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
Year 2 Science 'Plants'
Peter Dalrymple (PDalrymple) on: Year 2 Class Blog
Year 2 are learning about the topic of 'Plants' in their science lessons. They are growing sunflowers from seed and keeping a weekly diary of their height. Some children have got shoots already and some are still waiting patiently. We have been measuring with rulers and recording their growth.
Leaf rubbing in art
Peter Dalrymple (PDalrymple) on: Year 2 Class Blog
Year 2 have been continuing to prepare their art project this week by finding some beautiful leaves and creating rubbings of them. These will feed in to ideas for the plates we make for our printing in the coming weeks.
The results were really effective!
Y2 Orienteering in PE!
Peter Dalrymple (PDalrymple) on: Year 2 Class Blog
Year 2 have been trying out orienteering in their PE lessons. There are pre-made cards set up around the school grounds and map for them to go find them. Last week they worked in pairs to find symbols for a tree, building and play equipment. They've loved being so independent in a lesson and shown brilliant team work!
Happy Easter!
Peter Dalrymple (PDalrymple) on: Year 2 Class Blog
What a lovely end to a lovely half term! Today we say goodbye to Miss Johnson and wish her all the best for her teaching career!
We have also had the decorate an Easter egg competition today. Well done to all who entered for their fantastic creations and to the winners!
We wish you a lovely Easter break.
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.
Year 2 Class Blog
TTRockstars!
Peter Dalrymple (PDalrymple) on: Year 2 Class Blog
Year 2 have had a fantastic day getting to grips with times tables rockstars. We’ve had a go at lots of different games and set up our rockstar names! Everyone came in dressed like a real rockstars! Well done to everyone who took part in the competition at the end of the day too.
First Week in Year 2!
Peter Dalrymple (PDalrymple) on: Year 2 Class Blog
What a great start to Year 2 we have had this week. The children have come in ready to learn and really done their best this week.
We’ve started with work around a book called ‘Planet in a Pickle Jar’. The children have done some writing and made their own pickle jar with an important memory preserved inside.
Voting!
Peter Dalrymple (PDalrymple) on: Year 2 Class Blog
What a great final full week we’ve had in Year 2. We cast our votes in the House Captain elections yesterday. We had a trip to the polling station set up in the entrance and did a secret ballot.
Today we have done a mini DT project to make a moving monster! The children have brought these home today. They look fab and move really well!
Busy week!
Peter Dalrymple (PDalrymple) on: Year 2 Class Blog
We’ve had another busy week in Year 2. We started the week with an investigation in maths where we were finding out how big the classroom is. We measured the length and width of the room using metre sticks and then multiplied the measurements by 2.
We have also finished our DT project the make memory pouches. These are all sewn and decorated and look fabulous!
In geography we have been recapping labels for the world map. We labelled the continents, oceans, equator and poles.
Finally, we have ended our week with a PSHE session about perseverance and had a challenge to build the tallest tower possible using only 6 sheets of newspaper. It was a challenge too!
A busy week!
Peter Dalrymple (PDalrymple) on: Year 2 Class Blog
Year 2 have had a very busy week! We have finished our science investigation to prove what we know about how plants grow best, we have been looking at animal offspring and sorting them into groups, we have used the VR headsets to look at sacred places in RE and we have been continuing to sew our memory pouches in DT.
