Welcome to Year 2

Maple Class

Spring 2

Roald Dahl

Welcome to Year Two!

 Miss Harvell is really excited to work with you this year!

This half term our learning journey is Roald Dahl. In English we have been exploring many of Roald Dahl books and have used them as a base to create our own chapter to one of his stories. We have also thought about the thoughts and feeling behind a character and have retold and written as one of his famous characters. We have also explored creating non-fiction texts such as instructions, with the story George Marvellous medicine.  We looked at the features of a recipe and created our own recipe for a marvellous medicine.

In Maths, we have been exploring Money, identifying each coin and its worth, adding them together and giving change from £1. We have enjoyed exploring Fractions, where we were able to identify ½, ¼ and a whole. We understood that a half is one of two equal parts and a quarter is one of four equal parts.

In Science, we have been learning about plants. We have been exploring the different conditions that plants can grow in and have planted our owns seeds to see what happens! We have been learning the different parts of a plant and what the plants ned to survive.

In History, we have been exploring Roald Dahl. This links into our English topic, where we have been reading some of his books to support us in our writing. We have learnt about Roald Dahl’s life and found out that he lived in our local area. We have considered what our local area would have been like when Roald Dahl lived here and compared it to what we can see now.

In DT, we have been looking at different food groups and the healthy choices that we can make. We have explored how this may impact our health.  We tried many different types of pizzas and considered if it was healthy and if we liked them. We then planned and made our own pizzas to try, using the knowledge of healthy eating.