Year 2 - Spring 1 - Week 1

Date: 8th Jan 2026 @ 7:43pm

Happy New Year!

It was lovely to welcome everyone back on Tuesday, return to our learning and catch up with our friends. 

In Maths, we introduced the topic of money. The children have been working with coins and notes to be able to recognise them and know how to make different amounts with the coins and notes that we have. If you have time this week, the children would enjoy looking at coins and notes at home. Next week we will continue with the topic of money and look at the concept of giving change when we buy items.

In English, we have introduced our new story called The Dragon Machine. The children made predictions about the story then we used the front cover and blurb to make further predictions. We spotted the dragons on the first few pages causing mischief and wrote about what they had been up to. Next week we will continue to read the story and see what happens to George who is the main character and is the only one who seems to be able to spot the dragons in the story.

In Art, we have started our new topic called colour splash focussing on colour mixing. This week we used the primary colours to make the secondary colours and discussed how the colour would change depending on the amount of each primary colour that we mixed together.

We have discussed our SHINE values and focussed on our value of Serve this week. We talked about the Bible story when Jesus washes the feet of his disciples and what that symbolies. We then talked about how we can show the value of Serve within school.

Reminders

• PE days this half term are a Monday and Friday
• Sibling phographs are on Monday morning. If you would like your child to come to school in full uniform for the school photograph and bring their PE clothes that would be great.
• New reading bookbag days will be sent home today in a separate message and start from Monday.
• All children across the school are encouraged to read every day, both in and out of school. Additional recommended Reading at Home resources can be found here.