Year 2
Welcome to Year 2!
Welcome to Year 2,
Our Year 2 team is made up of:
Class teachers: Mrs Stallwood and Mrs McKeown.
Teaching assistants: Miss Morgan, Miss Aspland and Mrs Thorne.
We are so proud to be part of such an exciting and important stage in your child’s learning journey. Year 2 is a year full of growth, curiosity, and confidence-building, where children are encouraged to become more independent learners while still feeling supported and valued. We aim to create a happy, nurturing classroom where every child feels safe, challenged, and inspired to do their very best each day.
This Term's Learning
This term Year 2 will be travelling back in time to find out what it was like to live as a Roman. We will be beginning our new Science topic exploring plants, learning about life processes, diet and growth
and what living things need to survive. In P.E. children will be developing coordination and teamwork through SKIP and Net and Wall games. Personal Social and Emotional learning will be supported through a focus on Children’s Mental Health Week and developing healthy screen time habits. Strong communication skills will be built through oracy lessons, with a focus on both listening and speaking skills. Reading sessions will develop positive reading behaviours and vocabulary acquisition, while writing will be taught through a structured writing journey across a range of genres, supported by grammar, punctuation and spelling tasks. Handwriting and word processing skills will also be developed. Welsh patterns will be further practised during Drillo and learning will be enriched through songs, rhymes, poems, stories, multimedia and drama to inspire creativity and confidence. In Mathematics and Numeracy, we will be building on skills learnt last term while also developing time and measurement and data handling. While in Expressive Arts children will experiment with a range of different media.
Last Term's Learning
Last term our Year 2 pupils have made a wonderful start to the school year, taking part in a wide range of fun and engaging learning experiences across the curriculum.
In Language, Literacy and Communication, children have been developing their reading and writing skills through shared stories and writing. There has been a strong focus on spelling, handwriting, and predicting what might happen next in stories has helped pupils grow in confidence and enjoy expressing their ideas. Children have also practised their Welsh language skills by taking part in daily Drillo sessions as well as learning new sentence patterns in focused Welsh lessons.
In Mathematics and Numeracy, learning has been practical and purposeful. Children have explored place value, ordering and comparing numbers, simple reasoning skills, addition and subtraction. The children have also been developing their understanding of money through practical activities, including recognising coins and using them in simple real-life situations.
In Science and Technology, pupils have enjoyed learning about space, discovering the planets, their order, and interesting facts about each one. In digital learning, children have been developing independence by logging into laptops and using key features of Hwb, as well as using educational sites such as Sumdog, Reading Eggs and Reading Buddy.
Expressive Arts lessons have allowed pupils to be creative through self-portraits, exploring colours and patterns and enjoying music appreciation activities. In Humanities, children have developed their thinking skills through discussions about fairness, kindness, beliefs, and learning about Christianity.
Supporting children’s health and wellbeing has been a key focus throughout the term. Through circle time, emotional regulation activities, discussions about being a good friend and kindness, children have been encouraged to share their thoughts, celebrate successes, and build positive relationships.
Weekly PE sessions have helped pupils stay active while developing coordination and teamwork through gymnastics and SKIP activities. Regular visits to the library, assemblies and celebrations have all contributed to a happy, balanced, and enjoyable term for our Year 2 pupils.