Year 2: Blog items
Date: 10th Oct 2025 @ 2:17pm
As part of Black History Month, Year 2 have been learning about Rosa Parks and why she is such an important figure in history. We’ve read about her famous bus journey in guided reading and discussed her courage in standing up for equality.
The children are now writing diary entries from Rosa’s point of view, showing great empathy and understanding. We’re so proud of their thoughtful work and how inspired they’ve been by Rosa’s story!
Year 2- Learning to Listen and Appraise!
Date: 10th Oct 2025 @ 2:11pm
Year Two had a fantastic time listening to “Eye of the Tiger”! The song made us feel strong, brave, and ready for anything. We clapped, danced, and talked about never giving up. We thought about what instruments we could hear, what type of music it was and what the tempo was.
Date: 9th Oct 2025 @ 4:31pm
This week Boundary Primary School celebrated Harvest Festival. Year 6 led the celebration assembly together with our special guest, Reverend Peter. We talked about being thankful for the food we eat, our good health and the life we live. The children and their families helped by donating food to Vincent House.Thank you to everyone for their support.
Date: 6th Oct 2025 @ 12:46pm
Today we held our first Spelling Bee of the year. Each house was represented by the best spellers from Year 2 - Year 6 and the children were tested on spellings they have been learning in Autumn 1. We are very proud of all the children for being their house representative and spelling some very tricky words in front of the whole school. The overall winners were Chepstow, who managed to spell 12/15 spellings across all 5 years groups.
Date: 2nd Oct 2025 @ 9:15am
Year 2 have been learning some key skills to help them with sewing. The children have been practising how to thread a needle, tie knots securely, and use needles safely. They have also been developing their stitching technique by learning and applying the running stitch. These skills will support them as they continue to build confidence and independence in their sewing projects.
Year 2- How much weight will it hold?
Date: 1st Oct 2025 @ 7:18pm
In this lesson, Year Two were answering the question ‘Which ship can carry the most weight?’. For this we had to make predictions on which size boat would hold the most coins. After this, we then conducted an experiment to test how much it could hold. We then recorded our data and drew conclusions from our findings.
Date: 30th Sep 2025 @ 11:25am
For our democracy week we discussed what democracy meant and how it works in our country. We then discussed how democracy worked in school, with our School Council. The children wrote and presented manifestos as to why they would be a good school council member and what they would like to see improve. We voted for our class School Council member at our school polling station. Congratulations to Sid and Levi.
Date: 18th Sep 2025 @ 9:14am
In Year Two, we looked at the skills of Listening and Appraising and Improvising. We listened to the song Boléro and thought about what we liked and disliked and linked it to the Elements of Music. We then got a range of percussion instruments and thought about what they sounded like, what the pitch was and if we liked and disliked them. We used our oracy skills and ABC to think about the different instruments. The children then had a go at playing the different instruments and improvising along to Boléro.
Date: 11th Sep 2025 @ 4:26pm
In Year Two, we have begun our Mastering Number. We have been focusing on the composition of number and which two numbers make the whole. We used the stem sentence ‘ ____ and ____ makes _____’.
Year 2- Investigating materials !
Date: 11th Sep 2025 @ 4:21pm
In Year Two, we have looked at investigating different materials. We looked at seeing what different qualities they have and through about which materials are absorbent. As a class we post-it note planning to see what we would keep the same, what we would change and how we would keep it a far test. Then the children conducted this experiment and saw how high the water had absorbed in the material, we then recorded this in a results table.
Date: 11th Sep 2025 @ 4:12pm
In Year Two, we have started looking at one of our Skills For Life ‘Respect’. We focused on what respect was and how to show it. We then looked at how manners and compliments link to respect, and thought about how to give compliments. We then filled a cup of compliments, thinking about which different attributes we could compliment people on.
Date: 11th Sep 2025 @ 3:58pm
In Year Two, we have started our Design Technology journey by looking at existing products. We looked at shadow, marionette, finger and hand puppets and thought about the purpose, user, material and how it was joined together. We will then use this when we go on to plan and design our own puppets.
Date: 10th Sep 2025 @ 10:18am
Today, we started off the lesson by recapping our previous learning about God and to recap
key vocabulary from year 1. We then went on to look at a variety of photographs of the world
with good and bad aspects. We shared our ideas thinking about the impact it shows on the
world and how the photographs make me feel. We then went on to work in mixed ability
groups to answer questions about our world. Finally, we discussed why the world should
matter to us all.
Year 2- Listening and Appraising!
Date: 8th Sep 2025 @ 4:56pm
In Year Two, we have begun our new music journey with listening and appraising. The children thought about what skills they needed to be successful in this topic and then we went on to listen to the song ‘Music in my soul’. We thought about what we liked and disliked about the song, linking our thoughts to the elements of music. We then focused on the tempo, articulation, beat and dynamics of the song and made notes in our partners, linking to this song.
