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 Fundamentals on Tuesday and Team Building 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
DT Research
Peter Dalrymple (PDalrymple) on: Year 2 Class Blog
In our Design Technology this term, we are going to be building a model, working Ferris wheel. We have started our learning by exploring wheels and how they work.
Welcome back!
Peter Dalrymple (PDalrymple) on: Year 2 Class Blog
What a fantastic first week back we have had in Year 2! The children have come back to school refreshed and enthusiastic about starting a new year.
We have started this week by reading the book ‘The Planet in a Pickle Jar’ and doing several activities around this including making a pickle jar of our own with a special memory inside that we want to preserve. These, along with a setting description of the pickle jar library and some more artwork will be displayed in time for our first parents’ evening for you all to see.
We cannot wait for the rest of this year after such an amazing start!
ASJ Elections
Peter Dalrymple (PDalrymple) on: Year 2 Class Blog
This week, ASJ went to the polls and voted for next year’s house captains, vice captains and each class’ school councillors. Congratulations to Isabelle and Ted for being selected as school councillors for our class. They are ready to go at the start of Year 3 in September.
Finished art and exhibition
Peter Dalrymple (PDalrymple) on: Year 2 Class Blog
We’ve finished our art project this week and are very much looking forward to welcoming as many of you as possible for our exhibition on Tuesday.
Please enter via the Year 2 cloakroom door at 2.45pm on Tuesday 7th July.
Here’s a sneak peak at our large fabric printing!
Year 2 Class Blog
Baby Bear’s Chair
Peter Dalrymple (PDalrymple) on: Year 2 Class Blog
Year 2 had a brilliant DT lesson last week finally making baby bear’s chair. After testing stability and strength, we made the chairs and baby bear seems to like sitting in them!
DT Testing Strength
Peter Dalrymple (PDalrymple) on: Year 2 Class Blog
Our DT this half term is to design and make a chair for baby bear. We have already tested stability and this week we tested strength. We started by looking at three different shapes and how string they were. Between a cuboid, triangular prism and cylinder, the cylinder was the strongest. So, we set about making some cylinders of different heights and widths to see what would be strongest. After we had tested them, by piling books on top, we connected them together and when they were all attached together they were strong enough to be sat on! We were all amazed!
Science - Testing materials
Peter Dalrymple (PDalrymple) on: Year 2 Class Blog
In Science this week, Year 2 have been testing the properties of different everyday materials. We found different items in the classroom, identified the material they were made from and then chose different properties to test. W found that some materials are hard, flexible, smooth, waterproof and much more!
Testing Stability in DT
Peter Dalrymple (PDalrymple) on: Year 2 Class Blog
We have hit the ground running in Year 2 since the holidays and have started this week on our new DT project for this half term. We will be designing and making a chair for baby bear!
Our first task was to test the stability of different 3D shapes which linked really well with our maths learning this week. We tested the stability of a sphere, a cube, a pyramid and a cylinder. We found that the pyramid was the most stable because it had a flat base, a wide base and wasn't too tall. We then used this information to analyse some different examples of chairs and how suitable they would be for baby bear. This will help us when it comes to our designing and making stages.
It's the final countdown!!
Peter Dalrymple (PDalrymple) on: Year 2 Class Blog
What a final week we've had! We've finally remade our ferris wheels using stronger card so they are all still standing and in working order. They look amazing and I am so proud of the learning attitudes the children displayed making amendments and really thinking about how to improve them. We had our Christmas party on Wednesday complete with party games and prizes. We have also done some writing for pleasure where the children could choose what they wanted to write on a Christmas theme. The concentration in the room was amazing - you could have heard a pin drop.
I hope you all have a lovely Christmas. See you in the new year.
