Year 2 have been studying British money. We have learnt how to identify the different coins and notes. This week we practised adding different amounts of money to find the totals, finding change, using different coins to make a given amount and matching coins to totals.
Attached are the spellings for Wk 3.
Attached are the spellings for Wk 2.
Our Year 2 children arrived at school to discover something incredible — a mysterious spaceship had crash-landed on the school field! The shiny wreckage, scattered “space rocks,” and strange footprints sparked instant excitement and curiosity. The children became space explorers, investigating clues and writing brilliant questions about its alien pilot. Who was on board? Where had it come from? Why did it land here? Throughout the term, the crash will inspire creative writing, teamwork, and imaginative role-play. What an unforgettable way to launch our new English text — learning truly blasted off in Year 2!
We hope you have all had a lovely week and that you were able to relax and recharge ready for this Easter term. Keep an eye out via the RAPS newsletter, our class blog and classroom windows for more information about the term ahead. Parent reading will be on alternate Wednesdays at 2.40pm, World Book Day approaches, and we also have a Topic Theme Day to come! Best wishes, Year 2 team :)
World Book Day is coming! Thursday 5th March...
What a super start to our final week of Term 3! We loved welcoming the author and illustrator Rachel Tilda Wolf into RAPS to share her book Bear’s Perfect Dance! She talked to us about her writing and her beautiful illustrations, and how stories can develop over time. It was such an inspiring visit that got everyone excited about books and writing, and we loved taking part in a draw-along session afterwards with her! Thank you, Rachel!
This week, Yr 2 are learning about balanced diets in Topic. We have learnt about all the different food groups and what they help our bodies to do. We have also looked at the Eat Well Plate which shows us the different foods we should be eating and the proportions we should eat them in. Over the week the children will be using the eat well plates they have created to plan a healthy lunch box meal.
We have had a great Thursday and 4th day of STEAM week. We have made catapults from lolly sticks and wooden spoons. We have also completed our Hour of Code where we learnt how to and then created our own app for a iPad. We created our own version of Flappy Birds; learning how to write basic code using blocks. This was a great opportunity for the children to demonstrate their creativity, collaboration, and resilience.
In the afternoon, we attended The School of Noise. We experimented with a theremin, played vegetables wired up to a soundboard, and saw what different sound vibrations do to salt. We had great fun learning how science and technology can be used in the music industry and wider world.
In art, we made botanical sketches on acetate inspired by botanist and biologist Maria Sybilla Merian. These will form part of a display in the art room.
In the afternoon, we tested our vehicles. We built a ramp using crates and a whiteboard to launch our cars from. We tested how far our vehicles travelled. We then made the ramp steeper and predicted how this might affect our cars' movement. We were surprised by some of the results.
Safer Internet Day 2026 – 10th February
Today was Number Day at RAPS! We had great fun with mathematical problems. We also got to meet some other great teachers. With Miss Bullard the children explored making patterns with triangles, with Miss Hayzelden they used cubes to help them count and worked what happened when they added double or 4 times the number of cubes. Then with Mr Brun-Cialis the children used their methodical thinking to work out the problem of the chicken, fox and corn. While finally they added the amounts on dice with Ms McCurry.
In Team Brun-Cialis, we also wrote counting songs which we sang with backing from Mr Brun-Cialis and his mandolin.
For each of the activities, we had to show our creativity, collaboration, and resilience!