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 |
2B Mrs Murray Mrs Clayson |
2C 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 |
Addition & subtraction Money |
Multiplication Division Statistics |
Shape Fractions |
Time Consolidation |
Position & direction Length & height Mass & temperature |
English
Other Curriculum Subjects
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Autumn 1 |
Autumn 2 |
Spring 1 |
Spring 2 |
Summer 1 |
Summer 2 |
Science |
Healthy eating- animals including humans. |
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Plants/ living things |
Plants/ living things |
Use of everyday materials (floating and sinking) |
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Geography |
My Family |
Soham and the local area |
Climate and seasons |
Maps |
Comparing London and Soham |
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History |
Heritage |
Train crash- what makes a hero? |
Explorers |
Oliver Cromwell |
Great fire of London |
Prehistoric era
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RE |
What makes me special? |
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How can people today be a part of the BIG STORY of the bible? |
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Christian Practice and Milestones |
Indoor PE |
Dance – Africa – Waka Waka
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Circus skills |
Gym – points of contact |
Gym – ball, tall, wall
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Dance – under the sea
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OAA – Trials, trust and Teamwork |
Outdoor PE |
Fundamentals |
Fundamentals
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Skipping – |
Fundamental’s – throwing and receiving |
Tennis |
Athletics – sports day
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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
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Spreadsheets 2 calculate
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Questioning 2 question and 2 investigate
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Effective searching and creating pictures 2 paint a picture |
Making music and presenting ideas 2 sequence
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Music |
Hands, feet, heart
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Ho Ho Ho
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I wanna play in a band
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Zootime
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Friendship song
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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
Hit the Button - Quick fire maths practise for 6-11 year olds (topmarks.co.uk)