Welcome to Year 2 

The Team

Mr Rowlands
Class teacher
Larch Class
Miss Woodward
​Class Teacher
Beech Class
Mrs Clarke
Class LSA 
​Year 2 

Resources

Key Dates

  • Fire of London Day – Wednesday 11th September 2019
  • Parents evening - Monday 14th and Wednesday 16th October 
  • Spooky Disco - 24th October
  • Home Learning due on Monday 14th October
  • Home Learning Celebration Assembly on Tuesday 22nd October @ 9:00am (winners will be notified no later than Wednesday 16th October 2019)

This Half Term

 Project - The Great Fire of London

This half term we will be learning to:
  • Learn about when the the Great fire took place.
  • Investigate why the fire spread so fast.
  • Compare modern London and London from 1666.
  • Make comparisons with other disasters from around the world.

Suggested Activities to Support Learning

To support your child at home you could:
  • Research the location of the bakery in Pudding Lane on maps from then and now. 
  • Visit the Museum of London (EC2Y 5HN: free) and look at artifacts from the period. 
  • Write diary entries/letters based on your trip. 
  • Can't make it to London? Visit the virtual museum here 

Writing

This half term we will be learning to:
  • Write a recount and use past tense accurately and consistently. 
  • Use questions in a formal letter.
  • Write a description of London from 1666
  • Using capital letters, full stops, question marks and exclamation marks with accuracy. 
  • Use homophones correctly.

Suggested Activities to Support Learning

To support your child at home you could:
  • Think about a place you have visited and write facts about where you went.
  • Look at shopping lists, how do we use commas to separate the items?
  • Use fact books/internet to create your own fact files about London.
  • Read daily at home!
  • Learn your weekly spelling rule. 

Maths

This half term we will be learning to:
  • Understand place value in different ways.
  • Use the four operations to solve multi-step problems. 
  • Order numbers from smallest to biggest
  • Find half of whole numbers
  • Count in groups of 2 and 10 from a given number (i.e. add 10 to 21)

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. 
  • Measure your height and weight! 
  • Learn the 2, 5 and 10 times tables. 

RE & PSHE

Picture
This half term we are focusing on our topic: 'Being Me in My World'. This will involve:
  • Understanding what makes each of us special and unique. 
  • Learning about what makes a 'community'
  • Learning that everybody has a right to learn.
  • Learning about the idea of charity and helping others in Christianity and Islam.

Suggested Activities to Support Learning

  • Think about ways we help others in school and at home.
  • Discuss what 'community' means to you. 

Computing

Suggested Activities to Support Learning
This half term we will be learning to:
  • Use Purple Mash to write simple repetitive codes
  • Learn and use teh terms 'command', 'repeat' and 'input'.
  • Assess our own and others' work.
To support your child at home you could:
  • ​Write a set of instructions to guide a friend or family member around the house or other area (e.g. park) 
  • Talk about how the internet can be fun and used for good but must be treated with respect to avoid problems and remain safe. 

Science

This half term we will be learning to:
  • Identify what materials make everyday objects and why they are used.
  • Sort objects into man-made and natural.
  • Sort materials according to their properties (e.g. rough, smooth, transparent, solid etc.)

Suggested Activities to Support Learning

​To support your child at home you could:
  • Visit the MK Museum and ;look at how objects from now and compare these to objects from many years ago. 
  • Explore the local area and identify materials that make modern buildings and older ones. Can you find a building with a thatched roof?
  • Follow the history trails (see Historic England) in Stony Stratford or Newport Pagnell. Look at how materials are used in construction of buildings, bridges and churches. 

Art and Design

This half term we will be learning to:
  • Drawing using a range of different mediums and materials.
  • Comparing charcoal and pastels and using them together to create a larger picture of the Great Fire.  
To support your child at home you could:
  • Create sketches of plants, objects and other items from around the house. Repeat the task but use a different pencil thickness or colour. 
  • Visit the MK Gallery and study some of the art on display - how has the picture been made?

Suggested Activities to Support Learning

Music

This half term we will be learning to:
  • Listen and repeat short verses of percussive music. 
  • Create our own rhythms
  • Record our music using pictures and simple notation
  • Perform our music to a wider audience.

Suggested Activities to Support Learning

To support your child at home you could:
  • Listen to different pieces of music and see if you can hear any instruments in the music. 
  • Use basic instruments or objects at home to create your own music. 

PE

This half term we will be learning to:
  • Dance- React to a stimulus (picture, sound, music) and create a dance inspired by the Great Fire.
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 dancing in time to a piece of music and explore