Week beginning 28th April 2025

This Friday, our school was transformed into a time portal as we delved into the exciting world of the Great Fire of London. With the fantastic support of History Off the Page, our students were immersed in a variety of hands-on experiences that brought history to life.

The children had a marvellous time in the apothecary, where they tried their hand at making traditional medicines. Our young scribes worked diligently with ink in the scrivener's corner, while others explored the art of weaving and baking just like in the 17th century. One of the highlights was role-playing as barber-surgeons, where the children learned about the fascinating (and sometimes peculiar!) practices of the time.

We were incredibly impressed by how many facts the children remembered from our Great Fire of London lessons. Their enthusiasm and participation made us very proud teachers! It was a fantastic day of learning and fun, and we are excited to see the curiosity and excitement for history continue to grow in our young historians.

Thank you to everyone who made the day such a success!

Week Beginning 31st March 

As Easter approaches, I wanted to share the wonderful time Elm Class had on our recent church visit for the Easter service with Reverend Richard.
We walked together in the warm spring sunshine to the beautiful church. The children were excited and eager to take part in the special service.
A highlight was the Easter garden, a stunning display made by our talented children at Long Crendon. The garden was a vibrant depiction of the Easter story, full of symbols of new life and hope. The children’s hard work and creativity were truly impressive!
Our Year 2 students felt proud when they saw the bread rolls they baked earlier, shown proudly in the garden. 

Week beginning 24th March 2025

This week, Year 2 went for a delightful Easter workshop led by the wonderful Reverend Richard. 

We helped to create beautiful Easter rolls for a display which will be showcased in St Mary's Church. Under the guidance of Reverend Richard, our talented young bakers learned the art of making bread rolls! The children were thrilled to discover the secrets behind crafting the perfect bread bunny and creating intricate plaited rolls.

But the creativity didn't stop there! We spotted adorable dogs and fluffy chicks among the creations, and some inventive children even managed to bring their favourite Pokémon characters to life with dough!

We're looking forward to seeing the completed Easter display and all the wonderful bread roll creations on show at St Mary's Church. Well done, Year 2!

Week beginning 10th March

This week we have had lots of fun with Maths. Sharing games with the adults during Maths morning and using Cubes and counters to create arrays to help us learning multiplication.

Week Beginning 3rd March 2025

We have had great fun in Year 2 with World Book Day. We watched the Masked Reader and had a go at guessing which teacher was reading a story in disguise. We had a go at being an illustrator drawing a pictured based on some writing. We even found time to make some origami bookmarks to save our place in our favourite books.

Week Beginning 25th February 2025

We hope everyone has had a lovely half term.

Year 2 went to the library in Long Crendon this morning where we had a look around the library and found clues to all the different features of the library. we then explored lots of books in the library and asked lots of questions to the librarians. 

Lots of Year 2 let us know that they already visit the library however we will all be bringing home a form to join the library and a bookmark about their app. 

Week beginning 10th February 

Science day

Today the children visited a planetarium in the hall and learned about space and the moon and how they move around in space.

We also read a book called Moth by Isabel Thomas and Daniel Egneus. This told us how Peppered moths have adapt and changed over the years to help them survive in the wild. They have used camouflage to help protect them from predators.

We were challenged to colour in our own moth to camouflage them in our classroom. We then invited Mrs Ingham and Mr Owens to come and see if they could find all our moths. They found this very difficult. Have a look in the pictures below and see if you can spot all 9 moths.

Week beginning 3rd February 

Year 2 were very excited to be recreating the Great Fire of London in forest school this week. 

We have also been working hard in English coming up with our own stanzas (Like a verse in a song we use a stanza in a poem) to add to the poem London's Burning. 

Week beginning 27th January 2025

Year 2 have been building their own Tudor houses today to recreate the famous Pudding Lane where the Great Fire of London started. We made sure to use all the features we saw in a video of Tudor houses and used a picture of one for inspiration.

Week beginning 24th January 2025

Year 2 have been working with money this week working out the value of coins and notes.

We have also been retelling the story of Gorilla and some of us shared how we did this with the class.

Week Beginning 13th January 2025

This week we have enjoyed looking at pictures of London now and in 1666 and comparing them.

We noticed that buildings were smaller and made of different materials in 1666.

Week Beginning 6th January 2025

This week Year 2 have been learning about lines of symmetry and 3D shapes. some children used the magnetic tiles to make a 3D shape.

Week Beginning 16th December 

This week we have made some amazing Christmas acrostic poems that they have bought home with them. We hope you enjoy reading them as much as they enjoyed writing them. 

We hope you have an amazing Christmas and we look forward to seeing you all in the new year.

A huge thank you for the kind gifts and cards from all the Year 2 Team. 

Week Beginning 9th December 2024

This week in Geography we have been looking at atlases. We have looked at locating the 7 continents, what and where the Equator is and the North and South poles. We were also a bit sad to see that Long Crendon isn't mentioned in the Atlas but we did find Oxford, Thame and Aylesbury.

Week Beginning 2nd December 

Year 2 have been enjoying reading many stories from the book Greatest Magical Stories chosen by Michael Morpurgo. We have loved spotting the links with other traditional tales. Today we read Sleeping Beauty and spotting that a spindle is used in this story and Rumpelstiltskin.

Week beginning 25th November 2024

We are incredibly proud of all the children who participated in the Year 2 multi skills Festival at St Micheals school on Tuesday. Each one displayed not only skill but also determination and a positive attitude, embodying all the values we cherish at Long Crendon.👏

Elm class have been looking at what makes a good friend and have identified what qualities we have. We remembered reading the story called Have you filled a bucket today? and talked about our value of kindness.

Week Beginning 11th November

This week we have been excited to find out our parts in the nativity and have started to learn some of the songs. We hope you are ready for a lot of Bethlehem Boogie! If you want to have a boogie at home the songs can be found on Spotify and YouTube.

Week Beginning 4th November

November already!

Year 2 will be very busy this half term leading up to Christmas and the Nativity performance.

We will be introducing our new focus text in English which is an out of this word book called The Way Back Home by Oliver Jeffers. Starting to learn all seven continents in Geography and the properties of different materials in Science.