Welcome to Year 2 - Pine

Mrs Willer

Year 2 have had a very busy couple of weeks! In Literacy, we have continued reading The Bear Under the Stairs. The class moved on from narratives and have been focusing on non-fiction writing. They have been writing facts about bears and created their own reports. They collected facts about how bears look, what they eat, and where they live. They have practised writing facts using the conjunction "but." We have now started the book The Minpins by Roald Dahl. We have been exploring expanded noun phrases and writing descriptions of a monster.

In Maths, we have been looking at multiplication and division. The children have created arrays and then written matching multiplication and repeated addition number sentences. They have practised grouping and sharing numbers for division.

In Science, we have continued our 'Materials' unit by looking at recycling. We have explored the problems caused by throwing away rubbish and then looked at how we can recycle and reuse certain materials.

In Computing, Pine Class have continued working with spreadsheets. They have created magic squares on a spreadsheet and, more recently, collected data about our favourite ice cream flavours and created graphs.

The children have loved our topic on coastlines so far. The class really enjoyed their geography lesson this week, where they used a website to locate lifeboat stations. Some stations were labelled on a UK map, and they had to find out the name of each location. The class also really enjoyed a curling session where they practised skills and how to calculate scores. The children were very enthusiastic during our fitness circuits and enjoyed our visit from Steve Frew this week.

Over the next couple of weeks, we will be learning:

• Literacy: using relevant adjectives and identifying verbs
• Maths: odd and even numbers
• History: the history of Whitby and jobs from the past
• D&T: beach huts

Spring Term 2025

Click on the links below to see what the children in Year 2 will be learning in the Spring Term.