Year 2: Time Flies: Engineering, Fractions and classification.

Wow, can you believe we are already in the final term of Year 2? It feels like we just blinked and the school year has flown by. The children have settled back into their routines beautifully and are bringing so much energy and curiosity to their learning.

Here is a little look into what we have been up to over the last couple of weeks!

🛠️ Becoming Engineers with Rosie Revere

In our English this week, we have been diving into the world of structures and learning all about bridges. To help inspire us, we’ve been reading the fantastic book Rosie Revere, Engineer by Andrea Beaty.

The children have been thinking just like real engineers—learning that failure is just a part of the building process and a chance to try again! We will be using this book to make and write about our own inventions. We will be using our inventions to write expanded noun phrases, commands, statements and questions. 

🧮 Mind-Bending Maths: Fractions!

We have officially started our journey into fractions this term. It can be a tricky concept, but the class is doing brilliantly.

Right now, we are focusing on the basics:

• Recognising a whole of something.

• Understanding how to split things into equal halves.

We’ve been using lots of practical shapes and objects to see how two halves come together to make one whole.

🔬 Science: Is it Alive?

Our Young Scientists have been investigating the world around them by classifying things into three distinct categories:

1. Living

2. Dead

3. Never Alive

We’ve had some fantastic discussions about this. For example, the children learned that cut grass is classified as dead because it was once part of a living, growing plant. On the other hand, something like a metal screw has never been alive!

🎨 Fantastic Frida

In Art this half term we are studying Frida Kahlo. We will be sketching shadows and learning how to make a collage using bright colours. 

🧸 Friday is teddy day

On Friday we will be supporting the fantastic work of Julia's House by having a teddy day. In exchange of £1 the children can bring in a teddy to school for the day. I don't mind what size they bring in but it must be a teddy (not toys, electronics etc) and please nothing too precious. 

Apologies for the slight lack of photos in real-time recently, but we have gathered some wonderful snapshots from tour recent trip to poundbury garden centre.

Thank you for your continued support as we slide into this final, exciting term of the school year. Stay tuned for more updates!