Welcome to Year 2! Year 2 is the final year of Key Stage One. The curriculum widens and deepens and the learning expectations are greater. The school values are further embedded. Staff model how to be positive, kind and respectful and proud. Children learn how to be successful through these values. 

During Year 2, children develop their oracy skills. The children practice speaking in full sentences using joining phrases to link ideas. This skill is transferred into their writing. They are encouraged to contribute their ideas to move discussions forward. They build their reading fluency and develop comprehension skills. In maths, children build knowledge of calculation skills to enable problem-solving and reasoning to develop. The children learn to write at length in a range of genres. 

In Year 2, the children go back in time to learn about The Victorians! This is always an exciting time as the children experience what life would have been like for a Victorian child, by dressing up and joining in with a lesson in the Victorian school room. They have to make sure that they're on our best behaviour! The amazing Julia Donaldson story 'Stickman' is used as a stimulus for writing and science work. The children walk to Bluebell Wood and observe habitats and microhabitats, identifying creatures in a minibeast hunt. They write instructions for how to make a bird feeder and leave these in the woods on the visit. They paint a stone linked to a scene from Stickman to leave in the woods.