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 Zackaria
Student Teacher
Beech Class

Resources

Key Dates

  • Black History Day- Thursday 1st October.
  • Larch Class Parents Evening- Monday 12th October and Wednesday 14th October.
  • Beech Class Parents Evening- Tuesday 13th October and Wednesday 14th October.
  • Individual Photos - Thursday 22nd October.
  • Spooky Disco - Thursday 22nd October.
  • Larch PE - Monday / Friday.
  • Beech PE - Wednesday / Friday.
  • Half Term - Friday 23rd October-Friday 30thOctober 2020.

This Half Term

 Project - The Great Fire of London

This half term we will be:
  • Learning about how the Great Fire of London started.
  • Investigating what a primary source is and what primary sources we have available to us.
  • Discussing reasons why the Great Fire of London was so devastating.
  • Looking at the impact of the Great Fire of London and how it affected change.

Suggested Activities to Support Learning

To support your child at home you could:
  • Visit London and find Pudding Lane as well discover the monument dedicated to The Great Fire of London.
  • Attend the Museum of London which has an exhibit about The Great  Fire of London.

​www.museumoflondon.org.uk/museum-london/permanent-galleries/war-plague-fire
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Writing

This half term we will be learning to:
  • Write our own letter.
  • Use adjectives to write a description of a 17th Century England .
  • Use capital letters, full stops, question marks and exclamation marks with accuracy. 

Suggested Activities to Support Learning

To support your child at home you could:
  • Write a letter to a member of your family or a friend.
  • Use fact books/internet to create your own fact files about the Great Fire of London.
  • 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.
  • Add and subtract numbers up to 50.

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. 
  • Learn to add 1 more to a given number. 
  • Log on Times Table Rockstars and numbots .

Computing

Suggested Activities to Support Learning
This half term we will be learning to:
  • Understand what an algorithm is. 
  • Create a computer programme. 
  • Debug a simple programme.
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.

Science - Everyday Materials

This half term we will be:
  • Sorting objects based on their properties. 
  • Looking at natural materials and how they have been adapted for use.
  • Investigating what materials would be used for building a modern home.

Suggested Activities to Support Learning

​To support your child at home you could:​
  • Sort out various household objects using a venn diagram. How many different ways of sorting the objects can you think of?
  • Go for a walk around your local area and discuss what the various houses are made out of.

Art and Design

This half term we will be learning to:
  • Design and build houses out of similar materials, which were used in the 17th Century.
  • Use charcoal and pastels to create a fire scene.
  • Sketch pictures of what we think Pudding Lane looked like in 1666.

Suggested Activities to Support Learning

To support your child at home you could:
  • Create a piece of art showing The Great Fire of London.
  • Design and create a modern home using any scrap materials.​

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) - Great Fire of London dance.
  • Catch and Throw (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.
  • Try dancing in time to a piece of music and explore what shapes you can make. 

 PSHE - Being me in my world.

Suggested Activities to Support Learning
This half term we will be learning to:
  • Tell the difference between ourselves and our friends.
  • Discuss our hopes and fears. 
  • Discuss our rights and responsibilities in school. 
To support your child at home you could:
  • Talk about what rights and responsibilities we have​. 
  • Talk about hopes for the future.
  • Talk about our differences but why we value them.

RE - Christianity 

Suggested activities to support learning
This half term we will be:
  • Learning about the Good Samaritan.
  • Learning about what Jesus taught us about kindness.
  • Discussing whether it is possible to be kind all the time.
To support your child at home you could:
  • Visit a local church.
  • Watch the Beginners Bible- 'The Good Samaritan and discuss kindness and different ways we can help people.