Year 2: What We Have Been Learning

Year 2: What We Have Been Learning

What a fantastic start to the new school year! We are so proud of how brilliantly the children have settled into Year 2. They walked through the door with huge smiles, enthusiasm, and a readiness to learn that has set a wonderful tone for the year ahead.

Moving into Key Stage 1's final year is an exciting milestone, and our new Year 2 stars have already shown fantastic independence, teamwork, and kindness towards one another.

Have a look at what we have been learning this week!

Maths

Year 2 have kicked off the Autumn term by diving into Place Value up to 20, building a crucial bridge from Year 1 before tackling larger numbers. The children practice counting and ordering numbers to 20, using hands-on equipment like Base 10 blocks and visual tools like Part-Whole models. Mastering this concept of partitioning into tens and ones gives children a solid, confidence-boosting foundation for all future maths learning.

Literacy

In Literacy this week, we have been learning about The Adventures of the Egg Box Dragon. This week, the children stepped into a world of imagination, creativity and descriptive language as they began exploring the story of the Egg Box Dragon. They learned how authors build characters using everyday materials, and how writers use powerful adjectives, verbs and expanded noun phrases to bring those characters to life.

PSHE

Starting a new school year is full of big emotions for six- and seven-year-olds. To help our children feel secure, Year 2 has spent the week learning about "Me and My Relationships". The children have been focusing on helping children understand how their choices shape our classroom. the children worked together to design their very own Class Pledges.

Creating pledges helps them understand why positive behaviour matters:

Rights and Safety: Children learn that everyone in our school has a right to feel safe, listened to, and included.

Shared Ownership: When children choose their own classroom values, they feel a sense of pride and are far more likely to stick to them.

Empathy: Discussions around scenarios encourage children to think about how their actions impact their friends.

Through role-play, story prompts, and circle-time chats, the children identified what a happy classroom looks and feels like. They then agreed on key pledges for the year.

Computing

In computing this week, the children have been learning how to keep themselves safe when using devices. The children have been developing practical strategies for managing their feelings -- good, bad and everything in between. They have been learning how to recognise the different kinds of feelings they can have when using technology and knowing what to do when they don't have a good feeling when using technology.

A Few Reminders for the Term Ahead

Our PE days are Tuesdays and Thursday

Reading Books: Every child has been given a reading book and a reading folder. Please ensure that your child brings their reading book to school on their reading day. We encourage reading for 10–15 minutes each evening at home.

Water Bottles: Please send your child with a reusable, named water bottle each day.

Thank you to all our parents and carers for your support in making this transition smooth and joyful. We have an incredible term planned, and we can't wait to share more updates as our journey continues!

Year 1: What We Are Learning!

Year 1: What We Are Learning 

What a fantastic first full week in Year 1. This week in maths, the children have been learning all about sorting objects. They have been exploring how objects can be sorted by colour, shape, size and other features, while explaining their reasoning and noticing similarities and differences. 

We even took our learning outside and practised sorting natural materials we found in our environment. The children did a wonderful job working together, discussing their ideas and deciding how best to group the objects. 

We are so proud of how enthusiastically the children have approached their first week of Year 1 maths! Well done, everyone!

This week our literacy focus book has been: Beegu, by Alexis Deacon

We have had an exciting start to our Literacy lessons in Year 1!

The children arrived at school to discover that a spaceship had crash-landed in our school! We became detectives and looked for clues to find out what had happened.

We soon discovered that the spaceship belonged to ‘Beegu’, a little alien from our story.

      The children used their imaginations to talk about Beegu and came up with lots of fantastic adjectives to describe her such as small, yellow, cute, lonely and friendly.

 We then used our adjectives to write sentences describing Beegu. The children have been fantastic storytellers and writers! 

In PSHE, we have been learning about how to make our classroom a happy, safe and positive place. We talked about why classroom rules are important and how they help us to learn and play together. We have also been practising active listening, learning to look at the person speaking, listen carefully and take turns. Finally, we explored different emotions, such as happy, sad, angry, worried and excited. We learnt how to recognise our own feelings and understand how others might be feeling too.

