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

  • Monday 2nd November 2020- Spelling Bee launched.
  • Monday 9th November 2020- SATs presentation available.
  •  Monday 9th November 2020- Phonics Screening Check presentation available.
  • Monday 9th November 2020-Anti- Bulling week.
  • Friday 13th November 2020- Children In Need Day
  • Thursday 26th of November 2020- Flu Vaccinations. 
  • Thursday 26th November 2020- Spelling Bee Cup
  • Friday 4th December 2020- Non School Uniform Day.
  • Thursday 10th December 2020- Spelling Bee Shield.
  • Friday 11th December 2020- Christmas Jumper Day.
  • Friday 11th December 2020- Christmas Dinner Lunch.
  • Friday 18th December 2020- Last of term.


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This Half Term

 Project - Our Heroes- The NHS

This half term we will be:
  • Learning about everyday heroes, with a focus on the NHS staff as well as other key figures involved with medicine.
  • Investigating what a primary source is and what primary sources we have available to us.
  • Looking at why and when the NHS was formed.

Suggested Activities to Support Learning

To support your child at home you could:
  • Write a fact file on a famous doctor or nurse.
  • Discuss what the NHS has done for your family and friends.
  • Visit the Florence Nightingale museum. 

https://www.maryseacoletrust.org.uk/learn-about-mary/

https://www.florence-nightingale.co.uk/


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Writing

This half term we will be learning to:
  • Write our own fact file.
  • Use headings, subheadings and technical language.
  • 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 nurse or doctor thanking them for their hard work.
  • Use fact books/internet to create your own fact files about Nurses, doctors and the NHS.
  • 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.
  • Use fact families to help us.

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

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 - Animals including humans 

This half term we will be:
  • Sorting animals based on diet, habitat and features.
  • Looking at the different habitats of animals and how they meet their needs.
  • Discussing how animals grow.

Suggested Activities to Support Learning

​To support your child at home you could:​
  • Discuss what makes a healthy meal and make it together.
  • Discuss how exercise effects our body

Art and Design

This half term we will be learning to:
  • Develop our printing skills.
  • Make relief prints using card and string.
  • Create patterns using different colours. 

Suggested Activities to Support Learning

To support your child at home you could:
  • Create a colour wheel. Discuss primary and secondary colours. 
  • Try printing with objects at home such as fruit and vegetables. 
  • Explore natural printing with leaves and petals. 

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.
  • 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.
  • Practise making as many different shapes as you can.

 PSHE - Celebrating Differences.

Suggested Activities to Support Learning
This half term we will be learning to:
  • Understand that people sometimes make assumptions about boys and girls.
  • Understand why people bully.
  • Understand how to stand up for me and my friends.
To support your child at home you could:
  • Discuss how we can help someone who is being bullied.
  • Talk about other peoples difference and how we can accept them instead of judging them.
  • Talk about our differences but why we value them.

RE - Christianity 

Suggested activities to support learning
This half term we will be:
  • Learning about why Christians believe that God sent Jesus to our world .
  • Learning about what Jesus taught us about kindness and how to help one another.
  • Discussing what problems the world has and what we can do to help it.
To support your child at home you could:
  • Visit a local church.
  • Discuss the Christmas Story and what it means to your family.
  • Come up with ways you can help the world and other people as a family.