Year 2 – Crimson & Scarlet
Sep 12 2025
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 …
Sep 06 2025
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 …
Jul 20 2025
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 …
Jul 11 2025
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 …
Jul 04 2025
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 …
Jun 27 2025
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 …
Jun 23 2025
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 …
Jun 13 2025
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 …
Jun 06 2025
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 …
May 24 2025
We can’t believe we have come to the end of our penultimate half term of Year 2. Time certainly flies when you’re having fun! This week in Year 2, children have been learning about seeds and bulbs as part of their Science lessons. We learnt that we can eat some bulbs such as garlic and …
