Year 2
Welcome to Year 2’s class page
Miss Horwell, Mrs Wallace and Miss Thurston
Welcome Back!
Welcome back. We hope you have had lovely break.
Our classroom is all ready, you might notice that we have had another move around. Some of the tables may not be where you left them before we left.
Creative Curriculum
Autumn Term – Famous Florence
Spring Term – Super Safari
Summer Term – London’s Burning
What can you find on our class page?
Below we will share information about our curriculum and class routines and provide resources for the children to use to enhance and further their learning at home.
Curriculum Information sheet Year 2 Autumn 1
Home Reading
Reading helps children with their knowledge, understanding and language. The children are taught to read in school however it is important that you encourage your child to read at home daily and listen to them read a couple of pages of their book every night.
Reading books will be changed every Tuesday and every week the children will also choose a library book to read over the weekend.
Click the video link below for tips on how to support your child with reading at home.
Parents you must sign your child’s reading diaries so your children can be rewarded with a stamp for their efforts.
Phonics
The children will be learning Phase 6 Phonics daily.
Some children will also be receiving additional boosters to help with their reading of Phase 3 – Phase 5 phonics. To help your child at home you can access the Phonics Play website which has some brilliant games to play.
https://www.phonicsplay.co.uk/resources
Spellings
Each week children will receive 10 spellings from the Year 1&2 National Curriculum to practice in class and at home.
New spellings will be stuck into your child’s reading diary every week.
Please help your child to practise their spellings at home and over the weekend as their main test will be each Monday.
Click the link below to play the this or that game for our Year 2 Common Exception Words.
As one of their weekly homework tasks we would like the children to practise their spellings.
In class we use the spelling scheme Emilie. You can access this at home and your child’s login will be in their reading diaries.
Spelling with Emile - Improve Spelling in your school (emile-education.com)
Homework
During Autumn 1 & 2, homework is to be completed in the provided exercise book each week. Children will be given 1 piece of maths and handwriting alongside TT Rockstars. Homework will be handed out every Wednesday (to be completed by the following Monday)
Children also have logins to Times Table Rockstars to practise their times-tables.
Click the link below to access our school login in page. Then log on using your child’s username & password which is in your child’s home reading diary.
https://play.ttrockstars.com/auth/school/student/12628
Letter Join
Please login to Letter Join to practice your child’s handwriting. Tasks will be set each week.
Arithmetic books will also be going home 2 times per week with four arithmetic questions that need to completed and returned the following day.
To support your child at home you can download the White Rose 1 minute Maths app on your phone or tablet for free which can help your child practise their number bonds and addition or subtraction at home. Just go to your apps and search for 1 minute maths.
What will we learning this Term?
Spring
R.E – The children will be learning about Parables and miracles before we start learning about Lent .
Maths:
Money
Multiplication and division
You can access more learning on these objectives by visiting the White Rose Home Learning link below.
https://whiterosemaths.com/homelearning/year-2/
There are lots of great games that you can play to help practise your skills on Topmarks Maths.
Click on the links below to access the free maths games
English –
We will be looking at postcards and diary in our wonderful book Meerkat Mail. The children will be writing postcards as if they were Sunny, the main character in our text, telling us all about the adventures he goes on.
Science-
We will be completing our topic of animals including humans and their habitats.
- Learn the basic needs of animals, including humans, for survival.
Learn about and describe the importance for humans for exercise, eating the right amounts different types of food and hygiene.
You can practise our learning about animal survival or perhaps test your knowledge with a BBC-Bitesize quiz.
History
History of Transport
Children will:
– Create a timeline (changes in transport)
– Explore how cars have changed over the years
– Time vocabulary- old, new, past, present, before, after, then, now
-Look at how transport has changed peoples lives
Art –
William Morris
Children will:
- Know how to choose and use three different grades of pencil when drawing.
- Know how to suggest how William Morris has used colour, shape and pattern in his work.
- Know how to use a viewfinder to focus on a specific part of an artefact before drawing it.
- Know how to create a printed piece of art by pressing, rolling, rubbing and stamping.
- Know how to create a piece of art in response to the work of another artist
Know how to create a piece of art in response to the work of another artist – range of artists
PSHE
Dreams and Goals
In this puzzle children will:
- Know how to choose a realistic goal and think about how to achieve it.
- Know how to carry on trying (persevering) even when I find tasks difficult.
- Know how to recognise who I work well with and who it is more difficult for me to work with.
- Know how to work well in a group to create an end product
- Know how to explain some of the ways I worked well in my group to create the end product
- Know how to share success with other people
Meet Jo our Year 2 Jigsaw friend
Computing – In computing we are going be photographers.
PE – will take place on a Tuesday with Miss Horwell and a Thursday with Mr Sigley. After half term PE days will change to Monday and Wednesday. Please can children come into school on these days in their PE kits but they MUST bring their full school uniform into school to get changed into after PE.
