Year 2 Newsletter - Autumn Term 1 2026

A warm welcome to all you wonderful Year Two families!

It probably seems like only yesterday that your ‘babies’ were starting in Reception and now they are thoroughly grown up -how time flies! The children are certainly taking their important position seriously – easing back in after the long summer break and setting a good example to the younger children. It has been lovely to see how they have settled back into school so beautifully!

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The children have been learning all about the different parts of their brain and how they can use them to help them focus, think, remember information and keep themselves calm.  These skills have already come in useful as we have entered into our learning about castles, kings and queens and dragons as part of our ‘Castles &Dragons’ topic. We hope to have a ‘Medieval day’ at the end of term, which will really bring this topic alive, giving the children first-hand experienceof history.

In History this term we will be looking at kings and queens throughout history and comparing them. We will be learning all about the different parts of a castle and how they were made in different time periods. We will be learning about life as a king or queen, ending with our very own banquet!

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In Science this term the children will be looking at materials and deciding which might be useful for building a castle andwhich would not! They will also be looking at the seasons and weather in the UK.

In Maths the children will be reading and writing two-digit numbers, identifying odd andeven numbers, and working on place value by partitioning and representing numbers in different ways. We will be reminding ourselves of how to add and subtract numbers to 100, using arange of different resources to help us.

In Writing the children will be looking at a range of different texts to recreate their own stories which will include capital letters, full stops, different types of punctuation and amazing adjectives.

Please continue to support your children with reading at home. Our ‘Friday challenge’ will be given out every Friday. PE is on a Thursday for Fern and Berry class and a Friday for Bracken class,the children can come into school in their PE kits.

We hope you and the children will really enjoy YearTwo! We can't wait for the year ahead! As always, our doors are always open if you need to speak to us.

Many thanks

The Year Two Team

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