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 Miss Jackson (Monday and Tuesday) and Miss White (Wednesday, Thursday and Friday), with additional support from Mrs Pullan. 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 both of us at anna.white@adel-st-john.leeds.sch.uk or emma.jackson@adel-st-john.leeds.sch.uk and we will reply as soon as we can.
Thanks for your continued support.
Kind regards,
Miss White and Miss Jackson
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 Summer 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.
Cursive Letter Joins - Animations and Worksheets Letter version 2
PE: PE this half term is Fundamentals on Tuesday and Team Building on Friday. 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
Learning about Jewish people
Peter Dalrymple (PDalrymple) on: Year 2 Class Blog
This week we have started our learning about Jewish people with a hands on session looking at a variety of items that might be special to a Jewish person. We looked and handled the objects first discussing what we thought they were. Then we found out their names and uses and thought about what the objects could teach us about Jewish people.
Drawing architecture
Peter Dalrymple (PDalrymple) on: Year 2 Class Blog
We have started our new art unit for the term this week by looking at a variety of buildings to learn about architecture. We looked at old and new buildings from all over the world and used our observational drawing skills to sketch them. Then we did a single line drawing of an imaginary street with lots of different buildings. It was tricky to not take the pencil off the page!
Merry Christmas!
Peter Dalrymple (PDalrymple) on: Year 2 Class Blog
We would like to thank you very much for your generous Christmas presents. They are very much appreciated. We would like to wish you all a very merry Christmas and the best of wishes for 2026!
Year 2 staff
Busy week!
Peter Dalrymple (PDalrymple) on: Year 2 Class Blog
What a busy and enjoyable week we’ve had in Year 2!
We started with our performances of the Easy, Peasy Nativity which were fantastic. All of the children remembered their lines, the song words and when to come on and off the stage. We hope you enjoyed it if you were able to attend one of the performances.
And we have ended the week with French Day! The children have worked hard this week (alongside everything else!) to learn the words to ‘Je te souhaite in joyeux Noël’ which they sang with Year 1 for the rest of the school; we enjoyed a petit dejeuner in the hall this morning and have learnt some other phrases linked to Christmas along with French Christmas traditions. It has been a very enjoyable end to the week.
Gymnastics!
Peter Dalrymple (PDalrymple) on: Year 2 Class Blog
Year 2 have been practising their gymnastics skills this afternoon by creating different poses. They then had to duplicate the pose with their partner.
Year 2 Class Blog
End of Spring Term!
Peter Dalrymple (PDalrymple) on: Year 2 Class Blog
What a wonderful Spring Term we have had in Year 2! There has been so much learning and memorable moments this half term. It has been great to see the children learning and changing - they’re nearly ready for that jump into key stage 2.
We have been finishing lots of learning this week, including our science where we were looking at the importance of basic hygiene. We read about why and how we need to stay clean; read some instructions about the proper way to wash our hands and then all washed our hands to demonstrate.
A wonderful week!
Peter Dalrymple (PDalrymple) on: Year 2 Class Blog
We’ve had a wonderful week in Year 2!
Firstly, thank you to all the parents and carers who attended our celebration event on Tuesday. We were too busy having fun to take any pictures but it was wonderful to see so many of you children loved sharing their learning!
Yesterday, we had our trip to Nell Bank. The weather was perfect and the children impressed the leaders at the centre with their science knowledge. We did several activities to link in with our learning about animals and ended the day with pond dipping.
ASJ’s Got Talent!
Peter Dalrymple (PDalrymple) on: Year 2 Class Blog
What a fantastic afternoon celebrating the brilliant talents of our ASJ family! We were joined by ‘Ant and Dec’ who hosted the talent show. We watched some great talents including juggling, dancing and piano playing! Well done to everyone involved, it was such a fun end to the week!
Character description
Peter Dalrymple (PDalrymple) on: Year 2 Class Blog
In our English lessons this week, we have been writing a character description about Peter Rabbit. We started with an experience lesson where we watched an episode of the TV series; tried some of Peter’s favourite vegetables and drew a picture with adjectives to describe Peter around the outside.
World Book Day!
Peter Dalrymple (PDalrymple) on: Year 2 Class Blog
Year 2 had a lovely day celebrating World Book Day this week. Their costumes were fantastic and it was great hearing about why each child chose the character they did. Then we spent the day enjoying lots of different books. We had a reading buddy session with Year 4, drew a new cover for our favourite book and read a book called ‘I’m Sorry’ and made links with our Christian Value for this half term which is forgiveness.
