Year 2: News items
Summer dates, by Mrs Clifford
Date: 29th Apr 2026 @ 8:09am
Y2 - School Trip to Manchester Airport, by Miss Khan
Date: 28th Apr 2026 @ 5:08pm
Today, Year 2 went on a school trip all the way to Manchester Airport!
This was for an educational visit, as our next History topic is all about the first flight, and how planes have changed over time.
We took a coach to get there and were greeted by the lovely Mark and Chris who provided our tour.
We got to go inside a real plane, dress up in uniform, visit the cockpit and see real planes taking off!
We topped it off with a play in the park before we came back to school - we had the best day :-)
Y2 - Outdoor Maths, by Miss Khan
Date: 27th Apr 2026 @ 3:55pm
This half term, we have started our 'Fractions' topic.
To recap prior learning, we took chalk onto the playground to draw examples of 'one half'.
Take a look at the shapes we drew :-)
Y2 - Planting, by Miss Khan
Date: 27th Apr 2026 @ 3:52pm
This half term, our Science topic is all about 'Young Gardeners'.
We have been learning about the parts of a seed, and what seeds need to grow.
Today, we planted our very own bulbs, ready to watch their progress over the next few weeks!
Y2 - Vaisakhi, by Miss Khan
Date: 24th Apr 2026 @ 4:42pm
In the Spring holidays, many Sikh families celebrated Vaisakhi.
This week, Y2 have been working hard to bake biscuits and cakes for the whole school to share in celebration of this festival!
We have loved listening to some music, eating tasty treats and reading a book all about Vaisakhi today.
Thank you to the lovely Y6 children that also came round to deliver a presentation about Vaiskahi too :-)
Y2 - DT, by Miss Khan
Date: 19th Mar 2026 @ 4:23pm
This week, it has been DT week! One of our favourite weeks of the term.
Our topic has been 'Cooking & Nutrition', where we have been designing, making and evaluating pizza wraps!
We had to chop soft vegetables, grate cheese and spread the sauce. Lots of simple steps to make a tasty, healthy snack.
Take a look at us in action, as well as our finished products :-)
Y2 - Library Visit, by Miss Khan
Date: 17th Mar 2026 @ 5:18pm
Today, we took a school trip to Stretford Library!
We had a wonderful time completing a book scavenger hunt, choosing books to take home, reading new books and listening to a story.
Don't forget to take back any books that you received today :-)
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