Welcome to Year 2!

Class Teachers: Miss Ryan, Mr Chapman, Miss Green and Miss Waterson

Children in year 2 have many wonderful learning experiences throughout the year. 

At Southey Green, we promise to provide our children with 6 unique experiences in each year group. We call these 'Southey's Super Six'. These tasks give our children something to look forward to each year and in places, provide an opportunity that the children may not have previously had.

Southey Super Six

Year 2
 

Walk amongst the stars

Meet a real-life firefighter

Learn to sew

Become a botanist

Build a carriage fit for royalty.

Meet a wild animal

A unit the children really enjoyed this half term was Burglar Bill. We read the story Burglar Bill by Janet and Allan Ahlberg. The children really loved this story! They used props to retell the story and hot-seating to discuss how the characters were feeling throughout.

The children then developed their writing skills. We focused on using capital letters for proper nouns, commas in a list and adverbs of place.

The children wrote some amazing sentences! We are focusing on perfect letter formation this half term, their handwriting is really starting to improve. Well done Y2!

Did you know it is 384,400km to the moon?

We set the children the challenge of designing a rocket to make it that far!

They used a paper straw to launch their rockets then modified the designs to make them fly further.

We are learning about the Great Fire of London this half term. We started our topic with a trip to Elm Lane Fire Station where we were given a guided tour of the building. We got to see where the firefighters do their work, train to be fit and strong and even sleep. They slide down a huge pole when there is an emergency - one of our teachers even had a go!

The firefighters kindly showed us the new fire engine and all of the important tools it holds. At the end of our visit we were able to test out the fire hose. It was so much fun!