Hello Everyone!  Below are the spellings which will be tested on Thursday 26th May 2022:  spread  thread  sound  proud  destroy  annoy  girl  skirt  who  whole  Good luck everyone learning your spellings! Have fun! Year 2 Team Continue reading Spelling wk 23/05/22

Hello Everyone!  Below are the spellings which will be tested on Thursday 12th May 2022: post those note woke explode home like were says here Good luck everyone learning your spellings! Have fun! Year 2 Team Continue reading Spelling wk 9.05.22

Dear Year 2 Families, You might be aware that children in Year 2 take tests in English and Maths. These are called SATs, but are very different from those sat by the children in Year 6.  The children will take the tests throughout May in small groups. In Year two the tests are used to inform teacher assessment of the pupils.  These assessments are moderated in school … Continue reading Year 2 -test

Hello Everyone!  Below are the spellings which will be tested on Thursday 5th May 2022: school past cried tried fried treat least eye pure sure Good luck everyone learning your spellings! Have fun! Year 2 Team Continue reading Spelling wk 3/05/22

Today in DT, Year 2 upcycled old plastic bags (thank you for bringing these in). The theme for this term is the environment so they learnt that upcycling helps the environment as things can be used again and are not going to waste. Here are some photos of the amazing things Year 2 made with plastic bags! Continue reading Upcycling

Hello everyone, Hope you are well, We would some like some volunteers to come forward to support year 2 on their school trip to St Johns church on Thursday 12th May for 1:30pm. If you are interested to come along and support our children’s learning, please could you let the teachers in Dove and Robin class aware by Tuesday 3rd May in person or by … Continue reading Volunteers for School trip

Hello everyone, Children in year 2 have shared their concerns over what they have watched on the internet, a puppet called ‘huggy wuggy’. Could we please monitor this moving forward. Many thanks Year 2 team Continue reading Internet Safety

In science today, Year 2 went on a hunt for microhabitats. Ask your child if they can remember what a microhabitat is and what animals you might find living in them. Here are some pictures of the microhabitats we found. Can you spot the spider hiding in one of the photos? Continue reading Microhabitat hunt

As you may have seen on the main Selsdon Primary blog, the highly anticipated weekly Boxercise sessions for parents and staff started on Wednesday, 23rd March at 5:00pm, in our main hall. This is an exciting opportunity for you to have fun and get fit in the process with other members of our school community – we would love it if you could join us! You can … Continue reading Boxercise classes at Selsdon

KS1 History project:  Key Questions for Children’s History lesson Hello everyone, This term we are looking at changes within Living memory of where you live. Please could you support your child with the following questions about where you grew up and how life has changed. You may record the following questions as you deem appropriate. You may also prefer to have this recorded in a scrapbook, … Continue reading Year 2 – Discovering your place

Hello Hope you have all rested well during the Easter break. Year 2 have been busy today thinking about what could be destroying our environment and what we can all do to protect it. Please find all their hard work they did this afternoon and ask them what they had drawn and what key message they had written in their topic book. Best wishes Year … Continue reading Year 2 – Environment

Hello Spellings for next week are: stole, wrote, bone, cone, rope, drone, pole, spoke, every and hour. Many thanks Best wishes Year 2 team Continue reading Spellings for wk 4.04.22

Hello everyone, Hope you have all been keeping warm! We had an eventful day this afternoon with the London Fire Brigade team. The children enjoyed having a go at squirting water from the hose and discussed what to do in case of a fire. I’m sure the children have lots to share with you, so please make sure you fire some questions at them! Many … Continue reading Year 2 become fire fighters

Hello everyone, Year 2 are learning about The Great Fire of London this term. The children drew a timeline in their books to sequence the events of The Great Fire of London and had a great time learning some key facts. Please ask your child questions about what else they would like to find out about The Great Fire of London and record this on … Continue reading The Great Fire of London

Hi all, Next Friday (25th March), we are going to do a SATs style spelling test. Because of this, there will be no spellings to practice for next week. Hope you all have a lovely weekend Continue reading Spelling test- 25th March

Good afternoon, Spelling’s for next week are: baker, bakery, fire, delete, completed, spine, people and improve. Have a lovely weekend year 2. Continue reading Spelling for wk 14.03.22

Hello eveyone, Hope you are all well! This afternoon Year 2 put their Geography hats on and thought about the human and physical features of London as Paddington Bear came to visit from Peru. They wrote a fact file about London for Paddington Bear, this included information on famous landmarks Paddington Bear can to go visit and what the weather is like. The children also … Continue reading Paddington Bear came to visit Year 2

World book day last week was so much fun! It was so nice to see everyone in their World Book Day costumes. It was really interesting to hear their presentations about their chosen characters. During the day, we did lots of reading! We read independently, read to each other and some children in Year 6 even came to read us their stories that they had … Continue reading World book day

Hi all, The spellings for over half term are: quizzed, question, roast, floated, sighted, fright, parked, starfish, floor and great. Hope you have a lovely half term. Continue reading Spellings for over half term

