Welcome to Year 2 

The Team

Miss Careford
Class teacher
Larch Class
Mrs Beevor
​Class Teacher
Beech Class
Mrs Knibbs
Learning Support Assistant  

PE Days

Indoor PE:
Both classes: Tuesday
Outdoor PE:
Both classes: Friday

​Make sure your child comes into school wearing a PE kit suitable for outdoor PE on both days so that they can stay warm.

Key Dates

Monday 29th April 2024 - Whole School Maths Day.
Monday 6th May 2024 - Bank Holiday (School closed).
Monday 13th May 2024 - Home learning due in.
Thursday 23rd May 2024 - Home Learning Gallery in the hall at 2.45pm (All families welcome). 
Friday 24th May 2024 - Last day of term.

Term 5

 Project - Why is our world so wonderful?

This half term we will be:
  • Know that there are seven continents and be able to name them 
  • Know that there are five oceans and be able to name them 
  • To know the four capital cities of the UK.
  • To identify the characteristics of the four countries and capital cities of the UK.
  • To know locational language and the compass points (N, S, E, W).
  • To know the difference between oceans and seas.
    To name the five oceans.
  • To know what a habitat is.

Suggested Activities to Support Learning

To support your child at home you could:
  • ​Use an atlas to identify the different continents and oceans
  • Research a country in Africa
  • Think about the climate of where you live

Writing

This half term we will be learning to:
  • Use expanded noun phrases, subordinating conjunctions, similes, alliteration, past tenses and suffixes
  • Use exclamations 
  • Write a story  - an adventure tale
  • Plan our writing
  • Proof read and edit

Suggested Activities to Support Learning

To support your child at home you could:
  • Write a newspaper report/ diary entry for something you have done at home
  • Read a variety of different story types.
  • Look at different fiction stories and plot out a story mountain.
  • Research a subject that interests you

Maths

This half term we will be learning to:
  • Continue to work on the 4 operations - addition, subtraction, division and multiplication
  • Fractions - recognise and find a half, quarter and third of a shape and also numbers
  • Understand o'clock and half past 
  • Understand quarter to and quarter past
  • Tell the time to the nearest 5 minutes

Suggested Activities to Support Learning

To support your child at home you could:
  • Explore different shapes of objects in the house
  • Practice times table  facts. 
  • Practice reading analogue clocks
  • 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.
  • Create a set of clear instructions
  • Discuss what information is appropriate to share and what isn't
This half term we will be learning to:​​
  • Explore what is meant by the word 'animation'.
  • Create a flip book so understand the process of an animation.
  • Explore what is meant by the term 'stop motion animation' and create a space-themed animation using stop motion piece of software
  • Learn the important techniques to use a digital camera to take clear photographs that will be used to generate stop motion animations.
  • Using knowledge of the stop motion process, turn photographs into a stop motion animation by tinkering with the software Microsoft Photos.
  • Create a space themed stop animation.
 

Science 

This half term we will be working scientifically by:​
  • Recall that seeds have all the necessary parts inside for plants to grow.
  • Recall that seeds need water and warmth to germinate.
  • Recognise that light is required for healthy plant growth.
  • Sequence the stages of a plant’s life cycle.
  • Recognise the importance of healthy plant growth.
  • Describe the influences humans have on plants in the environment.

Suggested Activities to Support Learning

​To support your child at home you could:​
  • Identify different plants you have in your garden or local area.
  • Plant your own seed and watch how it grows over time.

Art and Design

This half term we will be learning to:
  • Draw to tell a story
  • Use good observational skills to add details to their drawing.
  • Use an interesting range of marks that show an understanding of how to draw different textures.
  • Develop sketches into a character, with some support, adding details to enhance their character.
  • Demonstrate an understanding of how drawing facial features in different ways conveys expressions.
  • Recount a story and select key events to draw.
  • Create scenes from their own imagination

Suggested Activities to Support Learning

To support your child at home you could:
  • Discuss different illustrators and their styles. 
  • Discover your favourite Illustrator

 Music - On this island: British songs and sounds.

 This half term we will be learning to:
  • Sing, play and follow instructions to perform as a group.
  • Describe music using simple musical vocabulary.
  • Explore multiple ways of making the same sound.
  • Represent the same sound in different ways.
  • Describe how they have adapted a sound using musical vocabulary.
  • Contribute musically to a final performance.
  • Create a piece that clearly represents a particular environment.
  • Extend a piece of music so that it represents three distinct environments.

Suggested Activities to Support Learning

To support your child at home you could:
  • Listen to nursery rhymes
  • Sing songs and nursery rhymes that tell a story
  • Talk about the different sounds you might hear in different places.

PE  - Fielding and striking

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 - Relationships

Suggested Activities to Support Learning
This half term we will be learning to:
  • Understand that families come in all shapes and sizes
  • Know the difference between a good secret and a worry secret
  • Know what physical contact is 
  • Know what a compliment is
To support your child at home you could:
  • Create a picture of your family 
  • Discuss the idea of secrets and why they are not always good

RE - Christian rites of passage

Suggested activities to support learning

To support your child at home you could:
  • Visit / drive past a church.
  • Look at how different cultures celebrate marriage. 
We will be learning to:
  • Understand what a Christian rite of passage is.
  • Understand what happens at a baptism ceremony.
  • Learn about Holy Communion.
  • Explore a Christian marriage ceremony.
  • Explore the death and funeral ceremony of a Christian.