Year 2

Welcome to Year 2!

 Autumn 1  (2026)

Week 3

We have had a brilliant third week at school! Everyone is settling in well, getting to know new routines, making friends and growing in confidence each day. Amethyst Class have had the responsibility of being ‘The Chicken Checkers’, this week and have helped to top up their food, water and grit. They have also been collecting the eggs, that have been laid.

This week in English we have begun our new learning journey based on the story ‘Little Answer’ by Tim Hopgood. The children enjoyed playing a game of finding the answer to the question and making inferences about how Little Answer was feeling.

In Maths, we have been interpreting and representing 2 – digit numbers by partitioning these numbers into tens and ones. We have been using our dienes and part, part whole models to help us. At the end of the week, we revisited the concept of greater than and less than.

In computing we have been learning all about what Information Technology is – something that needs a computer to help it to work. We then learnt how to resize an image and we practised these skills on an iPad or the Interactive Whiteboard. We had a great time making the images as big or as small as we could make them.

In Music we learned the special Italian words that tell us how to play music. Forte means loud and piano means quiet. We practised saying these words and listened carefully to see if the music was being played loudly or quietly. We also talked about tempo, which is how fast or slow the music goes.

In PE, we have been learning skills that have helped us to develop our agility which is enabling us to move around at speed and in a variety of ways. We have been developing our weather dances to perform a contrasting duet that requires us to use different actions to our partners.

Week 2 

What a great week we have had in Year 2! The children have settled in brilliantly and enjoyed lots of exciting learning. In Maths, we have been counting in multiples of 10 and learning to add and subtract 10. In English, we have been reading about being a bucket filler and thinking about all the kind things we can do for others.

In Geography, we have started our Wonderful Weather topic, looking at weather forecasts and symbols. In PE, we have been learning about being healthy, as well as creating and performing our own weather dances! In Computing, we explored what I.T, means and identified examples around our classroom. In Music, we have been learning about dynamics and tempo, including forte (loud) and piano (soft). In RE, we have been thinking about the things we are thankful for.

We are so proud of how wonderfully everyone has settled into Year 2. What a brilliant week!

Week 1

Welcome back to school. We hope you all enjoyed your break and are raring to go in Year 2! We are looking forward to seeing just how amazing you are (we've heard good things from your Year 1 teachers!). 

We have already had a fantastic start to the new school year. All the children have settled really well and are already working hard!

In English this week we started our new Learning Journey based on the book 'Have You Filled a Bucket Today'. We have been thinking about what characteristics you need to be a bucket filler, using our sounds to spell the adjectives.

In Maths we have been making ten and counting in tens.

We have been discussing what our ideal classrooms would look, sound and feel like in PSHE. We then made promises to each other and agreed our class rules.