Year 2: Blog items
Date: 15th May 2025 @ 9:15am
In music, Year 2 listen and appraised the music from ET- The flying theme. We also watched the clip from the film to see how the music had an effect on the scene. We thought about the instruments, dynamtics, pitch, tempo and we shared our thoughts and feelings on the piece. We then had a final practise of the song 'I wanna play in a band' and performed the peice with actions.
Date: 15th May 2025 @ 9:12am
In computing year 2 have been looking at creating their own mats for their beebots to navigate. Once we had designed our mats, we then created algorithms for our beebots to reach destinations. We then added obstacles to make our algorithms harder to nativigate.
Date: 15th May 2025 @ 8:05am
What an exciting afternoon we had in Year 2! Rev Thompson came to visit, and he was absolutely brilliant at introducing our young learners to the fascinating symbols of Christianity. He shared the meaning behind each symbol with such enthusiasm that the children were captivated from the very start.
One highlight was when he explained the Holy Trinity—what a thoughtful concept for the little ones to grasp! The difference between a cross and a crucifix was another important lesson; the kids were intrigued to learn how these symbols each tell a part of the Christian story.
Rev Thompson also wore his dog collar, which sparked a lot of curious questions. He told the children how this symbol represents his role and commitment as a priest, which they found really inspiring. All in all, it was a lovely afternoon filled with learning, and our Year 2s now have a better understanding of Christianity. Thank you, Rev Thompson!
Date: 15th May 2025 @ 7:48am
This half term, Year Two have been doing Gymnastics. We have explored how to create a range of shapes including: pike, tuck, straddle and star as well as practicing our rolling techniques to accurately complete a teddy bear roll, egg roll and log roll. We have used these skills to try and create a short sequence and performed them to our peers.
Date: 9th May 2025 @ 1:04pm
Our Keystage One pupil have enjoyed working together, developing their communication and teamwork skills while building a boose out of loose parts. This developed into a role play activity which everyone enjoyed being part of. Super work !
VE Day - 80th Anniversary Celebrations
Date: 8th May 2025 @ 5:28pm
Date: 8th May 2025 @ 7:40am
This half term, Year Two are exploring programming using the beebots. We started the unit by pretending to be robots and giving instructions focusing on giving clear and concise instructions so they are easy to follow. This has lead us nicely into programming floor robots with different algorithms and making predictions of where we think it will finish it's program before testing it.
Date: 8th May 2025 @ 7:38am
This week, Year Two have been learning how to measure lengths and heights. Yesterday, we looked at why we wouldn't measure everything in centimetres because it would take too long and be hard work to do it so we can measure things in metres. We used metre rulers to measure a variety of different things around our classroom and rounded it to the nearest whole metre.
Date: 1st May 2025 @ 9:20am
Throughout the half term, we are going to design and create our own healthy fruit smoothie. Today, we tried a variety of fruit smoothies that already exist as well as trying a variety of different fruits to find out which ones we liked or disliked. This will help us when designing our own smoothie as we have evaluated their taste, texture and appearance and thought about how this might change when blended. We are looking forward to creating our smoothies in the next few weeks!
Year 2- Immersed in twisted fairytales
Date: 1st May 2025 @ 9:18am
This half term, we are exploring the genre of Twisted fairytales. Over the last few days, we have enjoyed reading a variety of fairytales with a twist on the original. We have been identifying how they are twisted from the original as well as some of the key features including characters, settings, adjectives and adverbs to inspire us for our own twist on a classic fairytale.
Date: 24th Apr 2025 @ 9:00am
Year Two completed their dance unit to the song 'I just can't wait to be king.' We explored how to show emotions through our dances and expressions. We loved dancing to the song and working together to try and piece a dance together.
Date: 22nd Apr 2025 @ 4:28pm
Today, we participated in Art Day based upon the book 'The Dot' inspiring that anyone can be an artist by starting with a mark. First, we explored making a portrait focusing on practicing how to draw our key features and drew them on an orange dot as this was our colour of focus. Finally, this afternoon we explored creating patterns using three colours: red, orange and yellow.
Year 2- Making moving vehicles
Date: 10th Apr 2025 @ 9:20am
This half term we have been making our own moving vehicles. We decided what we would use to create our wheels and axles and designed our boxes to create the shape we wanted for our car. Then, we used our marking out skills to cut out windows and added designs once they had been painted. We loved our cars and were excited to take them home to use.
