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
Maths!
Peter Dalrymple (PDalrymple) on: Year 2 Class Blog
Year 2 have started their maths unit of addition and subtraction this week. We started by recapping number bonds to 10 by working systematically using counters and ten frames to find them all.
Rock Star Day!
Peter Dalrymple (PDalrymple) on: Year 2 Class Blog
What super rockstars we had arriving at school this morning for our rockstar day! We launched TTRockstars in Year 2 and each child has come home with a letter explaining how this works and login details. Please have a go exploring the website at home. While children are still learning timestables, the best activity to try is Jamming - this is what we have done in school today.
DT Research
Peter Dalrymple (PDalrymple) on: Year 2 Class Blog
In our Design Technology this term, we are going to be building a model, working Ferris wheel. We have started our learning by exploring wheels and how they work.
Welcome back!
Peter Dalrymple (PDalrymple) on: Year 2 Class Blog
What a fantastic first week back we have had in Year 2! The children have come back to school refreshed and enthusiastic about starting a new year.
We have started this week by reading the book ‘The Planet in a Pickle Jar’ and doing several activities around this including making a pickle jar of our own with a special memory inside that we want to preserve. These, along with a setting description of the pickle jar library and some more artwork will be displayed in time for our first parents’ evening for you all to see.
We cannot wait for the rest of this year after such an amazing start!
ASJ Elections
Peter Dalrymple (PDalrymple) on: Year 2 Class Blog
This week, ASJ went to the polls and voted for next year’s house captains, vice captains and each class’ school councillors. Congratulations to Isabelle and Ted for being selected as school councillors for our class. They are ready to go at the start of Year 3 in September.
Year 2 Class Blog
Trip to Nell Bank
Peter Dalrymple (PDalrymple) on: Year 2 Class Blog
On Friday, we had a fantastic visit to Nell Bank. The very wet weather didn’t hold us back and we did some great fun and hands on learning linked to our science topic - Living Things and their Habitats. We learnt how different animals use their senses to help them to thrive in their habitats; did a habitat trail and finished the day with some pond dipping. The children behaved impeccably and the staff at Nell Bank were amazed with their science knowledge and resilience in less an ideal conditions. Well done to everyone!
We’re rockstars!
Peter Dalrymple (PDalrymple) on: Year 2 Class Blog
Year 2 looked amazing dressed as rockstars on Thursday for our TTRockstars launch day. All the children performed their first gig in class and will do this at school once a month. They all brought home their log in details, so get rocking those times tables at home as often as you can.
Habitat Trail
Peter Dalrymple (PDalrymple) on: Year 2 Class Blog
In between the rain today, Year 2 managed to complete their habitat trail around the school grounds. We discussed different types of British habitat before embarking on the trail and decided we lived in an urban habitat with areas of woodland habitat and pond habitat in and around the school grounds.
House Captain Elections
Peter Dalrymple (PDalrymple) on: Year 2 Class Blog
We have enjoyed learning a little bit about Democracy today and voting in the House Captain elections.
What is peace?
Peter Dalrymple (PDalrymple) on: Year 2 Class Blog
In RE, we have been learning about the good news that Jesus brings for Christians. We have already looked at friendship and forgiveness, and this week we have moved on to peace.
This has coincided with the International Day of Peace which Mr Dalrymple talked about in Collective Worship.
In our RE lesson, we thought about what peace might look like for us in our own lives, between people and for Christians with God. We drew our ideas into a heart shape to link with our focus bible verse:
‘My peace I leave with you; my peace I give to you. Do not let your heart be troubled and do not be afraid.’ John 14:21
