Welcome to Year Two

Taught by Miss Sykes, Mr Cattermoul, Mrs Gibbs, Mrs McElhatton 

This page will contain class newsletters, photos of interesting activities and useful links.

PE Days: Tuesday and Thursday

Friday 9th May 

In Art, we have begun our unit on seascape collages. This will build on our work so far on landscapes and collages. Our focus will be texture, so this week we explored the textures of things we would find at the seaside (shells, sand, seaweed, nets, pebbles, driftwood etc). The children created wax crayon rubbings to show the textures on each object and described what it felt like.

Friday 2nd May

Wednesday 30th April

31st March 2025

28th March 2025

This week we have been busy learning about measuring length and height in centimetres. The children did a great job of comparing lengths and heights with objects around the classroom. We have continued our work on instructions by making Easter cornflake buns and completing a shared write of the steps we took to make them. In RE, we learnt about how Muslims pray and Mohammed demonstrated a prayer for us which was very interesting. 

In Well Done assembly we had Kacper and William 😊

Our always person was Felicity for her bronze badge🥉 

Week beginning 10th March

This week we have been busy making wormeries for science week! We will be observing them over time to see what happens.

We have also been designing our vehicles in DT, learning about money in Maths, using conjunctions in English and much more! 

In well done assembly we had Ryan, Oliwia and Sarina for their wormery 🪱

Our Always Person was Elisa 😊

Week beginning 2nd March 

We have a had a great World Book week in year 2! Our whole school focus on the picture book Journey by Aaron Becker, has led us to creating our own fantasy settings and writing some super descriptions. 

We enjoyed dressing up as a word on World Book Day and there were some fantastic costumes! 

In Well Done Assembly this week we had Star and Miley A for their setting descriptions and books they wrote for younger children. 

Miley A was also our Always Person 😊

24th January 

This week Year 2 have been innovating our non-fiction text about habitats. In maths, we have been counting in 2s, 5s and 10s. 

We have enjoyed learning more about Florence Nightingale in History lessons and now know some key events from her life. 

17th January

This week we enjoyed Art Week! We practised drawing snowflakes and then worked hard on improving them using the Austin's Butterfly method. We then drew our snowflakes on white card using white crayons and painted over them with watercolours to make some resistant art! We loved seeing our snowflakes magically appear. 

We have also been looking at features of non-fiction texts in English and place value in Maths. In History we began to learn about Florence Nightingale and her work.

Year 2 have all worked extremely hard on their bookmarks in Design and Technology. They have really improved their sewing skills and some children even choose to keep practising at choosing time!

Week commencing 20th October 

Kacper was in well done assembly this week for being an excellent mathematician and getting the highest score on his arithmetic test. Sarina was in well assembly for learning tricky words at home 😊.

Our always person was Mylie who earned herself a Silver badge! Well done.

Year 2 enjoyed their class reward of extra play time with parachute games for filling their star jar! 

Week beginning 27th September

Well done to Mohammed and Melissa for being in well done assembly for their English work 

Melissa had a double whammy this week, as she was also our Always Person! 

Week commencing 9th September

Another great week in Year 2. We have enjoyed learning about animals and other living things, The Three Little Pigs and asking questions about Farnley Hall. We have learnt more about our class artist, Berthe Morisot, and her style of art called 'impressionism'.

Brodie and Mylie C were in Well done assembly this week .

Kyle was our Always Person 

Week commencing 2nd September 

We have had a fantastic week in Year 2 😊 the children have done a great job learning new routines and settling into their new classroom.

Zeus and Ella-Rose were in Well Done assembly this week for their resilience in Art.

Miley was our Always Person. 

