Welcome to Year 2!

2025-26

In Year 2, our teachers are Mr Tickle and Miss Chisnall (Class 7), Miss Quick (Class 8), and Mrs Hardyman (Class 9). We are also supported by our dedicated Learning Support Assistants (LSAs): Mrs Bright and Mrs Muller.

If you have any questions, please get in touch with your child's teacher. If they are not around at pick-up, you can speak to them by phoning the school office and requesting an appointment.

Please refer back to this page for regular updates on the children's learning. 

Curriculum Newsletters

Year 2 Autumn 1 - Curriculum Newsletter

Update – Thursday 25th September 2025

It might only be a 4-day week, but over those 4 days, the children have worked exceptionally hard! 

In our English lessons, the children have completed their final piece by retelling the story of 'Little Red'. In this, they have had to include the key parts of the story but also think carefully about their use of capital letters, full stops and coordinating conjunctions (and, but, so) to join two clauses together. The children did exceptionally well with this, and their work will be displayed in the corridor outside the infant hall!

In history, the children have been exploring significant figures from history, thinking about what they are famous for and categorising them as artists, activists, monarchs, explorers or scientists. This will help the children in the next few lessons when they start to explore the lives and achievements of Christopher Columbus and Neil Armstrong. 

Update – Friday 19th September 2025

In our writing this week, we have started to use coordinating conjunctions (and, but, and so) to join two clauses together. In doing this, the children began the week by sequencing the story and two ideas for each image. These ideas were then linked together using a coordinating conjunction. This was then followed the next day by the children completing their own sentences using coordinating conjunctions.

In maths, we have continued to work on developing our understanding of place value to 100. As part of this, the children have identified numbers on the number line by completing partially completed number lines and by using estimation to identify numbers on blank number lines. 

Update – Friday 12th September 2025

This week has been another busy week in Year 2 and our first whole week in school since returning from the summer holidays. 

The children have continued to demonstrate their growing understanding of place value through our maths lessons. In these lessons, the children have been using base 10 resources to represent numbers and exploring how they are partitioned into their tens and ones. At the end of the week, the children used their understanding of partitioning numbers to partition them in different ways. 

Through our English sessions this week, the children have continued to use the story of 'Little Red' as the driver for their learning. They have continued to practise retelling the story and the actions they learnt last week. The children have also focused on securing and recapping their learning on full stops and capital letters, thinking about where and when they are used.

In Art, the children have continued to develop an understanding of colour mixing and how two primary colours can be mixed to make secondary colours. This week, the children have used this knowledge to explore how they can create different hues by mixing different amounts of the two primary colours. 

In our geography unit, we have begun to explore the world using atlases. In this lesson, we started by recapping the seven continents of the world, identifying them on a world map. After this, the children located a variety of countries using the atlas. We primarily focused on countries around Europe before expanding to a wider area. 

On Friday afternoon, the children began an Indian Dance unit of work, which the children will be given the opportunity to perform at the 'Diwali Light It Up' Festival on Friday 17th October 2025. More information will be communicated to parents via Arbour closer to the time. 

Update – Friday 5th September 2025

What a busy week it has been in Year 2! We might have only been back in school for 3 days, but the children have really begun to settle back into life at school and school routines well! 

Through our maths sessions, we have begun to explore place value, thinking about the value of different digits in numbers, e.g. 13 means there are 1 ten and 3 ones. Using this understanding, we have also begun to represent numbers with dienes. This will help as we move through the unit and the year with our calculation methods and strategies. 

In English, we have begun to learn the 'true' story of Little Red based on the book by Bethan Woolvin. In doing this, the children have thought about the different versions that they know and, as a class, discussed the differences. Using the book 'Little Red' by Bethan Woolvin, the children have begun to learn the story, adding actions to help them remember it. 

On Friday, we completed our first art lesson, where we looked at the colour wheel and used primary colours to mix secondary colours to help us complete our colour wheels.