Welcome to Year 2
Autumn Term
In English this term, Year 2 children will be learning, dramatising and expanding on stories about pirates, dragons and dinosaurs. The children will be using the stories as a stimulus to create different text types, including letters, stories, recounts, instructions and recipes.
Our Geography and History topics this term is our local area, changes within living memory, famous people, continents and oceans.
In Science we are learning about materials. We will investigate different properties of materials, the difference between man-made and natural materials and how different materials behave (e.g. stretching, squeezing).
Spring Term
We will also be learning about a number of significant people, including Neil Armstrong, who is linked to our work about Space and Samuel Pepys, who is linked to our work about The Great Fire of London.
We will be learning about plants, animals and lifecycles. This will lead into our trip to Harlow Carr during the first week of the Summer term.
Summer Term
During the Summer term our Science topic will be all about Minibeasts. We will going on minibeast hunts and learning how to use minibeast equipment. We will be going on plant hunts in the local area and within the school grounds.
In history we will be studying life during the Great Fire of London, major figures during the time and the differences between life now abd life back then.
Our Art and Design topic for the Summer term will focus on Andy Goldsworthy. We will explore the outdoor area within the school, searching for materials to use to make various pieces of art, including minibeasts.
Year 2 Staff
Mr Massheder
Mr Donnison
Mrs Burgin
Miss Weatherill
Year 2 Information
PE
2M
Indoor PE: Friday
Outoddor PE: Thursday
2D
Indoor PE: Wednesday
Outdoor PE: Monday
Spellings
There will be a spelling test every Friday. The list of words to be learnt will be sent via ping at the start of every half-term, as well as being available on the Learning Platformt.
Reading
As a school we place a high value on reading at home and we have the expectation that parents/carers will read daily with their children at home. Children will take home their reading book and reading records each night but this must come back to school the next day.
Talk Homework
Each week we will send home a short homework for the upcoming Maths and English. This is designed to be something you can spend 5 minutes chatting about on the way home, or something you can turn into a longer piece of homework or a project. It will include a simple run-down of what we will learn and some questions for you to discuss or investigate.
Our Curriculum is constantly evolving and we consider our planning to be working documents.
To find out more, visit our Curriculum/Progress and Learning pages or click on the links below.