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 (7th April 2025 - 11th April 2025)

Year 2

This week we have been learning about volume and capacity in Maths.  We have learnt that capacity is the maximum amount a container can hold, and volume is the measurement of what is actually in it.  We have been reading scales and estimating the volume of containers then checking them.  We have also begun looking at measuring temperature in degrees C.

 

 

 

In English, we have been writing some Easter acrostic poems.  We thought of lots of words and phrases about Easter first - our Easter songs and poems have helped us lots with this! Then we used the correct starting word for each line.  The children did a great job!

In Science, we have been exploring what bulbs are and how they are different to seeds.  They store everything the plant needs ready for the warmer seasons when they begin growing again.  We drew diagrams and labelled parts of the bulbs using the words tunic, scales, roots and flower bud.  We also drew life cycles of bulbs.

In Geography, we thought about activities that people do at the seaside.  We explored pictures and videos of Wembury beach in Devon and wrote postcards as if we were at the seaside telling our friends what we had been doing.  We also read a story about a little girl who lived by the beach who found some sea creatures called 'Sally and the Limpet'

 

(31st March 2025 - 4th April 2025)

Year 2

This week in maths, year 2 have been learning about mass.  They have compared mass by finding things that are lighter and heavier.  They have used balance scales to find how many grams objects are and solved problems about mass such as the total mass of two objects.

In English we have been planning and writing 'What am I?' riddles.  We have thought about description and making clues harder and easier.  We have identified similes and attempted to write some of our own.

In Science, we have been learning about seed dispersal and the different ways that plants spread their seeds including by wind, being eaten by animals, drying out and popping (exploding), by floating on water, by dropping to the floor and breaking open or by sticking to animals.  The children made paper helicopters to represent sycamore seeds being dispersed by the wind.

In Music, the children have been planning a short composition which involves changing pitch.  They used the theme of a playground to help structure their pieces and added short phrases such as 'Swinging high, swinging low' 'Climb up, swing across' which will them play the rhythm on the percussion instruments

In PE, they have been using the benches and mats for gymnastics, moving across the equipment safely and performing jumps at the end.

(24th March 2025 - 28th March 2025)

Year 2

This week we have completed our NFER assessments in Maths and Reading.  The children have worked so hard.

In addition, we have started work on mass in maths.  We are beginning by using balance scales to decide whether something is heavier or lighter and then introducing gram weights to show the mass of objects.

In English, we have started learning riddles.  The children have read clues and decided what they thought the riddle was about.  We are learning about the structure of a riddle and the kinds of clues to include so it's not too easy before writing our own riddles.

In History, we have looked at sources of information about King Richard III, what has been said about him in history and how he has been portrayed to decide why people thought he was a good king or a bad king.

In PSHE, we talked about medicines and immunisations and why we have them.  We talked about what we can do when we are feeling unwell other than taking medicine.

In RE we have started learning the Easter story and re-telling it using story boards.

(17th March 2025 - 21st March 2025)

Year 2

This week we have been continuing our focus on measuring in Maths, comparing measurements and solving problems involving measurements.  

In English, we have been publishing our stories after editing to make our stories the best that they can be.  Next, we will be looking at solving and writing our own riddles.

In History, we have been exploring King Richard III's skeleton remains to see what they tell us about him and what happened to him in battle.  

In Science, we have been using previous learning to organise objects in to living, non-living and never been alive.

(10th March 2025 - 14th March 2025)

Year 2

This week, year 2 have been writing their own stories in English.  They have changed some traditional tales so that characters who were usually villains are now showing to be innocent.  They have been focusing on their vocabulary choices to change the description of the characters.

In Maths, we are practising measuring in cm and m.  We have learnt how to use rulers accurately to measure and to draw lines.  We have thought about things that are longer and shorter than 1m.

In Science, the children have been considering what animals need to survive.  We were able to recall our learning about humans and understand that animals also need 3 basic things to survive.  We also thought about what makes animals happy and healthy too. They made a fact file about pet animals and how to look after them.

In History, the children made shields for King Richard III's army (Yorkists) or Henry Tudors army and we re-enacted the battle of Bosworth.  

In Art, they have begun sculpting their chosen minibeasts out of clay.  

(3rd March 2025 - 7th March 2025)

Year 2

This week in Year 2, we have been solving word problems involving division facts - grouping and sharing.  The children have been using equipment such as counters to help them but also some children recognise they can use their known multiplication facts too!

In English, we have started thinking about possible characters for our own warning story with a twist.  We wrote about why some of the characters in traditional tales might not be the villains after all.  Like the wolf who sneezed a big sneeze and accidentally blew down the houses, or the fox who was helping the gingerbread man across the river, but he fell in in his mouth while he was talking!

In Science, we have been exploring life cycles of different animals such as sheep, ducks, frogs and butterflies.  The children read some information about their chosen animal and created their own informative life cycles.

In History, we have been learning about the battle of Bosworth, when it took place and why We learnt that despite having more men, King Richard III was ultimately defeated and de-throned by Henry Tudor, ending the war of the Roses.  The children ordered the events leading up to and surrounding the battle.

We have started some World Book day activities through Scholastic, who have offered book reads and draw alongs for the children. We have had The Smeds and the Smoos and Tiddler read by Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler and we have also been read That's My Flower by Alice Hemming and Nicola Slater.

     

(24th February 2025 - 28th February 2025)

This week year 2 have been learning the TRUE story of the three little pigs.  They have learnt in this story, the wolf is innocent and he accidentally blew down the houses when he had a terrible sneezing cold!  The children have been writing character descriptions, answering questions about the story and writing sentences using conjunctions.

In Maths they have been answering questions involving the 10 and 5 times tables and seeing the related division facts.  These are called fact families.

In Science, they have started their new unit about animals and their offspring.  They have explored different types of animals such as mammals, amphibians, birds, reptiles and fish.  They looked at pictures of their offspring and discussed which ones look like their adults. 

  

In History, the children have been introduced to Kind Richard III and have found out some key facts about him including how he became king, who were the Yorkists and Lancastrians and what was the war of the roses was.