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Year 2 Weekly News

Weekly update of activities in Year 2

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  • 29/01/25

    Friday 31st January 2025

    This week, Year 2 have been working collaboratively, delving into atlas’s to find physical features in the United Kingdom. They have developed their map reading skills by looking and understanding a key on a map. From the key, they were able to locate some of the largest mountains, such as Ben...
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  • 24/01/25

    Friday 24th January 2025

    This week, we are continuing with persuasive writing! The children are stepping into the shoes of Duncan from "The Day the Crayons Quit," and crafting letters to convince those disgruntled crayons to come back. To really get into character, some children even gave us "Duncan" int...
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  • 16/01/25

    Friday 17th January 2025

    This week, Year 2 have been exploring persuasive writing. They have been busy making puppet characters from our key text and show casing their powerful words of persuasion. In Maths, we have been looking at fractions: 1/2, 1/4 and 1/3 of shapes and numbers. In Geography, we...
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  • 09/01/25

    Friday 10th January 2025

    It was so lovely to welcome back the fresh faced and rested children this week. They have been super busy reading and exploring our new text, The Day the Crayons Quit, by Drew Daywalt and writing questions as the crayons from the story.  In Maths, we have been identifying parts of a w...
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  • 19/12/24

    Friday 20th December 2024

    This, week Year 2 have been getting into the Christmas spirit. To begin the week, they have had a wonderful trip to the Albany Theatre to watch 'Well Done, Mummy Penguin. Then, we have had a collective KS1 and EYFS Talent Show. What talented children you have! They have been busy...
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  • 12/12/24

    Friday 13th December 2024

    What a wonderful festive week we’ve had! With two wonderful performances of Whoops A Daisy Angel for this year’s Nativity, EYFS and KS1 left us all ready for Christmas. The Year 2’s blew the school and then their parents away with their acting skills. And what beautiful singing fro...
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  • 05/12/24

    Friday 6th December 2024

    This week, the children have been learning the story sequence from our text, The Tunnel, by Anthony Browne. To begin, we read together as a class and discussed how Rose’s emotions changed throughout the story. We made notes with keywords such as uninviting, mysterious and terrif...
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  • 28/11/24

    Friday 29th November 2024

    Christmas has arrived for Year 2 this week. The class have had the wonderful experience of visiting the Christchurch Forum and getting involved with the immersive theatre production of, ‘The Christmas Journey’. The children met different people and animals, visiting different locations a...
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  • 22/11/24

    22nd November 2024

    This week, we are delving into our new text ‘The Tunnel,’ by Anthony Brown and looking through the eyes of Rose as she enters a very unfamiliar forest!  Year 2 have been using their prediction skills, learning about different word groups and expanding their vocabulary!
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  • 15/11/24

    15th November 2024

    This week, we have jumped into week 2 with a bang! We have had such a busy week of exploring different equipment to help us with our maths learning. The children have been learning and consolidating their 10s and 2-time tables using a counting stick and cubes, counters and various objects to show gr...
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  • 08/11/24

    8th November 2024

    After the half-term, Year 2 has returned wonderfully. It's been a busy week with Maths, English and Art.  In Maths, we have started to learn about multiplication. We have begun by using tens frames, number lines and the hundred square, focusing on our 2 times tables. In art, we have been le...
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  • 24/10/24

    25th October 2024

    This week Year 2 enjoyed visiting the exhibition for Black History Month!  We felt really proud to see our work on display and were impressed by the work created by the other classes.
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