Welcome to Year 2!
Welcome to the class page for Year 2!
Year 2 Staff:
2P: Mr Porteous
2S: Mr Saunders
Teaching Assistant: Miss Marland
Information for Parents
Stockton Wood is a Restorative School. In Year 2 we use emojis to check-in to share how we are feeling and this helps us to manage our feelings.
The children are looking forward to a great year of learning, including listening to stories by new authors, learning outdoors, exploring the world around them as scientists and being physically active.
Class Dojos are used to celebrate achievements and praise efforts!
Year 2 Timetable
2D P.E Day: Wednesday
2S P.E. Day: Wednesday
P.E. kit includes: a plain pale blue t-shirt, navy shorts/ jogging bottoms and a pair
of black pumps or trainers to take part in PE. Your child can come to school
wearing their P.E. kit on their class day.
General Reminders
Reading is at the heart of everything we do, so please try and read with your
child every night. Ask them questions about what they have read, encouraging them to talk about the book, whether it is a story or non-fiction. This will help them with their reading comprehension.
Reading books are changed weekly, but your class teacher
can change your book again if you have been a reading enthusiast at home!
Your child can bring a water bottle to school, containing water only.
Look out for our homework matrix! These activities will explore our wider curriculum, offer creative challenges and an opportunity to earn dojos!
Curriculum Overview Y2 2024-2025
Year 2 Autumn 1 Homework Matrix 2025
Year 2 Chatter
Year 2 Computing
2P enjoyed their computing lesson on inputs and outputs this afternoon, discussing different places we find computers, and creating our own robots! We even had a robot doing heart breaths!
SCARF/PSHE
We discussed how we can tell a friend when we don’t want to do something or if they are doing something we don’t like. We also finished our lesson with some peer massage if we felt comfortable to do so.
Computing
We have been discovering all sorts of different computers, we made images of some of the computers we know about.
PE
we have been completing team building games, working together on a common goal. This week we had to work as a team to move a hoop around a circle.
History
We had a visit from Samuel Pepys in History. He taught us all about the Great Fire of London and helped us to learn about his diary through acting.
SCARF Role-Playing
We had a brilliant afternoon acting and talking about different forms of bullying and what to do! Fantastic drama displays Year 2!
Samuel Pepys Visits Year 2!
Year 2 had a visit from Samuel Pepys for a fantastic workshop on the Great Fire of London! 2P showed off their historical knowledge and played some excellent team games.
School Council – Community space
Our school council have been busy helping to shape a local woodland space. One of the many things we suggested were animal carvings to make it a welcoming and creative place for the whole community to enjoy!
Remember to look out for them around All Saints Church, as the area is further developed.
School Council – Competition
School council met yesterday to launch a competition to design a logo for the Cradle to Career Project in Speke.
The Cradle to Career Project would appreciate your involvement and there will be a £40 Cineworld voucher for the winning entry (other local schools are also taking part).
Your child will need to hand in their entries to their teacher, by Friday 10th October.
Friendship Certificates in 2P
2P made Friendship Certificates and talked about what makes a good friend!
Values
Here we are using our democratic right to vote! We chose our class school councillors to represent our class in school council. We learnt of the Importance of voting in our society during assembly.
P.E
Here we are learning to play as a team and work together. We tried to encourage our friends and say well done when they are trying hard.
Computing
We learnt that there are all sorts of different types of computers. We used iPads to make a collage of the computers we can see in school.
Year 2 R.E
This week we learned the story of Matthew being forgiven by Jesus. To show the importance of forgiveness we acted out forgiving our friends.
School Council Voting!
Last Friday 2P cast their votes to decide our School Council representatives! Well done to all the candidates!
School Council
Stockton Wood School Council were announced this morning in assembly. Congratulations to these children (the rest are to follow tomorrow).
Also, we like to say a huge well done to those that prepared a speech and put themselves forward for the role this year – the number of votes were very close.
Watch this space for your successful year group school councillors.
Year 2 Reading
We love reading in year 2 and relish any opportunity to visit our school library.
Scarf/PSHE
This week we discussed how everyone shows emotions differently. We showed how we show certain feelings.
Year 2 English
We came in today to find clues all about our new mystery book. We had to guess what our story was about and make predictions.
Y2 RE
This week we have been learning about kindness and gratitude in RE. We wanted to say a special thank you to people who help us in school every day! We made cards and hand delivered them.
