Year 2

Welcome To The Spring Term!

I would like to wish all of the parents and children of Year 2 a very Happy New Year. I hope that you all had a lovely Christmas holiday and are ready for an exciting and busy term ahead.

 

As always, our RE topics will be at the heart of our learning this term:

Books

We will learn about the books that are special to us and find out more about the Bible and it’s stories

Thanksgiving

We will explore the different ways in which we say thank you. We will also learn about how our parish thanks God for Jesus and why the Eucharist is important to us.

Opportunities

We will learn that Lent is a time for us to take the opportunity to do good as we prepare ourselves for Easter.

 

 

‘I Am Who I Am’ continues to be our whole school theme this term. Our class theme is ‘Choose Courage Over Fear: How will you let your spirit shine this term?’  We will encourage the children to dream, dare, ask, achieve, believe, be adventurous, take risks, be curious and creative.

Year 2’ imaginations will run wild as we learn about The Great Fire of London and the chain of events that led to the disaster.

During history lessons we will find out who Samuel Pepys was and how people lived in 1666. We will become detectives as we investigate historical sources in order to answer our questions.

In geography we will compare hot and cold places around the world. We will use atlases to identify where in the world these places are and compare them.

Our art skills will be developed as we learn about the artist Sakiri Douglas Camp. We will find out how her strong beliefs inspired her to create a range of sculptures. We will experiment with wire to create our own sculptures linked to the Great Fire of London.

We will take part in weekly PE lessons where we will learn a range of ball skills and athletics. All PE lessons will be outside so outdoor kits are essential.

In D&T we will learn about axels and create our own water carts. We will take inspiration from the water carts used to put out the Great Fire of London. We will adapt and improve this design.

Our English lessons will be full of exciting opportunities as we  explore the diary of Samuel Peyps. We will also be inspired by Alice in Wonderland and eco issues through our work on ‘Michael Recycle.’

During weekly computing sessions, we will learn how to stay safe online and begin to develop our word processing and typing skills.

Maths lessons will be packed full of daily problem solving and reasoning challenges linked to shape, multiplication, money, length and height, capacity and temperature.

Our science lessons will focus on humans including animals. We will find out about healthy diets, identify and classify animals and observe how they behave. We will develop this learning during a visit to Twycross Zoo.

This term is going to be packed full of adventures and lots of exciting opportunities and learning. We cant wait to get started!

Ways To Help At Home!

Homework: Spellings will be sent home each week and will be tested on Thursday. There will now be 2 spelling lists to choose from. The orange list will be words that may need revisiting and the green list will be more challenging spellings. The children may choose which list they learn for their spelling test.

Handwriting: The children will continue to take home a handwriting book. Please encourage them to form all letters correctly with a pencil. New letters will be given each Thursday.

Reading: All children will continue to use a reading record, phonetically decodable book and library book. Please listen to your child read their decodable book for at least 10 minutes everyday and write a comment in the reading record.

Children should bring in their reading books everyday. We have weekly whole class guided reading sessions and volunteers who listen to the children read.

Uniform: Please ensure all your children’s clothes are labelled with their name. This helps us to reunite clothes with the correct child!

Key Dates

Year 2 Assembly: 26th January 9:05am

KS2 Talent Show: 7th February 2pm

FS/KS1 Talent Show: 8th February 9:30am

Half Term: 12th February – 16th February

Twycross Zoo: 12th March

Parent Consultations: 19th March/20th March

Last Day of Term: 28th March