Welcome to Year 2!

2025-26

In Year 2, our teachers are Mr Tickle and Miss Chisnall (Class 7), Miss Quick (Class 8), and Mrs Hardyman (Class 9). We are also supported by our dedicated Learning Support Assistants (LSAs): Mrs Bright and Mrs Muller.

If you have any questions, please contact your child's teacher. If they are not around at pick-up, you can speak to them by phoning the school office and requesting an appointment.

Please refer back to this page for regular updates on the children's learning. 

Curriculum Newsletters

Year 2 Autumn 2 - Curriculum Newsletter

Year 2 Autumn 1 - Curriculum Newsletter

Update – Friday 5th December 2025

This week, the children have completed the final part of their Design Technology unit, 'Remarkable Recipes'. As part of this, they prepared and cooked a vegetable casserole as a class. In doing this, they applied their learning throughout the unit, including how to cut safely with knives and with peelers. They were all very pleased with the results of their hard work, with most of the children enjoying the vegetable casserole. 

In Maths, we have been working on shapes. This week has focused on 3D shapes and beginning to identify their properties, including faces and vertices. 

During our English sessions, we have begun applying our knowledge of the story 'The Bear and the Piano' to our own writing. This week we have been using superlatives (-er and -est words) to show the most of something. In doing this, the children have retold parts of the story, using their superlatives and expanding on noun phrases from last week. 

Our rehearsals for the Christmas production are also going well, and we look forward to sharing it with you in a couple of weeks' time. 

Update – Friday 21st November 2025

This week, in our computing session, we have been learning about e-safety and how we can stay safe online. This week, we have thought about the information we should and should not share online to be safe. We began by thinking about whether information was private or personal and what this meant before making our final decisions. 

      

Through our PSHE, we have been thinking about bullying. As part of this, we have discussed what bullying means and how we might help someone who is being bullied, or how we can stand up for ourselves. We did this by acting out different scenarios in which bullying is taking place while a witness is watching. We thought carefully about what a witness or victim could do to stand up for themselves. Some of the ideas we came up with included: speaking to an adult and telling the bully to stop.

This week, we have also celebrated 'Road Safety' Week. As part of this, the children have taken part in a special assembly about the Green Cross Code, where Miss Chisnall and the JRSOs showed the children how to cross roads safely and carefully. To end the week, we have also taken part in a 'Be Bright, Be Seen' Day, where we all dressed in bright clothes to be seen remotely at nighttime.

Update – Friday 14th November 2025

This week, the children have been working hard to finish their instruction writing in English. They have used the skills they have learnt over the last 2 weeks to write their own instructions for 'How to wash a...'. Some of the children washed dogs, rabbits, cats and even lions! They remembered to use imperative verbs, adverbials to show time, and even coordinating conjunctions (and, but, so) in the steps they wrote!

In history, the children have begun to explore the 'activist' section of our unit of work. As part of this, they have been thinking about and learning about a selection of different activists, including Emmeline Pankhurst, Rosa Parks, Malala Yousafzai and Martin Luther King Jnr. To help them learn about these activists, the children act out interviews and conversations to help them really think about their motives and thoughts.

  

In geography this week, the children have been thinking about hot and cold places and sorting images of different locations based on their climate. 

      

Update – Friday 7th November 2025

Wow, this has been an extremely busy week! 

The children have continued with their Design Technology unit and have been practising their cutting, grating and chopping skills at the beginning of the week! The children have also been thinking about why we need to cook some foods and how this can change their texture and appearance. This afternoon, they will be using their new skills to make an Eton Mess. 

In our English unit, we have started a new unit of work writing instructions based on 'How To Wash A Woolly Mammoth'. As part of this, the children have given instructions to make a jam sandwich to encourage them to think about how to make their instructions precise and clear. This has developed over the week, with children looking at and using imperative verbs and coordinating conjunctions to extend their ideas. 

In maths, we have continued with our addition and subtraction unit of work. This week we have been focusing on adding 2 two-digit numbers, building up to adding 2 two-digit numbers with exchanging! We've found it quite tricky, but we've kept going and tried our very best!

Through science, we have begun to explore a range of habitats, identifying living and non-living things. 

Update - Friday 24th October 2025

What a busy half-term it has been over the last 7 weeks! The children have worked exceptionally hard and made some steady progress in their learning. They have definitely earned a week off!

This week, we have been busy completing our science unit on 'Human Survival'. As part of this unit, the children have learnt about the importance of good hygiene and how often they should complete a range of hygiene tasks, such as washing their hair, washing their hands, and how often they should change their clothes. We've also explored the importance of washing hands using warm water and soap to ensure their hands are clean and germ-free. This built up to the children looking and investigating how germs can be transferred through touch. 

We have also begun our DT unit of work, 'Remarkable Recipes'. Through this, the children have begun to explore where their food comes from.

         

Update - Friday 17th October 2025

This week, the children have been working extremely hard! They have completed their final piece on the life of Mary Seacole and produced some truly fantastic work, which we are all so proud of them for! The children have loved learning about Mary's life and felt passionately that she should have her own 'Little People, Big Dreams' book. 

