This week’s poem – First Day
Each week, Year 2 will be exploring a poem. We’ll discuss some of the new vocabulary, practise reading it and maybe even add some actions. By the end of the week, we’ll perform our poem and post it on here for you to see!
This week our poem was called First Day and was all about starting a new year in school. We learnt the new word: awaits.
Welcome to Year 2!
Hello!
Your children have had a fantastic start to Year 2 today and settled in brilliantly. It’s been great to see how well they’ve adapted to the new routines and new teachers. We’re really looking forward to an exciting and successful year!
The children will read 4 times per week in school and we encourage you to read with your child daily at home. Their books will be uploaded to Collins Hub each week so you can access them at home.
Important dates:
- PE – Wednesday and Friday
- Library – Thursday
- Spelling test – Friday
Any questions, please ask!
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.