Year 2

What’s going on in Year 2?

Introduction to Year 2

Welcome to Year 2. There are 2 classes: 2M and 2W. The teachers are: Miss McIntosh and Miss Wilkes.

In the Autumn Term we will be learning about:

The Great Fire of London and Great Britain (history, geography and English)

Place value, addition and subtraction, money and multiplication and division (maths)

Animals including humans (science)

Online Safety (PSHE)

Islam and Christianity (RE)

In the Spring Term we will be learning about:

Ghana and Antarctica (history, geography and English)

Materials (science)

P​roperties of Shape, and Fractions, Multiplication, Division and Statistics. (Maths)

Being responsible/feelings and emotions (PSHE)

Right and wrong  and Christianity – The Life and Teachings of Jesus (RE)

In the Summer Term we will be learning about:

Mary Seacole and Florence Nightingale and The Seaside (history and geography)

Twisted Fairy Tales (English)

Length, Height, Position and Direction, Consolidation and Problem Solving.

Time, Mass, Capacity, Temperature and Consolidation. (maths)

Animals and their habitats and plants (science)

Relationships and our world (PSHE)

A secular world view – Humanism​ and the natural world (RE)

The books/texts we will be using in our English this year are:

Vlad and the Great Fire of London, Ice Trap!, The Wolf’s Story, Little Red, Lighthouse Keeper’s Lunch, various non-fiction texts

Our expectations of home-learning are:

• Spellings sent home every Friday (for a test the following Friday)
• Mathletics set every Friday (relating to our learning in class)
• Extra learning opportunities are available on the year group Padlet
• Please read with your child (and/or you read to them) every day
• Any other relevant information: We have PE and music on a Monday (children can wear a PE kit to school on that day), and every Friday afternoon we have a KS1 Celebration Assembly where we celebrate our achievements and find out who our new Stars of the Week are!