Welcome to Year 2

Each week we will be keeping you up to date with a "Wow of the Week" from different children. In addition to this, please read our half termly newsletter to find out what will be happening in Year 2.
To help your child with their spellings, use the list below and use the look, say, cover, write, check method to practice words. To help you support your child with their reading, writing and maths learning, we have detailed the main objectives we cover in Year 2.

Messages

PE - Monday and Friday.

Please come to school in your PE kit. 

Books - Change books on Wednesday. 

Please make sure you have been reading at home at least three times a week. 

Spellings - New spellings will be set on this page every Friday. Scroll down and click on the star to see them. They will also be sent home in your child's spelling books. These spellings will link to the activity set on Spelling Shed. Spellings will be tested the following Thursday. 

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Summer 2

Week 6 

Sophia - I enjoyed auditioning for Westroyd's Got Talent this week. I sang "Shake It Off" on my roller skates. 

Scarlett - I enjoyed making our healthy wraps because we had lots of healthy ingredients and all of us liked the taste. We're going to try and make them at home just like we did at school. 

Carver - Miss Martin treated us in PE this week. We got to play different games with the parachute! It was so much fun. 

Week 5  

We've had an AMAZING week! This week was Happy, Healthy, Safe Week. We've had lots of visitors, different lessons and exciting assemblies. We even learnt how to tie our shoelaces! Here are our highlights... 

Ethan T - I enjoyed transition. I liked seeing my new classroom and playground and also meeting my new teacher Mr Popple. We get to keep Miss Martin next year! 

Scarlett - I enjoyed our special visitor D:Side Dave. We made a conscience alley that we walked through and our friends gave us compliments. It made me feel good. 

Carver - I enjoyed playing some fun games during our transition morning. 

Sophia - Sports day was really fun! I enjoyed the different events and doing it with my friends. 

Zoe - People from Skipping School came in. They either taught us how to skip or how to improve our skipping. I was chosen to show my skills in front of the whole school. 

Zosia - I liked when NSPCC came in to talk to us. They told us how to stay safe and the number for Childline if we needed it. 

Daniel - D:Side Dave got me to wear a skeleton costume. My friends had to put the different body parts on to me. We learnt al the names for the inside of our bodies. 

Week 4

Sophia - "We earned our sheep point prize this week. Our prize was to decorate biscuits. My favourite part was eating them!"

Scarlett - "We've been completing our SATs this week. They were tricky but we are really proud of ourselves." 

Frankie - "Half of our class we lucky enough to attend Pudsey Olympics. We did cricket, throwing and catching, balancing and skipping. We worked so hard as a team and are super proud that we came in 5th out of 12 other schools in the area! Last year we came 10th so we are really proud of how much we've improved." 

Week 3

Sophia - "I liked when we learnt to cut different food. We did this so that when we make our healthy wrap we know how to cut the ingredients."

Zoe - "In maths, we got some grid paper and some objects. We had to give directions to our partner of how to get to the different objects using words like forwards, backwards, right, left, quarter turn, half turn, clockwise and anti-clockwise. It was lots of fun."

Scarlett - "I enjoyed reading my poem. We all wrote acrostic poems about extinction. We then had to rehearse with our group and perform to the rest of the class. We had to think about our expression, actions, loudness, speed and eye contact."

Alfie - "We went outside in Science to look for mini beasts. We found worms, centipedes, ants, woodlice and flies"

Ethan H - "I liked finding the ant kingdom."

Week 2 

Maths has been really fun this week starting our new topic on position and direction. We went outside to practice using our new vocabulary. We had to direct our friend with their eyes closed to get them to the cone. We then directed our friends on the grid to get them to the correct numbers. 

Daniel - "I liked maths because we went outside to practice using our new position and direction vocabulary that we've been learning."

Carver - "Forwards, backwards, left, right, above, between and below."

Scarlett - "I enjoyed Geography where we used atlases to find all the countries and capital cities in the UK. We also looked at famous places in those countries."

Ethan Th - "I enjoyed English where we wrote a diary about discovering the Dodo birds."

