Welcome to Year 2 - Pine

 

Mrs Willer

Year 2 have had a great start to their year, all finished off with a fantastic class assembly. The class all enjoyed learning their lines and sharing their learning with you! This term, they have also had the exciting opportunities of Forest School and Scootability! They loved bringing in their scooters and learning about riding them safely.

Literacy
We started the term by reading Jim and the Giant. The class wrote great versions of the story and enjoyed writing thank you letters to Jim. We then read the book Wolves, focusing on non-fiction texts. The children sorted a collection of wolf books into fiction and non-fiction. They enjoyed sorting text extracts into each group and then began collecting facts. The children created expanded noun phrases to describe what the wolf looked like and then created their own non-fiction text.

Maths
The class have focused on place value and then addition and subtraction. They have spent time partitioning numbers, finding missing numbers on number lines, as well as adding and subtracting to the next multiple of 10. The class have also practised counting in multiples of 2, 5, and 10.

Topic
Our topic this term has been Movers and Shakers. The children have enjoyed learning about significant people from the past and have asked lots of questions. In particular, they enjoyed looking at Neil Armstrong and Christopher Columbus. They have explored the impacts these figures have made to everyone’s lives and ordered when these changes took place on a timeline.

Art
We have started looking at still life painting by artists such as Vincent Van Gogh. The class have been drawing their own versions of his paintings. After half term, they will look at creating these with paint and clay.

Science
We have been looking at Human Survival. We explored the importance of exercise, food and nutrition, and hygiene. The class enjoyed taking part in exercise challenges and then looking at ways to keep ourselves clean and healthy.

Next term we will be learning:

• Literacy: The Journey Home, Water Protectors
• Maths: Adding and subtracting 2-digit numbers, Shape
• Geography: The four countries of the UK, Map and Atlas skills
• Science: Habitats

Learning Update

Stay tuned to find out what children have been doing, and the upcoming learning in Year 2. 

 

Autumn Term 2025

Click on the links below to see what the children in Year 2 will be learning in the Autumn Term.