Welcome to Year 2 

The Team

Mr Shipton
Class teacher
Larch Class
Miss Scoggins
​Class Teacher
Beech Class
Miss Mundy
Student Teacher 
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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 12th April Home Learning Launched
  • Week beginning 10th May Parent Video Introduction to Accelerated Reader
  • Week beginning 17th May Reading Parent Evening Slots
  • Monday 17th May Home Learning Deadline

This Half Term

 Project - Explorers 

This half term we will be:
  • Locating continents and oceans using maps.
  • Identifying similarities and differences between Europe and Africa.
  • Comparing Great Linford to Maasai tribe in Kenya.
  • Discussing how geography impacts people's lives in Europe and Africa.

Suggested Activities to Support Learning

To support your child at home you could:
  • Research different explorers. 
  • Using a map, explore a location in Milton Keynes where have never been before. 
  • Write a letter to the Maasai tribe asking questions about where they live. 

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Writing

This half term we will be learning to:
  • Write our own problem solving stories. 
  • Write a biography about a famous explorer. 
  • Use inverted commas when writing speech. 
  • Use a variety of sentence types. 

Suggested Activities to Support Learning

To support your child at home you could:
  • Write a diary based on personal experiences. 
  • ​Write a biography about a family member. 
  • Read daily at home!
  • Learn your weekly spelling rule. 

Maths

This half term we will be learning to:
  • Find and recognise thirds. 
  • Understand what a unit and non unit fraction is.
  • Find three quarters.
  • Count in fractions. 
  • Compare lengths and heights. 
  • Measure lengths. 

Suggested Activities to Support Learning

To support your child at home you could:
  • Use cooking to explore different fractions such as pizza fractions. 
  • Practice measuring different objects around the home. 
  • Continue to practice number bonds to 10, 20 and 100. 
  • Log on Times Table Rockstars and numbots .

Computing

Suggested Activities to Support Learning

To support your child at home you could:
  • Explore what technology is used around the home. 
  • Create an online safety poster. 
  • Design your own piece of technology that would improve your life. 
This half term we will be learning to:
  • Understand how technology is used at school and in the community.
  • Explore how technology improves our world. 
  • Understand how to use technology responsibly.  

Science - Squash, Bend, Twist and Stretch

This half term we will be:
  • Exploring how we can change the shape of some materials by squashing, bending, twisting and stretching. 
  • Carrying out our own investigations and examining the results. 

Suggested Activities to Support Learning

​To support your child at home you could:​
  • Explore different materials you have at home. 
  • Sort objects you have at home into different categories. 
  • Try out your own experiment about how objects can be squashed, bent, twisted and stretched. 

Art and Design

This half term we will be learning to:
  • Sketch using a variety of art mediums. 
  • Use observational skills to create still life drawings. 
  • Use tone and shading to add detail to sketches. 
  • Recreate and design patterns from around the world. 

Suggested Activities to Support Learning

To support your child at home you could:
  • Design a mode of transport for an explorer to use. 
  • Create your own pattern using primary colours. 
  • Go on a walk and sketch the different things you see. 

Music

This half term we will be learning to:
  • Create a composition based on percussion instruments. 
  • Listen and discuss music from around the world. 
  • Create a pattern using a percussion instrument that can be repeated.  

Suggested Activities to Support Learning

To support your child at home you could:
  • Listen to a pieces of music from around the world, particularly from Africa and Europe. 
  • Create your own percussion instruments. 

PE

This half term we will be learning to:
  • Dance (Indoor PE) -  Magical Friendships
  • Multi-skills (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:
  • Check out BBC Super movers. Can you learn one of the dances? 
  • Discuss the importance of healthy eating. 
  • Try a new sport. 

 PSHE - Relationships 

Suggested Activities to Support Learning
This half term we will be learning to:
  • Identify what makes a happy family. 
  • Understand how to solve friendship problems. 
  • Identify worry secrets and how to get help. 
  • Identify who we trust and why. 
To support your child at home you could:
  • Create a family portrait. 
  • Design your own comic showing how to solve friendship problems. 

RE - Islam  

This half term we will be:
  • Learning about how it feels to belong to a community. 
  • Learning about prayer and it's importance to the Islamic faith. 
  • Understanding the importance of Mosques in the Islamic faith. 

Suggested activities to support learning

To support your child at home you could:
  • Visit a mosque.
  • Discuss how you feel in your community.