Author: year2

Here is our Topic Web for this term, more details of our weekly learning can be found on our Class Dojo page!

Each term we ask you to practice some key facts for mathematics at home. This term we will also be encouraging children to log on to TTRS to begin their multiplication journey online.

KIRFs Year 2 

This term the children have been learning about Algorithms and Debugging.

The children worked in pairs, building a model with five pieces of LEGO and writing instructions on how to build it successfully.

They had the opportunity to test out their algorithms and improve them so that they were precise.

This term our wellbeing day was spent creating bracelets with an ocean theme.

Next term we will be selling these to raise money for our chosen charity.

This week we were lucky enough to work with Les and Pat from Godly Play back to Year Two.

In this session the children were introduced to the story of the Good Samaritan, they reenacted the story, made crafts and played games all linked to the key idea of friendship, peace and help.

In Maths this term we are focusing on addition and subtraction.

We use our place value grids to ensure the children understand the physical nature of ‘tens and ones’ before we move onto the pictorial, and finally the number digits.

Here is our first step of adding numbers:

In our first week back we have been looking at where we belong in our Wonderful World.

We began by looking at google maps, exploring what Earth looked like from space.. we then slowly worked our way in through continents, countries, counties, towns and finally streets .. all the way to St Nicholas Primary Academy.

The children are learning new vocabulary and the sense of scale.

We created our own little booklets which the children were thrilled to take home.

Welcome to Term 2

Our Christmas term is often one of the busiest in the school calendar with many events in the first few weeks, and then an exciting month in the run up to Sparkle and Nativity bonanza!

This term is titles ‘Why is our World Wonderful?’ we will be looking at this through a Geographical lens, but it weaves through our English, RE and Wellbeing too.

Please find attached our Curriculum Overview for the term and this terms’ KIRFs.

We really appreciate all your support to push both reading and Numbots at home, both create such important foundations for our young people.

Curriculum Web Term 2 Why is our world wonderful

Term 2 KIRFS Year 2

Wow – What a term! The children have loved learning about all things 1666.

Our History topic has been so popular with the children, they are able to recall key facts about the Great Fire, but also have been investigating how we can look at different pieces of evidence from the past to explore what happened. We’ve read diaries and newspaper articles. Had boxes of evidence delivered directly from London and looked at paintings to learn more about Samuel Pepys, Thomas Farrier and Sir Christopher Wren.

We’ve written instructions to make rolls from the famous bakery on Pudding Lane and written a diary entry as someone who was there on Pudding Lane on the night the fire started. We had a drama workshop with Ian from Kic theatre company too!

In DT we have built houses to replicate those from 1666, burnt them to see how quickly the fire spread and finally designed a new London.

Here are some photos of our learning this term.

This week saw our first of our  6 days across the school year ‘off timetable’ celebrating our ‘6 Ways to Wellbeing.

Each class has chosen an artist and an environmentalist through which we will be learning, connecting, giving and more!

Looking at Rachel Carson’s work about pesticides in our water systems

Combing Monet’s artwork with that of Rachel Carson’s favourite environment

Linked to our History topic of the Great Fire of London this term we will be making and testing structures.

To begin our topic we have looked at the terms ‘stable’ and ‘structure’. We made different 3D shapes and tested them to see which was the strongest. With this knowledge we then worked together in teams to try to make the most stable structure. We used books to test how strong each structure was.