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
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.
Busy week!
Peter Dalrymple (PDalrymple) on: Year 2 Class Blog
It has been a very busy week in year 2 this week.
World Book Day was lots of fun being dressed in our pjs with a favourite book. We also had a very special visitor to our classroom who was caught on CCTV! It was Paddington! He left his suitcase in our classroom with some items that are special to him and a little not to us. We talked all about Paddington nd tried some marmalade sandwiches.
We have also had a visit from the Road Safety Team from Leeds City Council. Harriet taught us all about staying safe in a car and the green cross code. We also went outside and practised crossing the road safely.
Robot Algorithms
Peter Dalrymple (PDalrymple) on: Year 2 Class Blog
Year 2 have started their first lesson of robot algorithms today in computing. We began by giving each other instructions to follow. It was hard to be really precise and follow the instructions exactly like a robot would.
Online Safety Week
Peter Dalrymple (PDalrymple) on: Year 2 Class Blog
This week the whole school has been learning about online safety. In year 2 we have been learning about how anything we post online stays there and can be accessed even if deleted. We have looked at different devices at home that can we linked to the internet and how to do an online search with keywords to make results more suitable.
Children’s Mental Health Week
Peter Dalrymple (PDalrymple) on: Year 2 Class Blog
This week, we have been thinking about Children’s Mental Health Week. The theme this year is ‘This is my place’ which focuses on belonging being good for our mental health. Each child in school has made a map of all the places they feel they belong. Here are some Year 2 examples.
Year 2 Class Blog
Character description
Peter Dalrymple (PDalrymple) on: Year 2 Class Blog
In our English lessons this week, we have been writing a character description about Peter Rabbit. We started with an experience lesson where we watched an episode of the TV series; tried some of Peter’s favourite vegetables and drew a picture with adjectives to describe Peter around the outside.
World Book Day!
Peter Dalrymple (PDalrymple) on: Year 2 Class Blog
Year 2 had a lovely day celebrating World Book Day this week. Their costumes were fantastic and it was great hearing about why each child chose the character they did. Then we spent the day enjoying lots of different books. We had a reading buddy session with Year 4, drew a new cover for our favourite book and read a book called ‘I’m Sorry’ and made links with our Christian Value for this half term which is forgiveness.
Adel Walk
Peter Dalrymple (PDalrymple) on: Year 2 Class Blog
Yesterday, Year 2 had a lovely walk around Adel looking for all the historical things in our area. We identified the place or object, considered whether it was more or less than 100 years old and also said whether it was a human or physical feature of the area - combining our history and geography learning!
After the holidays, we will be writing a recount of our walk and plotting the route we took on a map.
Road Safety
Peter Dalrymple (PDalrymple) on: Year 2 Class Blog
Year 2 have had a fantastic morning learning about road safety with our visitor from Leeds City Council’s Road Safety Team.
They discussed in class the different ways to stay safe as a pedestrian, a passenger in a car and while riding a bike or scooter near the roadside. Jake taught us the Green Cross Code - Think, Stop, Look and Listen!
Then the children went out to the road in smaller groups to practise crossing the road safely with all the information they had learnt.
The children were a credit to ASJ and listened attentively, were responsible when crossing the road and polite at all times!
Money!
Peter Dalrymple (PDalrymple) on: Year 2 Class Blog
Year 2 have been consolidating their learning about money by making the same amount using different coins. They worked together with a partner to make the same amount and drew the coins chosen.