Sophia - "I enjoyed reading about Taylor Swift in our Whole Class Read lesson where we answered questions about what we read."

Alfie - "I liked learning different athletic skills. We learnt how to do the long jump."

Zoe - "In PSHE we worked together as a group to make a bridge. We talked about how to work together in a team and how we felt after the challenge. We then talked about our strengths and what we want to improve. We know that everyone makes mistakes and this is okay, as long as we try to improve."

Week 1 

This week we started looking at our new class book - LOTS The Diversity of Life on Earth by Nicola Davies. We explored the beautiful pictures and worked together to create powerful adjectives and verbs. 

We started our new topic in DT which is all about healthy eating. We looked at the Eat Well plate and designed a perfectly balanced meal that we could create at home. 

In PE we have began working on our athletic skills ready for our Sports Day this half term. Watch our Usain Bolt! 

Summer 1

Week 6

Hudson - In maths we learnt how to create tally charts. We know to use the diagonal line to show 5. 

Zosia - I loved creating our sharks and jellyfish ready to show at Farsley Festival. We can't wait for you to see them! 

Frankie - We have been doing lots of SATs practice this week. I've been really proud of what I've achieved. 

Carver - I liked using a view finder in art to help us look at the details on the shells for our sketches. 

Zoe - In PSHE we learnt about different types of families. Some can have 2 mums, some can have old parents, some can have step parents. We must show respect to all families. Even though they might be different to ours, we still must show respect. 

Alfie - I liked computing because we finished our final animations. 

Week 5

Zosia - In art we looked at real shells and sketched them. We looked closely at the details. 

Hudson - We rewrote our story 'Wild'. We made it more exciting by including lots of expanded noun phrases. 

Alfie - We finished learning about time this week. I think it's really interesting and I now know what time it is. 

Carver - We used Atlases in Geography to find all the different islands in the United Kingdom. 

Scarlett - In PSHE we pulled different objects from a mystery bag. We looked at our object and talked about how they were used to care for people and what age someone might need to use it.

Week 4

Alfie - We have been learning about time in maths. We learnt to tell the time by using o'clock, half past, quarter past and quarter to.

Sophia - In English we have started our new book which is called 'Wild'. We wrote a story map and a character description using expanded noun phrases. I like her wild hair.

Carver - In computing we've been finishing our stop motion animations. We can't wait to see what the completed videos look like! 

Frankie - In art we have been learning how to sketch different types of shells. My favourite one looked liked an upside down ice cream. 

Daniel - In Geography we sorted natural and man made items into different groups. 

Zoe - In Geography we learnt about a town called St. Ives. We looked at where we can visit and planned a route if we were tour guides. 

Week 3 

Carver - This week in PSHE we have learnt the different names of our body parts and about keeping our privates private. I liked the PANTS song!

Zosia - We learnt about mark making in art. I liked making the different patterns and finding different ways to draw. 

Scarlett - We finished learning about fractions this week. Miss Martin was so impressed with how well we completed our fractions tests! 

Henry - I liked PE. We learnt how to do burpees, crab kicks and floor thrusters. We then made our own relay that had these in.

Hudson - I liked learning about what seasides used to be like in the past in Geography. In the past they had bathing machines but we don't use these anymore. 

Sophia - We started making Baby Bear's chair in DT. We had to make sure it was strong enough for him to sit on. 

Week 2

Hudson - This week we've been learning about different grades of pencils. B stands for how black and H stands for how hard. 

Zoe - We've been writing up our recounts this week to report on what happened with our suspects and what happened in their interviews. 

Ethan Th - In PSHE we talked about the similarities and differences between boys and girls. Talked about what boys like and what girls like. Then we realised boys and girls all like different things. Some girls like princesses but some boys do too. It's great that we're all different! 

Scarlett - I've enjoyed learning some new words in maths like numerator, denominator, unit fractions and non unit fractions. 

Daniel - We've learnt about the features of a seaside. We looked at human (man-made) and physical (natural) features of a seaside. We looked at areal photographs to do this. 

