Welcome to Year 2

Hello and welcome to Year 2!

The Year Two team would like to take this opportunity to welcome you and outline some of the exciting learning that will be taking place this year. Year Two completes the children's journey in Key Stage One, so it's a very important year! We do lots revisiting prior learning and build on this to complete new learning. We look forward to sharing our learning with you along the way. We thank you, in advance, for your support throughout the year, we really appreciate it and it really does make a difference.

Our Staff

1-2A

Mrs Bracey

Year 2 Lead

Mrs Murray

Mrs Clayson

Miss McLees

Teaching Assistants: Mrs Martin & Mrs Webb

Curriculum Map

Maths

Autumn 1

Autumn 2

Spring 1

Spring 2

Summer 1

Summer 2

Place value

Addition & subtraction

Money

Multiplication

Division

Statistics

Shape

Fractions

Time

Consolidation

Position & direction

Length & height

Mass & temperature

English

Other Curriculum Subjects

	Autumn 1	Autumn 2	Spring 1	Spring 2	Summer 1	Summer 2
Science	Healthy eating- animals including humans.		Plants/ living things	Plants/ living things	Use of everyday materials (floating and sinking)
Geography	My Family	Soham and the local area	Climate and seasons	Maps	Comparing London and Soham
History	Heritage	Train crash- what makes a hero?	Explorers	Oliver Cromwell	Great fire of London	Prehistoric era
RE	What makes me special?		How can people today be a part of the BIG STORY of the bible?			Christian Practice and Milestones
Indoor PE	Dance – Africa – Waka Waka	Circus skills	Gym – points of contact	Gym – ball, tall, wall	Dance – under the sea	OAA – Trials, trust and Teamwork
Outdoor PE	Fundamentals	Fundamentals	Skipping –	Fundamental’s – throwing and receiving	Tennis	Athletics – sports day
PSHE	Managing Change Family and Friends	Anti-bullying	Financial Capability	Rights, Rules and Responsibilities	Drug Education Personal Safety	Relationships and Sex Education
Computing	Online safety Coding	Coding Spreadsheets	Spreadsheets 2 calculate	Questioning 2 question and 2 investigate	Effective searching and creating pictures 2 paint a picture	Making music and presenting ideas 2 sequence
Music	Hands, feet, heart	Ho Ho Ho	I wanna play in a band	Zootime	Friendship song	Reflect, rewind and replay

Home Learning Expectations

Home learning will be put on Class Dojo every Friday and is due in the following Wednesday. Each week children will practise spellings, reading and times tables. Additionally, there will be a maths challenge based on the learning from the week or a challenge to prepare for the next week. For topic, a task will be set that will focus on our curriculum drivers; so it may be a ‘revisit’ task of something which has been done in the topic lesson that week, it may be a ‘ready’ task which may be research or pre- learn something for a session or ‘reframe’ where the task will be applying learning into a different context.

PE Days

Class	Indoor PE	Outdoor PE
1-2A	Thursday	Tuesday
2B	Friday	Tuesday
2C	Friday	Tuesday

Year 2 Reading Spine

Below is a recommended list of books for Year 2 children, we have copies of these in school and will be looking at a variety of them throughout the year. Please feel free to discuss these with your child/encourage them to read these books or others by these authors. Please contact your class teacher if you’d like to discuss these books or receive other recommendations.

Useful Websites

Purple Mash by 2Simple

Hit the Button - Quick fire maths practise for 6-11 year olds (topmarks.co.uk)

Phonics Play