Trotts Hill Primary School and Nursery
Welcome to Year 2
Mrs Kramer and Mrs Spendlove are the class teachers and Miss Kelly is a classroom assistant who will be supporting the class every morning.
Year 2 is the final year of Key Stage 1 and we continue to build upon the foundations developed in Year 1 whilst preparing the children for Key Stage 2. The children will be encouraged to continue to develop their independence and further develop their creativity.
Year 2 is a very exciting and busy year where children will be continuing to develop a range of skills and knowledge alongside discovering and learning lots of exciting new things. The children will be encouraged to develop their 'Behaviour for Learning'.
We will work very hard but also have lots of fun learning together.
This year we will cover a variety of skills, knowledge and understanding including the following topics:
The children will be participating in PE and outdoor skills on Tuesday and Thursday in Spring Term.
They will need to bring in their PE kits on these days.
The children will also have the opportunity to be involved with many pupil groups around the school.
We look forward to helping Year 2 develop and grow.
Mrs Spendlove - Thursday & Friday Mrs Kramer - Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday
In maths this week, we have been looking at divide by making equal groups. We used counters to help us to group accurately and see how many groups we could make.
I feel very blessed and fortunate to have received such lovely gifts. It is hugely appreciated and the children know exactly what I am going to get!
I have enjoyed working with Year 2 and have lots of lovely memories to take with me. Best wishes to you all.
Mrs Burr
At Forest School, we talked about frogs and their different habitats over the course of the year. We then built a toad abode for them to hibernate in.
LI: I know who to talk to if something has been put online without consent or if it is incorrect.
We drew and labelled our trusted adults.
LI: To recognise the value of coins and count money.
LI: To investigate the properties of materials (transparent, translucent and opaque).
Year 2 used torches to investigate different materials.
LI: to discuss the Great Fire of London
This week we have started new topics in History and Art about The Great Fire of London. The children were very enthusiastic and came up with lots of fantastic questions that they would like answered as we learn more about the topic. We made cover pages for our new topic in Art using collage to represent the Fire.
Week Commencing 15th December 2025
LI: to perform
This week Year 2 performed beautifully in our Christmas production. They put their oracy skills to good use and said their lines clearly whilst protecting their voices, and performed their songs with great enthusiasm.
LI: To sequence a story using drama focusing on body language and dialogue.
LI: To sort materials based on their properties.
LI: To sequence a story and recall verbs and adjectives.
LI: To recognise that plants provide food for humans and other animals within an environment.
LI: To learn about bulbs; when and how we plant them.
LI: To make a multiple choice quiz about a story.
Week commencing 20th October
This week Year 2 were comparing different localities in Geography. We used digimap to find a map of our local area in Stevenage, and compared it to a map of the fictional island 'The Isle of Struay'. We worked in partners to identify different features on the maps and discussed if they were human or physical features.
Today we were really lucky to be visited by Happy Little Yogi who gave us a calming and mindful yoga session. We really loved it! In particular, we enjoyed copying the sequence and the sensory activities at the end. Thank you to our kind visitor.
LI: To learn about road safety (external visitors).
LI: To explore an urban and tree microhabitat.
LI: To count in 2s 5s and 10s.
LI: To understand how useful IT is (bar codes).
LI: To estimate numbers on a number line.
LI: How to show kindness when it's difficult.
During this R&WV lesson, the children role-played different scenarios about how to show kindness.
LI: To sort objects that are alive, never been alive and used to be alive.
LI: To identify the common features of traditional tales.
Week commencing 1st September
Welcome to Year 2! We have had a lovely first couple of days getting to know the new Year 2 children. In Maths this week we have been thinking about how we can represent numbers in different ways, and had a fun, practical maths lesson exploring our different maths resources and making different numbers with them.
We can't quite believe it's the last week already! It's come around so quickly. The children have grown so much over the past year and we are very proud of them and their progress. A huge thank you for our lovely gifts. Enjoy a wonderful summer!
From the Year 2 team
LI: To write about emotions (after oracy and role play activities) using adjectives, conjunctions and time adverbs.
Wonderful Woburn!
LI: To identify trees by their shape and sketch them through careful observation.
LI: To describe movement and turns. |
LI: To observe and explain how seeds and bulbs are different. (And also dissect!)
