Welcome to Year 2 

The Team

Mr Shipton
Class teacher
Larch Class
Miss Scoggins
​Class Teacher
Beech Class
Miss Mundy
Student Teacher 
​Larch Class
Mrs Zakariya
Student Teacher
Beech Class
Pascaline
LSA
Beech Class

PE Days

Indoor PE

Larch Class: Monday
​Beech Class: Wednesday

Outdoor PE

Larch Class: Friday
Beech Class: 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

  • 22nd February - School begins 
  • 4th March - World Book Day
  • 19th March - Red Nose Day
  • 26th March - Last Day of School

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This Half Term

 Project - Garden Diversity

This half term we will be:
  • Learning how the location of a country can impact the diversity of the vegetation that can grow.
  • Comparing the local geographical features with contrasting European countries.
  • Describing the location of hot and cold regions of the world.

Suggested Activities to Support Learning

To support your child at home you could:
  • Use a world map to find hot and cold countries and where they sit in relation to the equator. 
  • Look at plants from around the world.




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Writing

This half term we will be learning to:

  • Write our own explanation text.
  • Be clear and concise with some subordination.
  • Use capital letters, full stops, question marks and exclamation marks with accuracy. 
  • Write a set of instructions.

Suggested Activities to Support Learning

To support your child at home you could:
  • Give your child a list of instructions and see if they can follow them.
  • Write a set of instructions for a job you do at home.
  • Read daily at home!
  • Learn your weekly spelling rule. 

Maths

This half term we will be learning to:
  • Recognise how many tens and ones and individual number has .
  • Count to numbers up to 100.
  • Keep tally charts.
  • Draw and interpret pictograms.

Suggested Activities to Support Learning

To support your child at home you could:
  • Look at different numbers you see in everyday life (shops, petrol stations, elevators etc.) and say what they are and compare them. 
  • Learn the 2, 5 and 10 times tables. 
  • Keep tally charts and think of different ones to keep. 
  • Log on Times Table Rockstars and numbots .

Computing

Suggested Activities to Support Learning

To support your child at home you could:
  • Talk about how the internet can be fun and used for good but must be treated with respect to avoid problems and remain safe. 
  • Discuss why it is important to debug programmes.
This half term we will be learning to:
  • Understand what an algorithm is. 
  • Create a computer programme. 
  • Debug a simple programme.

Science - Young Gardeners 

This half term we will be working scientifically by:
  • Observing and recording the growth of a variety of plants as they change over time from a seed to a bulb.
  • Observing and deciding how seeds and bulbs grow into mature plants.
  • Finding out and describing how plants need water, light and a suitable temperature to grow and stay healthy.

Suggested Activities to Support Learning

​To support your child at home you could:​
  • Explore the local area to discover local plants and keep a tally of them.
  • Grow your own plants and observe them over time.

Art and Design

This half term we will be learning to:
  • Develop our drawing and sketching skills using a wide range of mediums.
  • Observe still life objects and begin to recreate main shapes.
  • Develop our skill of shading, adding areas of light and dark in our artwork. 

Suggested Activities to Support Learning

To support your child at home you could:
  • Create you own still life drawings based on on objects at home thinking about shading. 
  • Go on a walk with pencils and paper, making sketches of things you see along the way. 
  • Research artists who enjoy nature such as Claude Monet or Vincent Van Gogh. 

Music

This half term we will be learning to:
  • Create and play a pattern by clapping.
  • Use graphic notation to mark down ideas in a sequence, in a pattern or in a combination of sounds.
  • Play the chime bars.

Suggested Activities to Support Learning

To support your child at home you could:
  • Listen to a piece of music and discuss the pitch and tempo.
  • Create a piece of music using your hands, making notations down in the process. 

PE

This half term we will be learning to:
  • Dance (Indoor PE) - Gymnastics.
  • Play invasion games (when weather permits).
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.
  • Practise making as many different shapes as you can.

 PSHE - Healthy Me

Suggested Activities to Support Learning
This half term we will be learning to:
  • Understand how we keep healthy and why it is important for our bodies. 
  • Understand how medicines keep us healthy. 
  • Identify different food groups and why a healthy diet is important. 
To support your child at home you could:
  • Take part in some different exercises and sports. Click Change4life for some great ideas. 
  • Create some healthy recipes and rate which ones are your favourite and why. Check out some of these BBC recipes. 
  • Create a diary of how your family keeps healthy and active each day. 

RE - Christianity 

Suggested activities to support learning
This half term we will be:
  • Learning about the Easter story and why it is important to Christians.
  • Discussing why it is important to Christians that Jesus came back to life after his crucifixion.
  • Discussing why Easter eggs have become a symbol of Easter.
To support your child at home you could:
  • Visit a local church.
  • Discuss the Easter story and what it means to your family.
  • Come up with ways you can help the world and other people as a family.