Week Commencing: Monday 17th June 2024

 Our Always Person was Mohammed
 In Well Done assembly this week were Kyle for being a super mathematician solving times number problems, and Ella-Rose for her increased confidence and independence in class

Week Commencing: Monday 20th May 2024

 Our Gold Always Person this week was Ariana

 In Well Done assembly we’re Brodie for his independent writing of a character description of the martian and Sarina for her effort in class and progress with her phonics

Week Commencing: Monday 6th May 2024

 Our Always Person this week was Rowan

 In Well Done assembly we’re Oliwia for her improved focus and effort in class, particularly in phonics and Ariana for her super writing of the beginning of The Way Back Home story

Week Commencing: Monday 29th April 2024

  Our Always Person this week was Ella-Rose

  In Well Done assembly we’re Phoebe for her brilliant computing coding, including fixing an incorrect code and Ryan for his super attitude in class and the progress he has made, particularly with phonics and writing independently

Week Commencing: Monday 22nd April 2024

 In Well Done assembly we’re Zendaya for her brilliant spring artwork using printing and painting techniques and Mylie for her improvement with her writing

Week Commencing: Monday 15th April 2024

 Our Always Person this week was William

 In Well Done assembly we’re Rowan and Ella-Rose, who both started at our school just before the holidays, for being so kind and polite and settling in so well to their new Year 1 class

Wow, what a blast we’ve had in our first week back! It’s been circus week at school and Year 1 have throughly enjoyed it. We loved watching the circus skills assembly and then getting to do our own circus skill workshop. We’ve watched some circus clips of trapeze acts and did some of our own trapeze acrobat art work. We also watched some ribbon twirling skill clips and had a go at learning how to ribbon twirl. On Thursday we had a visit from the Piñata Smashlings. We enjoyed meeting 2 of the characters, having a music lesson with some of the staff from Tokido and then having a piñata party! On Friday we enjoyed showcasing what we’ve been learning this week in a special circus assembly - and watching what other classes have been upto!
 

What a fab half term we've had in Year 1! The class have really impressed me with how enthusiastic they have been and how hard they have all worked. We've learnt all about the Great Fire of London in History and made Tudor houses in D and T. We've learnt about materials in science and discussed keeping healthy in PSHE and learnt some new playground games that are played around the world. We've been practising lots of ball skills in PE and have enjoyed doing some dance lessons too. In RE we've learnt about belonging to different groups, including Christianity and Islam. The class enjoyed our story Handa's surprise and did really well writing parts of the story. 

This last week we've had lots of Easter fun, creating baskets, making crispy buns and writing instructions of how to make them. We loved our class treat of an Easter egg hunt and loved watching Cobden's Got Talent on Thursday.

Have a lovely well deserved rest over Easter Year 1 - I'm excited to see you all back for the Summer Term!

Pictures to follow...
 

Week Commencing: Monday 18th March 2024

 Our Silver Always Person this week was Sarina

 In Well Done assembly this week were Lucca for his super maths work, adding a single-digit to a 2-digit number and Oliwia for her super creativity and teamwork in our PE dance lessons

Week Commencing: Monday 11th March 2024

 Our Silver Always Person this week was Kelsie

 In Well Done assembly this week were Ariana and Star for their great discussions and understanding during Science week

Week Commencing: Monday 4th March 2024

 Our Silver Always Person this week was Star

 In Well Done assembly this week were Felicity and Zeus for their fabulous drawings and writing about their favourite books.

Week Commencing: Monday 26th February 2024

 Our Silver Always Person this week was Felicity

 In Well Done assembly this week were Melissa for her super drawing and labelling of healthy and unhealthy food in PSHE and Miley A for her creative writing to deepen the moment in English

Week Commencing: Monday 19th February 2024

 Our Silver Always Person this week was Star

 In Well Done assembly this week were William for his enthusiasm, effort and progress with his reading and building words; and Elisa for improved independence and 'having a go' in maths and English lessons this week.

Week Commencing: Monday 5th February 2024

 Our Silver Always Person this week was Kyle

 In Well Done assembly this week were Kelsie for applying herself well in class and showing good progress due to this and Ryan for settling into school really well after joining us last Friday

Week Commencing: Monday 29th January 2024

Our Silver Always Person this week was Melissa

 In Well Done assembly this week were Phoebe for her super science work labelling features of a bird and Zeus for his great number sense during Maths Mastery

Art Week
This week has been art week in school with a theme of using art for our mental health. The children enjoyed doing some mindfulness line art and making collages by ripping paper and gluing it down to make a picture. The children also drew pictures of things that make them happy and we collated them together to create a ‘things that make us happy’ class picture. The children thoroughly enjoyed doing the art with parents and siblings on Friday. Thank you to those who came in.

