--- title: "Year 2 Blog 16.10.2026" url: "https://strathmore.herts.sch.uk/blog/2026-10-16-15-15-year-2-blog-16-10-2026" school: "Strathmore Infant and Nursery School" --- Reception and Nursery Tours for 2027 Admissions Now Open - Please go to our Admissions page to book a space # Year 2 Blog 16.10.2026 16 October 2026 [Rhian Mills](https://strathmore.herts.sch.uk/blog/author/rmills) [Year 2 Weekly Blogs](https://strathmore.herts.sch.uk/blog/category/year-2-weekly-blogs) ## **Year 2 Blog – Week 5- Friday 16th October 2026** **Announcements** **Forest School: Tuesday- Most children have wellies and waterproofs. Thank you! Spare socks are good to have as we do not have many in school.** **PE Day: Thursday- Children can come to school in their PE kit on this day.** **Library Day: Wednesday- Please bring back old books on this day so we can issue new ones.** **Friday: Please ensure children have returned their phonics books.** **English** **In English, we have loved learning about poetry! After exploring a variety of poems (we loved Michael Rosen’s *Chocolate Cake*!) we wrote our own class poems *Things I have Been Doing Lately.*** **Maths** **In Maths, we are exploring fact families and number bonds to 20 and then challenging ourselves to learn number bonds to 100!** **Topic** **In History, we have started planning how we would like to help the world! The children are going to become activists and discuss how they are going to make a difference.** **In Art, we have been creating beautiful pieces of abstract art, mark making and blending different tones.** **In Science, we are continuing to observe the effects of mould on bread.** **In Music we have loved learning In the Jungle from The Lion King!** [ Nursery blog week 7](https://strathmore.herts.sch.uk/blog/2026-10-16-13-14-nursery-blog-week-7) [Reception 23.10.2026 ](https://strathmore.herts.sch.uk/blog/2026-10-23-09-05-reception-23-10-2026) ![Strathmore Infant and Nursery School](https://files.schudio.com/strathmore-infant-and-nursery-school/images/logo/Strathmore_Infant_and_Nursery_-_logo_(1).png) ### Strathmore Infant and Nursery School Old Hale Way Hitchin Hertfordshire SG5 1XR 01462 459558 ### Useful Links: - [Newsletters](https://strathmore.herts.sch.uk/news-and-events/newsletter-half-termly) - [Admissions](https://strathmore.herts.sch.uk/about-us/admissions) - [School Day](https://strathmore.herts.sch.uk/about-us/school-day) - [Safeguarding](https://strathmore.herts.sch.uk/key-information/safeguarding) © Copyright 2025–2026 Strathmore Infant and Nursery School School & Trust Websites by [ ![Schudio logo](https://strathmore.herts.sch.uk/img/logo/light.png) ](https://www.schudio.com/)