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Year 2 News

Here you will find all the news articles from the Year 2 Team.

November 2023

  • Year 2: How does Christmas compare with other festivals of light?

    Published 30/11/23
    This week, the children in Year 2 have been very lucky indeed. On Monday, our Sutton Schools Workers came to deliver a 'Discover Christmas' workshop - the children watched our guests perform the Nativity story to us, and then the rest of the
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  • Year 2: How did we use the Chromebooks to organise and edit our photos?

    Published 23/11/23
    This week, Year 2 learned how to take photos with a Chromebook. We used our toys from home, along with Google Slides, to create a sideshow that acted like a stop-motion video. The children had to work very carefully and only move their toys a small a
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  • Year 2: How can we apply what we know about materials to be an inventor?

    Published 16/11/23
    We have been spending our Science time learning about properties of materials, and how inventors like John Dunlop and Charles Mackintosh used materials to invent new products like pneumatic tyres and raincoats. We looked at our recycled material
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  • Year 2: What did Charles Mackintosh invent?

    Published 09/11/23
    This week, we learned about Charles Mackintosh - inventor of the raincoat! We used different materials to test which were waterproof and which weren't, and then we designed a new raincoat out of those materials. The children were very creative in
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  • Year 2: What are the careers we can have in medicine and how have they changed over time?

    Published 02/11/23
    Our highlight of this week is that we started our History topic, which is all about how medicine and the roles of medical professionals have changed over time. We started this week by investigating what the role of a doctor would have been like over
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November 2023