Year 2

Welcome to Year 2!

Our class teacher is Mrs Swift who is also our Art and Design Technology subject lead. We are also very lucky to have Mrs Jordan in class every morning and Mrs Robinson until 10am and they help support our wonderful children with reading, writing and maths.

Mrs Robinson covers PPA time on a Thursday afternoon.

What our week looks like:

• Monday - Library day.
• Tuesday – PE day and book changing day.
• Wednesday - Guitar lessons for those who are involved.
• Thursday – Book changing day and weekly spelling check.
• Friday – PE day, new spellings issued and homework set.

Any updates or changes to our week will be sent out on our weekly email.

 

Important Information

• New spellings are issued on a Friday along with tasks set on spag.com or maths.co.uk. The children's login details can be found in the front of their reading records.
• Children will need a labelled water bottle in school with them each day.
• Please ensure that all items of clothing are clearly labelled - hopefully this will help things not getting lost!

 

Useful Websites in Year 2

• Phonics Play - https://www.phonicsplay.co.uk/resources
• ICT Games - https://www.ictgames.com/
• White Rose Maths - https://whiterosemaths.com/homelearning/year-2/
• MyMaths - https://www.mymaths.co.uk
• Times Table Rockstars - https://ttrockstars.com
• SPAG.com - https://www.spag.com
• Explorify for Science - https://explorify.wellcome.ac.uk
• A suggested reading list for children in Key Stage 1 can be found at = https://schoolreadinglist.co.uk/reading-lists-for-ks1-school-pupils/suggested-reading-list-year-2-pupils-ks1-age-6-7/

 

Spring 1 in Year 2

This half term, in Religious Education, the children will be learning about Hindu Dharma. They will explore the question “How might people express their devotion?” and will look closely at the concept of devotion and how worship takes place both in the home and at the temple.

In English, our new text will be Winter Sleep: A Hibernation Story by Alex Morss, Cinyee Chiu, and Sean Taylor. Using this book as inspiration, the children will write poetry linked to seasonal changes, create explanation texts about hibernation, and develop narratives based on the text. These activities will help them build their vocabulary and understanding of different writing styles.

In Maths, the children will continue to strengthen their understanding of number and place value. They will also learn about mass and weight, explore the properties of 2D and 3D shapes, and work with counting and money. Towards the end of the term, they will begin to develop strategies for multiplication and division.

Our Science topic is called Fighting Fit. The children will investigate what humans need to survive, how we grow, and why exercise is important for keeping healthy. They will carry out simple investigations and learn how to record their findings.

In Computing, the children will use Purple Mash to learn about spreadsheets, developing their skills in organising and presenting data.

For History, the focus will be on significant places in the local area, including schools and playgrounds. The children will explore why these places are important and how they have changed over time.

In Design Technology, the children will learn about food and nutrition. They will study the Eatwell Plate, find out where food comes from, and understand the principles of a healthy diet. This will include practical activities to help them make healthy choices.

In PSHE, the theme is Growing and Changing. The children will think about how they grow and develop, both physically and emotionally, and learn strategies for coping with change.

Finally, in Music, the children will follow the Charanga unit I Wanna Play in a Band. They will explore rhythm and beat, learn to perform together, and develop confidence in musical expression.

Autumn 2 in Year 2 

What a busy half term we have had in Year 2! Although we are always really busy this time of year in school, I think it’s one of my favourite half terms in school!  

We came back to school after half term and got straight into our new book Rapunzel by Bethan Woolvin. Our ‘fairy tale with a twist’ theme has been really enjoyed and it has been great to look at the traditional aspects of fairy tales and then think about how we can make them our own. Rapunzel even popped in to visit Year 2! 

We have had a Geography focus in our topic based work and we have focused on our local area and aspects of map reading. We have become really confident map readers and we are very good at spotting what is a physical and what is a human feature in and around our school. 

Our Art focus as been ‘Earth Art’ and I have been blown away by the creativity and expression that Year 2 have shown in their pieces of art. 

We have continued to build on our ever expanding maths knowledge and have covered, fractions, money, capacity and volume, multiplication and sorting and statistics. 

On top of all this we put on the most amazing Nativity performance, ‘The Inn Crowd’. What a half term!! 

Autumn 1 in Year 2

Our topic for this term is called Explorers. It is a History and Geography based topic where we will be looking at the world, oceans, space and the people that have explored them and discovered new places. We will investigate how Explorers methods and equipment have changed over time and the different equipment you would need for exploring different continents.

In English we are starting with the book, ‘Man on the Moon,’ by Simon Bartram and we will cover short narrative pieces and use our growing knowledge to create our own non chronological reports.

Like last year, the children’s daily phonics sessions will continue to ensure that they are all getting specific teaching according to their needs. They will continue to learn and embed known and new sounds and tricky words. The children will have spellings sent home each week that will either practise common exception words, tricky words or secure what we have learnt in school the previous week in our phonic sessions.

In maths we will begin the year by refreshing and furthering our knowledge of number and place value by reading and writing numbers to at least 100 and recognising the place value of each digit in a two-digit number (tens and ones). We will also look at estimating and measuring length, addition and subtraction, and the properties of 2D shapes including the number of sides and lines of symmetry.