Welcome to Year 2.
Our Teachers are Mrs Carter, Mrs Garcia and Mrs Wood. Our Teaching Assistants are Miss Kotrcova and Miss Moss.
Sep 192025
Cracking Castles!
In our second full week of term we have continued to learn about castles. In our discovery time we have improved our ideas and worked out how to make all the features of a castle. On Wednesday we were challenged to think about what sort of castle Zog would live in. We came up with some exciting ideas including a runway, a roar room and a high tower to practise catching princesses.
In Maths we have subtracted a one digit number from a two digit number (e.g. 17-9) using different resources. In English we have written about all the things Zog learns at school. In PSHE we thought about our class rules.
1. Quiet voices
2. Look- Listen
3. Think Tidy
Thank you for your support with their first homework of the year – the books look great!
They will also be coming home with spellings to reinforce our learning from this week. Please use the practice sheet to help learn them and we will be checking this at the start of our Spelling lessons on white boards next week.
Please see below some of our Super Learners.
Have a great weekend!Year 2 team-
Sep 122025
Super Learners
Another fabulous week in Year 2, full of creativity and learning. The children are showing independence, collaboration and are taking responsibility for developing their ideas and inspiring each other.
We have embraced our History topic of ‘Castles’ and have demonstrated our learning in so many different ways. Some children are designing, building and labelling models in the small world area while others are making and writing fact books in the writing area. We have labelled castles drawn on whiteboards and Lego models with battlements and draw bridges being created in the construction area. The buzz of creativity in the classroom is infectious!
We have been working on our paper joining skills in our workshop area and created a portrait using loops, pleats, curls, rolls, fringes and flanges.
Our Super Learners board is filling up as work and ideas are celebrated. Some of the things we are looking out for in our Super Learners are: concentrating, improving ideas, being curious, solving problems, challenging themselves and persevering. Are you a Super Learner?
Homework: Homework books are being sent home in bags this weekend (purple A4 books). Each week homework will be set on Fridays and completed and returned by the following Thursday. The half term’s tasks (one a week) have been stuck in the front of the book.
Reading books: Please read with your child every night. When you have read the book 3 times, please leave it in the box ready to be changed for a new one. Your child’s reading book should be brought into school everyday and left in their bag (unless it needs changing), so that it is available should an adult ask them to read.
P.E. Our PE days are Thursday and Friday. Please ensure your child has their PE kit in school on these days.
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Sep 062025
Welcome to Year 2
We have all loved our first two days in Year 2. We’ve spent time getting to know each other and our new exciting classrooms. The children have loved exploring and creating and we are really looking forward to seeing how their learning moves forward in this creative space.
Our PE lessons will be on Thursday and Friday, so please ensure PE kits are in school on these days.
New reading books will be coming home at the beginning of next week.
Have a lovely weekend.
The Year 2 Team
Jul 202025
Nearly there!
Everyone is getting tired now and looking forward to the Summer holidays. We are nearly there and can’t believe we’ve had a whole school year in Year 2.
Looking back it has been a full and fantastic year!
- We’ve had great trips to St Albans Cathedral, The National Gallery and The Bhaktivedanta Manor. All of which were amazing and different experiences.
- Animal Man came to visit.
- We have performed fabulous sharing assemblies and orchestra and choir performances.
- We have an incredible new playground that has made all the difference to our play and lunchtimes.
- We have learned so much about so many different topics and had lots of fun in the process.
- We have been scientists, artists, historians, mathematicians, writers, philosophers and so much more.
- We have worked so hard and have all been brilliant!
What more can we say? See you on Monday for a day and a half.
Year 2 Team
Jul 112025
Terrific temple
What a busy week for Year 2! On Wednesday, we all boarded a coach and headed off to Bhaktivedanta Manor near Watford to learn more about the Hindu faith. We visited the shrine room, learnt about traditional music and even got to wear wonderful Indian clothes. We then had a delicious vegetarian lunch together. It was great fun to have a ride on a cart pulled by oxes before visiting cows on the farm and feeding them.
This week, we also had transition day. Everyone got to see their new classes and meet their new teachers. We will have so many fascinating topics in Year 3!
It was great to see such colourful and professional looking portaits at the open evening as well as children’s framed art work which everyone took great time and care to complete.
What have been your highlights of the year? There are so many to choose from.
Have a lovely weekend.
The Year 2 team
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Jul 042025
Scientists and artists
We’ve had a fantastic week in Year 2, full of some really great learning experiences!
