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Darley Dene Primary School

Teaching & Learning Weekly Summary

Below you will find our weekly teaching and learning summary to find out how we develop and enrich your child's teaching and learning whilst they are with us.

Week ending

What we have been learning about

26/9/25 Year 2 have been busy with place value this week with our focuses being on representing numbers in various ways and estimating numbers on a number line. We dove deeper into our Science topic this week where we learnt about ways to keep our bodies healthy. The children were able to explain why sleep, eating healthy, and exercise help us grow and keep healthy. In PE, we learnt throwing and catching skills in order to prepare to learn how to play tennis later in the term. Keep up the great work, Year 2!
19/9/25 This week, Year 2 have been learning about writing in the past tense and have shown off this skill in their own re-tell of Pattan's Pumpkin. The children have mastered adding the suffix -ed onto regular verbs and enjoyed creating a story map as well. In Maths, we have been focusing on partitioning numbers to 100. Year 2 have really enjoyed using the manipulatives to represent numbers in a variety of ways. The children impressed us on Thursday with their fantastic skills in PE. Well done Year 2!
12/9/25 Year 2 have had an amazing start to the new school year. We have spent this week embedding our routines and expectations and Year 2 have risen to the challenge of being the leaders of KS1. We started our new text Pattan's Pumpkin and spent our writing lessons mastering the difference between nouns and adjectives. In Maths, we have started our unit focusing on place value where we began using base 10 to represent numbers. We also spent time learning about the countries that make up the UK. Make sure to ask your child about the NEWS acronym to see if they can remember all 4! Well done Year 2 on a great start to the year.
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