Year 2 - Spring 1 - Week 4

Date: 27th Jan 2026 @ 8:18am

In Maths, we have continued our multiplication and division topic. This week we have used arrays to represent multiplication calculations and repeated addition to support this. The children used cubes and whiteboards to show their arrays. We talked about some numbers appearing in more than one times table and also some numbers, for example 7 only appearing in the 1 and 7 times table. We also looked at dividing as grouping and sharing making sure that children understand that if we swap the numbers around they don't represent the same calculation.

In English, we edited our Dragon Machine stories checking for any errors and additional vocabulary that we could include. We have started the story Grandad's Camper and we looked at photos from the class and discussed key questions that we would ask to find out more information. Next week we will be continuing to read the story and completing activities focussing on extending our sentences.

In RE, we looked at the miracle of Jesus healing the blind man. We then wrote our own newspaper articles imagining that we were reporting on the event just after it had happened. 

In Art, we used our textured paintings to create our own collages of the African savanna. The children thought about the colours that they could use to create their collage and we put them all together to evaluate our work. 

In Science, we went outside and worked on understanding the concept of hibernation. The children were asked to hide their 2 conkers. They then completed a game called the owl and mouse. One person wore a blindfold and pretended to be the owl, the other person was the mouse and had to try and pick up a conker without the owl hearing them. At the end of the lesson the children were asked to find the 2 conkers that they had hidden or find any that they could see. Some children couldn't remember where they had put them or other children had taken them because they couldn't find their own. We linked this back to squirrels when they come out of hibernation and cannot always remember where they had hidden their food. 

Well done for a lovely week of learning, have a lovely weekend!