Welcome to our Year 2, Fox Class page

Class Teacher: Miss L Wilkinson

Support Staff: Mrs R Hardy, Miss A Farrell & Mrs R Boneham

PE Days: Wednesday and Thursday 

In Fox Class we work hard on embedding our skills from EYFS and Year 1 and further build upon our foundations before we head into Year 3 and Key Stage 2.

Please click on the link below for all the information on what we are learning about this half-term. 

This week (13th January 2025 - 17th January 2025) 

Year 2

This week Year 2 have written setting descriptions for their own stories about an animal being lost and then helped to return home.  They have been focusing on adjectives and interesting verbs and even adverbs to describe.  They have begun thinking about planning the structure of their stories.

In Maths, they have been finding ways to make the same amount of money e.g. 70p, comparing amounts of money using < less than > more than and = equal to and they have been calculating problems with money such as how much money has been spent and the difference between amounts of money.  Please continue to practise this at home.

In Science, they have been exploring the school environment looking for things that are living, dead and never been alive.  They enjoyed looking under logs and finding some of the living creatures we have such as centipedes, slugs, beetles and worms.  If you have some wellies that can be brought in from home, they can stay on the children's pegs and means they can explore the environment without getting their school shoes muddy.

In Geography, they have been comparing houses in Kampong Ayer to their own houses.  

In PSHE, the children have been thinking about what makes up their identity.  They have talked about things that they like and things that make them unique.  They have thought about who is in their family and where they were born.  We read Amazing Grace and talked about what we know about her identity from the story.

(6th January 2025 - 10th January 2025) 

Year 2

This week Year 2 have begun learning about money in Maths.  They have learnt how much each coin or note is worth and have added amounts of pence, pounds and pounds and pence.  Please continue to practise this at home if you can.  They have been writing amounts as £3 and 42p not using decimals.

In English, they have begun learning the story The Storm Whale using Talk for Writing actions.  They made large 3D story maps in groups.  They have written sentences about the main character, Noi, and have written about how the characters felt during different parts of the story.

In Science, they have learnt about life processes which shows whether something is living, dead or never alive.  They learnt to use the acronym MRS GREN to help remember the 7 processes that tell us if something is living and then decided which category things fit in to.

In Geography, they have learnt about our location the world.  We explored Google Earth (Something you can do at home!) and found their location in Thorpe Acre then thought about their wider location of Loughborough, Leicestershire, England, UK, Europe.  They compared that with the place we will be learning about Kampong Ayer, a water village in Brunei, Asia.