🌟 Welcome to Year 2! 🌟

Year 2 Team: 

Mrs. Shah

Mr. Punio (Monday - Friday)

Mrs. Matthews (Monday - Thursday)

If you need to get in contact for any reason, please use this email address: preetis@spmillend.herts.sch.uk.  I will aim to get back to you no later than 48 hours from receiving your email. 

Check our class page for regular updates about what we have been learning!  

W/B: 03/11/25

Welcome back, everyone!
We hope you all had a restful half-term break. Thank you to all the parents that attended the Maths workshop at the start of the week.  I hope you found it useful and are able to help your child at home using the methods we use at school. 

It’s been a very busy and exciting week in Year 2 as we celebrated Black History Week. Each day, we travelled to a different continent to learn about inspiring people, cultures, music, and art from around the world. 

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Monday – North America

We started our journey in North America by learning about Martin Luther King Jr. and his dream for a fair and equal world. We talked about our own dreams for the future and wrote about how we can make the world a better place.

We also learnt about Harriet Tubman, a brave woman who escaped from slavery and helped others to find freedom. To celebrate courage and freedom, we created freedom flags and a beautiful freedom tree filled with our hopes and wishes.

We explored the colourful artwork of Frida Kahlo, who often included flowers and animals in her paintings. Inspired by her, we drew our own self-portraits using bright, bold colours.

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Tuesday – South America

On Tuesday, we visited South America and learnt about the famous Brazilian Carnival! We designed our own carnival costumes and wrote about why we chose our designs.

Our PE session was full of energy as we learnt a Samba routine and even tried the Tango dance. To finish the day, we made colourful carnival masks—we were very creative!

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Wednesday – Africa

On Wednesday, we focused on Africa and learnt about Nelson Mandela, who worked hard for fairness and equality. We wrote fact files about his life and learnt why he went to prison and how he became President after 30 years.

We also baked a delicious Nigerian Pound Cake, which everyone enjoyed! Later, we explored African hair culture and had a go at braiding wool—it was quite tricky but lots of fun.

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Thursday – Asia & Australasia

Thursday took us to Asia, where we learnt about the Siddhi community—people of African heritage who live in India. We imagined life as a Siddhi girl living in a village and wrote diary entries about our day.  

We enjoyed some food tasting! We tried naan bread, poppadoms, mango chutney (which was sweet and a little spicy!), and coconut cake. The children loved exploring the new flavours and talking about which ones were their favourites.

To finish the day, we designed and decorated drums inspired by Siddhi art, using bright colours and patterns.

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Friday – Europe

We finished the week in Europe. We designed flags to represent peace, equality, and fairness, thinking about what symbols and colours best showed these ideas.

Using junk modelling materials, we built famous European landmarks such as the Eiffel Tower and Big Ben. We also explored the many flags of European countries, noticing how each one is unique.

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🏠 Homework & Notices

• Spellings: This week there are 5 words to learn (see below). Next week, children will get 5 more and will be tested on all 10 the following week.

clock

brother

badge

child

bottle

• Reading: All children have taken home a reading book and a library book.

• Doodle: Please complete activities on Doodle Maths and Doodle English.

• Christmas Card Designs: These have been sent home today. Please follow the instructions if you would like to order your child’s design.

Please find the Autumn 2 timetable below:

This half-term, PE will take place on Mondays and Tuesday. Children are required to come into school wearing PE kit on both days.  

Homework (spelling and Doodle) reading books and a library book will be sent home on Fridays and must be returned on Wednesdays.  

Reading records need to be filled in at least three times a week and signed by an adult at home and brought into school on Wednesdays for us to check. 

Please remember to send your child in with a water bottle. A healthy snack will be provided at break time.

End of Year 2 Expectations