Welcome to Year 2

Thank you for visiting our Year 2 page. We will be sharing lots of the activities, visits and events that we have been involved in on this page. We hope you enjoy sharing our learning with us. 

Miss Bradbrook and Mr. Wright.

cbradbrook@tyrrellsprimary.com

owright@tyrrellsprimary.com          

Year Two Knowledge Organisers

Year Two Homework website link for telling the time

Poetry Slam Poem

Year 2 are learning a poem for the poetry slam which will take place on Friday 21st March 2025.

Here it is for them to practise at home!

The Great Fire of London

The year was 1666,

Late one September night,

The baker's shop in Pudding Lane

Glowed with an orange light.

The baker's oven was on fire

The flames began to spread.

Thomas the baker was upstairs

He was asleep in bed.

Before too long the walls caught fire

There billowed out black smoke.

The fire made such a loud noise

Tom suddenly awoke.

They tried to put the flames out

But they just grew higher.

Sure enough they spread, soon half of

London was on fire.

They went to the Thames for water

But at the river bank

The fire engine slipped in mud,

Fell in the Thames, and sank!

When the king was told about this

He was really upset.

He realised that the fire posed

A very serious threat.

But eventually, the wind died down -

The fire died down too.

London would have to be rebuilt

There was much work to do.

The damage caused would have been less

In sixteen sixty six

If the houses weren't made from wood,

If they were made from bricks!

2W's first time in the forest

Have a look at some of the photos from 2W's first trip to the forest this Year with Mr Fenn. The children really enjoyed their first opportunity to get into the forest. 

Science

In science we continue to look at different materials and comparing their properties. For this session the children worked together as a large team to build three houses for The Three Little Pigs. Some groups chose Duplo or Lego, some made houses from cardboard, some built them from lolly sticks and a couple of brave groups tried to construct houses from spaghetti and marshmallows!

They then had to compare their three houses to see if they each withstood the wind (a hairdryer from 20cm away), were strong enough to hold a weight on the roof and were waterproof. 

We found that the Duplo and Lego houses were fine in the wind, and were strong enough to hold the weight - but surprisingly would be a bit soggy in the rain as there were gaps in the roof where the water went through! 

2B's Return to the Forest

We had a great time at our second Forest School session in 2B - have a look at all the things we got up to!

2B Forest School Session

The children in 2B were thrilled to be one of the first classes to get out in the Forest School area with Mr. Fenn this week. Have a flick through the fabulous photos from this session and see what their first outdoor learning experience in Year 2 looked like. 

Science

In science we have been looking at different materials and their properties. The children all really enjoyed working together as a group to find materials to make their monsters out of. We had a metal monster, a paper monster, a plastic monster, a wooden monster and even a fabric monster. 

Can you make a monster out of one type of material at home? What might it like to eat that is made of exactly the same material that it is made from itself? Our metal monster likes to eat paper clips!

Meet the Teacher

Many thanks to the parents and carers who attended the Meet the Teacher session for Year Two.

Please find the presentation used at the meeting below for your information. Feel free to contact us if you have any further questions about your child's learning in Year Two.