Welcome to Year 2

Welcome to Year 2

Mr Steer and Miss Markley are so excited to be teaching your wonderful children this year and cannot wait to get stuck into some fabulous learning.

Homework and spellings are sent home on a Friday. Reading books are sent home on a Thursday. Please make sure your homework and your reading books are returned to school for the following Thursday. Spelling assessments are on a Friday. Spellings can also be accessed from Spelling Shed.

Our PE days are on a Monday (indoor) and a Friday (outdoor). Please make sure your child is wearing a suitable PE kit. In our uniform policy, this states that there are no logos on clothes or trainers. Earrings will need to be removed for these days, unless recently pierced (6 weeks).

Thank you, Year 2 Team.

Timetable

Brunel Class

Seacole Class

What We're Learning

Details of the Year 2 learning journey can be found here: 

Year 2 - What we're learning

Please note, this page will be updated termly, so please keep checking back.

Summer Term

In the Summer term, Year 2 will be very busy exploring a huge range of diverse subjects. We are all very excited to get started!

In Maths, the children will apply their prior learning and number sense (including the four operations) to learn more about fractions, time, statistics and position.

In English, the children will be demonstrating their creativity and range of vocabulary by writing poetry and stories about habitats and dragons! The children will also be using all of their reading skills to secure their understanding and fluency by exploring stories and poems that complement their learning on habitats and living things.

In science, over the summer, the children will observe plants and do further work with habitats. This will lend itself to observations and investigations and will mean the children can do some exploratory learning in the school grounds, including our forest area.

Through geography, the children will be looking at maps. This will involve aerial views, perspective plans and further work with maps and compass points. In history, Year 2 will identify inspirational individuals whose achievements have had a national and international impact.

In PE sessions, the children will be doing some work indoor on gymnastics. Outdoor PE revolves around building skills of attacking, defending and competing across different sports. We will also be taking part in the school’s sports day.

Through art, Year 2 will explore sketching techniques using Beatrix Potter as our focus. For DT, Year 2 will make and evaluate a vegetarian wrap.

Another busy term for our children, which will help them pave the way to becoming Weddy Graduates!

 

Spring Term

This term the children in Year 2 will be learning about The Victorians and India.

In English, the children will be further exploring recounts using their own personal experiences, as well as writing about the Victorians using ‘The Great Stink’ and ‘Street Child’ to inspire them. Through Guided Reading the children will use a range of text types and genres to become increasingly confident with their fluency and ability to retrieve, infer, predict, sequence and understand vocabulary.

 

In Maths this term, we will be learning to compare, calculate and solve problems involving money (notes and coins). Additionally, they will explore length, height, mass, capacity and temperature through a range of practical activities and apply their knowledge to further secure their ability to solve a variety of problems. The children will also be working on multiplication and division. We encourage the children to use Times Table Rockstars regularly to secure their knowledge as this will be critical in their maths next year and beyond.

Children will be learning about animals (including humans), their life cycles and animal habitats in Science. They will also learn about staying healthy by consuming a healthy, balanced diet and the positive effects of exercise on the body.

In Theme, the children will explore how The Victorians lived and they will also be learning about India; drawing comparisons between the Asian country and the UK.

Our wonderful Year 2s will also be designing, constructing and evaluating a bridge in DT that can lift and open, further building on their science knowledge about properties of materials from last term.

We are all looking forward to another successful term in Year 2 where we will have countless opportunities to be courageous, confident and curious and continue our journey towards becoming amazing Weddy graduates.

Spring

Autumn Term

Our topic this term is 'Fire and Ice.' We will be looking at the seasons, weather patterns and the historical event of The Great Fire of London to delve into this topic. We will be reading the book, ‘Pattan’s Pumpkin’ and 'Lost and Found' in our English lessons. These books are beautifully illustrated to inspire the children.

For reading, your child will have a book to read at home. Please return the book on a Tuesday, so it can be changed and returned for Wednesday.

Do listen to your child read daily please. It makes a huge difference to their reading ability and confidence. Remember, even if your child is not reading, listening to stories exposes them to language that they would otherwise not hear. It is vital that you read to them to support their ability to write.

In Maths, we will be learning about Place Value, Addition and Subtraction. In Place Value, we will be learning to count and write numbers up to 100, and will locate numbers on a number line. We will partition numbers into their values of tens and will learn to count in 2s, 3s, 5s and 10s.

The children will use a variety of resources to help them in their math's lessons, including: base 10, ten frames, numicon, rekenrek and counters.

This term we will be putting on a harvest festival performance for parents to come and watch. Dates and times will be made available later in this half term.

  

Autumn