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Otters Class

Mr McGovern
Mrs Davies, Mrs Holman, Mrs Duffy, Miss O'Donovan, Mrs Vata

Welcome to Year Two and Otters class.

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Congratulations Year Two on completing another very busy and action packed half-term! 

In English we started with a very detailed read of Gorilla by Anthony Browne. We explored the wonderful illustrations and vocabulary within the text, making inferences and asking inference questions to our partners. Then we demonstrated our comprehension skills by asking and answering questions about the book. By sequencing the events of the story, we explained how key events impacted on the eachother. We loved innovating the story with our own ideas, using ideas from other texts to inspire us! Using adverbs in our writing, we enjoyed rewriting the story in our own way.

Following this, we explored the different types of sentences, such as commands, statements, exclamations and questions. We now know how to use these sentence types to engage our readers. Whilst reading the story of The Bear Under the Stairs, we learnt to write letters, write in role and respond to a letter. We looked at non-fiction and fictional sources to distinguish between fact and fiction, producing an information text on Bears.

In Maths we have been developing our knowledge of shape, by comparing and sorting 2D and 3D shapes. Learning how to use vocabulary such as vertices, faces, edges and sides to describe the properties of these shapes has helped to secure our understanding.

We then progressed to deepen our understanding of money, using a range of coins and notes. We learnt how to identify the different coins and notes, then used our knowledge of addition and subtraction to make a total. We completed our work on money by learning how to calculate change.

Ending the half term, we started our learning journey on multiplication and division. We now understand how we can group items together to make multiplication easier and the relationship between repeated addition and multiplication. We can't wait to develop our understanding even more next half term!

In Science, we have continued our work on understanding the wonderful world around us by studying living things. Learning about MRS GREN helped us grasp how living things have certain characteristics! We explored our school environment and hunted for different habitats, identifying how these habitats would suit different living things. 

In Geography we have extended our awareness of the wider world by learning about the Antarctica and Sahara. We were able to compare these destinations by discussing what is able to live and thrive there.

In History we have enjoyed learning about the Wright brothers and now understand the challenges they had. We also understand how their achievements have impacted modern day travel. We were detectives and studied evidence, critically analysing the validity of different sources.

We are now half way through our time in Year Two and have been celebrating our many achievements we have made already. We can't wait for the second half of the year and what learning we will achieve!

Please see what we are looking forward to learning about next half-term below:

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Wow, what an exciting and fun-filled second half-term in Year Two!

In English, we have been furthering our understanding of fiction texts. We have been focusing on our reading skills and reading with greater fluency. This has supported us with our comprehension, as we are now more confident asking and answering questions about books we have read. We have also been introduced to inferences and are now able to look for clues within text and illustrations.

In Maths we have been very busy! We understand that addition and subtraction can be done in many different ways. We have explored lots of hands-on resources and can use written methods too. We have compared different number sentences and shown that we understand the relationship between addition and subtraction.

In Science, we conducted our own investigation. There was lots of planning to do, thinking about health and safety and how to make a fair test. We enjoyed working as part of a team to carry out the investigation and then comparing our results with the rest of the class.  Materials really are all around us, and we are now able to compare them, by choosing suitable ones to match a purpose.

We have been very creative in Art and Design Technology this half-term. We have used different paint and techniques to create an effect, such as watercolour. Choosing the most suitable resources, we then added detail to make our artwork more appealing to our audience. In Design Technology we have had great fun with lots of festive projects, including a clay Christmas tree and using folding techniques to make a Christmas card.

In Geography, we now have a secure understanding of Kampong Ayer and how the lives of people there compare to ours. This has supported our understanding of the world around us, including our lives here in Fetcham.

It has been a busy History half-term, with lots of learning about key events, such as Remembrance Day and the Gunpowder Plot. We have used our detective skills to find out a little more about these occasions and shown how we can remember those who have lost their lives to a cause. 

Our learning in RE has helped us further understand the Nativity story. We understand why it is such an important time for Christians and how they worship Jesus. We really enjoyed visiting the local church and celebrating with our Christmas songs!

PE has been very active, with lots of movement to music and developing our ability to move on and across a range of equipment in gymnastics. 

It really has been a very busy and fun-filled half-term, with great progress in our learning and understanding of the world around us. We even visited the Natural History Museum and learnt about how we can take care of our oceans! Our half-term finished with lots of festive activities. Our Year Two performance of 'The Innkeepers' was outstanding. We all learnt our lines, performed them using our big loud voices, sang our songs beautifully and made our audience laugh! Very well done Year Two, what a great first term!

Please see what we are looking forward to learning about next half term:

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We have had a very exciting first half-term in Year Two!

In English we have been studying the diary of Samuel Pepys. This linked very well to our history learning, all about the key events of the Great Fire of London. We read different diary entries and then recreated one of our own. We used description (adjectives and expanded noun phrases) to engage our audience. As part of National Poetry Day, we learnt about the different types of poetry. We used the theme of ‘Refuge’ to create an acrostic poem and then learnt about calligrams. Using our knowledge of verbs, we created our own autumnal calligram. Some of us described the leaves falling from the trees and the rain pattering onto the wet grass.

In Maths we have been extending our knowledge of place value. We now understand how we can use number bonds to help us solve problems. We can count in 2’s, 3’s, 5’s and 10’s and partition numbers in different ways.

In Science, we used our knowledge of different materials to discuss the importance of reducing, reusing and recycling. We want to take care of our world and know that these are great ways to do this.

In Design Technology we have been exploring different materials and their uses. We have been investigating how finger puppets are made and have been designing and making our own. To help us with this, we have learnt how to sew using a running stitch.

In PE we have been learning how to travel in different ways using low and high apparatus. We have used our imagination to move our bodies in different ways along the apparatus.

In Geography we have been learning about Kampong Ayer and comparing how people live their lives there. We have spotted similarities and differences between how we live our own lives.

We have really enjoyed our first half-term in year two. We are working more independently and showing greater resilience in our learning. We understand that it is OK to make mistakes, as they help us learn.

Please see what we are looking forward to next half-term below:

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We started our year by learning about our rights and responsibilities and explored what we can do to make our class a brilliant and thriving community. We made our class Learning Charter which helps remind us of what we can do to help ourselves and others to enjoy our time in school.

In English, we have read the Pirates Next Door by Jonny Duddle. We sequenced the story using a story map, then used drama to perform events in the story to our class. We learnt how to make our writing exciting and innovated the story, becoming authors ourselves and rewriting a short section of the story. We are looking forward to learning about the diary of Samuel Pepys and will be writing a short diary piece of our own.

In Maths, we have been developing our knowledge of number and place value. We have been learning how to partition numbers and use our reasoning skills to help solve mathematical problems. 

We have very much enjoyed learning about the different materials in our world in Science and exploring different fabrics in Design Technology. We have been keeping very active in our PE lessons, using dance to express ourselves and exploring how we can work as a team when playing games. 

Welcome to Year Two Presentation

Please see our learning web below for more information on our learning. Thank you for visiting!

Please see Mr McGovern if you would like any more information on our curriculum.

 

                                                                             

Please do contact our Year 2 Lead, Mr McGovern via the school office if you would like any more information on our Year 2 curriculum. 

 

Follow these links to support your children's learning at home:

White Rose 1 Minute Maths

Purple Mash

BBC Bitesize Year Two

Read, Write Inc Phonics