Welcome to Year 2 

The Team

Miss Green
Class teacher
Beech Class
Miss Parish
​Class Teacher
​Larch Class
Miss Vaughan 
Class LSA 
​Year 2 

Resources

Key Dates

Tuesday 23rd April- School opens 
Friday 24th May- School closes 
Fri​day 28th June - Summer Fete 
​WB 6th May and 20th May - KS1 SATs
Monday 13th May - Home Learning due in
Thursday 20th May - Home Learning assembly
Wednesday 19th June - KS1 Sports Day 
Wednesday 17th July - Reports go out to parents 

This Half Term

Project

This half term we will be learning to:
  • Identify what an explorer is and what an explorer does.
  • Understand trade routes and how they would have been used in the past.
  • Research explorers such as Tim Peake and Frances Drake. 

Suggested Activities to Support Learning

To support your child at home you could:
  • Research explorers and discoveries that different explorers have made.
  • Think of your own exploration trip- go to a new place that you have not been to before. 
  • How did it feel? How could you record your trip?
  • Write diary entries/letters based on your trip. 

Writing

This half term we will be learning to:
  • Write a recount and use past tense accurately and consistently. 
  • Use commas in a list. 
  • Write information texts based on different parts of earth. 
  • Consolidate learning about use of KS1 punctuation. 

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/television programmes to create your own fact files about different animals or places. 
  • Read daily at home!

Maths

This half term we will be learning to:
  • Use different means to measure in different ways. 
  • Measure the length and mass of different items. 
  • Read the time to the nearest 15 minutes. 
  • Recapping and consolidating four operations and fractions. 

Suggested Activities to Support Learning

To support your child at home you could:
  • Look at different items and guess their length and mass and then use rulers and scales to measure them. 
  • Measure your height and weight! 
  • Practise telling the time using clocks at home. 

RE & PSHE

Picture
This half term we are focusing on dreams and goals. We will be following our new mindful PSHE scheme Jigsaw! The children will be learning to:
  • Understand how conflict can occur in a group situation and what to do about it. 
  • Identify how to use positive problem solving techniques. 
  • Practise working as a group. 

Suggested Activities to Support Learning

  • Think about your family and about things that cause conflict at home- discuss how everyone is different and family issues can be resolved positively. 
  • Create a poster based on how to solve problems in a postive way. 

Computing

Suggested Activities to Support Learning
This half term we will be learning to:
  • Use 2sequence to make different sounds. 
  • Change the volume of background sounds.
  • Upload my own recorded sounds. 
To support your child at home you could:
  • ​Use objects to make different sounds.
  • Use technology, a tablet/phone to make different sounds.
  • Explore video apps and how we can use these to create/change sound. 

Science

This half term we will be learning to:
  • Identify the similarities/difference between bulbs and seeds. 
  • Understanding the difference between evergreen and deciduous trees. 
  • Observe changes over time. 

Suggested Activities to Support Learning

To support your child at home you could:
  • Look at seeds/bulbs yourself and perhaps grow some of your own plants. 
  • Discuss what plants need to grow successfully. 
  • Look at trees/plants outside at this time of year. What do you notice has changed since Christmas? Why is this?

Art and Design

This half term we will be learning to:
  • Assess different materials and how these can be used to create structures.
  • Decide upon a relevant material and use it to design and make our own boat. 

Suggested Activities to Support Learning

To support your child at home you could:
  • Look at images of boats- what are they made of?
  • Create plans for a boat, thinking about what it needs to be successful and float well.
  • Design your own boat at home as a family!

Music

This half term we will be learning to:
  • Experiment with different instruments and understand the sounds that they make.
  • Use different instruments to make our own musical compositions. 
  • Work as a group to link our music to our text, The Snail and the Whale. 

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:
  • Athletics- Mastering basic movements including running, jumping, throwing and catching. 
  • Participate in a range of increasingly challenging game situation.
 

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 throwing and catching.