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

Monday 7th January- School opens 
Tuesday 8th January- Trip to Stonepit Field
Tuesday 29th January (3.30 and 5.30)- PSHE Curriculum Talk 
Friday 15th February- Home learning assembly 
Friday 15th February- School closes for half term 

This Half Term

Project

This half term we will be learning to:
  • Identify different types of dinosaur and what made them different.
  • Recognise herbivores and carnivores and which dinosaurs lived in different time periods.  
  • Understand why the dinosaurs became extinct. 

Suggested Activities to Support Learning

To support your child at home you could:
  • Research different dinosaurs to understand when they lived. 
  • Look at images of dinosaurs and compare them. Why do some dinosaurs have long necks and others have sharp teeth?
  • Think about what would have happened if the dinosaurs had not become extinct.
  • Look at different animals and discuss whether they are herbivores or carnivores. How do we know?

Writing

This half term we will be learning to:
  • Use conjunctions, specifically subordination, to write information texts. 
  • Sequence the story 'Stone Girl Bone Girl' and recount it using text maps. 
  • Write  descriptions using expanded noun phrases. 
  • Consolidate learning about use of KS1 punctuation. 

Suggested Activities to Support Learning

To support your child at home you could:
  • Look at non- fiction information texts together and discuss facts.
  • Read information texts and gather information to make your own fact files.
  • Create posters about dinosaurs using diagrams and labels.  

Maths

This half term we will be learning to:
  • Recall multiplication and division facts for 2,5 and 10 and use them to solve simple problems.
  • Name and describe properties of 2D and 3D shapes, including number of sides, vertices, edges, faces and lines of symmetry.
  • Read scales in divisions of ones, twos, fives and tens.  

Suggested Activities to Support Learning

To support your child at home you could:
  • Let children handle money and discuss real life shapes.
  • Encourage children to look at real life arrays e.g. egg boxes and chocolate packaging.
  • Look at real life tables with data in with your children and ask them questions regarding it. 

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 the difference between dreams and goals.
  • ​Understand how to be successful in achieving goals.  
  • Understand how to set achievable goals.

Suggested Activities to Support Learning

  • Discuss what dreams and goals your child has.
  • Look at different life journeys people have been on.
  • Set some daily goals with your child. 

Computing

Suggested Activities to Support Learning
This half term we will be learning to:
  • Use pictograms to answer simple questions.
  • Use yes/no questions to separate information.
  • Construct binary trees.
To support your child at home you could:
  • Explore the purple mash website together. 
  • Look at graphs and represent data, eg. how many cars have we passed, using pictograms.
  • Discuss simple questions that can be used to separate information. 

Science

This half term we will be learning to:
  • Explore and compare the differences between things that are living, dead, and things that have never been alive.
  • Identify and name a variety of plants and animals in their habitats, including micro-habitats. 

Suggested Activities to Support Learning

To support your child at home you could:

Art and Design

This half term we will be learning to:
  • Create dinosaur figures using pottery.
  • Accurately paint our pottery. 

Suggested Activities to Support Learning

To support your child at home you could:
  • Discuss clay and what it is used for. 
  • Practise making models using play doh. 

Music

This half term we will be learning to:
  • We will be learning how to make particular notes with the recorders.
  • Play along to simple tunes with the recorders.
  • Follow a rhythm with the recorders. 

Suggested Activities to Support Learning

To support your child at home you could:
  • Look at different videos of people playing the recorder.
  • Discuss different notes and rhythms with the children. 

PE

This half term we will be learning to:
  • Basketball- Using co-ordination to catch and throw the ball and move into space. 
  • Gymnastics – Co-ordinate routines and develop our own range of movements. 
 

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 creating different shapes with your bodies. 
  • Practise throwing and catching.