Koalas - Mrs Royle & Mrs Beckett               

Giraffes - Miss Scott & Mrs Mappin         

Sharks - Miss Taylor/Miss Glover & Miss Yates 

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!

Our first topic will be… Can you hear me? (Communication through the ages)

In English, we will be consolidating our knowledge of the alphabet and recalling all letter sounds and letter names. We will learn what a sentence needs and apply this to our own writing. We will develop our skills towards building a short narrative accurately. We will also be learning about nouns and adjectives to make our writing more descriptive and interesting for the reader.

In Maths, we will begin with the topic: place value, exploring numbers up to 100. Children will learn to count objects by making groups of 10, recognise tens and ones in two-digit numbers, and use place value charts to help understand how numbers are built. We will also practise partitioning numbers to 100 in different ways and writing numbers in words. As we grow in confidence with number structure, we will move on to addition and subtraction, using our place value knowledge to solve problems and explain our thinking. Progressing on from this, we will be consolidating our previous learning by applying this to real life examples involving money.

In history, we will be learning about communication through the decades and investigating how this has changed and why. 

In science, we will be learning about different types of materials and their properties.

In RE, we will be learning all about the good news that Christians believe Jesus brings. More specifically, we will be learning about the story of Matthew.

In art, we will be studying the artist Glen Alps and learning how to create a calligraph print. We will create our own calligraph print using recycled materials as our final piece.

In PSHE, we will learn about how to make a happy school, all about who lives in our neighbourhood, online strangers, if families all stay the same and how they should treat each other.

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

invention	An invention is something new that has never been made before.
patent	A patent is something from the government that gives ONLY YOU the right to make, use, or sell the thing that you have invented.
Morse Code	A code in which letters of the alphabet or numbers are represented by dots and dashes or by short and long flashes of light or sound.
mobile	A small, portable device that lets you talk to people far away using radio waves.
Skype	A computer program that you can use to make voice calls or video calls on the internet.
Artificial intelligence	An area of computer science that explores the ability of computers to think or have intelligence.
telepathy	Communication between minds without the use of sensory signals.

 

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 

Autumn 1 - Parent Workshop - Tursday 9th October 9:00am 

Autumn 2 - Christmas Concert - Monday 15th December 2:00pm 

Spring 1 - Craft Afternoon - Tuesday 10th February 1:30pm   

Spring 2 - Parent Workshop - Tuesday 17th March 2:30pm   

Summer 1 - Craft Afternoon - Monday 11th May 1:30pm 

Summer 2 - Showcase - Wednesday 11th July 2:15pm

 

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 Autumn 1 are  

• Read at home each night. 

• Practise your phonics group spellings. 

• Practise reading and writing the tricky words and Year 2 common exception words.  

• Practise counting forwards and backwards to 100 

• Recap all number bonds within 20. 

 

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