Year 2
Mrs ChapmanWelcome to Year 2
Year 2 Stay and Make.
This term, in art, year 2 have been looking at the artist Henri Rousseau. He is best known for his amazing paintings of jungles. Today, we used his art work as inspiration to make our own jungle collage using a range of different materials. We used so many ideas and...
Sports Day 2025
A huge well done to the children in Year 1, 2 and 3 for participating in their Sports Day. The children worked so hard in all their races and showcased great enthusiasm and sportsmanship. Everyone had great fun and the winning house this year was Team Baltic! Thank...
World Music Week 2025
Last week we celebrated 'World Music Week' in school. Throughout the week each class took part in some musical activities including listening and learning about different music around the world, making our own musical instruments out of recycled materials, creating...
Centre for Life
Year 2 had an amazing time at the ‘The Centre for Life’. We became scientists for the day in a real lab! Dressed in our lab coats and safety glasses we discovered how scientists use their senses to study chemicals. It was fascinating observing what happened in each...
Perfect Painting
Year 2 have been exploring shades and tints to paint. First of all we explored painting by adding black and white to colours. We were amazed by the different colours we created. We then used this technique to paint leaves inspired by the artist Henri Rousseau.
Change and Growth
In Science we have been learning about the different stages of the human life cycle. We have thought about how humans change as they grow, what we can do now that we couldn’t do as babies and what adults can do that children can’t. We ordered pictures and descriptions...
Muslim Celebrations
We have been learning about the Muslim festival of Mawlid al-Nabi when Muslims remember the birthday of the prophet Muhammad. On Mawlid al-Nabi, Muslims remember what Muhammad’s character was like, his teachings, how he suffered and his ability to forgive. Muslims...
Space Soundscapes
In our music lessons Year 2 have been listening to music inspired by space. We imagined that we went on a voyage to space and discussed what we would see and how these would sound. We then experimented with our voices to create noises to match images and made a...
Respecting Rules
In PSHE, Year 2 have been learning about the importance of rules for many different places. We agreed that rules are needed to keep us safe and to help us learn but are also needed to to keep things fair for everyone such as in games like football. We agreed lots of...
Super Sketching
In art Year 2 have been looking at the work of the French artist Henri Rousseau. We have focused on his world famous painting ‘Surprise, Tiger in a Tropical Storm’. We began by discussing what we saw in the painting and how it made us feel. We also found out facts...
Phonics Club
Year 1 and 2 children are enjoying phonics club after school on Thursdays to help prepare them for the phonics screening in June. Last week we loved playing phonics bingo and were experts at spotting the digraphs on our bingo boards.
Dictionary Skills
Year 2 have been learning how to use a dictionary. They used their knowledge of the alphabet to try to locate words in a dictionary to help find meanings to words.