Sophia - In DT we've been designing a special chair for baby bear that we're going to make next week. 

Zosia - I liked doing computing because we've been making stop-motion animations. 

Frankie - In science we checked on our plant investigation to see what they needed to grow. 

Week 1

Alfie - This week we had to solve a crime! Mrs Pashley told us that some iPads had been taken from the Year 6 Classroom. We looked at the CCTV and had to work out who it was. We had three suspects and wrote down some questions for us to ask them. We then became detectives and interviewed each one.

Ethan Th - We've set up a science investigation where we're going to find out what plants need to grow. 

Carver - Art was interesting this week because we looked at different artists who used shells in their artwork. My favourite artist was Courtney Mattinson.

Scarlett - We've been learning about fractions in maths. We know how to find a half and a quarter.

Frankie - We've had some new interesting spellings this week. We looked at words where 'ey' makes an /ee/ sound. I didn't know how to spell 'kidney' before but now I do! 

Lewis - In PSHE we looked at different expressions and labelled their emotions.

Ethan Th - In geography we looked at different seaside resorts that were near us. We found them on a map and then researched them in our groups. 

Jaxon - In DT we used paper and cellotape to find the best way to make a stable structure. We looked at the different shapes we could make and investigated the stability of each one.

Alfie - I liked being in my phonics group. We learnt 'ee' and 'nk'.

Spring 2 

Week 6 

Zoe - " I really enjoyed painting our Dragon Eyes and I liked that my scales looked exactly how I wanted them to."

Ellie - "We finished making our castles. I can't believe we made them with real drawbridges."

Scarlett - "We completed lots of missing number problems in maths this week."

Carver - "I enjoyed the toy afternoon that we got because of our Sheep Point prize.

Week 5 

Alfie - "I liked making our castles and creating a working drawbridge using a pulley system."

Carver - "I enjoyed looking at everyone else's castles. They were amazing!"

Daniel - "In science we learnt about Recycling. We learnt about the different bins and what they're for. We also learnt how plastic bottles can be made into plastic bags!"

Frankie - "In science we learnt about John McAdam. He created Tarmac! It used to be called McAdamisation. Then they added tar and it became Tarmacadam but we know it as Tarmac now."

Ethan - "I liked making my castle."

Week 4

Henry - "I liked art because I made my own dragon out of clay. We used different clay tools."

Scarlett - "I enjoyed our maths tests this week because there were some tricky questions but I worked hard to get them right."

Carver - "I really enjoyed looking at all the different dragon eyes that everyone made. It was cool how different they were."

Daniel - "In PSHE we talked about 'How big is my problem'. We looked at different situations and talked about how big the actual problem was. We ranked them out of 5. We talked about how the size of our reactions should match the size of our problem."

Alfie - "Science was fun because we looked at different materials and investigated if we could bend, stretch, squish, twist the different objects. We talked about how we could change the shape of solid objects."

Zoe - "I enjoyed PE because we learnt how to kick the ball using the inside of our feet." 

In maths this week, we learnt about capacity and volume. We now know how to measure in ML! 

Week 3 

We had a VERY exciting week this week! A visit from a knight, draw bridges, dragon eyes and World Book Day.

Alfie - "I liked experimenting with different tools on the clay to see what we'd like to use when we create our dragon eyes next week."

Zosia - "I liked World Book Day because we worse our PJs and I was comfy. We read lots of different books." 

Frankie - "World Book Day really inspired me to read lots of different books."

Carver - "I liked it when Year 3 came in to share some books with us." 

Scarlett - "I liked our maths this week when we measured different weights." 

Ellie - "I really enjoyed creating our dragon pictures and writing a poem about them in English." 

Hudson - "I had fun making the draw bridge because it was a really complex thing to do but I was proud that I did it."

Week 2 

Zoe - "I enjoyed writing our non-chronological report about the jobs in a castle. It was fun adding the pictures to our published piece. 

Ellie - "I enjoyed maths this week because we got to do lots of measuring inside and outside of the classroom."

