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
Healthy Living Week 2023
Peter Dalrymple (PDalrymple) on: Year 2 Class Blog
This week has been Healthy Living Week and Year 2 have been learning all about how to be healthy in body and mind. We started the week with a skipping workshop and shared our skills with the rest of the school at the end of the day. We have had daily mindfulness and guided meditation sessions. We took part in sports day, yoga and the school running challenge. We learnt about how to eat healthily and made a wrap which included a variety of foods from the Eatwell Guide. We have learnt about the importance of exercise, rest, sleep and hygiene. It has been a full on week, but everyone has thoroughly enjoyed it! Below are just a selection on photos from the week.
First week back!
Peter Dalrymple (PDalrymple) on: Year 2 Class Blog
I cannot believe it's the final half term of the year already! We've had a great first week back in year 2! We've started our next piece of writing which is an interview with Neil Armstrong to link with our history learning. We've continued with our art focusing on the artist Georgia O'Keeffe and planned a science experiment to test whether what we know plants need is definitely true!
Here we are having a well earned break in the sunshine on the field this afternoon!
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.
