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Year 2 Weekly News

Weekly update of activities in Year 2

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  • 20/03/25

    Friday 21st March 2025

    This week, the children have learnt about shape nets and how they can be made into a 3D shape. The children worked in pairs to carefully cut out the net and construct it into a cube, cuboid, cone, cylinder, triangular prism, square-based prism or a pentagonal prism.  In E...
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  • 06/03/25

    Friday 7th March 2025

    This week, the children have explored different types of poetry and the key features from exciting poems from authors such as Dr Zeus. We had lots of fun exploring rhythm, rhyme and alliteration - Chomp, chomp, crunch! In Maths, we have started to explore 2D and 3D shapes. The children...
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  • 26/02/25

    Friday 28th February 2025

    This week, the Year 2’s are continuing their learning of Time in Math's by counting the numbers on the clock face and linking them to the 5 times table. Then, they focused on how to say minutes past and to.  To challenge them even further, we linked quarter past, half p...
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  • 14/02/25

    Friday 14th February 2025

    This week in Year 2, we delved into Time, focusing on analogue and digital clocks. The students have shown tremendous enthusiasm as they learned to distinguish between the two types of clocks, recognising the unique features and even making their own analogue clock face complete with rotat...
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  • 06/02/25

    Friday 7th February 2025

    This week Year 2 have been looking at millilitres and litres in Maths.  They used a cylinder to measure how much different objects held in a cup and jug and the capacity of each object. 
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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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