Y2 Maths
Today Y2 have been improving their calculation strategies by bridging multiples of 10. They have used concrete and pictorial methods to help them.
Computing
We continued learning about online safety, this week we discovered that people online may not be trustworthy. We made a poster about being safe when playing online games, we know to stay away from strangers and to only talk with our trusted friends.
Science
Our butterflies finally got big enough to be released into wild. We enjoyed watching them grow but had to say goodbye to them.
Y2 Art Week
Y2 have been researching the artist, David Hockney and finding out about his work. They have started to draw their own landscape in the style of one of his paintings, Garrowby Hill.
Y2 Art Week
Y2 have made a super start to art week – they have been colour mixing to make different shades and tones of red and yellow.
Y2 Quidditch!
2D loved taking part in quidditch today; we practised our team games skills, working together and communicating to catch the Golden Snitch.
Y2 Aspirations Week
Thank you to Becky the blood technician who visited us in school today. She told us all about her job, what she wears and the equipment she uses. Some of us now definitely want to be scientists when we are bigger!
Y2 music
Year 2 had a lovely time at the Philharmonic Hall… they sang, danced and watched the artist paint to the music!
Y2 PE
Today 2D participated in a range of circuit activities with the sports coach in PE- using balancing, dribbling, hand eye coordination and cardio fitness to improve their skills.
Y2 Aspirations Week
2D started Aspirations Week on a high, dressing up as the career they aspire to have when they’re older.
Y2 Aspirations Week
Today, as part of aspirations week, Year 2 met with Kate and Josh who are paramedics… they told us all about their job and let us look at the equipment they use.
Aspirations Week
Year 1, 2 and 3 are off to a great start to our Aspirations week today. We all got together to talk about what we wanted to be when we grow up.
Year 2 P.E
This week we started our topic of athletics. To start this we learnt the correct form to sprint, trying to do big strides and pumping our arms as we go. We found this helped us go faster.
Year 2 Science
This week we have been looking at the life cycles of butterflies. To show this we have got our very own caterpillars to study. At the moment they are very small but soon they will enter their pupa stage and become butterflies.
Year 2 Music
Year 2 learnt the song ‘sunshine’ before improvising with our instruments. Here we are warming up for our music lesson.
Y2 computing
2D combined text and pictures to show what they know about Mary Seacole and Florence Nightingale.
Author Visit
Such a lovely time today with our visiting Author Luke Temple. We listened carefully to different extracts from three of his books and asked a range of questions. Which book would you like to read in full?
Year 2 P.E
This week we practiced batting and fielding skills, we had to work on batting the ball into a space no one was guarding. Our other friends had to work on finding space and being ready to catch at any time.
Scarf/PSHE
This week we looked at the functions of our human body, we learnt about what our brains, lungs, and intestines do to keep our bodies working. We did this by playing a fun game of matching with dice.
Y2 computing
We combined text and graphics today to share information about our History learning. We enjoyed retrieving facts about Mary Seacole and Florence Nightingale.
Y2 PSHE
We played a game using dice to find the functions of different parts of our bodies. We completed our end of unit assessment showing what we know.
Sports Day
Thank you for all who attended sports day to make it a special day for our children.
Year 2 DT
After designing the cars we then got to create our toy. We painted and added design elements to make it stand out.
DT Week
Last week was DT week, we were tasked with making an eco friendly wheeled toy. We looked at real toys as part of our research.
Y2 computing
Today 2D spent time creating PowerPoints of emotions words; using skills of changing font style, size, colour and formatting backgrounds of the slides.
Y2 DT Week… our finished products!
We have worked so hard during DT week to create our own vehicles with moving axles and wheels.
Y2 Well-being Week
What a wonderful time we had completing activities for Wellbeing Week!
Y2 Science
Congratulations to the amazing members of 2D who have earned certificates as part of the “If you were an engineer what would you do?” engineering project.
Y2 DT Week- wheels and axles
DT week in Y2 has been so much fun! We have researched and designed vehicles to collect rubbish on the beach- we have painted, used a saw and attached our axles and wheels to our vehicles using different methods to make our vehicles.
Y2 DT Week- wheels and axles
Year 2 have been exploring wheeled toys and how their wheels and axles work, they have also been explaining what makes a good wheeled toy vehicle.
Y2 PE
Today we worked with Mr Moran, our sports coach, to practise our underarm throwing skills outside this morning in the beautiful weather!