Through our maths lessons, we have been learning to add and subtract from and across 10. At times, we have found this tricky, especially when adding and subtracting to 10 before crossing the tens boundary. However, we kept going and trying our best until we understood what we needed to do. 

In art, the children have been working hard on completing their final pieces, using their knowledge and understanding of colour mixing to create artwork in the style of Kandinsky. 

    

Update – Friday 10th October 2025

What another busy week it's been in Year 2! As part of our PSHE this week, the children have reflected on our school's Rainbow Rules and how these link to our rights and responsibilities. Not only that, but the children have also been thinking about how we earn rewards and the consequences that can happen if we don't follow the rules. As part of this, they have designed some fantastic posters to remind each other of the rules!        

In our science class, this week we have been learning about nutrition and how it is important to eat a balanced diet. As part of this, the children created a whole class eat well plate by looking at and classifying different foods into the 5 main food groups: protein, carbohydrate, fruit and vegetables, dairy, and oils and spreads. This knowledge will really help the children as they move into the next half-term, when we will be starting our Design Technology unit!

  

Update – Friday 3rd October 2025

This week, the children have been completing some fieldwork in geography. In doing this, they conducted a traffic survey of the vehicles that travel past the front of the school over a specified period. Whilst the children found cars were the vehicle with the highest frequency, there was a surprising number of vans!

   

In art, the children have been using their understanding of colour mixing to pick out colours from the work of two different artists, which they have then mixed. In doing this, the children had to think carefully about how to create the colours and how much of each colour they needed to mix to achieve similar shades. 

        

Update – Thursday 25th September 2025

It might only be a 4-day week, but over those 4 days, the children have worked exceptionally hard! 

In our English lessons, the children have completed their final piece by retelling the story of 'Little Red'. In this, they have had to include the key parts of the story but also think carefully about their use of capital letters, full stops and coordinating conjunctions (and, but, so) to join two clauses together. The children did exceptionally well with this, and their work will be displayed in the corridor outside the infant hall!

In history, the children have been exploring significant figures from history, thinking about what they are famous for and categorising them as artists, activists, monarchs, explorers or scientists. This will help the children in the next few lessons when they start to explore the lives and achievements of Christopher Columbus and Neil Armstrong. 

Update – Friday 19th September 2025

In our writing this week, we have started to use coordinating conjunctions (and, but, and so) to join two clauses together. In doing this, the children began the week by sequencing the story and two ideas for each image. These ideas were then linked together using a coordinating conjunction. This was then followed the next day by the children completing their own sentences using coordinating conjunctions.

       

In maths, we have continued to work on developing our understanding of place value to 100. As part of this, the children have identified numbers on the number line by completing partially completed number lines and by using estimation to identify numbers on blank number lines. 

Update – Friday 12th September 2025

This week has been another busy week in Year 2 and our first whole week in school since returning from the summer holidays. 

The children have continued to demonstrate their growing understanding of place value through our maths lessons. In these lessons, the children have been using base 10 resources to represent numbers and exploring how they are partitioned into their tens and ones. At the end of the week, the children used their understanding of partitioning numbers to partition them in different ways. 

Through our English sessions this week, the children have continued to use the story of 'Little Red' as the driver for their learning. They have continued to practise retelling the story and the actions they learnt last week. The children have also focused on securing and recapping their learning on full stops and capital letters, thinking about where and when they are used.

In Art, the children have continued to develop an understanding of colour mixing and how two primary colours can be mixed to make secondary colours. This week, the children have used this knowledge to explore how they can create different hues by mixing different amounts of the two primary colours. 

In our geography unit, we have begun to explore the world using atlases. In this lesson, we started by recapping the seven continents of the world, identifying them on a world map. After this, the children located a variety of countries using the atlas. We primarily focused on countries around Europe before expanding to a wider area. 

On Friday afternoon, the children began an Indian Dance unit of work, which the children will be given the opportunity to perform at the 'Diwali Light It Up' Festival on Friday 17th October 2025. More information will be communicated to parents via Arbour closer to the time. 

Update – Friday 5th September 2025

What a busy week it has been in Year 2! We might have only been back in school for 3 days, but the children have really begun to settle back into life at school and school routines well! 

Through our maths sessions, we have begun to explore place value, thinking about the value of different digits in numbers, e.g. 13 means there are 1 ten and 3 ones. Using this understanding, we have also begun to represent numbers with dienes. This will help as we move through the unit and the year with our calculation methods and strategies. 

In English, we have begun to learn the 'true' story of Little Red based on the book by Bethan Woolvin. In doing this, the children have thought about the different versions that they know and, as a class, discussed the differences. Using the book 'Little Red' by Bethan Woolvin, the children have begun to learn the story, adding actions to help them remember it. 

On Friday, we completed our first art lesson, where we looked at the colour wheel and used primary colours to mix secondary colours to help us complete our colour wheels.