Welcome to Year 2 

The Team

Mrs Beevor
​​Class Teacher
Beech Class
Miss Careford
Class Teacher
​Larch Class

PE Days

Indoor PE:
Larch Class: Tuesday    ​Beech Class: Tuesday
Outdoor PE:
​Larch Class: Friday        Beech Class: Friday

Now the weather is warmer, children will likely be having PE outdoors on both days. Please ensure they have water bottles, suncream and sunhats for when the weather is hot.

Key Dates

Monday 3rd June - Back to School
Tuesday 4th June - Class Photo Day
Wednesday 5th June - Books at Bedtime 3.30pm in the hall
Tuesday 18th June - World Music Day
Wednesday 26th June - 9.30am – 11.30am Year 1, Year 2 and Year 3 Sports day on the field.
Thursday 4th July - Transition Morning
Friday 5th July - 3.15pm – 5.30pm Summer Fete
​Monday 8th July - Home Learning due in
Monday 15th July - 2.30pm Rocksteady performance in the hall to parents
Wednesday 17th July - 3.30pm- 4.30pm EYFS, Year 1 and Year 2 disco in the hall.
Thursday 18th July - Last Home Learning Gallery 
Friday 19th  July - Last Day of Term

Term 6

 Geography - What is it like to live by the coast?

This half term we will be:
  • Locating the UK and the surrounding seas and oceans on a map.
  • Identifying what the coast is and some of its features.
  • Identifying the physical features of the Jurassic Coast.
  • Understanding how people use the coast.
  • Investigating how people use the local coast.
  • Learn how to follow a route on a map.
  • Identify human and physical features of a coastal town.
  • Learning how to record data in a tally chart and then create a pictogram to represent how people use the local coast.
  • Carrying out fieldwork in a local area.

Suggested Activities to Support Learning

To support your child at home you could:
  • ​Draw a map of your local area focusing on landmarks such as schools, churches and shops.
  • Research a costal area, maybe a town you have visited before.
  • Create a set of directions that lead from one point to another. 

Writing

This half term we will be learning to:
  • Write a persuasive letter about visiting a coast.
  • Learning how to write a recount.
  • Use expanded noun phrases.
  • Use a range of coordinating and subordinating conjunctions. 
  • Use simple similes to describe.

Suggested Activities to Support Learning

To support your child at home you could:
  • Look at the features of letters. What can you find?
  • Describe your local area using expanded noun phrases.
  • Continue to practice phonics at home.
  • Write your own recount of an event you have recently experienced. 

Maths

This half term we will be learning to:
  • Looking how how to use tally charts and how to interpret them.
  • Drawing and interpreting pictograms.
  • Drawing and interpreting block diagrams.
  • Use directional terminology such as half turn and quarter turn. 
  • Describe and demonstrate different turns. 
  • Consolidating methods for addition and subtraction.

Suggested Activities to Support Learning

To support your child at home you could:
  • Measure objects around the home and outside.
  • Practice times table facts. 
  • Create your own map and give directions using turns.
  • Log on Times Table Rockstars and Numbots .

Computing

Suggested Activities to Support Learning

To support your child at home you could:
  • Talk about how we use the internet safely.
  • Research the International Space Station.
  • Practice using a computer mouse and keyboard.
  • This half term we will be:​​​
  •  Learning that the International Space Station (ISS) is home for astronauts in space.
  • Discovering how data is used to ensure that human needs are met on the ISS.
  • Developing mouse and keyboard skills by creating digital drawings of basic items that astronauts would need in space; learning about the basic survival needs of humans.
  • Learning that the ISS uses sensor monitors to collect data and ensure the astronauts are safe and healthy.
  • Discovering how to read thermometers.
  • Designing a display to show data.
  • Learning what plants need to grow and creating an algorithm for growing a plant in space, including the use of sensors to collect vital data.
  • Using an understanding of what is required to support human life by exploring a range of both real and fictitious planets
  • Interpreting data to decide whether they might be habitable.

Science - Making Connections

This half term we will be working scientifically by:
  • Explain the terms reduce, reuse and recycle.
  • Describe how paper is made.
  • Select suitable materials for a plant pot.
  • Describe good growth conditions for seeds.
  • Make a plant pot from eco-friendly materials.
  • Identify non-living materials to decorate a plant pot.​

Suggested Activities to Support Learning

​To support your child at home you could:​
  • Talk about why we recycle. What materials are you recycling at home?
  • Look at what eco friendly materials and objects you have in your house.
  • Research how paper is made.

Art - Craft and Design

This half term we will be learning to:
  • Sort map images into groups, explaining their choices.
  • Draw a map of their journey to school, including key landmarks and different types of mark-making.
  • Follow instructions to make a piece of felt that holds together and resembles their map.
  • Cut cellophane shapes with care and arrange them into a pleasing composition.
  • Design a print with simple lines and shapes, making improvements as they work.
  • Follow a process to make and print from a polystyrene tile.
  • Annotate their favourite artwork with relevant evaluation points.
  • Take an active part in decisions around how to display their artworks in the class gallery.

Suggested Activities to Support Learning

To support your child at home you could:
  • Try drawing an abstract map of your house.
  • Create an abstract piece of artwork using different materials.
  • Look at different artist's work and evaluate them. What do you like? What would you improve?

Music - Space

 This half term we will be learning to:
  • Use their voice to create a variety of sounds.
  • Use dynamics to create atmosphere.
  • Correctly identify some instruments and changes in dynamics in a piece.
  • Explain how the same instrument can have many different sounds.
  • Compare two pieces of music using some musical vocabulary to describe the changes in tempo, dynamics and timbre.
  • Successfully create and play a motif.
  • Notate and write down their motif in some form.

Suggested Activities to Support Learning

To support your child at home you could:
  • Listen to BBC Ten pieces planets suite.
  • Draw/Paint some of the planets whilst listening to the music.
  • Learn the instruments of the orchestra.
  • Use Chrome Music Lab melody maker to create your own melody or use another instrument  at home.​

PE

This half term we will be learning how to:
  • Create a group choreographed piece for a performance
  • Master basic movements with a ball including passing, dribbling, kicking and hitting
NB: Please ensure that children have a full PE kit in school at all times. Please also ensure that the children have appropriate clothing in case of cold or inclement weather. If you are unsure or have any questions please feel free to ask a member of the year 2 team.  

Suggested Activities to Support Learning

To support your child at home you could:
  • Discuss the benefits of physical exercise and the effect that it has on our bodies.
  • Create your own dance routine to your favourite piece of music 
  • Practice ball skills

 PSHE - Changing me

Suggested Activities to Support Learning
This half term we will be learning to:
  • Explain what a life cycle is and give an example.
  • Describe that we get older and that it is out of our control.
  • Recognise how our bodies have changed as we have grown up.
  • Recognise the physical differences between girls and boys using the correct terminology.
To support your child at home you could:
  • Explore different nature life cylces such as a frog or butterfly.
  • Create a family tree looking at different generations of our families.
  • Discuss how we change as we get older. 

RE - Sikhism 

Suggested activities to support learning
Our key question this half term is:
  • What do Sikhs believe? 
We will be learning to:
  • Understand what Sikhism is and how it began.
  • Explore what being equal means.
  • Discover why Sikhs meditate.
  • Understand key principles of Sikhism.
  • Explore why sharing is important.
To support your child at home you could:
  • Discuss why sharing is important to everyone. 
  • Have a go at meditation.