Design & Technology: food
This week, Year 2 have been using their food preparation skills to create their latest product, wraps.
This forms part of our Design and Technology food learning which involves following a recipe to create a product each term.
We read the recipe before we made our wraps.
First, we got ready to cook by washing our hands, putting on our aprons, taking off jewellery and tying long hair back.
We used lots of different food preparation skills including draining, spreading, bridge hold (for chopping), claw grip (for chopping), grating, snipping, arranging toppings and rolling the wraps.
Finally, the children got to enjoy their wraps.
I liked my wrap because it was delicious.
I wanted another one!
I didn’t like my wrap because I put too much humous on.
Next time, I wouldn’t put peppers in.
We always evaluate our product afterwards to see how it could be changed next time.
Well done to all the children who worked safely and sensibly with Mrs Simpson and Mrs Rothery.
Help at home: your child has taken this recipe home. Can they demonstrate some of their food preparation skills by making this again at home.
PE – Yoga
Today, we enjoyed a calm and relaxing yoga session in the hall to cool down from the sun!
DT – Design and Technology
Over the last few weeks, we’ve been busy planning and making our hand puppets. We tried really hard to use an over-stitch or a running stitch to join the two pieces together. Once we’d done that, we had lots of fun choosing colourful felt to make our puppets bright and exciting!
We remembered to use the scissors safely when cutting our felt. We’re so proud of our finished puppets!
Next week, we’ll talk about what we liked and what we might change and then we’ll bring our puppets home to show you. Well done, Year 2!
Sports day 2026
We had a great sports day this week with Year 2 helping in the morning and competing in the afternoon. Everyone tried so hard and encouraged each other. We are very proud of all the children’s efforts.
I fell over when I did my race but I got back up.
Red team didn’t win. It’s fine. Maybe we will win next year.
I enjoyed it because we did fun races with our friends.
In the relay race, everyone was determined because they wanted to win.
What I liked about sports day was that I had fun for the whole day!
Living and Learning: body image
As part of our Living and Learning curriculum, we use a focus on self-esteem to promote a positive body image with a strong emphasis on appreciating and celebrating everyone’s unique qualities, talents and abilities.
We want the children to feel proud and confident about who they are and to value their own and each other’s individuality.
Firstly, we talked about what makes us special. This could be something physical or personal.
I’m special as I going to be a good big brother.
I’m special because I am good at maths.
I’m special because I can swim.
I’m special because I’m good at helping others.
Next, we discussed why we have names and what if everyone was nameless?
We have names because we are unique and special.
We need names as we wouldn’t know who people are.
Then, we considered why we like different activities.
We like different activities because we are different people.
Not everyone likes the same thing because we are all different.
It would be boring if everyone liked the same things.
Finally, we thought about why we look different and what things we can change and what things we can’t change about ourselves.
It’s always great to hear the children discussing and sharing ideas in our Living and Learning sessions and circle times.
Help at home: We read the text, Your Body is Awesome. Ask your child what is brilliant about their body?
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English – writing
Year 2 have worked really hard this week to produce some lovely independent writing using the book Extra Yarn by Mac Barnett as the stimulus. We’ve really enjoyed listening to this story over the past few weeks and it’s been wonderful to see the children use it to inspire their own ideas and writing.
(Top tip for watching YouTube with your child: go to the settings cog along the play bar and turn off autoplay – this avoids an inappropriate clip coming up automatically, and helps to discourage your child from passively watching clip after clip.)
Living and Learning: relationships education
For the last few weeks, our Living and Learning lessons and circle times have been all about happy and healthy relationships between our friends, peers and families.
We read some texts about how not all families are the same and that is ok. The children also enjoyed sharing special members of their family.
The Great big book of families by Mary Hoffman
What is a healthy relationship?
What does a good friend do?
What should I do if I’m not happy with a friendship?
These were all questions we considered as we moved onto thinking about friendships.
Consent is also part of this relationships learning. We have already learnt about consent in terms of permission seeking when online but here we thought about it when we are with others. We practised showing how we give and don’t give consent and how we can also change our mind if we want to.
Finally, you will have seen the children have brought home the NSPCC Pants Underwear rule. We revisit this important learning every year.
Help at home: read the NSPCC pants underwear rule with your child/children and think about how this keeps you safe. This parent guide is available too.
Living and Learning – d-side visit
Today, we enjoyed a visit from d-side Dave. During the session, we thought about what makes us special by looking at what’s the same and different about each of us. We then talked about what our bodies need to survive (food, water and air) and why it’s important to exercise.
Next, we looked at different parts of the body, including the lungs, heart, liver and stomach. We explored what each part does and used a prop to help us find where they are in our bodies.
To finish, we created a human car wash, where we each said something kind to a friend as they walked down the line. It was so lovely to hear such thoughtful words being shared with each other.
Help at home: Share something nice about each of your family members.
Year 2 skipping festival
Today, the day had finally come. It was the event we had been building up to after all our skipping practicing – the Year 2 Skipping Festival!
Jodi, Chris and Adele welcomed us and the other five schools to the event at Armley Leisure Centre. First of all, there was a skipping warm up for everyone before the individual skippers did their events. The children were so encouraging and supportive to their class mates and every child tried their best and performed amazingly well.
Next, it was time for the group events. The children worked so well together in their teams and once again, we were so proud of what they have achieved. Even in the last few days, we have seen some of the children mastering these new skills.
Finally, it was time for the results. Sadly, we weren’t the winning school but we were so pleased to have received so many awards.
The children have been so resilient, responsible with their practising, determined and have definitely believed in themselves (even when it has been hard learning new skills) and we are very proud of them all.
I enjoyed the skipping festival because we got to do more skipping and try new skills.
I enjoyed the skipping festival because I liked waiting to hear who had won the certificates.
I thought skipping was hard and sometimes I got stuck but that is ok.
I liked the skipping festival because at the start of the year I thought I couldn’t do the skipping but then I discovered that I could skip all along.
I liked it because I improved my skipping skills.
I liked the skills we learnt and my favourite is backwards hop and swop.