We visited the science fair which had been prepared by Year 6. There we were able to learn about so many aspects of science by taking part in the activities pupils had set up. Did you know that electricity can be conducted by acidic fruit like lemons? Do you know how to make a coin disappear by playing with light and water? Do you know about the pH of different liquids? It was really fun and interactive and the Year 6 children worked so hard on their research and presentations.
In English, we have been identifying the features of leaflet writing and have started writing our own leaflets on ‘Keeping Healthy’. Homework this week is about this.
We ended the week with a very enjoyable art workshop, run by Hugo’s Mum in Scarlet class and two Year 12 students. We learnt more about mono printing and created our own portraits using a printing technique. What impressive results!
Time for a rest! Have a lovely weekend
The Year 2 team
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Jun 272025
Cracking Careers!
This week in Year 2 we have all been very busy. In English, we read a story about a monster which comes to life at the flick of a switch. Children then designed their own monsters before writing amusing instruction manuals to explain how to use the monsters. We had great fun reading them! In maths we have been learning about differnt methods to solve word problems.
At the end of the week, we celebrated ‘Careers Day’. We had a facinating talk from a parent who manages many aspects of airports. It was interesting to learn how many jobs there are to do in order for people to travel safely all over the world.
We also had a talk from a market researcher who finds out which products may be sucessful. We took part in a survey about our favourite ice-cream flavours. Perhaps you can do your own survey at home with a tally chart?
Finally, we enjoyed an amazing performance from a youth orchestra. We were able to experience and learn about instruments such as the double base, flutes and timpani drums.
We hope to see you at the Summer Fair this weekend.
Have a lovely time.
The Year 2 team.
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Jun 232025
Disco dancing!
This week, children have been very creative in maths. They were set the challenge of using a set number of straws to create different 2D shapes. We even discovered the name of a 12 sided shape! Do you know it?
In History, we have been learning about the life of Nelson Mandela. We did some ‘hot seating’ and children imagined that they were in his shoes and other children asked brilliant questions about his life. Did you know that he became the president of South Africa?
Also in Year 2 this week, children have taken great care to create fantastic pieces of art which will all go on display in the school art exhibition on the 10th July. We have brilliant, budding artists! Children have been further developing their story writing this week too! Watch out for some funny aliens in English books.
We have continued to enjoy our new playground this week with the wonderful weather. There have been some very inventive creations using the lose parts outside, such as a rollercoaster and dens.
Finally, we all had great fun dancing away at the school disco!
Have a lovely weekend
The Year 2 team
Jun 132025
Fantastic Fractions!
This week, Year 2 have continued their learning about fractions. We used toy cars and had to place the cars at given points on the ‘road’. For example, one car got to 1 and 1/2 meters. Children worked out where to place the car from the start line. Everyone got really stuck in and enjoyed this!
We also used jugs and other containers to measure and find half, quarters or thirds of amounts of water. Perhaps you could look at bottles or jars at home. You could look at the capacity and work out what half, quarter or a third would be?
This week we have also had fun preparing art for our school art exhibition which will take place on 10th July, at the open evening.
We have had some some lovely drawings of plants and trees for homework this week. Well done children for your great efforts!
Have a lovely weekend in the sunshine!
The Year 2 team
Jun 062025
A Wonderful World!
Welcome back to our final half term of Year 2! We hope you all had an enjoyable week off school.
A theme has been running through the week – Our Wonderful World.
In RE we we spent some peaceful time outside listening to sounds and seeing what is around us.
In Art, we have done some super observation drawings, inspired by things in our wonderful world, which will be used at a later stage when we learn about printing. What budding artists we have!
In PSHE we shared ideas about how to look after the world, our families, our school and our pets. Lots of very considerate and caring ideas were discussed.
In Maths, we enjoyed cutting tortillas into fractions to see that some fractions are equivalent. Perhaps you will see some fractions at home too when you cut fruit or vegetables into halves and quarters.
In History we reminded ourselves about our previous learning about Mary Seacole, Florence Nightingale and Grace Darling. The children didn’t actually need much reminding though – they remembered so much. We were very impressed!
In Science, we designed and carried out an investigation to see if seeds can grow without soil. This is called hydroponics. You may see bags of seeds which have been placed around the classroom, some with soil, some without. We will wait eagerly to see what happens. If you have a chance, try to plant your own seeds in a pot or in the garden and see how they germinate and grow.
It has been a great week Year 2. Well done!
Have a lovely weekend
The Year 2 team
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