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, Mrs Mills, Mrs Bate, Miss Skeggs and Miss Spear.
We are all looking forward to an exciting and fun filled term!
Year 2 Cuffley Camp
Year 2 Summer Newsletter
Year 2 Recommended Reads
Year 2 Timetable
SUMMER TERM
Celebrating World Cultural Diversity Day
Geography - identifying the major rivers in different the continents of the world.
Orienteering - using our mapping skills to locate the markers and record the single-digit number in words.
Science - enquiry do taller people have larger feet?
Coronation Tea Party
ART - using impressing and joining techniques to decorate a clay tile.
What an amazing class assembly - WELL DONE YEAR 2
Resilience Workshop
Tennis session with Gosling Tennis Club
Maths - splitting a whole into equal groups (halves, thirds and quarters)
SPRING TERM
Easter Church Service
Science - exploring food chains.
History - identifying and sorting similarities and differences between seaside holidays now and in the past.
RE - exploring if symbols are better than words at expressing religious beliefs.
DT - making a chair for Baby Bear.
Sponsored Fitness Circuit with Steve Frew
RSHE - sharing healthy food with our friends.
Sustainability Week - How Long Does it Take To Decompose?
Science - exploring and describing a micro-habitat.
Amazing Rainbow!
CHICKS! Visiting the newly hatched chicks today in Reception.
Science Week STEM activities
Science - exploring the plants and animals that live in seaside habitats.
RE - discussing why Hot Cross Buns are a symbol of Easter and of course we had to have a taste.
World Book Day 2023
World Book Day - Sharing stories with Year 4.
World Book Day - Design a fruit or vegetable book character competition.
World Book Day - Sharing books with family and friends.
History - using photographs to find clues as to what seaside holidays were like in the past and then putting them in chronological order.
Science - exploring that living things need to live in a suitable habitat.
Maths - using bead strings to explore the link between repeated addition and multiplication.
PE - developing endurance.
Perform - Spark imagination through drama.
Science - sorting things that are living and things that are non-living.
Science - performing a simple test to explore how to make the rocket mouse fly.
Our 'Well Being Workshop' for Children’s Mental Health Awareness week
RSHE - creating an imaginary bird for our 'Garden of dreams and goals'
Computing - constructing a binary tree to separate different items.
Science - today we tested socks to see which one was the stretchiest.
Computing - today we used yes/no questions to separate information.
PE - today we had a great multi-sports session with the Sports Leaders from Monks Walk.
Science - today we used balloons to explore how the shapes of objects can be changed.
PE - today we worked on stopping a rolling ball using different body parts.
Off to the library!
PE - Yoga, developing an awareness of flexibility when completing a flow of poses.
PE - exploring different ways to control a ball and how to adjust the strength used to roll the ball and hit various targets.
Geography - exploring how shops sell foods from many different locations.
Science - exploring how the shapes of objects made from some materials can be changed by squashing, twisting, bending and stretching.
AUTUMN TERM
Year 2 Meet and Greet
Enjoying Hot Chocolate and a biscuit, for working so hard this term, well done Year 2!
Christmas Party!
A very special Christmas story.
Amazing Christmas jumpers.
Making Christingles at St John's.
English - today we used adjectives to write a list poem about Autumn.
English - today we read a range of poems and then discussed our individual likes and dislikes about each poem.
Science, identifying and comparing the suitability of materials for particular uses.
Mill Green Museum - what an amazing introduction to our work on The Great Fire of London.
MATHS WEEK Smarties Challenge!
SPOTacular day for Children In Need, all the children look amazing!
Science, observing and comparing materials using our senses.
As part of UK Parliament Week, we have listened to an introduction to Parliament and had a discussion about who the Prime Minster is.
Science - sorting and classifying materials.
Maths - rebalancing calculations, using a tens frame, when adding 9.
Science - exploring why hygiene is important.
Science - understanding the importance of eating the right amounts of different types of food, and hygiene.
Geography - understanding that there are four seasons in the UK.
27.9.22 - Science - designing, making and testing a cycle helmet.
20.9.22 - Computing, logging into the Chromebooks to play Archery Doubles.
14.9.22 - Maths, working together to regroup numbers.
All settled on our first day in Year 2.
