Welcome to

Year 2

“Guide me in your truth and teach me, for you are God my Saviour,

and my hope is in you all day long.”

(Psalm 25:5)

Class Teacher: Mrs Jones
 Teaching Assistant: Mrs Indukuri

Teaching Assistant: Miss Laycock
PPA Cover/HLTA: Mrs Pickering

PE Days

Wednesday and Thursday 

Please come to school in your PE kit on these days. 

Homework and Spellings

Homework will be sent home each Monday to be handed in the following Monday. There will be a weekly spelling test each Monday. Please ensure your child completes their homework and learns their weekly spellings. Thank you. 

Reading Books

If needed, reading books will be changed each Friday. Please read with your child at least 3 times per week. Thank you. 

Autumn 2 Learning

RE: Mysteries

The children will learn about and reflect on mysteries. They will be encouraged to say and reflect on what they wonder about. The children will learn that there are three persons in one God and that we can experience God in three different ways as Father, Son and Holy Spirit. They will learn about and reflect on God’s choice of Mary and Joseph and know that Jesus is God’s gift to the whole world.

This term Year 2’s other faith lessons will be about Sikhism and focus on places of worship.

English

This half term we will be reading ‘The Man on the Moon’ by Simon Bartram and writing our own stories about space. We will write a letter home to describe an alien and write a non-chronological report about an imaginary planet.

In our punctuation and grammar lessons we will continue to improve our use of full stops, capital letters, question marks and exclamation marks. We will also be learning about conjunctions and commas in a list. We will also be learning our weekly spellings which the children are tested on each Monday.

Maths

We will continue our addition and subtraction unit where the children will learn to:

• Use their number bonds to 10 and 20 to solve problems
• Add and subtract numbers to 100 using practical resources
• Add and subtract numbers to 100 using formal written methods
• Compare number sentences
• Find 10 more and 10 less
• Solve missing number problems

We will move onto learning about shape. The children will learn to:

• Recognise, draw and sort 2-D and 3-D shapes
• Count sides and vertices on 2-D shapes
• Find lines of symmetry on shapes
• Use lines of symmetry to complete shapes
• Count faces, edges and vertices on 3-D shapes
• Sort 3-D shapes
• Make patterns with 2-D and 3-D shapes

Science: Living things and their habitats

In this unit the children will learn about a variety of habitats and the plants and animals that live there. They learn to tell the difference between things that are living, dead and things that have never been alive. They make observations of a local habitat and the creatures that live there, investigating conditions in local microhabitats and how they affect the minibeasts found within them. This unit allows children to research a range of global habitats and how the living things that live there are suited to their environments, and also introduces the idea of dependency between plant and animal species.

History: Kings and Queens

In this unit the children will learn about the significant British monarchs in history. We will do an in-depth study of Richard III as well as asking the children to draw comparisons between Elizabeth I and Queen Victoria. We will also learn about royal banquets. The unit consolidates the children's awareness of the past and significant individuals through using timelines and making comparisons between various periods in history.

Art and Design: Painting and Printing

In art we will be learning about mixing colours and the colour wheel. We learn about printing with paint and make a crown with a royal repeating pattern.

Computing: Algorithms (programming and debugging)

In addition to finding out about how to stay safe online, the children will learn to:

• Decompose a game to predict the algorithms.
• Write clear and precise algorithms.
• Create algorithms to solve problems.
• Use loops in their algorithms to make their code more efficient.

PE:

This term Year 2 will be learning to play rugby with Mr Hanson on Wednesdays and gymnastics with Mrs Pickering on a Thursday.

Mr Hanson is also running a lunchtime multiskills club for Year 1 and 2.

Autumn 1 Learning

RE: Chosen People

This half term the children will learn that we are chosen by God and learn that God chose certain people to lead and guide his people. They will learn that God called Abraham and that God chose Moses to be a great leader. They will also learn about how Samuel responded to God’s call and find out about the story of Daniel in the lions’ den. They will have an opportunity to reflect on Abraham’s trust in God and learn that we should always trust God. They will learn that God chooses unexpected people and will be given the opportunity to reflect on their own response to God’s call.

English

This half term the children will be studying the story ‘Dear Greenpeace’ to help them learn to write their own letters. We will also be reading ‘The Storm Whale’ as a stimulus for story writing. Finally we will be reading a non-fiction text, ‘Can a whale swim to the moon?’ These books will also be our focus for our daily reading comprehension lessons. In our punctuation and grammar lessons we will be learning about how to write a good sentence, capital letters, full stops, exclamation marks and question marks. We will also be learning our weekly spellings which the children are tested on each Monday.

Maths

During our place value unit, the children will learn to:

• Read, write and count numbers to 100
• Recognise 10s and 1s and use a place value chart
• Write numbers to 100 in words
• Partition numbers to 100 in different ways
• Estimate numbers on a number line
• Compare and order objects and numbers.
• Count in 2s, 3s, 5s and 10s

During our addition and subtraction unit, the children will learn to:

• Use their number bonds to 10 and 20 to solve problems
• Add and subtract numbers to 100 using practical resources
• Add and subtract numbers to 100 using formal written methods
• Compare number sentences
• Find 10 more and 10 less
• Solve missing number problems

Science: Living things and their habitats

In this unit the children will learn about a variety of habitats and the plants and animals that live there. They learn to tell the difference between things that are living, dead and things that have never been alive. They make observations of a local habitat and the creatures that live there, investigating conditions in local microhabitats and how they affect the minibeasts found within them. This unit allows children to research a range of global habitats and how the living things that live there are suited to their environments, and also provides an introduction to the idea of dependency between plant and animal species.

Geography: Maps and our local area

The children will explore a range of maps at a local, national and global level, developing their understanding of how to navigate around an atlas to find key countries, continents, oceans and seas along with devising their own maps and routes. They will learn how to ‘view from above’ looking at aerial photographs to spot human and physical features, understand simple map symbols, compass directions and develop key geographical vocabulary throughout the unit.

Design and Technology

In DT, we will be researching and testing healthy foods. We will then go on to plan and make our own healthy wrap. The children will learn to:

• Name the main food groups and identify foods that belong to each group.
• Describe the taste, texture and smell of a given food.
• Think of different wrap ideas, considering flavour combinations.
• Construct a wrap that meets the design brief and their plan.

Computing: What is a computer?

In addition to finding out about how to stay safe online, the children will learn to:

• Name of some computer items and their function.
• Recognise that buttons cause effects.
• Explain that technology follows instructions.
• Recognise different forms of technology.
• Design an invention which includes inputs and outputs.
• Explain the role of computers in the world around them.

Music: Orchestral instruments

Children are introduced to the instruments of the orchestra and practice identifying these within a piece of music with a theme of traditional western stories. They learn how different characters can be represented by timbre, how emotions can be represented by pitch and how changes in tempo can convey action.

PE:

Dance: The focus of the learning is to respond to the stimulus using a range of different, controlled movements. Pupils will show how to control and co-ordinate their bodies to perform movements that represent an explorer preparing for an expedition.

Ball skills: The children will learn how to dribble and pass the ball using a range of different techniques. They will also learn some of the rules of basketball and to play as part of a team in a mini-tournament, putting their newly developed skills into practise.

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