Welcome to Year 2 

The Team

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

PE Days

Indoor PE:
Tuesdays
Outdoor PE:
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

15th January - VW day
5th February - Home Learning due in
15th February - Home Leaning gallery
16th February - End of Term
26th February - INSET
28th February - Return to school
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This Half Term

Writing

This half term we will be learning to:
  • Create our own discovering a monster tale
  • Use coordinating conjunctions to join independent clauses
  • Use adjectives to describe characters
  • Use adverbs to describe actions
  • Write narratives using past tense 

Suggested Activities to Support Learning

To support your child at home you could:
  • Create your own finding tale  about your own interest.
  • Write a letter to a paleontologist
  • Read daily at home.
  • Practice our spellings on spelling frame. See the link below

Maths

This half term we will be learning to:
  • Read scales on measuring equipment like rulers, weighing scales, thermometers and measuring cylinders to the nearest numbered unit using standard units.
  • Compare and order measurements and record the results using < > =
  • Recall multiplication and division facts for the 2, 5 and 10 multiplication tables.
  • Calculate the answer to multiplication and division calculations within the multiplication tables using the multiplication (x), division (÷) and equals (=) signs.
  • Double any numbers up to and including 50 and work out half of any even number up to 100.
  • Add and subtract money of the same unit and combine amounts of money to make a given value.

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. 
  • Explore sharing objects into equal groups
  • Log on Times Table Rockstars and Numbots .
History - Monarchs and Castles
This half term, we will be learning:
  • Recognise what a monarch is and to recall who rules the UK.
  • Be able to identify some of the monarch’s duties.
  • To identify steps in the coronation ceremony and explain the use of special objects in a coronation.
  • Be able to name the two types of castle built by the Normans.
  • To recognise similarities and differences between Norman castles.
  • To identify the features of a castle.
  • Describe what kind of monarch William the Conqueror was.
  • To compare the monarchy in the past to the monarchy today.
Suggested activities to support learning

To support your child at home, you could:
  • Look at timelines to see where different monarchs reigned.
  • Visit a local castle to try and spot all of the features.
  • Rewatch parts of King Charles III coronation.
Design and Technology - Moving Monsters
This half term, we will be learning:
  • To understand that mechanisms are a collection of moving parts that work together in a machine
  • To know that there is always an input and output in a mechanism
  • To understand that a lever is something that turns on a pivot
  • To understand that a linkage is a system of levers that are connected by pivots
  • To know what design criteria is and why it is important
  • To know how to make linkages by connecting levers and pivots
  • To know that materials can be selected according to their characteristics
Suggested activities to support learning

To support your child at home, you could:
  • Look at examples of pivots, levers and linkages around your home.
  • Have a go at creating a simple lever with a split pin and some card.
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Religious Education - Buddhism 
This half term, we will be learning:
  • Understand how Siddhartha Gautama came to be known as ‘the Buddha’.
  • Recognise Buddhist symbols which explain why Buddha was special.
  • Explain the meaning of a Buddhist parable.
  • Explain what Buddha taught Buddhists about how to live their lives.
  • Recognise where and how Buddhists worship.
  • Understand how and why the life of the Buddha is celebrated during Vesak.
Suggested activities to support learning
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To support your child at home, you could:
  • Have a discussion with your child on respecting beliefs and religions.
  • Arrange a discussion with someone who belongs to a different faith. 
Computing
This half term, we will be learning:
  • Learn about the setup and layout of a keyboard and exploring the basics of touch typing.              
  • To know that touch typing is the fastest way to type.
  • Learn how to store information in a text document and how to carry out keyboard shortcut.
  • Know that I can make text a different style, size and colour.
  • Understand that "copy and paste" is a quick way of duplicating text.
  • Explore editing and formatting images in a text document within the context of newspaper writing.
  • Be able to search the internet to find text that can be copied and pasted and understanding the importance of referencing copied work.         
Suggested activities to support learning

To support your child at home you could:
  • Practice creating lists using word processing. 
  • Practice logging on to a computer at home with your child.
  • Practice copy and pasting, as well as editing text using a word processor.
  • Talk with your child about staying safe on the internet and how to use technology in a safe way.
Science - Everyday Materials
This half term, we will be learning to:
  • Name objects with the same use that are made from different materials.
  • Name materials that are used to make objects with different uses.
  • Recognise that stretching, twisting, bending and squashing can cause some solid objects to change shape.
  • Name properties that make materials suitable for their use.
Suggested activities to support learning
To support your child at home you could:
  • Have a look to see what everyday materials you can find in your house.
  • See what objects you can find that use different materials.
  • Have a go at testing different properties of materials.
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PSHE - Dreams and Goals
This half term we will be learning to:
  • ​Recognise and discuss our dreams and goals.
  • Understand what it is to succeed.
  • Understand how it feels to succeed.
  • Identify obstacles in dreams and goals and how to over come these.
Suggested activities to support learning
To support your child at home, you could:
  • Remind your child to use our worry box or the people on their safe hand if they have a worry in school.
  • Talk to your children about celebrating people's differences.
  • Engaging in a conversation with your child about differences but whilst ensuring we all treat each other with respect.
  • Talk to your child about their dreams and goals for the new year.

Music - Traditional Western Stories:


​This half term we will be learning to:
  • Make plausible descriptions of  music.
  • Identify a few instruments and the sounds of different sections of the orchestra.
  • Explain what is happening in the music using language relating to emotion.
  • Create a piece of music with some appropriate tempo, dynamic and timbre changes.
  • Suggest appropriate musical timbres for  characters and tempo changes for actions.
  • Perform confidently using appropriate instrumental sounds.
To support your child at home you could:
  • Watch Music Roadshow Videos on our Music Curriculum Page
  • Watch 'Musical Storyland' using the link.
  • Watch 'George and the Orchestra
  • Name different instruments and their families; woodwind, percussion, strings, brass.
  • Go to a Music Shop to see some instruments.
  • Find a Music Concert to go and see.