Year 2

Year 2 News

Mrs Lamb
(Teacher)

Mrs Shaw
(Teacher)

Mrs Garnett
(Teaching Assistant)

Meet the Teacher Meetings

Thank you to everyone who attended our ‘Meet the Teacher’ meetings on Wednesday. We hope you found the sessions informative and engaging.…

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Bon Voyage Butterflies!

  After an exciting couple of weeks waiting for our class caterpillars to create their cocoons, transform into butterflies, and emerge with…

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The Butterfly House

What a wonderful day we had at the Butterfly House! Despite the forecast, we were blessed with sunshine and the children enjoyed…

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Father Paddy – Year 2

Year 2 had a wonderful visit from Father Paddy on Tuesday morning. Before his visit, the children thought about questions they would…

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Glorious Globes!

Y2 have been enjoying creating their very own paper mache globes over the last 2 weeks. Next week, the children will be…

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Spellings – Summer 1

Spellings – Summer 1 Please click the link for Summer 1, Year 2 spellings. These have also been sent home.      …

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Perfect Pizzas!

Year 2 had a little taste of Italy on Thursday morning with a trip to Pizza Express!  The children enjoyed flipping dough,…

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Conisbrough Castle

On Monday, Year 2 had a fabulous day visiting Conisbrough Castle in the beautiful sunshine. When we arrived, we started with a…

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An Eggcellent Day!

On Monday morning we had a mysterious call from Mrs Jones in the office, a strange egg had appeared over the weekend…

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Spring Reading

The following books form part of our class reading spine and are the focus of our Literacy lessons over the Spring Term.…

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Christmas Craft-a-noon!

Thank you to all the parents for coming to help us this afternoon. We had great fun decorating biscuits, making beautiful angels…

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Christmas Love

This week, we watched a beautiful advert called ‘What is Christmas Without Love?’ this inspired some fantastic pieces of writing. The children…

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Super Scooters!

On Wednesday, the Year 2 children completed their Scoot-a-Thon. The children were incredible and collectively they scooted a marathon (42 kilometres)! Huge…

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Judaism Week EYFS/KS1

Judaism Week   October 9th – 13th was Judaism Week in school. All children in the school have travelled around the different teachers in…

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Music Makers!

Taking inspiration from the story ‘Starry Eyed Stan’, Year 2 spent an afternoon creating their very own instruments. The children looked at…

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Autumn Reading

We love reading in Year 2 and enjoy sharing many books together. The following books form our class reading spine and are…

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Spectacular Sculptures!

Year 2 visited the Millennium Gallery on Wednesday morning. The children had a wonderful time exploring the gallery with Karen the sculpture…

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Anansi

As part of Black History Month, Year 2 have been enjoying hearing Anansi Folktales. Did you know Anansi tales originate from the…

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Game Time!

Year 2 had a fabulous time playing different maths games this morning. The children enjoyed creating tangrams, playing dice games, draughts, Sum…

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Thank you to everyone who attended last night’s meeting. Please find the slides attached. Parent’s Information Meeting Y2 2023

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Y2 Animal Groups

Y2 have been learning about the different animal groups; mammals, fish, birds, reptiles and amphibians. We had fun matching the adult animal…

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Colourful Collage

In science, the children have been learning all about mammals, fish, birds, insects, amphibians and reptiles. They enjoyed a wonderful afternoon creating…

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Y2 Butterfly House

Year 2 had a fabulous time at the Butterfly House today. We saw lots of different animals including owls, parrots, giant tortoise,…

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Beautiful butterflies!

The butterflies have arrived!  This week all four of our chrysalides have transformed into beautiful butterflies. Today, we released them into our…

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Sew Good! 

As part of our Design and Technology project, Year 2 are making their own stick puppet butterflies.  So far, they have designed…

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Marvellous Metamorphosis! 

Something magical is happening in the Y2 classroom! Our four little caterpillars have become chrysalides and we have now moved them into…

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Year 2 Botanical Gardens

On Tuesday, Year 2 enjoyed a wonderful trip to the Botanical Gardens in the beautiful sunshine. First, we met Laura at the…

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Ice Fishing

Year 2 tried an ‘ice fishing’ experiment on Tuesday. The children added salt to the ice, the salt caused the ice to…

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Y2 Maths World Cup

ear 2 competed in the Maths World Cup on Tuesday. The competition was very exciting and involved not only our fantastic maths…

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Y2 Conisbrough Castle Crew!

On Monday, Year 2 had a fabulous day visiting Conisbrough Castle. This was a fantastic opportunity to bring their learning about castles…

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Year 2 Stick to Castles

On Thursday, Jenny from the Alfresco Learning team came to Year 2 for a workshop! We made a castle using bamboo sticks…

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Year 2 Get Creative!

Congratulations to our Year 2 children who had an amazing afternoon of Christmas creativity on Monday. Thank you to the parents who…

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Remembrance

This week, to mark Remembrance Day we have been learning about Walter Tull. As part of our learning, we have looked at…

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Fr. John Visits Year 2!

On Tuesday, Year 2 had the pleasure of a visit from Fr. John. He talked to the children about the sacrament of…

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Y2’s busy art afternoon

Year Two began this afternoon by listening to two different pieces of classical music: Tchaikovsky, ‘Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy’ and Gustav…

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Judaism in Year 2

Year 2 have been learning about Judaism this week. They learned about the Jewish day of rest, Shabbat. Shabbat happens each week…

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Mrs Garnett
(Teaching Assistant)