--- title: "Year 2 Blog- 13.11.26" url: "https://www.strathmore.herts.sch.uk/blog/2026-11-13-16-00-year-2-blog-13-11-26" 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- 13.11.26 13 November 2026 [Year 2 Weekly Blogs](https://www.strathmore.herts.sch.uk/blog/category/year-2-weekly-blogs) Announcements: **Children's individual photo day-** Thursday 19th November Thank you so much for supporting us on our trip to Oughtonhead this week. It was lovely to explore our local area and enjoy the fresh, autumn sunshine together. The children had a wonderful time and we are very grateful to all the parents who were able to come along and join us! On our local walk, the children completed a scavenger hunt to spot human and physical geographical features in the environment. We noticed the winter trees, piles of logs and the cattle! We also made the most of our walk back to school by noticing the sights, sounds and smells around us. We will be using these observations as inspiration for our journey stories in English next week. In English, we have been exploring noun phrases from *The Last Stop on Market Street* book, such as- *crumbling pavements, broken street lamps* and *stray cat shadows*. We also began inventing our own characters based on ourselves. We created mind maps of things we like, what we look like and adjectives that describe our personalities and appearance. In Maths, we have been learning to subtract across 10. We have used number lines to make jumps back to the next 10 and explored how number bonds can help us spot what is the same and what is different. In Handwriting, we have been focusing on forming the capital letters M–R. We always begin our handwriting sessions with wrist, finger and hand stretches to help strengthen our hands and get them ready for forming our letters correctly. We had a busy day on Thursday with our Oughtonhead trip and then a visit from the author- Marcela Fereira! It was lovely to see all of Key Stage 1 joining in with a live draw- a- long and being so creative. A wonderful week of learning Year 2! Well done. [ Nursery Autumn B week 2](https://www.strathmore.herts.sch.uk/blog/2026-11-13-14-50-nursery-autumn-b-week-2) [Year One Weekly Blog - WC. 9.11.26 ](https://www.strathmore.herts.sch.uk/blog/2026-11-13-20-52-year-one-weekly-blog-wc-9-11-26) ![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://www.strathmore.herts.sch.uk/news-and-events/newsletter-half-termly) - [Admissions](https://www.strathmore.herts.sch.uk/about-us/admissions) - [School Day](https://www.strathmore.herts.sch.uk/about-us/school-day) - [Safeguarding](https://www.strathmore.herts.sch.uk/key-information/safeguarding) © Copyright 2025–2026 Strathmore Infant and Nursery School School & Trust Websites by [ ![Schudio logo](https://www.strathmore.herts.sch.uk/img/logo/light.png) ](https://www.schudio.com/)