Year 2 Emerald Class

Miss Davies	Miss Goodfellow	Miss R Flaherty-Green
Class Teacher	High Level Teaching Assistant	Teaching Assistant (PM)

Spring Term Two

This term, we have had the wonderful opportunity to work alongside Hannah, our visiting artist. Throughout the project, the children have been developing their skills in working with clay, building both confidence and creativity.

As part of this unit, the children created their own clay tiles inspired by an under the sea theme. They carefully designed and crafted sea life pieces, showing great imagination and attention to detail.

It has been fantastic to see the clear progress in their clay work over-time. The children have particularly focused on refining their slip and score technique, ensuring that different pieces of clay join securely. Their understanding and application of this skill have improved significantly.

Most importantly, the enthusiasm and excitement shown by the children during these sessions have been a joy to watch. They have approached each lesson with creativity and pride, producing some truly impressive pieces of work.

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Spring Term One 

This term in science, our Year 2 pupils embarked on an exciting journey into the world of plants as part of their Spring science unit. As part of working scientifically, the children observed plants closely and used simple equipment to help them notice and identify key features such as stems, leaves, roots, flowers and seeds.

The children made detailed observational drawings, focusing on capturing the shapes, sizes and patterns they could see. They noticed differences between plants and discussed their observations with their classmates.

Pupils used key scientific vocabulary – such as bud, petal, stem, leaf and root – to describe what they observed and deepen their understanding. This activity supported the children in developing important scientific skills, including careful observation, communication and attention to detail.

We were incredibly impressed with the thoughtful questions the pupils asked and the care they took with their work. Their learning shows a real curiosity about the natural world and a growing ability to think like scientists. Well done, Year 2! 

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Autumn Term Two

In Maths, Emerald Class have been exploring 2D and 3D shapes through the White Rose curriculum. The children have been learning to recognise, name and describe different shapes, focusing on their sides, vertices, faces and edges. They have enjoyed sorting shapes, identifying them in everyday objects and explaining their thinking using mathematical vocabulary. The class have shown great enthusiasm and growing confidence as they develop their understanding of shape and space.

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Autumn Term One

Over Autumn 1, we have been working with an artist called Hannah to create our very own collages. We began by learning about the colour wheel and made a bright and bold colour wheel lion. Next, we explored UK woodland animals which we would later turn into our collages. We looked closely at the different textures on each animal and experimented with painting tools to recreate them. Then we carefully drew our chosen animal before adding layers of paper to build up our collage. Finally, we designed and made frames for our finished artwork. We ended the project with a wonderful showcase event, where we proudly shared our artwork with our families!