Welcome to Silver Birch - Year 2!

Autumn Term

Maths

We have begun our maths learning this term with place value. This is where we learn to recognise tens and ones. We have been able to represent numbers up to 100 in lots of ways, for example using base 10, numicon and tens frames. We love using practical lessons to help us – here we are flexibly partitioning numbers using a whole part-part model.

P.E:

In P.E. we have been actively engaged in developing our football skills during our outdoor P.E. lessons. Through various skills building activities we have been developing our teamwork, agility and sportsmanship. As we continue through the term we will introduce the idea of attacking and defending.

D.T.

We can wait to make our moving monsters this term in D.T. We have begun the unit by talking about our favourite toys and analysing items we use daily as to whether they have levers, linkages and pivots. So far we have created functional linkages that produce the desired input and output motions. For this we had to follow instructions cutting our card to the correct length, create holes and use split pins. Our next step is to design and make our monsters move- we can’t wait for you to see what we create!

Spring Term

This term, Year 2 have been learning about money and shape in their maths work. 

Having learnt about calculating total amounts and giving change, we set up the classrooms as shops to practice this in some 'real life' situations. We had so much fun buying lots of classroom items including books, toys and even our own water bottles! We even had receipts as proof of our purchases!

Our forest school maths sessions have also been a real hit. We were able to make use of the branches, leaves and stones to make a range of 2D shapes and share our knowledge about sides and vertices.