Welcome to Year 2.
Our Teachers are Mrs Carter, Mrs Garcia and Mrs Wood. Our Teaching Assistants are Miss Kotrcova and Miss Moss.
Jun 262026
Our wonderful (hot!) world
Everyone has done incredibly well coping in the extreme heat this week. This has obviously been helped by the amazing air conditioning that we are lucky to have in the upstairs classrooms, but still we have felt a bit less energised and have really missed our lunchtimes outside.
We ‘invited’ Year 1 upstairs to share our air conditioning for an afternoon and we had a lovely time reading and drawing patterns together. It was also a great opportunity for Year 1s to ask the experienced Year 2ers about what to expect in September.
We have been looking at our ‘Wonderful World’ in RE and the Christian creation story and shown our learning beautifully in our Discovery time.
In English we have introduced the children to the story ‘The Owl Who Was Afraid of the Dark’ and enjoyed retelling it. We have also written some wonderful descriptions of darkness, using lots of adjectives.
Well done to both Crimson and Scarlet class for earning their class treat for filling up their marble jars. What better way to end the boiling hot week than by mixing with our new class friends and chilling with a well-deserved ice pop to cool us down.
Enjoy the weekend!
The Year 2 team
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Jun 192026
Patterns, printing and partying!
The highlight of the week, for those you went, has got to be the Phase 2 DISCO. So much fun was had, so much energy was exerted and so many smiles were observed. Thank you to the PTA for organising the event.
Back in the classroom. We have really enjoyed exploring ‘symmetry’ in maths. The children have been so creative with how they have shown us their understanding – using wooden blocks, lego, hama beads and drawing.
We have also spent time doing Art this week and have focused on drawing and monoprinting. We did some beautiful drawings of our natural world which then led us on to monoprinting using carbon paper. The results were wonderful and the children were fascinated by the simple process and results.
We are almost halfway through the final term of Year 2, and everyone is feeling pretty tired, especially in the heat, so we hope you have a relaxing weekend.
The Year 2 Team
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Jun 122026
Sensational Savannah!
This week we moved onto how the animals have adapted to live on the African Savannah. The children have impressed us with how much they can tell us. The giraffe has a long blue tongue that can pick the leaves of the acacia tree in between its thorns. Have you ever heard of a dazzle of zebras? When zebras are part of the herd it is hard for predators to distinguish individuals – their stripes dazzle them! Did you know that an ostrich can run up to 43 kph? This produced some lovely work in discovery time.
In Maths we have been working hard on the properties of 3D shapes. How many faces, edges and vertices does a cylinder have? The children made 3D shapes in the construction area and small world.
We had a lovely afternoon on Friday in our new class groups. We had the opportunity to talk and work with one another. It was fun!
Have a lovely weekend. Enjoy the sunshine.
The Year 2 team
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Jun 052026
Summer term in the Savannah!
Welcome back after your sunny half term break! We started learning about the Geography of the African Savannah and the children have really enjoyed showing us their learning. We have a Savannah diorama in the workshop area, the wet and dry season in the small world, the baobab and acacia trees in the lego area and even a fact scroll on elephants as long as two small children (see photo!)
Whilst our break was more like the dry season on the Savannah we have returned to school to weather like the wet season on the Savannah, but thankfully the weather held out for our ‘Outdoor Learning Day’ today. We had great fun on the field this afternoon. We started by practicing our throwing and receiving ball skills in our PE lesson and ended by creating a map of the field and noting down all the different features we could see and hear. We measured the length of the field in paces and, although the measurements varied (!), we think it was about 90 paces long.
Wishing you all a lovely weekend.
The Year 2 Team
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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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