Year 2 - Autumn 1 - Week 3

Date: 17th Sep 2025 @ 12:22pm

What a lovely week it has been in year 2!

In maths we have continued to work on place value using tens and ones. Year 2 have worked on setting their base 10 out correctly in their books to support them with representing numbers in different ways. We have also practised partitioning two digit numbers flexibly. Next week we will be working on estimating numbers on a number line which increase in 10s and 1s.

In English, we have continued reading the story Troll Swap and introduced a new character called Tabitha Lumpit. The children have imagined how the characters could be thinking and feeling and written a diary entry as Tabitha. Next week we will continue to read more of the story and find out why the book is called Troll Swap.

In Art this week we have created our own 3D maps using different materials to create our journey to school. It was great to see the children's ideas including how to represent a Church, a bridge and a set of traffic lights using different materials.

In RE, the children retold stories from the Bible. We enjoyed listening to children retell Bible stories in their own words and it allowed us to discuss why some stories are written using different vocabulary in children's Bibles and adult Bibles.

During our outdoor education and science we learnt about offspring and the names of animals and their young. In our outdoor education we went on a bug hunt and thought about where certain bugs might live.

Book Club was a real success this week and the children enjoyed sharing their love of reading by bringing in their favourite  books. They enjoyed sharing their favourite parts of their book with the group and hearing about other children's books. It was great to see what type of books they are reading for pleasure and we would really encourage reading books that they enjoy at home. The children will receive their reading books from school each week, however we would encourage children to read other types of materials, for example, comics, magazines and books from the library. It's also nice to share books with your children that they may not necessarily be able to access independently, so reading to them is still really important.

If you would like some ideas of books that your child could read at home, please find a list of the top 100 books for year 2 on the link below.

Year 2 Top 100 Recommended Reads

We hope that you all have a lovely weekend,

Miss Bayley, Mrs Taylor and the Year 2 Team

Reminders:

• Monday 22nd September – Individual school photos

• Monday 29th September Flu Vaccination day