Welcome to Year 2 

The Team

Mr Shipton
Class teacher
Larch Class
Miss Scoggins
​Class Teacher
Beech Class
Miss Mundy
Student Teacher 
​Larch 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
  • 5th January- Children back to School
  • 5th January- Home Learning Launched
  • 1st February- Home Learning Due
  • 12th February- Home Learning Winners Shared Virtually

This Half Term

 Project - Mary Anning and the dinosaurs

This half term we will be:
  • Learning the names of different dinosaurs.
  • Investigating what a primary source is and what primary sources we have available to us.
  • Finding out who Mary Anning was and why she was important.

Suggested Activities to Support Learning

To support your child at home you could:
  • Take a trip to Lyme Regis.
  • Research different dinosaurs.
  • Look at different fossils.

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Writing

This half term we will be learning to:
  • Write our own diary.
  • Write a fact file about dinosaurs.
  • 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:
  • Use fact books/internet to create your own fact files about the Mary Anning or dinosaurs.
  • 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.
  • Recognise different coins and notes.
  • Tell the 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. 
  • Look at different coins.
  • 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 - Local Enviroment

This half term we will be:
  • Looking at our  local environment.  
  • Learning about different habitats. 
  • Investigating different food chains.

Suggested Activities to Support Learning

​To support your child at home you could:​
  • Research different food chains.
  • Go for a walk around your local area and look at the wildlife. See if you can see different habitats.

Art and Design

This half term we will be learning to:
  • Create dinosaur collages.
  • Use pastels to create a setting, in which dinosaurs could have lived in.
  • Sketch portraits of famous people in the past.

Suggested Activities to Support Learning

To support your child at home you could:
  • Create a piece of art around dinosaurs.
  • Sketch a famous person from the past.

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. You could record your piece as a video. 

PE

This half term we will be learning to:
  • Gymnastics (Indoor PE) - Shapes and sequences. 
  • 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.
  • Create a routine using different shapes, jumps and rolls.

 PSHE - Dreams and Goals

Suggested Activities to Support Learning
This half term we will be learning to:
  • Tell the difference between dreams and goals.
  • Identify what our dreams are.
  • Identify what our goals are.
To support your child at home you could:
  • Discuss what goals you have.
  • Discuss what dreams you have.

RE - Islam  

This half term we will be:
  • Learning about commitment.
  • Discussing why Muslims pray 5 times a day.
  • Discussing how the above can help us in our daily lives.

Suggested activities to support learning

To support your child at home you could:
  • Visit a mosque.
  • Discuss what commitments you have.


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