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 Dance on Tuesday and Striking and Fielding 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
Year 2 Science 'Plants'
Peter Dalrymple (PDalrymple) on: Year 2 Class Blog
Year 2 are learning about the topic of 'Plants' in their science lessons. They are growing sunflowers from seed and keeping a weekly diary of their height. Some children have got shoots already and some are still waiting patiently. We have been measuring with rulers and recording their growth.
Leaf rubbing in art
Peter Dalrymple (PDalrymple) on: Year 2 Class Blog
Year 2 have been continuing to prepare their art project this week by finding some beautiful leaves and creating rubbings of them. These will feed in to ideas for the plates we make for our printing in the coming weeks.
The results were really effective!
Y2 Orienteering in PE!
Peter Dalrymple (PDalrymple) on: Year 2 Class Blog
Year 2 have been trying out orienteering in their PE lessons. There are pre-made cards set up around the school grounds and map for them to go find them. Last week they worked in pairs to find symbols for a tree, building and play equipment. They've loved being so independent in a lesson and shown brilliant team work!
Happy Easter!
Peter Dalrymple (PDalrymple) on: Year 2 Class Blog
What a lovely end to a lovely half term! Today we say goodbye to Miss Johnson and wish her all the best for her teaching career!
We have also had the decorate an Easter egg competition today. Well done to all who entered for their fantastic creations and to the winners!
We wish you a lovely Easter break.
Nell Bank Trip
Peter Dalrymple (PDalrymple) on: Year 2 Class Blog
Years 2 have had an amazing day at Nell Bank today. We have learnt all about different animal senses and how they use them to catch their prey or stay hidden from predators. We had a really successful session pond dipping and found LOTS of newts. Finally, we had some fun in the sun with water play.
Year 2 Class Blog
Arrays in maths
Peter Dalrymple (PDalrymple) on: Year 2 Class Blog
In maths this week, year 2 have been continuing their learning on Multiplication and Division. We have been focused on making equal groups and this week our learning has progressed to making arrays.
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.
