Week 1

This week in Writing, Year 2 are learning about tenses. 

In Mathematics, the children are learning about volume and capacity. The children will be learning to measure in millilitres and litres, how to add and subtract volume and how to multiply and subtract volume. On Friday, the children will learn about temperature and how we measure it. 

The children will be starting their new topics in our non core subjects. In Science we are learning all about Animals and Living things in Science. 

Our exciting new enquiry question for History is 'Why Journey Into the Unknown?' The children will be studying two significant explorers. 

In PSHE  our enquiry question is 'What is Bullying'. 

For Computing, the unit will consist of learning how to make music using PurpleMash. 

Finally, in Art the children are learning to make a sculpture. 

Week 2 

This week in year 2 we have been learning lots of new content! 

In Maths, we are learning all about fractions, recognising a quarter and  half and finding a half. 

In English we are starting our new text 'The Story of Pirate Tom'. We have been on a treasure hunt as Pirate Tom lost all his treasure! 

We have also text mapped our story into our text mapping books and started to perform it daily. 

In Ready for Reading the children are reading the text 'Marv and the alien invasion'. We are getting much better at answering retrieval comprehension questions!

In science we have introduced 'Living, Dead and Never Living'. Where we have to discuss and describe what it means for something to be living or dead and describe why something may have never been living. 

Week 3

This week in Year 2 we have been very busy taking lots of our learning outdoors to enjoy the sun. 

In Maths, we have been continuing to learn fractions and recognise 1/2, 1/4 and 1/3. We have also looked at unit fractions and what this means. 

In English we have been working on the skills within our Toolkit for talk for writing. Looking at openings and endings in our writing and learning to show emotion in our writing.

In Art we have made our own 'Forest Guardians' in forest school using plasticine.