Olivia & Sophia - "I loved art because it was fun drawing and sketching a dragon eye."

Henry - "PE was fun when we learnt to defend. We had to defend out base with our partner from the other children."

Carver & Lewis - "We liked reading the 'Tell Me a Dragon' book to help us with ideas for our dragon eyes in art." 

Week 1

Zoe - "I enjoyed maths and learning my times tables. We have learnt 2s, 5s and 10s and now we're really quick at them."

Hudson - "I really enjoyed learning about clay and sculptures in art because it was really fun."

Henry - "I liked looking at Anthony Gormley's sculptures in art. Some of them were really strange like the bed made out of bread."

Scarlett - "I've enjoyed our spellings this week because they were tricky words and I like the challenge."

Frankie "- I liked writing our first paragraph for our castle non-chronological report. I wrote about a knight and what their jobs were."

Sophia - "I enjoyed throwing and catching in PE because we were in partners and one of us had a bat and we had to hit the ball."

Spring 1 

Week 5

Zosia - "I liked finishing our Tibetan Prayer Flags. We used different stamps and black paint to make them look like the real thing."

Zoe - "We had so much fun writing our non-chronological reports about Galapagos animals! We made sure we used our subordinating conjunctions and published them on special paper."

Scarlett - "I enjoyed our spellings this week. Miss Martin taught us a rhyme to help us remember how to spell 'because'."

Carver - "We earnt 60 sheep points this week so we got to have a non-uniform day on Friday!"

Daniel - "Maths has been fun because we've been learning lots of new times tables and I found them easy."

Frankie - "I liked PSHE because I'm learning more about medicine and why we shouldn't take it if it's not ours."

Week 4

Scarlett - "We've been making our prayer flags this week in DT."

Zosia - "I liked doing the running stitch. I also really liked science because we looked at bugs outside in their Microhabitat." 

Daniel - "We've been learning about Neil Armstrong. He was the first person to walk on the moon. In maths we've been learning our 2 times table, halving, doubling, multiplying and dividing. It's been a busy week!"

Olivia - "I really enjoyed our Year 2 Sharing assembly because lots of parents came." 

Carver - "I liked learning about subordinating conjunctions in English. We had a competition to fill in the missing conjunctions the quickest. My team won!"

Alfie - "In spelling this week we've been learning about adding '-ing' to words ending in 'e'. Drop the 'e' and add the '-ing'."

Week 3

We've had another very busy week! We've started to practice for our Class Assembly for next Friday. We can't wait to show you what we've been learning about. We've written our Traction Man stories and had lots of fun creating our own characters. We especially liked making the bad guys such as Dr Scissors and Evil Stapler. We learnt all about another explorer called Felicity Aston in history. RE was really interesting as we learnt about how different people pray. We started our new DT project this week. We are creating our very own prayer flags just like the ones you see in Tibet at the bottom of Mt Everest. We started by practising the running stitch. Miss Martin couldn't believe how good we were at this! She said we all need to sign up for the next series of The Great British Sewing Bee. It is filmed in Farsley after all so who knows... 

Week 2

Daniel -"I enjoyed learning about Matthew Henson. HE was the first person to put the flag on the North Pole."

Carver - "I had fun in PE creating our own dance about the book "Penguin Small". I also liked learning about the different ways we can use apostrophes in English."

Scarlett - "I liked learning about our new booking in reading called "Greta and the Giants" where we asked our own questions about the book."

Hudson - "We learnt about Sir Edmund Hillary. I can't believe how tall Mr. Everest is!". 

Olivia - "I liked learning the road safety song in PSHE. It was very catchy and helped us to create our road safety posters."

We have also started our new topic in maths - Multiplication and Division - We have started by learning how to recognise equal groups and making equal groups using our counters. 

Week 1 

What an exciting first week back! We had an arrival of a new pupil.. TRACTION MAN! He has come into our class to show us his story. We can't wait to see the adventures he takes us on. 

Zosia - "It was fun when Traction Man taught us some Kung-Fu  punctuation to help us with learning our commas in a list." 

