Year 2

Staff

Mrs Woodman (Monday-Wednesday)

Mrs Hatfield (Thursday-Friday)

Teaching Assistants:

Mrs Patel, Miss Clapham, Mrs White, Mrs Lim

Our topic this half term is:

Let’s Celebrate

Our topic for Autumn Term 2 will be ‘Let’s Celebrate’. We will be learning about the story of the gunpowder plot and why we celebrate bonfire night, thinking about Remembrance Day and Christmas.

Weekly Spellings

Here are the spelling lists for Year 2. There will be weekly tests on a Friday:

Children should also be able to read and write the Common Exception Words by the end of Year 2. Please find a full list of these here:

Termly Letters

English

We will be learning the story of Guy Fawkes and the Gunpowder Plot before beginning a unit of work on poetry. The children will be writing Remembrance poems before starting winter themed senses poems. We will then be using Winter’s Child as a stimulus for our writing activities before watching and using Sprout Boy.

Science

This half term the children will be finishing off our Materials topic by testing materials to find out whether they are waterproof.  We will then move onto our new topic of Animals, including Humans. The children will be matching animals to their young and thinking about how animals change as they grow, including the different stages of human growth and what humans and animals need for survival.

 
 

This half term PE will take place on a Monday afternoon and a Thursday morning. Please send your children in wearing their PE kits on these days.

There will be no Forest School this half term.

Maths Games

Topmarks is a website with lots of good games children can play to hep them with their maths. Hit the Button is a great one for times tables.

Hit the Button – Quick fire maths practise for 6-11 year olds (topmarks.co.uk)

Times Table Rock Stars is also up and running. All children will receive a username and log in.

The children have been enjoying learning to count in 3s using this song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H0uqrB01zus

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