Y2 spellings
2D practised their spelling by writing the letters on each others backs! Suffix ly and ness this week. They love their Friday spelling quiz!
Y2 Science
2D enjoyed planting seeds for their science experiment to find out if plants grow better in warmer or colder places.
Year 2 Music
This week in music we learnt a new song ‘I wanna play in a band.’ we played our glockenspiels along with the song. We are getting better and better at this.
Year 2 Computing
This week we learnt how to properly type using a keyboard playing the games on Typing Club, this is a free resource you can play with at home.
Year 2 PE
This week we practiced our underarm throws for control and precision. First we slowly bowled the ball on the floor and then we threw it accurately.
Y2 English
2D used role play to come up with ideas about why the dark shouldn’t be banned- the King didn’t always agree with his advisors!
Y2 PE
2D loved their PE session with Mr Moran today- they have participated in team games using underarm ball skills.
Y2 History
To start our new history topic, we learned about Mary Seacole and even made remedies using ingredients to role play helping the sick and injured soldiers.
Year 2 Scarf/PSHE
This week we looked at the ‘learning line’ which shows that when you try something new you may not be good at first, the important thing is to not give up. We tried a new skill and encouraged our friends to not give up
Y2 English
Using our ideas for and against banning the dark, we completed a conscience alley activity.
Year 2 English
This week we started reading The King Who Banned the Dark. We used drama to persuade the king that banning the dark world not be good.
Year 2 History
This week we started learning about the famous nurse Mary Seacole! We learnt that she made remedies for the soldiers fighting in the war, so we made our own remedies.
Year 2 Stay and Learn
Thank you to all of the parents who attended our stay and learn. This time we learnt about food chains and created some food chains of our own.
Y2 Easter Fun!
Y2 have made Easter baskets and been on an Easter egg hunt today! We hope you all have a lovely Easter break.
Y2 Stay and Learn
Thank you so much to all the parents and carers who joined us this afternoon for our stay and learn session on food chains.
Year 2 Scarf
This week we talked about our safe spaces. We made a list of our my special places where we go to be calm and happy. We acted out being in a safe and unsafe place.
Year 2 Science
This week we studied micro habitats. We went in the hunt for some mini beasts in our school grounds.
Y2 Science
Today 2D went on a mini beast hunt during their science lesson on microhabitats.
Y2 Matball competition
Wow! Our Y2 superstars blew away the opposition with an amazing performance in the matball competition!
Year 2 PE
This week in our net and ball work we used tennis racquets! We learnt how to hold the racquet and how to stop a moving ball with it. Some of us can now also balance the ball on it too.
Year 2 Computing
This week in our data work we created fact files about ourselves using our typing skills and drawing skills to add to each field.
Year 2 Maths
This week we looked at capacity, here we are comparing the capacity of different containers.
Year 2 Music
This week we learnt how to play the glockenspiels for the ‘Music Man’ song and performed the song for the final time.
Year 2 Art
This week was art week, we created sculptures using paper folding and cutting techniques. We learnt what a sculpture is and thought of ways to improve our creations.
Neurodiversity Week
To celebrate Neurodiversity Week we have been learning about how we all have different brains with different needs. Some people find things like sitting still and taking turns hard but we know that we need to be extra kind and patient to everyone’s needs.
Y2 Computing
Today 2D worked with Mr Moffatt to create fact files including text, drawings and stickers.
Neurodiversity Celebration Week
A huge thank you to Mr Boyd for hanging our neurodiversity umbrellas! Neurodiversity is an umbrella term used to refer to all of the different ways of thinking. This week the children are learning about Autism, Dyslexia, ADHD and Dyspraxia. Ask your child if they know any famous people who are neurodivergant!
Year 2 P.E
Carrying on with our net and ball skills, this week we practiced serving the ball to our friends. We realised that to do it accurately we need to use less power and point our arm in a straight line.
Science week
We had a real life rocket engineer speak to us this week, he answered our questions about rockets and what it takes to be an engineer. We will keep practicing our science and maths!
Year 2 Music
This week 2D and 2S combined together to learn yet song: The Music Man. We loved adding actions to the music and moving to the beat.
Year 2 Computing and Science
Another element of science week is computing. This week we looked at robots. We programmed the robots to move based on the colours they register.
Science Week
We looked at how birds have adapted to pick things up with their beaks by picking up objects with various things. We decided that the spoons were the best.
