Welcome to year 2

The year 2 team for 2024 - 2025 consists of Mrs Johnson (2E) and Mrs Finch (2F).  Miss Barker, Mrs Holmes (1:1) and Mrs Short (1:1) make up our fabulous teaching assistant team.

Year 2 PE days will be on Thursday and Friday during the autumn term.

The children will visit the library on a Friday.  

Homework and reading folders to be handed in on a Thursday for marking and changing.

Geography - Would you rather live in a hot country or a cold country?

We are very excited to be starting our brand new topic for year 2 - 'Would you prefer to live in a hot or cold country?'.  During the autumn term, the children will be discovering the seven continents, considering what it is like to live in hot and cold temperatures and identifying where Europe is. They will also be using atlases to find the continents and creating their own world maps.  While learning about these different environments, the children will be making cross curricular links to their science topic - habitats.

You can find out some fun facts about our exciting new topic by using the link below.  You could also start naming the seven continents by using the map pictured.

Knowledge organiser 

Curriculum summary 

Home learning

Homework is set on a Friday, and is due in by the following Thursday.  Children should be reading to an adult at least three times per week for at least 15/20 minutes each time.  Reading can take place with either the book sent home from school or an allocated book on your child's Bug Club.  Each book must be recorded in your child's reading record, including any e-books.

For your home learning tasks you are encouraged to access Spelling Shed to enhance and support your child's spelling practice at home.  In addition to this, apps such as Hit the Button and Times Table Rockstars can support with consolidating and securing number facts and knowledge. 

Weekly homework

Please find this week's homework sheets below. 

Learning showcase

Exciting moments from year 2 will appear in this space, including any pictures or videos we take.  Please keep checking in, to see what the children have been up to.

Art - October 2024

When you think of texture, you might think food or touch - something that you can feel.  This week, the children have been using different tools to create texture in their sketchbooks.  Not a paintbrush or tub of water in sight, the children had to think about the picture they chose and how they could recreate the texture.  They used sponges, pom poms, bark, sticks, straws and feathers in many different ways to create their visions.  Building on from their prior learning of using chalk and charcoal to create different mark styles.

Football - September 2024

Wow, what can I say?  The children have been working impressively hard with their ball control skills working.  They have been learning how to stop the ball after an inside foot kick pass.  They have worked up to bigger distances and have even progressed to working in 4s from pairs.

Maths - September 2024

The children have been enjoying the new resources in their maths trays - discovering how different pieces of equipment can help them solve different types of problems.  This week, they were really impressed how number cards helped them answer a multiple answer digit problem.

Music - September 2024

Music has gone off with a bang this term.  Using untuned percussion instruments, the children have been creating animal call and response sounds.  They've thoroughly enjoyed the start of these lessons and were tickled giggly by the guess the animal sounds activity, the hippo truly had the whole year group stumped.

Medium term plan - autumn 1

Long term plan 2024-25