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
Practical Maths
Peter Dalrymple (PDalrymple) on: Year 2 Class Blog
In Year 2 this week, we have moved on to our next maths topic all about addition and subtraction. We started by using ten frames to represent all the number bonds to ten.
Continuous Line Drawings
Peter Dalrymple (PDalrymple) on: Year 2 Class Blog
We have continued our art project this week by doing continuous line drawings of natural objects. A continuous line drawing is one where your pencil doesn’t leave the page. It helps us to look more closely at an object and draw what we see. It took a lot of concentration.
Explore and Create!
Peter Dalrymple (PDalrymple) on: Year 2 Class Blog
In art this half term, we are exploring our environment and using that to create artwork. This week we we went outside to find natural materials to use to create art. We used some work by artist Andy Goldsworthy and the book ‘Leaf Man’ as our inspiration.
TTRockstars!
Peter Dalrymple (PDalrymple) on: Year 2 Class Blog
Year 2 have had a fantastic day getting to grips with times tables rockstars. We’ve had a go at lots of different games and set up our rockstar names! Everyone came in dressed like a real rockstars! Well done to everyone who took part in the competition at the end of the day too.
First Week in Year 2!
Peter Dalrymple (PDalrymple) on: Year 2 Class Blog
What a great start to Year 2 we have had this week. The children have come in ready to learn and really done their best this week.
We’ve started with work around a book called ‘Planet in a Pickle Jar’. The children have done some writing and made their own pickle jar with an important memory preserved inside.
