everyone enjoyed describing it.
Congratulations Scarlet class on a brilliant assembly! We are so proud of how confident the children were.
Homework this week: Don’t forget our TTRS battle between Crimson and Scarlet class. Also please learn your spellings as some of them will help with your writing next week.
Have a great weekend,
The Year 2 team
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Mar 062026
Dragon Machines, World Book Day and Discovering St Alban!
We have had a very busy week. It started with everyone designing their own Dragon Machine to help the dragons find their way home. They were very imaginative, filled with pipes, cogs and pulleys – we even had lifts and ladders to get people aboard! Lots of children then made their machine in Continuous provision.
On Thursday we had World Book Day with a chance to dress up and celebrate books with exciting activities including a quiz and a workshop based on Matilda.
Early in the week we did some research about the story of St Alban and then on Friday we went to the Cathedral to find out more.
It was a particularly busy day for Crimson class as we had our class assembly on Friday too. Congratulations Crimson – you did a great job! It’s Scarlet class’s turn next week. Please learn your lines for the beginning of the week. Good luck.
We hope you have a great weekend!
The Year 2 team
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