Year 2

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.

19.3.25: We had a great morning sharing our writing with our Y2 friends at College Road Primary. We were nervous but excited to meet new children but we got to know them with a ‘getting to know you bingo’ game. We then had a brilliant time in their playground before going on a poetry feature hunt and reading each other’s poems.

Although World Book Day was more low key this year without dressing up, we still engaged in some lovely book related activities. Year 2 LOVED reading the Tunnel by Anthony Browne and engaged in lots of book talk. We also read several other stories. Other activities included visiting our book swap stall to get a ‘new’ book and paired reading with Year 6.

Inspired by Martin Luther-King and Rosa Parks, Year 2 wrote speeches against racial segregation. True Agents of Change!

Dania, Mainah and Vedhika

Nathaniel, Hayley, Violet, Hallie

Melissa, Zosia, Hanna

Sydney, Georgi, Jesse, Lottie-Mai

William, Alexander, Austin, Isabelle

Nathan, Freddie, Freddie, Maxwell

23.1.25: Today we visited Central Library to take back our books from last term and borrow new ones. We also enjoyed playing a ‘guess the book title’ game where we got to feed the penguin a fish if we guessed correctly! As ever we enjoyed listening to stories too! 📚

Shading techniques: Year 2 have been learning to shade. We will be applying these techniques when we create our own positive versions of Banksy’s Pigeon mural.

We went on a walk to look at houses in our local area. We looked at clues to try to work out how old the buildings were. The oldest that we found was the Tudor house on the Barbican!

Graffiti! On our walk we noticed lots of eveidence of grafitti 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 mesage.

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

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.