Welcome to Year 2
#proud
Meet the team
Class 6 Teacher: Miss Ainsworth Class 7 Teacher: Mrs Powell
Teaching Assistant: Mrs Begum
PE for Year 2 is on a Thursday.
What we have done this term that made us feel proud.
Year 2 have had a fantastic summer term with in-school experiences and lots of fun. They showed great perseverance and team work when navigating the school grounds to explore the living things that we have in our forest area. They were able to identify and begin to classify different plants and animals that they found. They were also able to use their knowledge of living, dead or never alive to discuss the things they found. This term the children have shown great sportsmanship during their PE lessons and have been able to work as part of a team to take part in team games. They were also very enthusiastic when learning all of the athletic activities we would have used for sports day. They have shown great learning behaviours towards their work and they should be proud of all they have achieved this year.
What we have been learning about this term
Summer term has been full of fun and surprises. From forest school activities, hands on experiences and even exploring how the world was created.
We started off the term with our habitats mini-adventure. The children explored living, dead and never alive objects by visiting the forest area and finding natural materials to identify and classify them. We learnt about the different types of habitats all around the world and animals that would be more suited to living in each habitat. We then looked closer at micro-habitats to really focus on the smaller details and how each micro-habitat is very important to the larger habitats. We also used our new-found knowledge of animals that live in the same habitats to create some simple food chains that included producer, prey and predator. The children then used all of this knowledge to write some fantastic information reports based on the woodland habitat that we have here at school. We also used our forest school sessions to gather materials and create some bug hotels to entice more mini-beasts into our woodland area.
Following on from this, the children were engaged and enthusiastic to learn about how the world was created as part of our Nature and God topic. We discussed the different viewpoints of how the world was first made for a range of religions to see how they compared. We then studied The Creation Story in detail to show the beliefs that Christians hold about the world being created by God in seven days. We used role play and lots of meaningful discussions to apply and discuss what each religion believes about the creation story. To spark our curiosity, we then moved on to learning about how plants grow and planted our very own sunflowers seeds to see the changes a plant goes through. In the classroom, we also created our own fair test to observe how the amount of light affects the growth of a plant. We found out that sunlight is crucial to keep a plant healthy. Their knowledge on our topic’s plant was exceptional!
What we will be learning about in the summer term.
Our Topics mini adventures in the summer term will be:
Please see below the focus of learning in each area of the curriculum.
English (Reading and writing):
For Reading, the children will continue to work on a range of books to develop their fluency and understanding. They will be building confidence in answering retrieval, sequencing and inference questions.
Maths:
Humanities (Geography and History):
The Arts (art and music):
Science:
PE:
RE:
Computing: