Welcome to Year 2

It is Autumn again and the start of another fabulous school year! Year 2 is full of beautiful, happy children who are eager to work and learn! 

This term we are going to be busy settling into Year 2 and our main topic is Fire! Fire!

This will include work all about the Great Fire of London and as we move further into Autumn we will be looking at the Gunpowder Plot and why we have bonfires and fireworks.  It's going to be full of bangs and glitter!

We will be reading some exciting stories in English including, Owl Babies and Wild!  It will also include some seasonal poetry and diary entries as we look at the importance of Samuel Pepys.  As we get closer to Christmas we will look at Traditional Tales.  We have got lots of drama planned and we will of course be performing the Nativity.

Our Maths has got off to a good start and we have already been busy looking at 2-digit numbers and place value.  We have become whizzes at partitioning!  We will be looking a lot at numbers up to 100 and adding and subtracting mentally using tens and ones.  Of course we will also be introducing times tables and I know Year 2 are going to be Maths Professors in the making!

In Science we will be looking at Animals .  This includes what baby animals look like, stages of human development from baby, toddler, child, adult and old age.  We will also be looking at what animals need to stay alive and how we can keep our bodies healthy.

 We have a super busy and exciting  term ahead.

Mrs Simon