Welcome to our class page 

Year 2M 2024-2025

Class team - Miss May and Miss Phillips

Mrs Boyd (Tuesday afternoon )

1:1 support -

Mrs Ahmed 

Mrs Nabija 

Miss Nulisha

Miss Catherall

Upcoming events (23-24):

10/10/24 - Jumbles Enrichment Walk

6/11/24 Blackpool Zoo

 


PE

Monday and Tuesday

Please make sure you bring your PE kit in a bag on these days. PE kits can be left in school in our classroom PE box.


Reading

Please bring your reading books and records into school everyday so we can listen to you read in school.

We encourage parents and carers to read with the children at home to help them become a more confident reader.

This half term we are reading:

Look Up! by Nathan Bryon

David Attenborough (Little People, Big Dreams)

Lights on Cotton Rock by David Litchfield

Everybody's Welcome by Patricia Hegarthy 

You can't take an Elephant on the Bus by Patricia Cleveland-Pack


Spellings

Please bring your red spelling book into school everyday. Our weekly spelling test will be every Friday and you will get new spellings to stick into your red spelling book. We encourage children to practise their spellings at home.

Spellings are split up into 3 groups depending on their phonics group:

Below are links to all the spellings groups. 

Year 2 Group 1 Spellings

 

Year 2 Group 2 Spellings

 

Year 2 Group 3 Spellings


Year 2 - 2024-2025

Maths 

In Maths, we have been focusing on Place Value. We have been making lots of two digits number.

2M Arithmetic Place Value

 

 

 

 

PE - Jumping

In PE, we have been practising fundamental movements. Today we focused on jumping and how to land safely.

2M PE Jumping

 

 

 


PE - Rocket Building

In English, we are looking at the book Look Up! by Nathan Bryon. We have been learning how to write instructions. Today we built a giant rocket and focused on the steps to make a cardboard rocket. This helped us to write instructions.

2M Rocket Building

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


 

 

 

 

 

 


 

 

Cohort 2023-2024 

PE

Tuesday and Thursday

Please make sure you bring your PE kit in a bag on these days. PE kits can be left in school in our classroom PE box.


Reading

Please bring your reading books and records into school everyday so we can listen to you read in school.

We encourage parents and carers to read with the children at home to help them become a more confident reader.

This half term we are reading...


Spellings

Please bring your red spelling book into school every Friday. Our weekly spelling test will be every Tuesday and you will get new spellings to stick into your red spelling book. 

We encourage children to practise their spellings at home.


Year 2 Summer Curriculum Letter 

Have a look at what we are learning this term!

Year 2 Summer Curriculum Letter


Adjectives

In English, we have been learning about adjectives. We worked in small groups to mindmap a range of interesting adjectives.


History

We learnt how to communicate through semaphores. This is how people used to communicate in the past. 


Zero to Hero

For our final theme lesson, we created a personalised thank you card to our favourite Zero to Hero figure. First we planned our design then we created it using a range of different materials. 


2M Class Assembly 

We created a class assembly which focused on the value 'forgiveness'. We worked together as a team to create a performance that highlighted the importance of forgiveness.

2M Class Assembly

 

 


Electricity

We have been learning about electricity and how to make a simple circuit. Here are some photos of us experimenting with different ways to make the light bulb turn on.


Instructions

For one of our big writes, we are going to write a set of instructions on how to make rice crispy cakes. First, we made the rice crispy cakes and talked through each step that we will use in our instructions.


Art

In Art, we have been learning about an inspiring artist called Christy Brown. Christy brown had cerebral palsy so he used his feet to paint. We discussed the resilience and perseverance that Christy Brown embodied and applied his art practise into creating our own art work.


Maths - Money Unit

In Maths, we have been learning all about money. We have really enjoyed using the coins and notes manipulatives to help embed our learning.


PSHE - Affirmations

We have been learning to take care of ourselves and how important it is to prioritise our own wellbeing. We wrote special affirmations, which we can read to ourselves every morning we come into school. 