Year 2- Fantastic photography!
Date: 8th Sep 2025 @ 4:52pm
In Year Two, we have started our topic of Digital Photography. We have begun by looking at why we make take a picture and when it is appropriate. We also thought about what can and cannot take pictures. The children then had a go at becoming photographers and thought about how best to hold the camera so that they could take in focus pictures of their subject. We then moved on to consider the difference between landscape and portrait and which would make our subject look the best.
Date: 4th Sep 2025 @ 9:10am
In Science, Year Two are looking at the use of everyday materials. In our first session we were focussing on the question ‘How can materials be changed?’. The children looked at a range of materials to see if we could bend, stretch, pull, bend, snap and twist them and recorded our results in a table. We then explored a challenge question thinking about if every solid is hard.
Date: 4th Sep 2025 @ 9:07am
Welcome back! We hope you had a wonderful summer!
Here is some information which was shared during the Meet The Teacher session this week.
- Overview for the year (attached)
- PE days- Monday and Tuesday. Please keep your PE kits in school all week.
- Homework - set online every Friday to be completed by the following Friday (Spag.com, Mathshed)
- Spelling - set online every Friday. Tested the following Friday (Spelling Shed)
- Reading books will start to go out next week. Please aim to read at least 3 times a week.
- We can be contacted using the class email address- birchteacher@boundary.blackpool.sch.uk and elmteacher@boundary.blackpool.sch.uk
Date: 16th Jul 2025 @ 3:06pm
This half term, in reading into writing we have explored persuasive adverts and in Geography we have looked at hot and cold places. To link the two topics together, we wrote a persuasive advert to persuade someone to visit either the desert, rainforest or Antarctica- we even used the computers to create our hot write to make them look bright and colourful as well as improve our digital literacy skills.
Year 2- Looking after the environment
Date: 16th Jul 2025 @ 3:02pm
Today, we explored the key question how does rubbish affect our environment? We read the story a rubbish day at the beach, thinking about the problems we saw in the story and how we could improve the problem. We then made a pledge to do one thing to help the environment including: giving things to charity, recycling more or picking up litter.
Year 2- The day the Farm visited Boundary!
Date: 10th Jul 2025 @ 10:01am
Today was such an excitng day! The farm came to visit us at Boundary. We were lucky enough to go and meet sheep, goats, pigs, rabbits, cows, donkeys and the cutest dog ever! We stroked the animals, brushed them and learntsome new vocabulary. We had a great time!
Date: 10th Jul 2025 @ 7:41am
This week in Year 2, we got our hands doughy and made Challah bread, a special treat for the Jewish weekly celebration of Shabbat. This half term, we've been diving into the fascinating world of Judaism, exploring everything from the story of Moses and the Ten Commandments to understanding why the Sabbath Day is so important and how it's celebrated. The children thoroughly enjoyed shaping their own loaves and learning about the significance behind this delicious bread. Join us as we reflect on our tasty experience and the important lessons we’ve uncovered about faith and tradition!
Date: 2nd Jul 2025 @ 3:09pm
Today, we enjoyed our annual sports day. We competed in lots of different games and activities that tested our agility, speed and stamina. Thank you to the year 6's for running the event and helping everyone succeed. We look forward to hearing which house won the most points!
Year 2 Heritage Day- Showtown and Rock tasting!
Date: 1st Jul 2025 @ 2:42pm
Heritage day was amazing! We went on a trip to Showtown in Blackpool Town Centre. We learnt all about how the seaside has changed throughout the years. We explored the seaside using our senses and thought about what we would hear, see, taste, smell and feel.
We also looked at how Blackpool developed throughout the years and how summer clothing changed. Finally, we got to explore the museum learning all about the fantastic thingsin our seaside town.
When we returned to school, we learnt about Blackpool Rock and how it is made. We tasted lots of different flavours, including fish and chips flavour! EW!
We then went on to design our own stick of Blackpool Rock and we learnt to sing the song 'My little stick of Blackpool Rock'
We all had a brilliant day learning about our home town and it's history!
Date: 26th Jun 2025 @ 3:42pm
This week we've had health week. Today, we enjoyed a scooter workshop focusing on balance and even managed to do some scooter skills. This afternoon, we looked at the life of a famous lioness, Lauren Hemp looking at what she has achieved so far in her career and how she got there.
Date: 25th Jun 2025 @ 3:58pm
This half term, our computing focus is data and information. Today, we explored ways to collect information and presenting data. We created a human pictogram to show our favourite fruits before completing a mini beast hunt to collect data about things found. Once we created a tally chart to represent our data we created a pictogram online.