Well done Year 1 for an amazing week - keep up all your brilliant work! 

Welcome to Year 2

 We would like to invite all Year 2 parents and carers to our Welcome to Year 2 meeting on  Thursday 17th  September at 2:45pm in the Charlton Hall. 

The meeting will provide important information about the academic year ahead, including what to expect in Year 2 and how you can support your child throughout the year.

We look forward to welcoming you and working together to make it a happy and successful year for all our Year 2 children.

Welcome to Year 1

 

We would like to invite all Year 1 parents and carers to our Welcome to Year 1 meeting on  Tuesday 8th  September at 2:45pm in the Charlton Hall. 

The meeting will provide important information about the academic year ahead, including what to expect in Year 1 and how you can support your child throughout the year.

We look forward to welcoming you and working together to make it a happy and successful year for all our Year 1 children.

Autumn Treasure Hunt: Help Our Year 2 Artists Explore and Create!

Autumn Treasure Hunt: Help Our Year 2 Artists Explore and Create!

Dear Parents and Carers,

As the leaves begin to turn and autumn approaches, Year 2 classrooms will be exploring an exciting, hands-on art unit! This half term, we are diving into the world of natural art inspired by two incredible artists: Andy Goldsworthy and Alice Fox.

Our big guiding question for the children this term is:

How can we become open, curious explorers of the world, and use what we find to inspire us to make art?

To answer this, we need to bring the great outdoors directly into our learning space.

🍁 How You Can Help at Home

Next time you are out on a weekend walk, visiting the local park, or even spending time in the garden, please encourage your child to keep their eyes open for nature’s treasures. We would love for the children to collect and bring in any natural resources.

What we are hunting for:

• Autumn fallen goods: Pine cones, conkers, acorns, and seed pods.

• Leaves: A variety of shapes, sizes, and autumn colors (reds, yellows, browns, oranges).

• Sticks & Twigs: Small, interesting twigs or bark pieces

• Pebbles & Stones: Small smooth stones, pebbles or shells

Both Andy Goldsworthy and Alice Fox build their artistic practice around curiosity and a deep connection to nature:

• Andy Goldsworthy uses natural, found objects to create temporary sculptures—arranging leaves by color, weaving twigs, or stacking stones.

• Alice Fox works with nature to create prints, textiles, and mark-making, exploring textures, botanical dyes, and natural patterns.

By hunting for these materials themselves, our Year 2s won't just be collecting supplies, they will be practicing mindfulness, noticing tiny details in the world around them, and learning to view the everyday environment through the eyes of an artist.

Please send any collected treasures into school with your child starting next week when we return to school.

Thank you so much for your support. We can't wait to see what natural wonders they discover!

Warmly,

The Year 2 Team

Egg-citing News! Year 2 Needs Your Empty Egg Boxes

Egg-citing News! Year 2 Needs Your Empty Egg Boxes 

                                             

Dear Parents and Carers,

When we return in September, Year 2 will be diving into a wonderful, imaginative Literacy unit on the beloved book The Egg Box Dragon by Richard Adams.

It’s a story about a little dragon who hatches from an ordinary egg box and turns out to have a magical way for finding lost things. To begin our unit, the children will start by designing and building their very own egg box dragons to bring the story to life!

We need your help!

• What we need: Cardboard egg boxes of all sizes (6-pack, 10-pack, 12-pack, or large trays).

• When to bring them: Please send them in with your child as soon as we return to school.

• Note: For health and hygiene, please ensure the boxes are clean and dry.

Start saving those boxes! Your rubbish is about to become our Year 2 treasure, and we can’t wait to show you the amazing dragons the children create.

Thank you so much for your support,

The Year 2 Team

Year 1-Colour Run!

 

Year 1- Colour Run

Our children had an amazing time taking part in our exciting Colour Run! Dressed in white tshirt and protective goggles/sunglasses and filled with excitement, they ran through clouds of colourful powder, laughing and smiling with their peers. The joy on their faces said it all as they embraced the fun.  It was  fantastic to see everyone joining in with such enthusiasm creating a truly unforgettable experience.