Year 2

Dear parents, We are really looking forward to welcoming you into school this week and hope you are able to join us for our May procession tomorrow at 2:15 or Jubilee Day on Friday or for both occasions. This week in English/topic the children been learning about explorers and pirates. They have been discussing how significant people were […]

Dear parents, This week in English the children have been learning about adverbs. They have been writing in role as a character from the Night Pirates and trying to use both adjectives and adverbs in their writing. In Maths the children have begun to learn about time. They have been reading analogue clocks to the nearest five minutes and […]

Dear parents, This week in English the children have been learning about apostrophes and when to use these. In Maths the children have been continuing to learn about money. They have been learning how to add two amounts together to calculate a total, compare two totals and say who has more, work out the difference between two totals and […]

Dear parents, This week in English the children have been reading the the story of ‘the Night Pirates’. They have been learning about postcards and have been writing a postcard in role as Tom. They have been learning how to plan their writing. In Maths the children have been learning about money – the different coins and notes. They […]

Dear parents, This week in English the children have been reading the the story of ‘the Night Pirates’ and making predictions about what would happen next. In Maths the children have been continuing to learn about fractions by learning how to find 2/4 or 3/4 of a shape or amount and learning that 2/4 and 1/2 are the same. […]

Dear parents, We hope you all had a wonderful Easter break! This morning the children have begun the term by learning about some famous explorers for our new topic ‘Land Ahoy’. They were learning about famous explorers and being able to put them on a timeline to show when their expeditions took place. They were […]

Dear parents, This week in English the children have been retelling the story of Jack and the Beanstalk trying to use all the appropriate Year 2 punctuation – capitals, full stops, question marks, exclamation marks, commas in lists and apostrophes. They have also been trying to use adjectives in their retelling. In Maths the children have begun their new […]

Dear parents, This week in English the children have been continuing to write their non-chronological reports on plants and animals in Madagascar. They have also begun to learn about instruction writing and what imperative or bossy verbs are. In Maths the children have been learning about how to describe 3D shapes by talking about their faces, edges and vertices. […]