Year 2

Book Bag:

All children require a book bag in which to store and transport reading books, spelling books, home-school liaison books and letters. 

Water bottle:

A clear, medium-sized water bottle with a sports-flip lid.

(in order to avoid spillage, please do not carry water bottles inside book bags)

Fruit & Snack:

ALL children in Year 2 continue to be provided with one piece of fruit per day.

However, children are invited to bring a healthy snack (clearly named) for their morning play time snack.

PE Days:

Indoor PE : Tuesdays

Outdoor Games: Friday 

PE Kit :  Black shorts & white T-shirt, trainers or plimsolls.

No need for a tracksuit as we still get outside in Winter with coats on.  

Children can come to school inPE kit on the days that they have PE.                     

Please make sure ALL PE kit and Uniform is clearly NAMED

Reading:

Children in Year 2 will read with and adult at least once every week and will be given a 'reading day'. However, all children will also be involved in 'guided or group' reading activities throughout each week.

Please find time to read and discuss your books at least 4 or 5 times each week.  

Spelling:

In Year 2 most children have 8 individual spelling to learn each week. These will be given out on a Thursday and tested the following Thursday. Children are expected to correctly use their newly-learnt spellings in their writing.

Please find time to practise your spellings at least 4 or five times each week.

Curriculum- Yearly overview of topics

Topics Covered Throughout the Year

Autumn Term: Sailing the Seven seas!

Spring Term: Near, Far, Wherever you are.

Summer Term: Here, There and Everywhere!

Termly overview

English- We will be writing stories linked toour Healthy me topic.

We will writeinstructions for cleaning our teeth, read ‘Daddy’s sandwich’ and make up ourown story called ‘Mummy’s sandwich’ . We will read and role play The DisgustingSandwich and describe characters and scenes from the story.

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Maths- We will finish our learning on theunit of shape and space- thinking about moving shapes in different turns anddirections. We will recognise, find, name and write fractions 1/3, ¼, 2/4 and ¾of a length, shape, set of objects or quantity and write simple fractions. Wewill go on to measuring length, weight and capacity and begin to tell the timeto the nearest 5 minutes.

Science – We will be looking at changes frombaby to adulthood and think about what we can do at these different stages. Wewill think about how we can keep our bodies healthy and strong by the food weeat and the exercise we do. We will learn about the different food types andtheir roles in our bodies.

Computing – We will look at how to present datain different ways, carrying on from our maths statistics unit. We will recorddata and put it in different types of graphs and charts.

Art – We will start to look at weaving

DT – We will be asking the children todesign and make and ‘egg-mobile’ that can carry an egg for Easter and test themout to see if the egg is safe.

PE – We will continue to work on ourgymnastic skills through bending and stretching linked in with rotating andbalancing through floorwork and apparatus and learn to skip for our sponsoredevent at the end of term!!

RE will focus on looking at Moses andJesus’ healing stories – Jairus’ daughter and his calling of disciples. We willlook at the importance of the Easter story.

Geography – In Geography, we will be comparingcontrasting localities between Plymouth and Kenya- looking at the human andphysical geography, understand geographical similarities and differences andcompare land use, animals and features.

PSHE – We continue to look into Being Healthyby having a healthy diet and by being physically active. We look at how to keepourselves safe and how to be a good friend and to enjoy healthy friendships.

We will then continue tothink about how to keep calm and deal with difficult situations