Year 2

2023-2024

Year 2 Information

Over the year we will teach the children through six learning journeys which are...

...Twisted Tales, Animal Magic, To infinity and Beyond, All Aboard, The Adventure Begins and No Limits. Each half term we provide you with an overview that details what learning the children will cover in that learning adventure.

In Year 2 we have three delightful classes, they are:

Squirrels (Miss Kirkpatrick)
Field Mice (Mrs Hutchings)
Hedgehogs (Mrs Nelson).

Year 2 have PE sessions which take place on Thursdays and Fridays - the children will need to bring their PE kits in to change for their PE sessions. They will then wear their PE kits home.

Autumn 1 2023- 2024 - Twisted Tales

Please see below for information about what we will be learning this Autumn 1 in school. There are also some ideas to do at home to support your child's learning and help them to recall and embed what they learn in school.

Autumn 2 2023- 2024 - Animal Magic

We start our Animal Magic learning adventure with a Carnival of the Animals day where we come dressed as all different types of animal!

Please see the information below to find out what we will be learning through this learning adventure. We have provided suggestions that you can do at home too and we love seeing these things so please send them in or tell us all about it!

Spring 1 2024

Please read below to find out all about our out of the world learning adventure this half term. We are going 'To Infinity and Beyond' as we learn about the space race and significant people that have made history by blasting off into outer space!

Spring 2

Our learning adventure for Spring 1 is All Aboard - all about the Titanic. We will becoming historians to find out all about the past and what happened to possibly the most famous ship in the world!

Year 2 Summer Term 1

The adventure begins

Year 2 - 2022-2023

Autumn 1 2022-2023 - Twisted Tales

Autumn 2 2022-2023

Please see details of our next learning adventure - Animal Magic!

Maths poster - please use these facts to help your child with the pair that make these amounts.

Spring 1 - 2023

Please have a read through our latest Learning Adventure information - we are blasting off into space! Fasten your belts ready for take off!

Spring 2 - 2023

Please have a read through our latest Learning Adventure information titled All Aboard!

Summer 1 202

Summer 2 2023

Please find below all the information about our last half term in Year 2!

We have had a great year with our lovely year 2 children and can't quite believe that we are heading into our last half term with them! Thank you for all your support this year and may we take this opportunity to wish all the children all the best as they move on after the summer holiday!

The Year 2 team.

Year 2 - 2021- 2022

Autumn Term

In September we welcomed in our lovely new Year 2 children and what a term we have all had!

During the months of September and October, we enjoyed re-reading and discussing well known traditional stories. We made porridge bowls for Goldilocks and even created our own gingerbread men...who we managed to stop from running away!

In October and November, we went wild as we learnt about animals and we loved hearing about all of the wonderful pets that the children have! A story favourite soon became apparent as the children thoroughly loved listening to and joining in with, The Lion Inside rap. A must see/hear if you have not!

And then came December with its Christmas wonder and magic, with the icing on the cake; performing 'Away in a Manger', our Christmas nativity to our families. The children were awesome!

We are so proud of what the children have achieved and accomplished this term and are looking forward to another great term in the new year.

Please find attached a wonderful website that lists books that are recommended for children as they move through the year groups at school. There are 50 books listed for each year group and we hope that you find this list useful when choosing books to share with your child.

https://www.booksfortopics.com/yeargroups?fbclid=IwAR1Dn2jNSUV4xjwhNm_qa3dccORSynfYVU4qSbwcN2aIcgGiCTKjrxRdT_k

Spring Term

Spring term 2 was a certainly a busy one! The children loved learning all about the Titanic and they become real Historians when they used a range of artifacts and articles to explore life on board the ship and why it so famously sunk! I think that all the children would agree that the highlight of the term was making a trolley for the Titanic. The children designed and made their trolley and even tested it out, carrying small objects around the classroom.

Summer 1 term has come and gone very quickly!! We all enjoyed going on adventures with characters from stories that had imaginary adventures and we thought about how their feelings changed as the adventure progressed!

Over the term we found out all about the city of Tokyo and how it compares to where we live. Interestingly, both Tokyo and Southampton share many geographical features, which the children found fascinating!

This term we were all very proud of how well the children equipped themselves when facing our special 'quizzes' in the last week of term. They were simply all simply superstars.