Welcome to Year 2
Year 2 Curriculum Map
Welcome to Year 2!
Welcome to the Autumn term in Year 2! The children will be in class with me, Miss White, with additional support from Miss McNamara. Above is our Long Term Plan for the year with details about the Year 2 curriculum. Below are some brief details about elements of our learning this half term and some key information to help the half term run smoothly. There are also Knowledge Organisers for our science, RE, history and geography for your information. Please do keep an eye out for regular information about our class on our blog (details for which will be on the school newsletter, although if you’ve found this, you’re in the right place!) and any last minute information or changes on the school app. If you have any questions, please contact me at anna.white@adel-st-john.leeds.sch.uk and I will reply as soon as I can.
Thanks for your continued support.
Kind regards,
Miss White.
Reading: Children will continue to bring home books weekly and have 1:1 reading sessions in school. We will collect in returned books on a Monday and keep these until Tuesday when new books will be provided. Please aim to read these, and other books, with your child for 5 to 10 minutes each day. There is a yellow reading record that will come home with these books too, please indicate when a book has been read with a tick or initials and any comments if you feel necessary. Please return the reading record when books are returned. Reading in school will take place as part of our phonics sessions and children will also be heard 1:1 during the week.
Spellings: Spellings will be taught in class during our phonics lessons. There will be a weekly quiz of 5 words and a dictated sentence towards the end of each unit. These will all be taken from the review part of our phonics sessions and, as such, words will not be sent home to practice.
Below is a breakdown of the sounds and spelling patterns for the Autumn term.
Handwriting: Handwriting sessions will initially take place every day. We learn cursive handwriting in Year 2. Below is a link to example joins we will be learning.
Continuous Cursive Joins Letter version 3 - Animations and Worksheets (teachhandwriting.co.uk)
PE: In PE this half term we will doing Fundamental skills and Gymnastics. PE days are Tuesday (Fundamentals) and Friday (Gymnastics) and children should come to school wearing their PE kit – black jogging bottoms or shorts (if the weather is fit), white t-shirt, black jacket and trainers.
Things to remember:
- All children should bring a flask or bottle of water to school. Water only, please. This should be taken home and washed every day.
- Named pumps must be worn in school. Children should be able to tie laces quickly if they have lace-up pumps/outdoor shoes and pumps should be checked by a parent every half term to ensure they are in good condition to prevent trip hazards.
- Named, appropriate clothing for the weather should be brought every day – please ensure your child has a coat if rain is forecast or looks likely, especially as we head towards the winter.
- School Policy is that, other than for religious reasons, children should not wear jewellery in school apart from a watch. These need to be removed for PE lessons.
Science Knowledge Organiser
RE Knowledge Organiser
History Knowledge Organiser
Geography Knowledge Organiser
Year 2 Class Blog
Happy Half Term!
Peter Dalrymple (PDalrymple) on: Year 2 Class Blog
I have been so proud of Year 2 this half term. The way they have approached their learning and the tests we have had to do has been excellent. They have all brought home their seedling sunflower today. Please do your best to take care of these and grow them into giant sunflowers.
I would love to see photos of their progress, you can add these weekly to seesaw with how tall they measure too.
Here we are measuring them this week, they've all grown very well.
Georgia O'Keeffe Inspired Art
Peter Dalrymple (PDalrymple) on: Year 2 Class Blog
Year 2 have begun learning about the artist Georgia O'Keeffe. We started by learning about her life, her art style and how this changed over her career. We then used the iPads to take close-up photographs of flowers and drew these in our sketch pads.
Planting Sunflowers
Peter Dalrymple (PDalrymple) on: Year 2 Class Blog
This week, Year 2 have planted some sunflower seeds as part of our science learning about plants. We will be tending to them, observing them as they grow and measuring their progress over the coming weeks.
Coronation Celebrations
Peter Dalrymple (PDalrymple) on: Year 2 Class Blog
Year 2 have thoroughly enjoyed their day learning all about what will happen at King Charles III's coronation this weekend. They have made their own crowns, discussed and acted out some parts of the coronation service and created a collage of the King's head in red, white and blue.
Class Collective Worship on Compassion
Peter Dalrymple (PDalrymple) on: Year 2 Class Blog
Year 2 led a fantastic Collective Worship this week on our current value of compassion. They shared the meaning of the word compassion, read the story of the feeding of the 5000 and acted this out too. Then showed some artwork they had created to show how we could show compassion in our own lives. Their singing of the song 'I'm gonna be your friend' was excellent too.
Well done to everyone!