Date: 10th Apr 2025 @ 9:14am
This week, Year 2 participated in no pen morning. In reading into writing, we continued looking at non-chronological reports by sorting facts into the correct subheading which will help us when writing our own this week. In maths, we exploring recognising a quarter, we sorted shapes and amounts into whether they were quarters or not.
Date: 3rd Apr 2025 @ 9:09am
On Wednesday a range of children across school performed in our music concert. We had choir, peripatetic drummers, samba, Shakespeare, peripatetic guitars and School Alive. All the children were wonderful, and should be very proud of their hard work!
Date: 31st Mar 2025 @ 4:04pm
Date: 28th Mar 2025 @ 10:30am
Today we held our second Spelling Bee of the school year. 4 children were chosen from each group to represent their house and were given 3 spellings each. They have been learning these words over the last few weeks and we could all tell. The children did brilliantly and did themselves (and their house) proud. We are already looking forward to the final Spelling Bee in the Summer term.
Date: 25th Mar 2025 @ 3:32pm
Today we enjoyed our final Forest school session of the year. We explored the areas, built some dens, looked at the frog spawn and continued emptying the pond. Finally, we used the firefighters to create some sparks so we could toast marshmallows and make smores.
Year 2- Science and Geography Day!
Date: 20th Mar 2025 @ 4:10pm
When Science and Geography come together…
Wow, what an amazing day we have had at Boundary today as we had a very special visit from Thomas, the Gorilla, and some of his rainforest friends. We started the day meeting Thomas and learning all about his habitat in the rainforest. We were shocked to hear about the impact human behaviour has on our world and Thomas’ home.
The morning was filled with utter excitement as we got the opportunity to meet an adorable baby Sloth and Cherokee and we learnt about how they adapt to their environments and the problems that they overcome.
We then focused on the rainforest, looking at the animals that live there and the plants that grow. We worked in teams to research different aspects of the rainforest and then used our oracy skills to present to the class, teaching them about our focus area.
Date: 17th Mar 2025 @ 2:45pm
Today, we enjoyed having our parents come and join us in the classroom. We embedded our knowledge of riddles by answering some riddles that gave us the locations to the jigsaw pieces that we needed to accurately put together the world map to recap our Geography knowledge from our continents and oceans unit. Once we had successfully completed the puzzle, we accurately labelled the continents and oceans. Thank you to the parents who came, it was great to share our learning with you!
Date: 11th Mar 2025 @ 8:09am
Today, Year Two enjoyed a fantastic visit to the zoo. We looked at the different animals enclosures for what things they have to meet their needs of survival as well as exploring their habitats for adaptations to help them. We were lucky enough to see some baby animals including the Orangutans and looked at how they differed from their adult. We also loved watching the sea lion show and watching all of their amazing tricks. We had a fabulous time!
Date: 11th Mar 2025 @ 8:05am
Today, we had the pleasure of Noor Fatima bringing in her prayer mat and prayer beads to show the class. It was such a lovely addition to our lessons! We have been learning all about Islam, and Noor was eager to share her faith with her classmates. She explained the significance of each item, and it really opened up an important discussion about different cultural practices.
Not only that, but she also crafted a model of the Kaaba, the cubed structure in Mecca that holds great significance for Muslims. It was impressive to see her creativity and effort! The children were thoroughly engaged and curious, asking questions and sharing their thoughts.
What a wonderful experience for her to share her beliefs and values with everyone! It truly enriched our understanding and appreciation of different cultures and religions. Thank you, Noor Fatima, for such a meaningful contribution!
Date: 7th Mar 2025 @ 7:33am
Yesterday, we enjoyed our second Forest school session. We began by looking around the area for blackthorn trees so we knew where to be careful before we used the equipment to build some dens. Some of us helped clear out the pond area and helped to dig some of it out to try and make it deeper so the frogs will have a better habitat.
Date: 6th Mar 2025 @ 1:57pm
How incredible do we all look?! What a turn out for World Book Day 2025. Today we all dressed as our favourite book characters. We used our oracy skills to talk about who we were and why we picked our character. We then solved some book themed riddles and wrote our own riddle about our character.
Date: 28th Feb 2025 @ 6:00pm
Today, Eshal was so excited to share her religion with the class! Since we’ve been learning about Islam in R.E., she brought in some special items she uses during her prayer ceremonies. Eshal unveiled her beautiful prayer mat, showed us her prayer beads, explaining their significance and shared the Kida that she reads daily. She even demonstrated how she performs her prayers, inviting us to ask questions throughout. It was lovely to see her enthusiasm as she described the importance of her faith and the way she connects with it daily. The whole class really enjoyed her sharing her religion and can’t wait to learn more about it over the next few weeks!
