Year 2

Welcome to the Year 2 Kingfishers & Wrens Class Page 2025-26

The Year 2 Team

Kingfishers

Teachers: Mrs Smith (Mondays)

                 Miss Wilkes (Tuesdays-Fridays)

Teaching Assistants: Mrs Cooper Mrs Debroya (PPA Cover)

Wrens

Teachers: Mrs Pinner (Mondays & Tuesdays)

                       Mrs Element (Wednesdays-Fridays)

Teaching Assistant: Mrs Leach

PE - THURSDAY morning 

 (Please ensure that your child comes to school in their full              PE kit. Thank you.)

Seaside Rescue

Over the next few weeks the children will be designing and making lighthouses. Please donate any kitchen, toilet rolls, pringle tubes etc to build a tower and small boxes for a base.

Thank you

Week 4   22.09.25 :   said    have   like

Week 5   29.09.25 :   so   do    some    come

Week 6   06.10.25 :    there   little    one

Week 7  13.10.25 :     were  when  what  out

Week 8  20.10.85  :    oh   Mrs   people

We have been learning to bridge to 10 (using our number bonds) when adding 2 single digit numbers. 

There was lots of excitement in the classroom this week when Year 2 children brought their teddies into school. We learnt how to draw our teddy by first looking at shapes that can be seen, circles, ovals etc.. The children then learnt how to refine their drawings by going over the shapes to add extra detail, such as the outline of fur. Finally, the children used a medium of their choice; charcoal, graphite, chalk or coloured pastels to add tone and texture to their drawing. 

Kingfishers class explored towers to design and make a Monople, Guyed and Self Standing tower. The tower had to hold an object for at least 15 seconds without toppling over. Our future engineers managed the task to build strong, sturdy structures.

Then they designed anddrew their lighhouses, thinking about the tools and equipment they would need and how to make the base secure by using a butress. 

October 2025 Science

This week in science we have been exploring microhabitats, making good use of our school grounds to find these and record the minibeasts that live there. 

September 2025 Science

We have enjoyed starting our first Science topic and have been busy looking outside for things that are alive, things that were once alive and things that were never alive! We recorded our findings. Can you find objects at home for each of these?

September 2025 Art

Wrens and Kingfishers have been busy starting their new art topic. We have been using charcoal, graphite, wax crayons and pastels to help us understand tone. We have been investigating how to make different mediums look lighter and darker by the amount of pressure we use. We have also been looking at the unique ways that we can present our artwork in our sketchbooks. 

Kingfishers and Wrens have had a busy week settling into new environments and routines.

A quick overview of this week's learning...

KIRFS - bonds to 20

Maths - counting in 10s and 1s to make and record amounts

English - A River by Marc Martin

Comprehension questions, poetry, prediction - suffixes er/est   conjuntions because, that, when, if

Reading groups

And ... CHOOSING TIME!

AFRICA

Science - Growing Sunflowers

During our science lessons this term, we have been planting sunflower seeds and watching them grow! We know that in order to grow well, sunflowers need soil, air, water and sun.

Take a look at our African Projects home learning

Summer 1

Dare to be Different!

In Science, Year 2 have started the unit on plants. The children explored, observed and investigated seeds.

In Art, they used lines and shapes to create a printing tile.

Spring 2

Dinosaurs

Trip to All Things Wild

Our Year 2 Sharing Assembly

It was so lovely to see many parents, grandparents and carers at our sharing assembly all about DINOSAURS! We hope you learnt a fact or two and enjoyed our fabulous art work and jokes!

Year 2 Dinosaur assembly song words

Please click on the links to hear the songs on YouTube.

In Maths, the children have been learning how to use a bar model to help them work out division calculations. Can your child explain how they would use a bar model to work out the answer to 32 divided by 4? 

In Art, we have been turning our ideas into collage. We printed our own paper using all the techniques that we have learnt over the past couple of weeks and used these as well as colourful illustrations from magazines to create our own pictures. Next time we will be using charcoal, pastels, chalks and pens to fill in any gaps and to add outline to define images. 

Sewing

Children designed and made a bag.

They designed a bag to carry 3 small items. They had to think about who the product was for and the purpose. They learned how to connect material together, attach a handle and make a fastener.

The family helpers were a great help supporting children with their sewing skills and helping them to embellish their designs using glue guns.

Internet Safety Day

The children learned about 'trusted adults' and personal information in order to protect themselves online.

Author Visit

Today the author Gareth P. Jones came to visit the Year 1 and Year 2 children. He has written the books The Considine Curse, Snowy White, CinderGorilla and his latest one Rabunzel. Gareth read Rabunzel to the children, whilst playing instruments and singing as well as teaching the children actions. The children had a chance to get a signed copy of his books afterwards and we read some in class.

In art, Year 2 has been busy investigating texture in nature. We completed a texture hunt outside on the field and around Forest School. We discovered that there were many things that can be described as prickly, spiky, fuzzy, wrinkly, smooth or soft. Back in the classroom we were shown how we can use everyday items such as, a toothbrush, cotton bud, a fork, a sponge, the edge of a piece of cardboard or even scrunched up tin foil to create texture with paint. We needed to use our prior knowledge of primary and secondary colours to make greens and browns. We hope you enjoy looking at our work. We were super proud of ourselves and the artwork we all created. 

We have started our exciting new art topic called Life in colour. The start of this unit revisits primary colours and then allows the children to investigate secondary colours. We investigated colour mixing by using watered down paint in the primary colours and then tipping the tray to allow the colours to blend and mix. We had so much fun!

Year 2 news...

We made a story map to retell the story of Peter Pan and Captain Hook. We had alot of fun acting it out!

Spellings

Year 2 News...

Christingle Service at Holy Trinity Church

The children took part in our Christingle service in front of family and friends. They told everyone what Christingle meant and the reasons why it is important to many Christian people. They also sang some Christmas songs. They were brilliant! Well done Year 2!

The children had to design a 'huff proof' house for an imaginary 4th Little pig. We tested their builds with a hairdryer.

The Elf arrived in school early and caused chaos in Kingfishers and Wrens! 

He wrote 'hello poo' on the board, took the lids off the glue, tipped out the pencils, threw the shapes on the floor, drew faces on the bananas, put headphones on the cushion, built a pyramid with the milk cups and we're sure it won't stop there.

The children wrote a diary from the perspective of the Elf. 

Year 2 News...

We have been looking at structures and discussing how things are built. We discovered that for something to be strong and stable, it needs a solid wide base. We also found out that triangles help to strengthen a shape, such as in bridges. We had fun using spaghetti and marshmallows to create structures as well as using various size tubes and string. 

Year 2 News...

A Time Machine Landed in the classrooms. We took turns to visit different places including Medieval and Jurassic times, underwater reefs, volcanoes and rainforests. We used this to inspire our writing to plan a journey story.

Fires and Festivals

Autumn 2

What we've been learning...

Our topic in R.E. this term is 'Who is Jesus?' We invited Phil Harper (the children and families minister from Holy Trinity church), to answer questions we had thought of as a class. It was very interesting to hear his responses and beliefs. We compared his beliefs about Jesus to other staff members, and we said why people might believe differently. 

Autumn 1 - Seaside Rescue

Dare to be Different

Summer 1

DINOSAURS!

Spring 2

PIRATES!

Spring 1 

Seaside Rescue

Autumn 1