Parents Get Involved in Neurodiversity Week.
Below is a list of workshops available to parents during Neurodiversity Celebration Week. Simply click on the workshop your would like to attend to register. You will be able to access the workshops via your mobile phone, tablet or computer. If you need help speak to Mrs Kent (SENCo)
https://www.neurodiversityweek.com/_files/ugd/46eb70_e3ce426f85ca411ebf75ef1d9ce61b10.pdf
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Y2 Science Week
Today we worked with Mr Moffatt to explore Indi robots and how they move- we worked out how to use the base boards to make it move in different directions.
Y2 Science Week
”When you touched the coloured milk with the cotton bud, it looked like little clouds.” 2D carried out a magic milk experiment to explore how things changed when they are mixed.
Y2 Science Week
”Different birds need different shaped beaks to pick up different types of food.”
Super discussion during the first day of Science Week- during Beak Buffet 2D tested out different “beaks” for picking up food and discussed which were the best.
Y2 RE
2D made puppets to tell the story of “The Lost Sheep”. Christian people believe that Jesus told this parable to give a message that people should care for others.
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World Book Day Y2
We loved sharing stories with our reading buddies during World Book Day!
Year 2 World Book Day
We had fun reading with our reading buddies to celebrate world book day.
year 2 PE
Thanks to Lancashire cricket for coming and showing us some amazing cricket skills today, we had so much fun.
6B World Book Day- Reading Buddies
6B enjoyed our World Book Day Reading session with 2D this afternoon. Lots of lovely stories were shared in the school library!
6MR and 2S Reading Buddies- World Book Day
6MR have enjoyed reading with the children from 2S during our session today. Lots of stories were shared!
Year 2 English
We have received another top secret book! We made predictions on what we think the book will be about.
Year 2 PE
This half term we are learning Net and Wall games skills like tennis and volleyball. We learnt that even when the ball is not in our possession we need to be ready to receive it and need to protect our space.
Year 2 Music
This week in music we learnt a new song and played the Glockenspiel’s to the music. Eventually we will be able to play along to the song as others sing it.
Year 2 Computing
This half term we are working with Mr Moffat to show how computers show data and information. This week we made pictograms of the classes favourite fruits.
Year 2 Scarf/PSHE
In scarf we discussed secrets and how some secrets are nice to keep like birthday surprises. Secrets that make us sad or worried should always be shared with a trusted adult. We used drama skills to bring this learning to life.
DT week
2S made puppets in DT week, first we tested out puppets as part of our research phase
Year 2 Partnership week
We have partnered with a school from Doha and will continue to link up with them. This time we read stories to each other’s class and will review them for one another.
Y2 Stay and Learn
2D enjoyed sharing their learning with their parents and carers practising their multiplication facts.
Year 2 collaboration
Wow! We had a fantastic collaborative story session with our new friends in Qatar!
Y2 English
2D were fabulous actors after investigating the clues and predicting what our new text was about.
School Council meeting
Our school council were busy this morning, thinking of ideas for special rewards for reading at home and also for charities to donate to as part of our Social Impact Schools Award.
Y2 Design Technology
We researched puppets and designed our own on the first day of DT week.
Y2 Spellings
2D have been learning the “dge” and “ge” spelling patterns by spelling them on each other’s backs and hands
Y2 music
We enjoyed our musical Monday listening to Brazilian music in the Resonate concert!
Y2 Computing
This week we explored using the microphone button to make our characters talk.
Year 2 Ready Steady Comprehension
What a lot of fun we had performing our poems in our session this morning. Lots of confident performances with lots of expression! I was very proud of all of the children- Mrs Kent 🙂
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Y2 PE
Wow! Year 2 had a fantastic time at New Age Kurling competition at Banks Road.
Year 2 Reading
Another fun time exploring books in our library, we even found books about the victorians which ties into our History topic all about Kitty Wilkinson.
Year 2 Music
2S love their weekly music session. Here we are warming up our faces and our voices ready to learn our new song ‘Music is in me.’ This songs requires a choral response which was tricky to learn.
Year 2 Computing
This week year 2 used scratch to programme two characters to talk to each other. We had to input what we wanted them to say, and also make the other character wait and then reply.
Y2 Maths
2D have been working out groups of to write multiplication sentences today.
Y2 computing
Today 2D have worked with Mr. Moffatt to use Scratch Jr to make our characters talk, and even tell jokes!