Week Commencing: Monday 22nd January 2024

 Our Silver Always Person this week was Miley A

 In Well Done assembly this week were Kacper and Star for their fantastic mindfulness art work as part of art week

Week Commencing: Monday 15th January 2024

 Our Always Person this week was Sarina

 In Well Done assembly this week were Archie and Mylie C for their fantastic 3D art work and also for applying themselves well in class

Week Commencing: Monday 8th January 2024

 Our Always Person this week was Kacper

 In Well Done assembly this week were Sarina and Brodie for showing a good attitude and applying themselves well in class 

Week Commencing: Monday 18th December 2023

 ⭐️ Our pupils of the term for this half term were Phoebe and Star for always being focussed, kind, polite and applying themselves well in everything they do

Week Commencing: Monday 11th December 2023

 Our Silver Always Person was Ariana

 In Well Done Assembly this week we’re Archie for his creativity and drawing and Kyle for his independence with writing

Week Commencing: Monday 4th December 2023

 Our Always Person this week was Oliwia

 In Well Done assembly this week we’re Miley A for her brilliant writing and lovely history work on her inspirational person and Ariana for her creativity and purposeful making

Week Commencing: Monday 20th November 2023

  Our Always Person this week was Archie

 In Well Done Assembly this week were Lucca  for his enthusiasm and improved focus and Tilly for her great attitude to class activities

Karate Taster Workshop 

Year 1 had a great time in their Karate Workshop

Andy  Goldsworthy inspired natural artwork and Remembrance Day poppies

Week Commencing: Monday 6th November 2023

 Our Always Person this week was Kelsie

 In Well Done Assembly this week were Melissa for her great attitude and improved confidence in class and Mylie C for her super attitude and good addition and subtraction in maths

Week Commencing: Monday 23rd October 2023

 Our Always Person this week was Felicity

 In Well Done Assembly this week were Kyle for his great personal timeline and Zendaya for her great research and sharing of knowledge of Katherine Johnson (her inspirational historical person) 

Week Commencing: Monday 16th October 2023

 Our Always Person this week was Kyle

 In Well Done Assembly this week were William for his enthusiasm in class and super name writing and Oliwia for her brilliant maths work on finding number bonds of a number

Week Commencing: Monday 9th Octber 2023

 Our Always Person this week was Phoebe

 In Well Done Assembly this week were Brodie for his brilliant maths work on part-whole models and Elisa for her super balancing and making shapes in PE

Week Commencing: Monday 2nd October 2023

 Our Always Person this week was Star

 In Well Done Assembly this week were Kelsie for her great effort in class and Felicity on her super Geography work on her local area

Week Commencing: Monday 25th September 2023

 Our Always Person this week was Ariana

 In Well Done Assembly this week were Archie for showing a good attitude and trying hard in class and Kacper for his super work using adjectives to describe items in Little Red Riding Hood's treat basket for her Grandma

Week Commencing: Monday 18th September 2023

 Our Always Person this week was Melissa

 In Well Done Assembly this week were Zendaya and Star for their great contributions and utilisation if their skills during coding week

Week Commencing: Monday 11th September 2023

 In Well Done Assembly were Miley A for a super attitude in class and Phoebe for her great maths. Both these children have also been doing super messaging in class using their independent writing skills

Week Commencing: Tuesday 5th September 2023
 

A warm welcome to Year One, we have had a lovely first week back and are so proud of how well the children have settled into the new school year. 

 Our Always Person this week was Miley A

 Our Well Done certificates were awarded to Ariana for being an all round superstar in class and Zeus for his super writing 

Below are some of the exciting memories that children who are currently in Year 2 have experienced since starting school.