Class Teacher - Mrs Midian

Teaching Assistant - Mavis

Welcome to our page. We are looking forward to another academic term with lots of learning and fun in year 2.

Our class books this term are Lila and the secret of the rain, Mufaro's beautiful daughters and Little red and the very hungry lion. We will  learning about parts of speech, punctuation marks, and the use of verb tenses, adverbs and adjectives in our narrative writing.

This term in Mathematics, the children will build up on their understanding of  number sense. We will be looking at place value, addition and subtraction and multiplication and division.

Our topic this term is Africa. In Science we started looking at various kinds of seeds, what plants need to grow, parts of a bean plant and how plants make their food. In Geography we are looking at the continent of Africa. We have been looking at some land forms (Zimbabwe, Kenya, Malawi). We also looked at the history of Mandela and fun facts about Malawi's history!

In Art, we are looking at colour creations, primary and secondary colour and also uses and importance of colours in our every day life. In DT the children designed and made sandals.

We are focusing on tennis this term.

We have been exploring rhythm with percussion instruments. We are learning to play the African drum.