The Badgers

Year

2 The Foxes

Here you will find information about the topics we have covered over the year and the trips and events that we have undertaken.

We like to get out and about in the local community and enjoy many visitors coming into school.

Year 2 encourages and focuses on independence and offers many responsibilities to the children to take on roles within the classroom and the school as a whole.

Take a look at what we have been learning about and enjoy viewing the photos of our trips and events.

Summer Term 2025

Science

This term, the children have been learning all about different types of plants and seeds.

The children set up an investigation to find out how plants grow best; each group made predictions and then took one important element away to see how it would affect plant growth.

They then chose their own vegetable or flower to grow and took them in turns to look after them each day.

When the plants were outgrowing their pots, the children took them outside into our garden and planted them.

They were amazed to see how quickly their plants had grown and which wildlife lived around and visited their plants!

All of the children loved the hands-on experience of planting and growing their own seeds.

Cumberland Sports Event

A handful of Year 2 children were invited to attend Cumberland Sports morning and learn different skills in a non-competitive environment.

This was a really lovely morning that celebrated team-work, resilience and trying your best!

Zoolab

Foxes and Badgers were visited by Zoolab this term, a very exciting annual experience in school!

The children got to meet animals that they may not have seen before and even had the chance to hold them and stroke them!

We learned all about their environments and habitats as well as their diets and how they keep safe from predators.

Creative Arts Week

During Creative Arts week we had so much fun! Jim came to our school and taught us Chinese and Indian drumming.

Good luck!

As the children get ready to transition to the next chapter of their education, we’d like to say a huge well done to all of the children for their resilience, progress and determination at Devonshire Infant School.

It has been wonderful to see you all grow and achieve and we wish you all the best of luck at Junior School!

Spring Term 2025

My Dog Sighs – Art

Year 2 had a fabulous time learning all about our local street artist My Dog Sighs.

We explored the different kinds of art that he creates and then put our skills to the test by sketching a detailed eye and then creating our very own Everyman art.

The children enjoyed it so much that they made an Everyman of themselves.

The children all put their own creative flare into their work and the results were excellent!

The children’s favourite part was mixing the paints to make new colours and blending the background. Well done Year 2!

Learning Outside

With the warmer weather now settling in, Year 2 have enjoyed taking some lessons in our new garden space.

The children enjoyed a maths lesson where they were finding equal amounts of groups.

HMS Titanic – History, English and DT

The children have loved learning all about the Titanic in our History topic.

They learned all about life on board the ship and the differences between being a first and third class passenger.

As part of our writing, the children wrote some imaginative diary entries.

We also incorporated DT into our Titanic topic and the children all made hand puppets of a passenger of their choice!

The Great Fire of London – English

In our second writing unit of Spring 2, the children learned all about the Great Fire of London!

They learned through dance, drama, interactive and sensory videos to support their writing of an emotive and descriptive diary entry and a bossy letter to the Lord Mayor of London!

Autumn Term 2024

It was great to be back at school in the autumn term. It has been busy and challenging but the children have been fantastic throughout.

PSHE – My Happy Mind

This year we introduced a new programme into our PSHE curriculum called My Happy Mind.

Year 2 have really enjoyed learning their first two topics: Meet Your Brain and Celebrate. In Meet Your Brain, the children have learned about the three most important parts of their brain that keep you happy and what to do if the amygdala takes over!

In Celebrate, children have been learning all about their character strengths and what makes them unique and special.

Foxes and Badgers have loved collecting stickers when they have achieved one of the character strengths in their classrooms!

Nutcracker inspired diorama – Design & Technology

The children got creative this half term with their Nutcracker inspired dioramas!

The children learned all about the Nutcracker story, danced to Tchaikovsky music and learned some valuable skills in mechanisms, before planning, designing and creating their very own dioramas.

The children loved using shoe boxes and different materials to make their scenes come to life.

Finally, they added their characters on levers and gave a performance to the rest of the class!