Year 2

Welcome to Year 2

Miss Moran and Miss Stewart welcome you to our class page. We’re excited to inform what the class will be learning this half term, as well as showing you all the fun they are having on their learning journey. 

Spellings

Spellings are given out weekly and tested every Monday. Please ensure spelling booklets are in every Monday. It is important to practice spelling regularly at home with your child.

Reading

Please ensure that you listen to your child read at least 3 times a week and record it in their diary. Children who read 3 times a week will receive a gold star. 

Homework

Homework and times tables is handed out every Friday and collected back in on the following Thursday. Please ensure that only one page in each booklet is completed every week.

Water bottles 
Please ensure that your child has access to a water bottle in school throughout the day.

Clothing

Please check that all your child’s belongings have been labelled with their names. We are encouraging more responsibility and independence this term so this will help your child greatly. 

PE 

PE lessons are on a Monday and Tuesday. Please ensure that children have their full PE kit (white T-shirt, black/blue shorts and pumps) in on those days and that it is labelled with their names.

This term's value is faith- filled and hopeful

We are growing to be faith-filled in our beliefs and hopeful for our future. 

Many thanks
Miss Moran

Spring 2 

In RE our units this half term are Lent and Holy week. Throughout Lent, we will expand our knowledge of this season and discuss about the importance of forgiveness. Then we will learn the events of Holy Week. 

Our topic this half term is Towers, Tunnels and Turrets. 

See the castle ahead? Get ready to invade it’s mighty walls. Shoot a projectile with an archer’s aim! Head across the drawbridge, over the moat and up to the top of the tower…

Discover the mystical land of knights, princesses and dragons and be inspired by the fairy tale land around you.

Throughout this term, we will learn the parts of castles, discover their place in History and where we can find them today. 

Autumn term 1

This half term, we’ll find out how to look after plants, ask the experts questions and appreciate the flowers. We’ll write an information report about plants, follow instructions, enjoy the story of Jack and the Beanstalk and write stories of our own. We’ll also learn about the different parts of a plant and create our own ‘planting and growing’ action rhyme. Our senses will help us describe and sort a range of smells as we explore the herbs found in everyday life.  We’ll look closely at a wide variety of plants to create detailed, observational drawings.
At the end of our project, we will have become plant experts! We’ll create a presentation about plants, share the reports that we have made and design our own garden.
 

In RE, we are examining the Bible in closer detail as our first unit is the OLD TESTAMENT. Through our lessons and reading of the Bible, the children will learn the stories of Noah’s Ark, Jonah and the Whale and Daniel in the Lion’s den. They will understand that these stories show of God’s love and care for us all.