Welcome to Year 2!

20 September 2024

All Aboard the Year 2 Train!

What a great start to Year 2 we have had! The children have settled so well into class and have already begun to develop their independence by taking on new responsibilities. We have been having fun doing team building activities such as constructing towers and bridges with straws and have also enjoyed making friendship boats.

This week we were excited to board the ‘Year 2 Express’ train to London, which was a great start to our new topic – The UK. We will be taking a tour of the four countries of the United Kingdom and locating them along with their capital cities on a map. We will also be learning about their similarities and differences between each country, including traditional food, dance, legends and landmarks.

Our focus book in English is a new take on the traditional tale, Rapunzel. We have already began our work by completing character studies of Rapunzel and the Witch. This is not only a good starting point for our writing but will help us with writing in role later in the sequence.

In maths we have been revising our numbers to 100 and the children have been challenged to think about how they can partition numbers into tens and ones.

In science our topic this half term is Animals Including Humans and we have been looking at how all animals have the same basic needs of air, food, water and shelter. We then thought more closely about how these differ depending on whether the animal is a carnivore or herbivore and whether the animal is wild or a pet.