Year 2: News items
Y2 - World Book Day, by Miss Khan
Date: 5th Mar 2026 @ 2:54pm
Today it is World Book Day! One of our FAVOURITE days of the year!
We have had a jam-packed day, celebrating our love of books.
We have done wordsearches, read lots of books, had a costume parade, drawn our favourite characters, made book marks and have been on a scavenger hunt in our school library. It has been a wonderful day filled with books, books and more books :-)
2K - Final Forest School Session, by Miss Khan
Date: 5th Mar 2026 @ 12:08pm
On Tuesday, we had our final Forest School session with the wonderful Mr Moore!
We were so lucky to be able to have some of our grown ups join us for this session, building fires and roasting marshmallows.
We have loved these sessions over the past half term :-)
Y2 - Children's Mental Health Week, by Miss Khan
Date: 13th Feb 2026 @ 4:41pm
This week, it has been Children's Mental Health Week.
Our chosen activity was to do rock painting, to help calm our minds and try something new!
We also took part in a dancethon - thank you to all those that sponsored us for that.
We have had a lovely week, emphasising how to keep our minds happy and healthy :-)
Y2 - Writing Instructions, by Miss Khan
Date: 13th Feb 2026 @ 4:39pm
This week, we have been learning all about how to write a set of instructions.
Our first writing piece was all about "How to make crispy cakes"... so of course we had to make them!
We discussed time conjunctions for the order of instructions, which imperative verbs to use and the adverbs that we needed.
Obviously, it was only right that we got to try one at the end ;-)
Y2 - Aboriginal Art, by Miss Khan
Date: 30th Jan 2026 @ 3:43pm
This half term we have started looking at Aboriginal Art.
We have learnt about the symbols used and read the story of the 'Rainbow Serpent'.
Today, we created our own dreamtime journeys, and practised the dotted technique.
Take a look at some of our pieces so far :-)
Y2 - Forest School Week 2, by Miss Khan
Date: 14th Jan 2026 @ 3:43pm
Today we had our second forest school session with Mr Moore.
We were creating mud paintings, peeling sticks and chooping wood using lots of different tools.
We had some mucky hands after this one! :-)
Y2 - Forest School Week 1, by Miss Khan
Date: 7th Jan 2026 @ 4:21pm
Today, 2K had their first forest school session.
The focus was on den building, some of us even built a rope swing!
We had a great time and cannot wait for next week :-)
Y2 - Reindeer Olympics, by Miss Khan
Date: 7th Jan 2026 @ 4:07pm
Here we are at the Reindeer Olympics!
We had a blast, thank you to the Y6 leaders that helped us through these games.
Y2 - DT - Textiles, by Miss Khan
Date: 18th Dec 2025 @ 3:50pm
This half term, our DT project was a Textiles project.
We were tasked with designing, making & evalutating our very own teddies!
We have learnt the basic skill of sewing, cutting and decorating and loved our finished products.
Y2 - Christmas Party, by Miss Khan
Date: 18th Dec 2025 @ 3:40pm
On Monday, it was our Christmas party day!
We coloured in our own placemats, did a Christmas-themed quiz, played party games and ate lots of delicious snacks!
Thank you to everyone that contributed and brought party food/decorations. We had a wonderfully festive day :-)
Y2 - Zoolab, by Miss Khan
Date: 19th Nov 2025 @ 3:55pm
Yesterday, we were lucky enough to experience Zoolab!
Our focus was on 'Life Cycles' and our instructor shared lots of wonderful facts about each animal with us!
We saw (and even stroked / held!) a snail, snake, cockroach and tarantula (though we didn't touch that one!)
Just look at our happy faces :-)
Y2 - GFOL 3D Scenes, by Miss Khan
Date: 14th Nov 2025 @ 4:14pm
This term, our Art topic has been called "Sparks & Flames", linked with the Great Fire of London.
Over the past couple of weeks, we have been creating 3D models and today we finished them off!
Take a look at all our hard work :-)
Information to Parents / Carers w/c 10.11.25, by Mrs Clifford
Date: 10th Nov 2025 @ 1:21pm
Y2 - Diwali Party, by Miss Khan
Date: 23rd Oct 2025 @ 2:42pm
Today at school, we had our Diwali party!
We dressed in our best bright clothes, made cards, played party games and made/decorated our very own diya lamps out of clay!
We also ate lots of scrumptious party food - thank you to everyone that brought in some tasty treats!
It has been the best day, now we are ready for a half term break :-)
Information to Parents / Carers w/c 20.10.25, by Mrs Clifford
Date: 20th Oct 2025 @ 11:35am
World Mental Health Day!, by Miss Warden
Date: 16th Oct 2025 @ 11:54am
Last week we supported World Mental Health Day. We enjoyed taking part in lots of different activities to promote positive mental wellbeing, including a fantastic yoga session where we learnt all about breathe work. We loved seeing a sea of yellow throughout school. Thank you to our well-being ambassadors for arranging such a great day!
Info to Parents w/c 6.10.25, by Mrs Clifford
Date: 3rd Oct 2025 @ 3:42pm
Info for parents for w/c 29.09.25, by Mrs Clifford
Date: 1st Oct 2025 @ 10:18am
Y2 - Baking Cupcakes, by Miss Khan
Date: 26th Sep 2025 @ 1:03pm
Today is our MacMillan coffee afternoon!
To support this event, Y2 went into our wonderful food tech room to bake a few batches of fairy cakes to be sold later today.
We carefully weighed the ingredients and took turns to mix the ingredients together, showing our school value of teamwork.
We hope you can make it to the bake sale to try one :-)
Information to Parents / Carers w/c 22.9.25, by Mrs Clifford
Date: 22nd Sep 2025 @ 1:44pm
Y2 - Finger Gym Friday, by Miss Khan
Date: 19th Sep 2025 @ 4:15pm
Today, we had our first finger gym Friday session!
We manipulated modelling clay to form different shapes, eventually creating our very own snails!
The children loved this activity and can't wait for the next one :-)
Y2 - Carbon Monoxide Safety Workshop, by Miss Khan
Date: 16th Sep 2025 @ 4:06pm
Today, Y2 had a safety workshop all about carbon monoxide and the dangers that it can present.
We had an introductory assembly, followed by a session in our classrooms with 'Safety Seymour', where we had the opportunity to engage in lots of role play activities.
We also got a goody bag to take home, including a carbon monoxide alarm for our house to keep us safe!
Thank you to Miss Jones for organising, we had a great day :-)
Information for Parents / Carers 15.9.25, by Mrs Clifford
Date: 15th Sep 2025 @ 1:28pm
Y2 - Pizza Making, by Miss Khan
Date: 3rd Jul 2025 @ 12:58pm
This half term, our Science topic is 'Little Masterchefs'.
Part of our topic involved making our very own pizzas!
We made the dough from scratch, learnt how to knead the dough & added the toppings.
They were delicious :-)
Y2 - Tally Charts, by Miss Khan
Date: 30th Jun 2025 @ 3:48pm
Today, we began our new Maths unit on Statistics. One of our favourites!
After we had learnt how to form / read / interpret the data in a tally chart, we went outdoors to create our own!
We used objects in our environmnent and worked in small groups :-)
