Welcome to Year 2

Miss Jones and Mrs Nia

P.E. days are Thursday and Friday.

Please make sure your child has their kit in school and all jewellery has been removed before school. 

Reading

Please ensure your child reads each day at home and that you sign this in their reading record too so we can praise them for this. They will bring home a reading book each day and be listened to at school as much as possible too. Please encourage them to use ‘special friends, Fred talk, read the word’ when reading words!

Our Learning

In Year 2, we are looking forward to making lots of progress and learning and discovering new things!

The subjects and topics we have covered so far are:

Maths – Number and Place Value, Mental Addition and Subtraction, Mental Multiplication and Division, Problem Solving Reasoning and Algebra, Properties of Shapes, Statistics, Geometry: Position and Direction, Measurement and Geometry: Properties of shapes, Fractions, Multiplication and Division and Time; data.

In Maths we follow Abacus Mathematics Scheme as the basis of our progressive curriculum across the whole school. This ensures that learning is consolidated and built on year after year.

English-Read Write Inc, handwriting and independent writing about The Gruffalo, The Gruffalo’s Child, Tabby McTat, Stories with Familiar Settings, Persuasion, Instructions, Comprehension, Stories by the same Author and Urban metropolis.

Times Tables and Number Bonds to 10.

PE- Bouncing a Ball, Piggy in the Middle, Gymnastics, Playground Games, Dance, Athletics, and Fencing.

Geography- Would you prefer to live in a hot or cold place? How did we learn to fly?

History- How was school different in the past?, Remembrance Day and How did we learn to fly?

Science- Habitats, Microhabitats, Materials: Uses of everyday materials and Animals including Humans

RE- Creation and Covenant, Caritas in Action, Prophecy and Promise, Galilee to Jerusalem, Desert to Garden and Ends of the Earth.

Art- rainbow art and Drawing- Understanding tone and texture and Painting and mixed media: Life in Colour

D&T- Mechanisms: Fairground wheel, Cooking and Nutrition: Balanced diet and Structures: A chair for a bear

Music- Pulse, Rhythm and Pitch, Playing in an Orchestra, Inventing a Musical Story, Recognising Different Sounds and Exploring Improvisation.

As we start these new topics they will be added to our list so you can see the enjoyable things we have been learning about.