Welcome to Year 2
Year 2 Curriculum Map
Welcome to Year 2!
Welcome to the Spring term in Year 2! The children will be in class with Miss White (Monday, Thursday and Friday) and Mrs Moleele (Tuesday and Wednesday), 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 one of us at anna.white@adel-st-john.leeds.sch.uk or kirsty.moleele@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 Mrs Moleele
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 Spring 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 either Dance on a Tuesday or Invasion Games on a 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
Habitats Trail
Peter Dalrymple (PDalrymple) on: Year 2 Class Blog
To round off our science learning from last half term, we have completed a habitat trail around the school grounds. We searched for things that were living, dead or never alive; micro habitats and dependent pairs.
Walk around Adel
Peter Dalrymple (PDalrymple) on: Year 2 Class Blog
This week, we have rounded off our local history topic with a walk around Adel. We looked at various different historical landmarks in our locality and linked in our geography understanding by identifying which were human and physical features. We will also be looking at some maps to find the route we took at a later date.
Online Safety Week
Peter Dalrymple (PDalrymple) on: Year 2 Class Blog
This week, we have been focusing on keeping ourselves safe online. We have done lessons about different types of rules; rules that keep us safe and rules that keep us happy and healthy; and thought about when rules might have to change.
Here we are doing some role plays about situations that might mean rules have to change.
Volleyball in PE
Peter Dalrymple (PDalrymple) on: Year 2 Class Blog
It’s been another busy week in Year 2! This week, we enjoyed playing volleyball and practising our throwing and catching skills in PE. We were focusing on competing against ourselves and trying hard to improve our technique to get batter and be more accurate.
Science and Art
Peter Dalrymple (PDalrymple) on: Year 2 Class Blog
In Science, this week, we have been continuing our learning about habitats by looking at micro habitats. We had a scavenger hunt in the classroom to identify which mini beasts lived in each micro habitat.
In Art, this week, we have been exploring our use of colour and texture in painting. We used the primary colours and different tools to add paint in different ways. We learnt the terms ‘sgraffito’ meaning to scratch and ‘impasto’ which meant to build texture by not shooting the paint. It was lots of fun!
