Welcome to Year 2 

The Team

Mr Shipton
Class teacher
Larch Class
Miss Scoggins
​Class Teacher
Beech Class
Miss Mundy
Student Teacher 
​Larch Class

PE Days

Indoor PE

Larch Class: Wednesday
​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

  • 1st July-  Year 2 Sports Day
  • Monday 12th July - Home learning due in
  • Thursday 22nd July - Last day of term

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This Half Term

 Project - Local Study

This half term we will be:
  • Learning about our local area.
  • Comparing our local area to other parts of the UK.
  • Exploring the local area.

Suggested Activities to Support Learning

To support your child at home you could:
  • Go for a walk around your local area.
  • Identify key landmarks in your local area.



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Writing

This half term we will be learning to:

  • Write our own poem.
  • Unpick the features of a poem.
  • Discover and use new vocabulary
  • 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:

  • Discuss and read poetry. 
  • Read daily at home!
  • Learn your weekly spelling rule. 

Maths

This half term we will be learning to:
  • Consolidate the 4 operations.
  • Consolidate telling time.  

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 how to handle data.
  • how to use different databases.

Science - Masterchefs 

This half term we will be working scientifically by:
  • observing, through video or first-hand observation and measurement, how different animals, including humans, grow.
  • asking questions about what things animals need for survival and what humans need to stay healthy.

Suggested Activities to Support Learning

​To support your child at home you could:​
  • Describe the importance for humans of exercise eating the right amount of different types of food and hygiene.
  • Observe and decide how seeds and bulbs grow into mature plants.

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 how to:
  • Create our own routine based on traditional dances.
  • Apply our 'multi-skills' to athletic activities. 
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 - Changing Me

Suggested Activities to Support Learning
This half term we will be learning to:
  • Name and label different body parts.
  • Explain how we change overtime.
  • Talk about and discuss consent.
To support your child at home you could:
  • ​ Discuss what you are looking forward to next year.
  • Look at different family pictures and discuss how you change after time.

RE - Islam

Suggested activities to support learning
Our key question this half term is:
  • Does completing Hajj make a person a better Muslim?
To support your child at home you could:
  • Visit a local mosque.
  • Discuss a special journey you have been on.
  • Discuss different celebrations around the world.