Summer 2

Year 2 have had a super busy and super fun half term. Our topic has been called Hike! In Geography we have focused around what a hike would look like in Utah compared to the UK. We even flew to Utah with a magic boarding ticket to explore what it looks like. We also hiked to the Mill Fields and had lots of fun doing different activities there. See the latest news part of our website to see what we got up to! In English, we used a video stimulus called Soar. The children watched the beginning of the story and then ended it in their own creative way. In maths we have revisited and revised addition and subtraction including lots of problem solving! In Art we learnt about an illustrator called Cathrine Rayner. The children created some beautiful water colour pictures using her style of art work. 
We are looking forward to our last week of Year 2 next week where we will have our golden trail treat, Jigsaw day and lots of other fun. 
 

The Year 2 teachers are so proud of all that you have achieved this year. We will miss you all in September but we are never too far away! 

Summer 1
 

Year 2 have had a great half term learning all about Florence Nightingale and Mary Seacole. 
pour first learning journey in English focused on the book George’s Marvellous Medicine by Ronald Dahl. The children had fun inventing, describing and then writing instructions on how to make their new creative medicine. After that, Year 2 had fun making their potions with things like water, tooth paste, natural resources, shampoo and other messy things! Our second learning journey in English was around Non-fiction writing. Each child created their own Non-chronological report about Florence Nightingale.

Our Maths learning focused around times, divide and finding the inverse. we also revised time and focused on telling the time in 5 minute intervals. 
Our art learning focused on the Artist Romare Bearden where the children made excellent collages of themselves. In DT, the children designed and made excellent puppets. They then had fun putting on puppet shows!

Well done for a super half term. We look forward to lots more fun in summer 2! 

Spring 2

A highlight of this half term was our school trip to Milestones museum. Year 2 enjoyed learning about what life was like in Basingstoke in the past. When we got back to school, we spent time reflecting on this trip and writing a recount. We also wrote a story following the book Journey. We have looked at weather poems too. 

In Geography,  we have been busy creating maps with keys. We also learnt about the weather and tracked this weekly throughout the UK. We then put this data is a graph. 
 

Our Art learning focussed around the artist Clarice Cliff. We used different painting techniques to create our own Clarice Clive style plate. We also used technology to create our own art deco pattern. 
 

Science has been all about plants! We planted our own plant and watched it grow. We learnt about all the things it needs to flourish. We also did a science experiment about plants. We gave each plant a different amount of water and noticed the difference this made. 
 

we look forward to more fun in Summer 1. 

Spring 1

What a great half term we have had in Year 2 learning all about the Titanic! Our learning journey started with an exciting topic launch where the hall was turned into the Titanic. The children loved role playing within the different classes and eating their biscuits. 
The Titanic flowed through most of our learning. In English, we focused on Samsons Titanic Journey where the children did some lovely descriptive writing. We also created Non-Chronological reports about the Titanic. In Art we sketched and painted the ship. 
We had a DT day where we designed and created a healthy wrap. 
In Science we looked at hygiene and keeping healthy.

In Indoor PE we learnt a titanic based dance. We worked on our striking and fielding in our outdoor lessons. 
 

We look forward to another super half term in Year 2. 

Autumn 2

We have had a very exciting half term in Year 2 learning all about London and the adventures Paddington has there! 

Our learning has been based around different Paddington stories which has been really fun. In English, the children wrote their own Paddington adventure stories where Paddington explored different famous landmarks. The children really got into role and pretended they were Paddington in London. Our Geography learning has been based around the UK and the different countries within it. We also looked at world maps, atlases and globes to find Paddington's journey from Peru. We made some comparisons between England/ London and Peru and noticed how different they really are! Our Art learning has been based on Paddington too! We learnt different sketching techniques and put this into practise by sketching our very own Paddington! We then used watercolour to paint him. They look great! 

All of this learning and more was celebrated in our Paddington Christmas assembly.

The Year 2 team are so proud of what the children have accomplished this half term. Well done Year 2 Super Stars! 

Welcome to Year 2

2024-2025

Autumn 1

What an amazing start we have had to the year! The children have really thrown themselves into their learning and are very excited about our first topic - The Great Fire of London! We have been super impressed with their interest and curiosity in maths and they have blown us away with their use of expanded noun phrases in English. 

We have also been discovering the properties of materials in science and they have carried out some amazing investigations already - deciding on the absorbency of materials to use to make a bucket for firemen.

Important Information

PE Days - Monday and Thursday

Library Day - Friday

The Year 2 Team.

Sycamore Class Teacher - Mrs Gough

Willow Class Teacher - Miss Murrells

LSAs - Mrs Bush (All day)