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year-2

 

 Autumn Term

We hope that this outline of the work that your child will be doing this half term will be useful to you, enabling you to talk about the areas being studied and perhaps providing a focus for choosing library books and family visits.

  • English

    This term in English we will be linking our content to our topic ”My Place Your Place’. During this topic your child will be working on some of the following: spelling common words and vowel sounds; using capital letters; full stops, lower case and upper case letters, proper nouns and common nouns, exclamation marks and question marks; structuring information texts, reading stories by the same author; answering questions about texts and describing places.

     

  • Maths

    Your child will be working on some of the following: counting on and back in ones, twos, fives and tens, ordering numbers; addition; subtraction; doubles; multiplication facts and division facts; number bonds to 20 and 100 and understanding the value of a number and its worth.

  • Science

    Children will be learning about and thinking about forces and movement, pushes and pulls as well as suitable materials. We will also be learning about animals including humans.

     

  • Computing

    This term the children will be expected to put their Computing skills into practice. They will be learning how to log on, log off, close, open and use word documents for writing, use different fonts, colours and sizes and most importantly the children will be learning about internet safety.

     

  • RE

    Sikhism – to learn how Sikh people worship and celebrate. To realise that people can believe in different things.   

  • PSHE

    Children will be thinking and talking about a new term and new year, changes, differences and similarities.

  • Topic - My Place, Your Place

    This term your child will be investigating the local area, comparing and contrasting two different local areas and their uses. They will be researching about Sir Frank Whittle, the history of planes and the lives of other people from the past. Your child will be learning about Remembrance Day and its significance.

  • Homework

    Children will have their Learning Log to complete on a weekly basis. This Log will be sent home on a Friday and will need to be handed in on a Thursday the following week. We also use the Learning Log as a form of communication and will often put in websites, additional information and reminders about trips.

    In Year 2 the children also have home readers. We expect the children to read at home daily and change their books at least twice a week. The children are encouraged to update their reading records independently (we will teach them how to do this). If you feel you child has read a satisfactory number of books on a given stage and is reading them with ease and understanding, please speak to the class teacher / LSA about your interest in moving them up a stage. Staff will regularly listen to home readers at the start and end of a half term as there is a greater emphasis in Year 2 on weekly Guided Reading and comprehension.

 Spring Term

We hope that this outline of the work that your child will be doing this half term will be useful to you, enabling you to talk about the areas being studied and perhaps providing a focus for choosing library books and family visits.

  • English

    This term in English we will be linking our content to our topic ”Change for the Better”. During this topic your child will be working on some of the following: spelling common words and vowel sounds; using capital letters; full stops, exclamation marks and question marks; structuring non chronological reports, writing riddles and re-telling stories by significant authors, answering questions about texts; describing places and taking part in drama activities.

    We will also be paying particular attention to:

    Non – chronological reports – Great Fire of London

    Traditional stories- links with fire

    Explanations

    Instructional text

    Riddles 

  • Maths

    Your child will be working on some of the following: addition; subtraction; doubles as well as multiplication facts and division facts; number bonds to 20 and 100; recognising coins and totals of money; learning units of time and length; finding halves of shapes and numbers; finding fractions of shapes and quantities; sorting data into lists and tables and naming and describing 2D and 3D shapes, recognising lines of symmetry, estimating and measuring lengths, weights and volumes.   

  • Science

    Children will be learning about materials as well as Plants and Animals.  

  • ICT

    This term the children will be expected to put their ICT skills into practice. They will be expected to navigate around specific web pages, research and find detailed information about our topic. Use the Beebot programme on the iPads and the Beebot rover to navigate their way through the streets of London. We will also be researching the Great Fire of London and designing simple web pages about the Great Fire of London. To complete this the children will be able to practise using hardware such as laptops and ipads as well as software in Magic Grandad, Google and Microsoft Word. 

  • RE

    The Easter story and other Christian stories. 

  • PSHE

    Children will be thinking and talking about a new term, a new year and promises. They will be encouraged to go for goals and understand the concept of good to be me. 

  • Topic - Change for the better

    This term your child will be finding out about the Great Fire of London, focusing on Pudding Lane and how London changed for the better in the years preceding the Great Fire of London. Alongside describing the significant individual Samuel Pepys who kept a diary at the time. The children will be researching about the Great Fire, as well as making Tudor houses with winding mechanisms. They will apply their knowledge of winding mechanisms, suggesting improvements and exploring how current products have been created with winding mechanism. Your child will also be learning how artists portrayed the Great Fire of London and will create their own fire inspired artwork.

  • Homework

    Children will have their Learning Log to complete on a weekly basis alongside home readers, Spelling Logs and activities within their diaries.