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Year 2

Welcome To Year 2

Reading for pleasure at Valley

Curriculum Information & Website Links

Year 2 SATS Meeting 2023

Year 2 Maths Skills Workshop 2023

Learning Zone

Curriculum Overview

Year 2 Curriculum Evening 2022 - 2023

Parent Calculation Support Guide Year 2

Reading Skills Support Guide Year 2

Read Write Inc - How to say the sounds

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Life Skills Activities

Half Termly Life Skills challenges as part of our drive to develop good future citizens:

Valley School Life Skills Map

Weekly Brain Boosters and Curious Challenges as part of our Feel Good Friday initiative:

Feel Good Friday

Home Learning Activities

Home Learning

Short Term Absence Tasks

Sharing Our Learning. . .Year 2 Photo Gallery

On our Express day for our ‘Amazing Adventurers’ topic, we recapped on the countries of the UK and their national flags and flowers. We used explored different media to create our flower sketches.

This week, we started or tri-golf coaching with Mr Thomas. We learnt how to putt. We are very excited to learn more!

We enjoyed thinking back on all of the Fabulous Females we have been learning about this term on our Express Day. We worked together to create fact files about some of these women who created change and shared these with our parents who then voted for their own favourites.

We have been using our sewing skills to create purses inspired by Coco Chanel. We had to use a running stitch with a needle and thread to join the fabric together, making sure there weren't any holes where money could fall out. We then added buttons and decorations to complete our purses.

On World Book Day, we began with a trip to the library to enjoy some new books. We focused on an author called Tom Percival and did some research about him and the books he has written before listening to some of his stories.

We really enjoyed using 2Sequence on Purple Mash to compose our own music in computing. We used bells to create a tune and added a range of instruments before creating a beat using drums. We challenged ourselves further by adding sound effects and changing the speed and volume to change the mood of the song we’d created.

We have been learning how to use rulers and metre sticks to measure lines, shapes and objects in the classroom (and each other!). We thought about which measurement would be most suitable to measure a particular object and began to compare lengths and heights using 'longer than' and 'shorter than'.

For our new topic of Fabulous Females, we spent a day learning about two important women who worked as nurses in the past. We learned about Florence Nightingale and Mary Seacole and how they changed nursing, comparing hospitals in the past to hospitals now and imagining what it would have been like when these nurses worked during the Crimean War. We finished by making collages with pictures and facts.

As part of their Best of Britain topic, we have been learning about the four countries that make up the United Kingdom: England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. We were lucky enough to have a visit from a parent who plays in a Scottish pipe band. The children had a fantastic time watching a live musical performance from a bagpipe player and a drummer, and then learned more about the history of bagpipes and the special uniform that bagpipe players and drummers wear when they perform.

Here is how great they sounded!

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In our Art lessons, we have created Dragon Eyes using different techniques. We used cutting, embossing and joining to create them out of clay. We then painted them and held an exhibition for Reception and Year 1 children.

We have been experimenting with clay learning how to mold, carve and use techniques to join before we make our dragon eyes with the clay.

We really enjoyed our Maths Workshop. It was good to do some learning with our parents. See the PowerPoint above for activities and ideas.

We have been learning to find the pulse of a song by using our bodies to clap, dance, stamp and move along to it.

In History, we have been learning about what schools were like in 1950 and comparing them to schools now. Back then, they didn’t have any playground equipment so had to use chalk on the playground to play games. We had lots of fun using chalk to draw and play hopscotch on the playgound.

In D&T, we have been designing and making our own Jack in the Boxes. These are toys that children have played with for a long time! We had to carefully cut out and fold the net into a box, fold the spring together, and decorate and embellish our boxes to make them exciting for children to use.

We have been learning to add up money including both notes and coins. We have found it really helpful to use the coins to help us with our learning.

We have been learning lots of interesting facts about Brown Bears in English as we are reading the book; Rabbit and Bear. We are writing and cutting out all of the features of a non-chronological report to plan our own before writing it.

We have spent our WOW day finding out about the countries which make up the United Kingdom. We have created a class map and researched facts about the UK.

This week was Real Life Maths week. We designed our own playground, chose the equipment we wanted, worked out the cost and how long it would take.

During guided reading, we have been improving our fluency by reading different books with our teacher. Then, we answer questions about the book by reading it again and finding clues in the text to help us.

We have really enjoyed learning about Rangoli patterns and why they are important in Indian culture as part of our Spice Up Your Life topic. In Art, we carved and printed our own Rangoli patterns using paint.

We enjoyed making Indian raita dip on their Wow Day for their new topic Spice Up Your Life. We chose which ingredients to include, prepared and mixed these using kitchen equipment, and enjoyed tasting their dip with poppadoms! We are very excited to learn more about India this half term.

We have been Resourceful Ruths in our maths lessons by using cubes to find our number bonds to 10. We are now using these number facts to find other number bonds within 20 and 100.

After making our axle and wheel mechanisms, we made and decorated our Fire Engines. We then tested them and evaluated their effectiveness.

During our Design and Technology lessons, we have been learning to use a saw to make axles for out fire engines. We now know how vehicles move using a wheel and axle mechanism.

It was Time Tables Rock Star day at Valley! We had a great time dressing up as Rockstars, learning our times tables and learning how to use Timetables Rockstar on the iPads.

We have been improving our reading comprehension skills in guided reading. We used highlighters to find key words which help us to answer the questions and retrieve information from the text.

As part of our RE lesson, we tested out our drama skills by acting out the story of the Good Samaritan.

We have been learning how to follow a set of instructions and are beginning to input an algorithm. We really enjoyed using the bee bots to develop our coding skills.

We enjoyed our first trip to the library and everyone chose a book to borrow for the week! We enjoyed sitting in the library to read our new books.

In Science, we are learning about materials. We used spoons made of different materials (metal, plastic, paper, tissue and fabric) to see which one would be the best for scooping rice from a bowl. We made predictions and thought about what properties each material had.

In Maths, we have been looking at how many tens and ones are in two digit numbers, and how we can partition numbers using part whole diagrams.

In Geography, we used atlases to find London. We had to locate London on a map of England, a map of the UK, a map of Europe and a world map. We also looked at where other cities in the UK are and talked about other countries we knew the names of.

We enjoyed our first PE lesson, learning to move in different ways around the playground.

We dressed up as people from 1666 for our WOW day for Fire, Fire! Topic all about the Great Fire of London. We looked at paintings of the fire and talked about some of the key events, before preparing materials to make our own collages of the fire.

We shared our summer learning and researched our special class people - Churchill, Nightingale and Pankhurst. We used the iPads to help us and then wrote all about them.

Transition Day was fabulous, smiles and laughter were plentiful. Everybody is looking forward to September now!

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