Welcome to Year 2 - Pine

 

Mrs Willer

Wow, what a first term in Year 2! Pine Class have settled into Year 2 well and have been working hard to become more independent in their learning. We have had a super end to the term with the pantomime this week! Year 2 should be super proud of how they behaved, and it was a complete joy to watch them have so much fun!

The class have enjoyed many aspects of their learning this term and have been enthusiastic in many lessons, from learning about inspiring people to using atlases in the classroom! They complete so many tasks with energy and smiles on their faces! They have enjoyed a half term of Forest School and lots of play activities during their lunchtimes. They have loved their PE sessions with Stevenage Borough, being great team players during invasion games. They have amazed me with their computing skills, being able to log on independently and becoming mini coders during our coding unit. Some highlights have been their African storytelling workshop, Scooterbility, and learning Christmas songs for the end of term!

We have come to the end of many topics in the last two weeks. In Literacy, we have completed our book The Water Protectors. The children came up with short, snappy slogans for a protest. They enjoyed marching around the classroom and demonstrating these. They have written persuasive speeches to try and encourage others to look after the environment.

In Maths, we have finished looking at shapes. The children spent time counting edges and vertices on 3D shapes before moving on to sorting both 2D and 3D shapes into different categories. They created their own groups such as colours, straight and curved edges, as well as the number of vertices.

In Geography, we have looked at hot and cold places. The class looked at a world map and located the equator, northern hemisphere, and southern hemisphere before locating hot or cold places based on their distance from the equator.

In Science, we have looked at adaptations. The class first looked at animals and enjoyed creating camouflaged moths to hide around the classroom. We then looked at how plants adapt themselves to create a defence against their predators.

We would like to wish you all a wonderful Christmas and a restful break! We look forward to welcoming the class back in January for many new topics!

Next term we will be learning:

• Literacy: The Bear Under the Stairs
• Maths: Money
• Geography: Reading maps
• Science: Materials

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.