Welcome to Year 2
Welcome to Autumn Term in Year 2! Please find on this page all the information you might need this year. There is a long term plan as well as Autumn's knowledge organisers below, which will be updated termly. Should you need anything further, please get in touch!
Mrs Moleele will be teaching on a Monday and Tuesday and Miss Christie will teach on a Wednesday, Thursday and Friday. Miss Smith will support the children throughout the week with Mrs McDonald and Miss Battye sharing the week between them.
Year 2 Class Blog
Getting into Routine
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This week has been the children's first full week with all their lessons! It's been a busy one but there has been lots of fun and learning. They have started their DT topic on fairground rides, got engrossed in James and the Giant Peach and had lots of practical maths, creating and partitioning numbers to 100.
Welcome to Year 2!
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It’s been a great first week in Year 2! The children have all seemed excited to be back and have got stuck in with all their new learning!
We have been looking at a book called The Planet in a Pickle Jar, which is all about preserving our favourite things so they never disappear and our week’s learning culminated in us making our own pickle jars to save the world this afternoon! It was lovely to see so many creative ideas - trees, weather, animals, food - see for yourselves below!
We have also been working practically in maths, making numbers to 100 with various apparatus, counting in groups of 10 to help us count more quickly and easily.
Well done, Year 2! Have a lovely weekend ready for more next week!
Money challenge!
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In PSHE we have been learning about money and jobs. We had an additional challenge to work out the total if we had one of each note and coin.
We spent time using the money resources in class and working systematically to find the answer.
Alfresco Learning Workshop
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We had such a fantastic morning with Alfresco Learning to round off our topic about Neil Armstrong. The workshop had elements of history, science and maths with the focus being outdoor learning. Watching our rockets fly was a WOW moment! So much fun, learning and awe and wonder!
Forest School Painting
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Year 2 stayed together for some time in the conservation area on Wednesday this week. We spent time working in teams to build a shelter and then taking notice of our surroundings and creating these beautiful watercolour paintings. It was a lovely afternoon in the shade outside.
Year 2 Class Blog
ASJ’s Got Talent!
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What a fantastic afternoon celebrating the brilliant talents of our ASJ family! We were joined by ‘Ant and Dec’ who hosted the talent show. We watched some great talents including juggling, dancing and piano playing! Well done to everyone involved, it was such a fun end to the week!
Character description
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In our English lessons this week, we have been writing a character description about Peter Rabbit. We started with an experience lesson where we watched an episode of the TV series; tried some of Peter’s favourite vegetables and drew a picture with adjectives to describe Peter around the outside.
World Book Day!
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Year 2 had a lovely day celebrating World Book Day this week. Their costumes were fantastic and it was great hearing about why each child chose the character they did. Then we spent the day enjoying lots of different books. We had a reading buddy session with Year 4, drew a new cover for our favourite book and read a book called ‘I’m Sorry’ and made links with our Christian Value for this half term which is forgiveness.
Adel Walk
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Yesterday, Year 2 had a lovely walk around Adel looking for all the historical things in our area. We identified the place or object, considered whether it was more or less than 100 years old and also said whether it was a human or physical feature of the area - combining our history and geography learning!
After the holidays, we will be writing a recount of our walk and plotting the route we took on a map.
Road Safety
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Year 2 have had a fantastic morning learning about road safety with our visitor from Leeds City Council’s Road Safety Team.
They discussed in class the different ways to stay safe as a pedestrian, a passenger in a car and while riding a bike or scooter near the roadside. Jake taught us the Green Cross Code - Think, Stop, Look and Listen!
Then the children went out to the road in smaller groups to practise crossing the road safely with all the information they had learnt.
The children were a credit to ASJ and listened attentively, were responsible when crossing the road and polite at all times!