Hello! Your spellings for W/C 7th February are: shutting, shopping, spoiling, boiling, banging, singing, crashing, brushing, sugar and everybody. Hope you enjoy learning your spellings for this week. Continue reading Spellings for W/C 7th Feb

In Year 2, we have been learning how to tell the time. We have been learning o’clock, half past, quarter past, quarter to and even trying to read minutes past the hour. To help us with our learning, we made our own clocks in Robin class. Continue reading Year 2 learn to tell the time

Hello everyone, Hope you are well! Spellings for this week are break, prove, any, pretty, pass, could, even, climb, father, who. This week we have been learning to identify the time on an analogue clock. Please can the children go revise this over the weekend. Have a lovely weekend! Continue reading Spelling for w/c 24th January

Hello everyone, Spellings for this week are: after, path, sure, only, class, Mr, cold, beautiful, plant, because. Can we also practise our 2, 5 and 10 timetable. Have a lovely weekend. Continue reading Spelling for w/c 17th January

In Art this week, Year 2 used clay to make giants. Before using the clay, they sketched their giants into their art books and used these sketches as guides. Great job Year 2. Continue reading Clay giants

Spellings for this week are a recap of all this term that some children may still struggle with. These are: was, there, here, they, going, that, put, because, could and again. Have a lovely weekend. Continue reading Spellings- W/C 13th December

Another exciting time of the year, hope you are all keeping warm and safe. Yesterday our children wore their Christmas jumpers, pulled some crackers and had a lovely Christmas lunch, thanks to our wonderful kitchen team. Here’s a snap! Warm wishes, Ms Iqbal Continue reading Hello everyone!

Hi all,  The spellings for this week are: water, bath, path, who, again, half, great, because, they and mrs. Some of these are spellings from previous weeks as they are spellings that some of the children particularly struggle with in their writing. Hope you all have a lovely weekend. Year 2 team. Continue reading Spellings- W/C 29th November

Every one in year 2 is really excited to use Makaton to sign different words in their assembly next week. This is a great opportunity for our children to not only learn another way to communicate but be able to explain to other KS1 and KS2 children why we use Makaton and how it can help people who may have a disability. In PSHE today, … Continue reading Year 2 – disability awareness assembly

In Design and Technology, Year 2 made delivery vehicles. They had to put the wheels and axels together and make holes in their boxes to put them through. They also had to make sure there was space for what was being delivered. Even when they ran into difficulties, they didn’t give up. This is what some of them had to say about it: Laith; “I … Continue reading Year 2 made delivery vehicles

Hi all, The spellings for this week are: child, wild, most, both, children, climb, only, old, many, clothes. Hope you all have a lovely weekend. Year 2 team. Continue reading Spelling w/c 22nd November

Last week, in Year 2, children learnt the poem ‘Don’t’ by Michael Rosen. Here’s a video of Michael Rosen performing his poem: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oaq3gzswei0 In groups, Year 2 rehearsed and performed the poem to the rest of their class. See some pictures of their amazing performance skills below: Continue reading Last week in Year 2

Hi all The spellings for this week are: could, poem, don’t, down, now, looked, asked, old, children, saw. Year 2 team Continue reading Spelling for W/C 8th November

Year 2 have had such an incredible start to year. We can’t believe the first half term has gone so quickly. You should all be so proud of yourselves and hope you have enjoyed the start of Year 2, especially treat day! You all looked so amazing in your costumes/ own clothes. Hope you all have a lovely half term break and see you on … Continue reading Year 2 do treat day

Hi all, The spellings for this week are: Ask, friend, school, put, push, pull, full, our, going  and was Hope you all have a lovely weekend. Year 2 team Continue reading Spellings for W/C 18th October

Hi all, The spellings for this week are: Here, there, where, house, love, some, one, once, you and your Hope you all have a lovely weekend. Year 2 team Continue reading Spellings for W/C 11th October

In English this week, Year 2 learnt what a ‘Freeze frame’ is. The children were asked to ‘freeze frame’ a scene from the story ‘Where the Wild Things are’. How do you think our Max’s and Wild Things were feeling? Continue reading Where the Wild Things are

Hi all, The spellings for this week are: Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday, Said, Like and Going Hope you all have a lovely weekend. Year 2 team Continue reading Spellings for W/C 4th October

Hi, Year 2 will be given 10 spellings to learn each week. These will be tested every Friday. The spellings for this week are: door, wild, hold, fast, bath, kind, steak, half, child and gold. Hope you all have a lovely weekend. Continue reading Year 2 spellings

In Design and Technology, Dove class and Robin class made fruit salads! Every child showed us their amazing cutting skills by using a knife to cut the fruit. Some children were even brave enough to try some of the fruit they thought they didn’t like. Maybe they’ve got a new favourite! I hope they had so much fun making and trying their fruit salads. Have … Continue reading Year 2 made fruit salad!