Welcome to Year 2
Year 2 Curriculum Map
Welcome to Year 2!
Welcome to the Spring term in Year 2! The children will be in class with Miss White (Monday, Thursday and Friday) and Mrs Moleele (Tuesday and Wednesday), with additional support from Miss McNamara. 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 one of us at anna.white@adel-st-john.leeds.sch.uk or kirsty.moleele@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 Mrs Moleele
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 Spring 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.
Continuous Cursive Joins Letter version 3 - Animations and Worksheets (teachhandwriting.co.uk)
PE: In PE this half term either Dance on a Tuesday or Invasion Games on a 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
Teddy Bear Chairs
Peter Dalrymple (PDalrymple) on: Year 2 Class Blog
Welcome back to the summer term! We have had a busy first week back and completed our DT project of structures. The children had designed a chair for a bear and this week we have made them. The children showed some excellent skills thinking about measurements, different joins and how to make the most stable chair for their bear. They each brought in a bear from home to test their chair too. The results were fantastic!
End of Spring Term!
Peter Dalrymple (PDalrymple) on: Year 2 Class Blog
What a wonderful Spring Term we have had in Year 2! There has been so much learning and memorable moments this half term. It has been great to see the children learning and changing - they’re nearly ready for that jump into key stage 2.
We have been finishing lots of learning this week, including our science where we were looking at the importance of basic hygiene. We read about why and how we need to stay clean; read some instructions about the proper way to wash our hands and then all washed our hands to demonstrate.
A wonderful week!
Peter Dalrymple (PDalrymple) on: Year 2 Class Blog
We’ve had a wonderful week in Year 2!
Firstly, thank you to all the parents and carers who attended our celebration event on Tuesday. We were too busy having fun to take any pictures but it was wonderful to see so many of you children loved sharing their learning!
Yesterday, we had our trip to Nell Bank. The weather was perfect and the children impressed the leaders at the centre with their science knowledge. We did several activities to link in with our learning about animals and ended the day with pond dipping.
ASJ’s Got Talent!
Peter Dalrymple (PDalrymple) on: Year 2 Class Blog
What a fantastic afternoon celebrating the brilliant talents of our ASJ family! We were joined by ‘Ant and Dec’ who hosted the talent show. We watched some great talents including juggling, dancing and piano playing! Well done to everyone involved, it was such a fun end to the week!
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.
