Year 2 News September 2025

Year 2 have had a fantastic start to the new school year, it has been wonderful to see them looking so smart in their uniforms. They have settled really well into the new routines of Year 2 and are taking it all in their stride.

In English, we have started our first unit of writing based on the story ‘Meerkat Mail’ by Emily Gravett. We have been creating character description full of adjectives and expanded noun phrases to describe Sunny the meerkat. We have also been focusing heavily on punctuation and handwriting as we get back into the swing of writing after six weeks off!

In Maths, we have been recapping our place value knowledge and skills, working hard on understanding number up to 100. We have also been writing numbers in words and looking at the tens and ones in any 2-digit number.

In History, we have learned about schools in the past and how they have changed. So far we have compared schools within living memory to our school now. Next we will look at schools in the Victorian era and decide if we would like to go to school during that time or not. Please talk about what school was like when you went with your child and if grandparents could join the conversation that would be even better!

Outside of our classroom, we have enjoyed an online safety day with Mr Bailey and a workshop on feeling overwhelmed with the Be You team. We joined in enthusiastically on both occasions and our visitors were very impressed with our maturity during discussions.

What a brilliant start to year 2!

Miss Nicholson.