Instructions - English

In English, we have been learning about instructions. We made Jam sandwiches and unpicked the imperative verbs and time adverbials that were used in the instructions. 


Computing - Coding - Beebots

We have started learning all about algorithms! In today's lesson, we inputted instructions into the Beebots and it created an algorithm. 


100% Attendance

These children achieved 100% attendance for the Autumn Terms! 

2M 100% Attendance

 


Zero to Hero 

In Theme, we have started a new unit called Zero to Hero. We started looking at the inspirational figure, Michael Jordan. We practised shooting hoops and we found it very difficult but we learnt to never give up and keep persevering.


Make Equal Groups

In Maths, we have been learning to make equal groups. Here are some photos of using making equal groups.


Year 2 Autumn Curriculum Letter 

Have a look at what we are learning this term!

Year 2 Autumn Curriculum Letter


Christmas Party!

KS1 had their Christmas party! We did lots of dancing and singing. We also had a special visitor, which was Santa!

 


The Mayors Christmas Concert

On Friday, we watched the Mayor's Christmas Performance. We listened to lots of live music and sang along to our favourite Christmas songs. 


Guided Reading - Hey Ewe!

In guided reading, we have been practising reading our lines for our Christmas performance. We worked in pairs, to read the sentences. Then we performed it with expression.

2M Guided Reading 3

 

 

 


Science - Plants

We have been learning about how to keep plants healthy. We sorted images of plants which were very unhealthy because they had too much water, too much sun or no water at all.

2M Science Plants 2

 

 

 


RE - Good News 

In RE, we have been learning about the Christmas story. We have learnt that God sent angels to spread good news to others.

2M RE Angels

 

 


Cesar Manrique 

In DT, we have been focusing on the artist Cesar Manrique. We designed and created a wind toy, which was inspired by Cesar's work.


PE - Team work games

In year 2, we have been focusing on teamwork and finding ways in which we can work well in small teams. We have been playing lots of games which has helped us to get better at our team work skills.


Science }- plants 

In Science, we have been investigating how water travels through the stem and leaves. We will observe how the celery changes colour over the next couple of weeks. 


Bury Fire Training Centre 

Year 2 visited the Bury Fire Training Centre. We learnt lots of new information about fire safety. Our favourite part was practising STOP DROP AND ROLL.


Geography - A walk around our local community

We went for a walk around our local community to spot the physical and human features. 


Guided Reading 

We have been learning about plants in Science, so today we have reading a non-fiction text on plants. We have been practising the skill of scanning through a text to spot key vocabulary.

2M Guided Reading scanning a text

 


Computing 

We created a poster on purple mash promoting E-Safety in school.

2M Computing E-safety

 

 

 

 

 


Geography - Comparing how places change 

In Geography, we have learning about human and physical features. We looked at old pictures of the school and then went on a hunt around the school to spot how the school has changed over the years.

2M Geography School Tour

 

 

 


Science Investigation 

In Science, we have learning all about plants. In today's lesson we planned each step of our investigation. Then we got the opportunity to plant the seeds and put them in different parts of the school.


Trip to The Hive 


PSHE - Special messages

In PSHE, we are learning about relationships and friendships. Today we wrote a special message to someone in the classroom to remind them how special they are.

y2 PSHE 23-24 special message

 

 

 


Green Cross Code

In PSHE, we have been learning how to cross the road safely. 

2M Green cross code

 


PSHE - Speaking and Listening

In PSHE, we focused on our speaking and listening skills. We played lots of games and activities which helped us to develop these skills. 

2M PSHE11

 

 

 


Maths 

We have been learning all about place value. We have been using our base ten and part whole models to partition 2 digit numbers. 

2M Maths Place Value

 

 

 


PE

In PE, we have been playing fun warm up games such as the animal game. We have been moving our bodies in different ways to create different shapes and sizes. 

2M PE 1

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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