Year 2

Year 2 are having great fun exploring how clay feels in their hands.  They are rolling, cutting, smoothing, squeezing and pricking the clay to make a tile.

Knowledge: 

• To use my hands as a tool to shape clay.

Success criteria

• I can flatten clay to make a smooth surface.
• I can…

Year 2 have been exploring the concept of resilience and how it can help them overcome barriers in relationships and in their school work.

Knowledge:

• To identify strategies to help overcome barriers or manage difficult emotions
• To develop a growth mindset

Skills:

• I can…

Year 2 has a wonderful time visiting Hope Farm Church and learning a little more about the Nativity story.

Year 2 had an amazing Christmas party today.  They made reindeer food, played Pass the Parcel and ate lots of sausage rolls and cup cakes!

Year 2 have had a great time raising money for school by completing a reindeer dash this morning!

We have been learning all about how to make baby bear's chair using cardboard cylinders.

Knowledge:  To produce a finished structure and evaluate its strength, stiffness and stability.

Skills:

• I can identify that the chair I design needs to be strong, stiff, stable and support…

Year 2 have been exploring what living things need to survive.  This week, we have considered what is crucial or desirable to sustain life.

Knowledge:  Find out about and describe the basic needs of animals, including humans, for survival (water, food, air)

Skills: Can I describe what…

Year 2 have been exploring their emotions and using colour to express how they feel.

Knowledge: To describe a range of feelings and develop simple strategies for managing them

Skills:

I can use colours to describe feelings

I know that we often feel more than one emotion at a time

I…

Year 2 have been exploring atlases, maps and globes to identify the 7 continents of the world.

Knowledge: to locate the 7 continents of the world

Skills: to understand that an atlas is a book of maps.

Vocab: continents, Asia, Africa, Antarctica, Europe, North and South America,…

Year 2 have been sorting instruments into different groups - strings, woodwind, brass and percussion. They have listened to a piece of music to identify the instruments being played.

Knowledge: To listen to and analyse an orchestral version of a traditional story

Skills: I can name the four…

Year 2 have been looking at the importance of "Online Safety" and how their digital footprint stays on the internet forever.

Knowledge: Recognise common uses of information technology beyond school. Use technology safely and respectfully, keeping personal information private; identify…

We have begun to investigate the similarities and differences between what it was like in Victorian schools and the schools of today.

Knowledge: to compare three periods of time

Skills: to say what is different or the same about the three periods

Vocab: periods, Victorian, modern