St Andrew's C of E Primary School
Year 2
Summer Term 2025
On the Farm
Big Question: Where does our food come from?
Click below to find out what we will be learning this term.
This term our cross- curricular learning will include: The journey of food from farm to fork and comparing farming in the UK and St Lucia. Healthy eating and food waste. Seasonal change and science investigations based on plants and conditions for growth. Observational drawing of plants & a study of Van Gogh. Designing and making a healthy sandwich.
4.7.25: Year 2 went on a boat trip along the river and viewed warships as well as geographical features of our landscape, such as Drake's Island and Mount Edgcumbe. A great time was had by all-what a wonderful end of term treat!
We have been enjoying our outdoor environment by planting seeds for science and spending time in our garden hunting for nature in our garden to inspire poetry.
Planting for Science
Nature Hunt
Year 2 authors enjoyed reading their humorous stories based on 'The Cow That Laid an Egg' to Foundation and Year 6.
PE with City College
Year 1&2 visit Deer Park Farm
We were visited by Wonder Zoo, who ran a workshop with Years 1,2&3 all about being kind and including everyone.
Welcome to Year 2!
Spring Term 2025
Changing Homes, Changing Times
Big Question: How can we be agents of change?
Our cross-curricular theme this term is ‘Changing Homes, Changing Times’. The key question we will be considering throughout the term is ‘How can we be Agents of Change?’ In History, we will learn about how our homes have changed over time and discover key changes in our daily lives, e.g. home entertainment and smart phones, and consider whether all change is positive. In Art, we will learn how we can be agents of change and use our art to convey positive messages; we will look at activism in art through some of the works of Banksy. In D.T. we will learn how to repurpose recycled materials and in Science we will learn about materials and their properties. Throughout the term we will consider our ‘Big Question’ about how we can make change for good and be ‘agents of change’!
Click below to view our letter and poster to give you more information about what your child will be learning this term.
Joint Writing with College Road Primary
World Book Day
Inspired by Martin Luther-King and Rosa Parks, Year 2 wrote speeches against racial segregation. True Agents of Change!
A visit to Central Library
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Graffiti! On our walk we noticed lots of evidence of graffiti and were NOT happy about it. We did however notice a beautiful piece of street art- a painting of an octopus. This will help us in our art unit when we will be considering graffiti and street art; the difference between both and how it can be used in a positive way to spread a message.
Rosa Parks. In English we are studying the Rosa Parks book from the Little People, Big Dreams' series. We have been learning about how Rosa was an agent of change in fighting for the rights of black people.Today the children acted out key scenes from the book.
Autumn Term 2024
Where We Live
Big Question: What does it mean to belong to a diverse community?
This term we will explore:
The human and physical geography of the local environment;learn about historically significant people of Plymouth; consider people who live and work in our local community; carry out science investigations based on the story of ‘The Lighthouse Keeper’s Lunch’; and study the art work of Brian Pollard.
This term's curriculum letter and poster:
Christingle
In RE we have been asking the question, Why does Christmas matter to Christians? Today we looked at how Christians use Christingle to remember how Jesus is centre to the Christmas story. This year there is a Christingle service at St Andrew’s Church on Christmas Eve at 2.30pm and 4pm. All families are invited.
Chris tingle making in RE
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What a brilliant performance from our Year 2 footballers in the Christams Production!
Year 2 are authors! We read our stories to Foundation who loved hearing them ��
22.11.24: We walked to Central Library to listen to stories and choose our own books to take back to class.
We visited the Hoe today to look at statues ready for our history learning about significant individuals in Plymouth's past.
Science
In Science today we used batteries and wires to light up a bulb. Some children worked out that if we use two batteries we get a brighter light but if we use two bulbs we get a dimmer light.
Science
In Science we have been looking at micro-habitats. We looked through the garden and talked about what different bugs would need in their own bug hotel.
Year 2 had fun applying gymnastics skills on a range of equipment.
Ukulele lesson 1
We have learnt a song 'Greedy caterpillars eat alone', to help us remember GCEA strings.