LI: To make observations about different places
This week we had a Safari Day in Year 2! We packed appropriate clothes, travelled to Kenya on an aeroplane, found different animals outside whilst on Safari, explored Kenyan artifacts, had a jumping competition and made necklaces.
LI: To talk about why a Jewish family might go to a synagogue to celebrate Shabbat.
We were really lucky today as Mrs Paice, a practising Progressive Jew, came in to deliver our lesson. She talked about how families celebrate at home and how they also celebrate Shabbat at a synagogue.
As well as singing a song, we saw different artefacts such as a Kiddush cup, Havdalah candle, a tallit (shawl). The children also got to wear a kippah, hold a Torah and taste Challah bread. We really liked how Shabbat ends with a song which wishes everyone a good week to come.
Thank you so much to our visitor.
LI: To read and draw times past the hour.
LI: To recall the creation story and related it to the Sabbath.
LI: To carry out a mini-beast investigation in an urban habitat.
Mrs. Dogar, Salaar’s mother, visited Year 2 to share how her family celebrates Eid. She explained that during Ramadan, her family breaks their fast at sunset by eating dates, as Prophet Muhammad (peace and blessings be upon him) used to do. Mrs. Dogar also shared that she does not eat or drink from sunrise to sunset throughout the holy month of Ramadan. We had the opportunity to try dates ourselves.
Alayna demonstrated how she prays when she goes to the mosque and Mrs Dogar kindly left some prayer mats for the class to explore. Everyone then made a paper chain, with each link representing something we could do to make the world a better place or something we could give up.
LI: To create a dramatic effect through drama.
Based on our superhero books, we wrote dramatic sentences using the conjunction 'when' and then dramatised the sentence as a freeze frame.
Please look at our resurrection Lego videos found on the R&WV page (under curriculum).
LI: To recognise that food that humans eat comes from different parts of plants.
LI: To recall and sequence a story using time adverbs and exciting adjectives.
LI: To engage with a text through drama
Today the children staged tableaus on Julian is a Mermaid. They had to think about what the characters are thinking and saying.
LI: To divide using grouping.
Thank you to all the parents who were able to attend in person. If you were unable, please refer to the attached slides. I have put in a couple of worked examples too.
LI: To understand how important rules are to Jewish people (Ten commandments) and to realise that some are harder to keep than others.
LI: To confidently perform a poem in groups with expression.
LI: To recognise different coins and their values.
Week beginning 6th January 2025
We had an amazing visit from Kate at the Stevenage Museum, where we dived deep into the fascinating story of the Great Fire of London. Armed with all our burning questions, we explored a collection of incredible artefacts and uncovered hidden details of the past!
After sorting and arranging the items in chronological order, we took it a step further and re-enacted the dramatic moment the fire was finally put out. It was an unforgettable journey back in time!
Year 2 is feeling Christmassy!
We're really proud of our sparkly, recycled bottle tree decorations.
What an amazing Christmas Production! We are really proud of the children. They sang their hearts out, learnt all the actions as well and danced stylishly. The little play 'Naughty List' was enjoyed by the audience. Thank you for everyone's support.
Today we made digital story books in Purple Mash. It is not home learning, but please do continue these at home and then pin it to the Class Display Board.
As you handed the work in, you will need to go into past 2Dos and you can 'continue work' from there.
LI: To recall the story of the Nutcracker.
Open the pdf document to see the class acting out the book!
Today the children visited St Nicholas church to experience the Christmas Journey. The children met the shepherds, the Maggi, Simeon and Anna and of course Jesus, Mary and Joseph. They all made a crown and filled in a booklet about the Nativity. Huge thanks to the volunteers at the church and Bridge Builders for an excellent trip.
KS1 had such a treat this morning with a visit from MGroup Services, a Plant and Fleet Management company from Stevenage. Their representatives delivered a presentation on Road Safety in which the children were engaged and beautifully behaved. They talked about the importance of road safety and being bright and seen. Then...they got to sit in a digger! ("Best day ever!")
The children have been invited to enter a competition about road safety and were given a high-vis wrist band and their very own high vis jacket. Huge thanks to MGroup Services.
LI: To identify materials and sort them according to their properties.
LI: To subtract across 10.
LI: To engage with texts and perform a poem. |
LI: To recognise that animals have offspring which grow into adults.
The children had their first forest school session and enjoyed discovering how the area is turning from summer to autumn.
COMPUTING - LI: To know how to share work using a display board.
