Homerswood
Primary and Nursery School
‘A pathway to grow, be curious and discover’
Year 2
Welcome to Year 2!
The Year 2 team consists of Mrs Isaac (Mon to Thu),
Mrs Tolervey (Fri), Mrs Mills, Miss Spear and Mrs Brewis.
We are all looking forward to an exciting and fun filled year!
Year 2 Meet and Greet
Year 2 Recommended Reads
Year 2 Timetable
Year 2 Newsletter
SUMMER TERM 2025
Gulliver's Briefing
Quidditch
Sports with the team from Monks Walk.
All ready for Sports Week!
Science experiment - Growing plants
VE Day celebrations
Maths - splitting a whole into equal groups (halves, thirds and quarters)
English - writing poems using similes.
SPRING TERM 2025
DT - designing shortbread for a purpose.
Science Week
Finishing our World Book Day celebrations, Daniel's mum shared some lovely stories with the class today.
Buddy Reading with Year 6
World Book Day
PE - using shapes, balances and rolls.
English - sharing our letters with Year 6.
RSHE - Children's Mental Health Week
PE - using shapes to create balances.
Geography - exploring that shops sell foods from many different countries.
AUTUMN TERM 2024
Making Christingles at St John's.
As part of Parliament Week, we have been reading 'If I were Prime Minister' by Trygve Skaug and deciding what they would do if they were Prime Minister.
English - local area walk, to gather ideas for our writing.
Making Poppies for Remembrance Day.
Mill Green - Great Fire of London Workshop
Art - creating patterns on clay.
Diwali Dance workshop
Music - playing the melody of 'Tony Chestnut' on a tuned percussion instrument (Xylophone).
PE - developing co-ordination and combining jumps French skipping using the rhyme 'England, Northern Ireland, Scotland, Wales, inside, outside, inside, on'.
Another aspirational assembly, from Homerswood's own Paralympian, Louise Fiddes
Maths - regrouping 10 ones for a stick of ten.
Harvest Celebrations
Assembly with Paralympian Grace Harvey - SB5 100m Breaststroke Gold Medal Paris 2024
Maths - Regrouping ten 1p coins for a 10p coin.
All settled for our first day in Year 2.
SUMMER TERM 2024
Healthy Eating Workshop
PE - Working on our team building skills
Maths - exploring the properties of 3D shapes.
History - using objects as a source to find out about a person in the past.
RE - We have been learning about the special Muslim festival 'Eid Al-Adha'. Today we played a board game to test our knowledge!
FUDGE Morning - A busy morning of building challenges, sports and crafts! We saw some amazing creativity and imaginative ideas today. Thank you to all the adults who were able to celebrate with us today!
Computing - exploring, editing and combining sounds using 2Sequence.
Sports Week - Fencing taster session
Maths - using Cuisenaire rods to explore the equivalence of halves and quarters.
Art - Using clay to create a pinch pot and join clay shapes as decoration
Global Eco Concert to celebrate Earth Day.
English - gather notes and sort out information from a report text.
SPRING TERM 2024
Mastering Number - 3 in a row doubles.
DT - Making a fairground wheel with moving parts
RE - Retelling the main events in the Easter story
Planetarium today.
Visiting the ducks in Reception.
Science Week Assembly with Selina.
GLAM Morning - A morning full of crafts and activities to celebrate Mother's Day. Thank you to all of the grown ups who were able to attend
Visiting Year 6 to share our favourite books for World Book Day
Maths - Exploring multiples and multiplication
English - re-telling a familiar story with events in sequence.
Street Dance Workshop
Art - Our animal collages using painted, textured paper. We finally added detail using oil pastels. We are so proud of how amazing they are!
Visiting Year 6 to share our favourite work for 'Love for Learning' Day
Geography - using the Atlas to name and locate the four countries and capital cities that make up the UK.
Happy Chinese New Year! We made our own spiral dragons to celebrate!
Science - Using clay to represent the lifecycle of a butterfly.
Year 5 visited us to read their recounts of famous people around the world! Thank you, Year 5!
Safer Internet Day
Visit from the author Su Murley, who wrote the book 'Shirley Murley'.
As part of Children's Mental Health Week, today we took part in a Yoga Session.
Computing - using yes/no questions to separate information.
PE - developing an awareness of strength when completing yoga poses.
Art - Colour mixing using primary colours to make secondary colours
Geography - exploring which local shops sell food.
AUTUMN TERM 2023
Year 2 Meet and Greet
Making Christingles and writing Christmas wishes at St John's Church.
Snowman Drive
We are so proud of our Year 1 and 2 classes for their Christmas performance of 'I'm Gonna Shine'. You all performed amazingly! As a result of their hard work, we decided that the whole class should be our 'Star's of the Week' this week! Well done!
PE - Knightsfield Sports leaders taught us a fun multisports session!
Mill Green - Fire of London Workshop
PERFORM workshop
PE with the Monks Walk sports leaders.
We had a wonderful day wearing spots and PJ'S for Children in Need today!
Maths - Taking part in the TTRS 'England Rocks' competition as part of our maths week!
Votes for Schools - deciding if problems are a falling out or bullying.
DT - Exploring strength in different structures
Maths - Order and comparing quantities for measures
Active Blast - The Monster Mash
Art - Applying understanding of tone to create 3D drawings of the solar system using colourful pastels and chalks.
PE - developing co-ordination and combining jumping.
PE - Dribbling a ball with control
Harvest at St John's
Our physical healthy habit is to complete an Active Blast everyday, here's us dancing to Dance Monkey today.
Geography - exploring the four seasons in the UK.
Mastering Number - exploring our new Maths equipment. The rekenrek, a counting frame similar to an abacus. It has ten beads on each row, five white and five red which support the development of number sense.
Science - We have been exploring the importance of a balanced, healthy diet and what this looks like within the five main food groups.
Geography - discussing why weather changes, and that there are different types of wind which bring about these changes.
English - As a school, we have been exploring the fable story 'The Fate of Fausto' by Oliver Jeffers. Today, we paired with Year 4 to share our writing of our very own version based on this story.
Rockstar Day!! We had an awesome day celebrating the relaunch of Times Table Rockstars!
Outdoor Learning - exploring the wooded area by going on a scavenger hunt.
Art - Exploring different textures using chalk and pastels.
Maths - using counters to show how numbers can be grouped so that the total can be subitised (known without counting)
First day, done and dusted!