Frankie - "In English I liked learning about Traction Man and reading his story. My favourite part is when he wears his green suit because he looks funny. It's really odd to see someone in clothes like that."

Hudson - "I have enjoyed learning about money. I liked adding together pounds and pence."

Carver - "I liked doing the food chains in science and learning that we are called predators and grass and plants are producers."

Ethan T - "I liked pretending to be a penguin in our PE dance lesson."

Scarlett - "I liked handwriting where we have been practising the size of our capital letters and making sure they face the right way."

Autumn 2

Week 7

Well what a busy week we've had! We started the week with DSide Dave coming in to speak to us about internet safety! We then had our Christmas Party which was so much fun. We started our new maths topic of money and we enjoyed being able to look at the coins and work out how much they are worth and what they are altogether. We had carols in the hall and finished the week making Christmas cards, watching a Christmas Pantomime and Santa paid us a visit and gave us a brand new book for the class! We can't wait to read it. We hope you all have a lovely Christmas and we will see you in the new year! 

Week 6

"We won our pyjama day because we collected 90 sheep!" Olivia

We had a fashion show to show our fabulous PJs to the rest of the class! Check out our model poses in the photos below.

"I enjoyed science and learning about what different animals eat. There are omnivores, carnivores and herbivores." Carver

"We did our Christmas performance on Tuesday and Wednesday. We had butterflies in our tummy but it was fun." Sophia

"I liked when we saw Nursery and Receptions performance. They did a really good show." Zosia

"In PSHE we learnt about hazards and how to be safe at home." Ellie 

Week 5 

"I liked doing the art for the art gallery because we used different shapes and create a beautiful background." Zoe

"We used command sentences and imperative verbs to write instructions on washing our hands." Scarlett

"We planned our instructions on how we made our reindeer decorations." Zoshia

"I liked our spelling lesson where we found the syllables. My favourite word was Gerbil." Carver

"I liked maths and looking at the different 3D shapes." Sophie

"Edges, verticies and faces." Mia

"We sold our reindeer decorations and art pictures at the Christmas Fair." Daniel

Week 4

"Title!"

"Sub-headings!"

"Bullet points!"

"Numbers!"

"Time adverbs!"

"Imperative verbs!"

Week 3

This week we have been increase our speed with Typing club. Don't forget you can login at home as well!

"I beat my speed!" Sophie

"I used both hands like it said to. I used my thumb to help with the space bar." Ollie

Autumn 2

Week 2

Everyone has now been given their parts and costume slips for our Christmas performance, "Hey Ewe!"

"I can't wait to sing!" Daniel

"I really love my wings. Can I wear them now?" Lewis

"I'm so excited to be the sheep and have a solo." Zoe

Autumn 2

Week 1

"The white poppy is for peace." Scarlett

"The purple poppy is for the animals that died." Daniel

Autumn 1

Week 8

We have been learning to ride our bikes!

Autumn 1

Week 7

I did it! I'm on! Hudson

I logged on independently. Mia

Autumn 1

Week 6

"The Arctic ocean has to be at the top because that's where the Arctic is." Ethan T

"The Indian Ocean is the warmest ocean." Frankie

"The Pacific Ocean is the deepest ocean." Daniel

Autumn 1 

Week 5

This week we got into role and became the penguin in the story, "Lost and Found." We completed a hot seating activity to infer how the characters would be feeling. 

"I'm so worried. I have ended up here and I don't know where to go. Will you help me?" Scarlett

Autumn 1

Week 4

"We got to write our own story!" Carver

"In art, we were making tints using white." Mia

"We were throwing and hitting balls in PE with Rhinos." Lewis

Autumn 1

Week 3

"Asia is the biggest continent!" Ellie

"Antarctica is the coldest continent!" Sophie 

Autumn 1

Week 2

Whilst reading The True Story of The Three Little Pigs in whole class reading lessons, "Nooo! You can't leave it there!!! I need to know what's going to happen next!" Daniel

Autumn 1

Week 1

"Look, I'm going to make 78! I need 7 tens and 8 ones. This number is huge!"