Welcome to the Year 2 page!

 

 

 

Koalas - Mrs Walton and Miss Haywood         

Giraffes – Miss Scott and Mrs Mappin

Sharks – Miss Taylor, Miss Handisides and Miss Jones

 

We are really looking forward to the year ahead and all the exciting learning it will bring. This year, we will explore a range of fun topics, take on new challenges, and enjoy lots of engaging activities together.

In Year 2, we also focus on helping children to become more independent and build resilience—important skills for school and beyond. We aim to create an inclusive and supportive environment where children feel confident, happy, and safe to make mistakes – as mistakes often provide the best learning opportunities!

It’s going to be a fantastic year full of learning, progress, and fun!

 

Please click here to download the Year 2 Topic LTP.

Please click here to download the Year 2 Maths LTP

Please click here to download the Year 2 writing standards

 

Our Summer 2 topic will be… From our classroom to Kenya.

 

 

 

In English, we will be writing a recount based on our school trip to Clumber Park. After this, we will be learning all about different SPaG elements, such as prefixes and suffixes and utilising these in our writing. We will then move on to writing our own short narratives based on a twist of a traditional tale. Alongside this, we will also be learning about homophones and when to use them. 

In Maths, we will continue to learn how to draw and understand tally charts and pictograms in our statistics unit.  To ensure all our knowledge is secure, we will be applying this to real life examples and completing lots of problem solving and reasoning questions. Following this, we will move onto our fractions unit where we will learn how to make equal parts, recognise and find a half, a third and understand unit and non-unit fractions. To finish our fractions unit we will begin to count in fractions. We will also be describing movement and turns of shapes. To finish our maths learning this term, we will be learning about length and height, measuring this and comparing this.

In geography, we will be learning about Kenya, and how this is different to where we live .

In science, we will be learning about different plants and how different conditions can affect their growth. 

In RE, we will be learning about special places and how they are different to different people.

In art, we will be using watercolours to create our own African sunset.

In PSHE, we will thinking about transitioning to Y3 and the key knowledge and skills we will need to be successful.

 

Key vocabulary pupils will learn through this topic can be found in the table below

 

Landscape	The area that can be seen from one point.
Attraction	An object or event that people want to see.
Globe	The world; planet Earth
Border	The line between two countries, states, or towns.
Safari	An expedition for watching or hunting large animals.
Tribe	A group of people, families, or villages that share the same language, social customs, and ancestors.
Similarity	The state or quality of being similar or alike.
Difference	Where something is not the same, there is a difference.

 

 

Detailed planning can be found on the subject pages under the Curriculum tab. 

 

Important Information

For Koalas our P.E days are and Monday and Thursday.

For Giraffes our P.E days are Tuesday and Thursday.

For Sharks our P.E days are Monday and Wednesday.

Please make sure your child’s P.E kit is in school on these days and labelled with their name and class.

Spellings for the half term are set for independent practice on Spelling Shed, however these spellings are not tested within school weekly. Instead, we will have a spelling test at the end of the half term testing a random mix of these spellings. Alongside this, your child will be set a spelling list weekly by their Phonics teacher, based on the new sounds or spelling rules they have learnt that week.

Children have a log in for TT Rockstars in their planners. This online platform will allow them to practise their 2s, 5s, and 10s timestables. Please note that timestables will not be taught in class until later in the year.

Dates for your diary

Monday 15th December 2:00pm - Christmas Sing

Tuesday 10th February  1:30pm - Creative afternoon 

Tuesday 17th March 2:30pm - Workshop  

Monday 11^th May 1:30pm – Creative afternoon

Wednesday 8th July 2pm – Showcase

 

Home Learning

Each half term we will send out a home learning bingo grid with tasks for you to complete at home. Here are this half term’s challenges for you to try. 

 

 

Other home learning activities for Summer 1 are

• Practise your 2s, 5s and 10s times tables
• Practise your phonics group spellings.
• Practise writing all the different sentence types.
• Practise finding and recognising halves.
• Recap all number bonds within 100.

 

Useful websites

https://home.oxfordowl.co.uk/reading/phonics/

https://home.oxfordowl.co.uk/maths/primary-maths-age-6-7-year-2/

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/subjects/zqpqfdm