Welcome to year 2

The year 2 team for 2023 - 2024 consists of Miss Cox (2E) and Miss Gill (2F).  

This half term, the children in year 2 will be exploring the culture and geography of India's largest city: Mumbai.  The children will identify India's bordering countries and surrounding seas before exploring the physical and human features of Mumbai.  The children will use atlases and maps to label India on the world map; its major cities and surrounding seas, before using a compass rose to describe their locations.  Finally, the children will be using the information gathered about India's largest city to make comparisons with England's largest city: London. 

If you would like to explore more with your children at home, follow this helpful link: 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0115j0s

For this half term, year 2 PE days are Thursday and Friday.  Please familiarise yourself with the uniform policy in relation to PE, including health and safety requirements linked to jewellery.

Please ensure that your child brings in a water bottle and their reading book/record, as well as their link book, every day.

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 ebooks.

Please ensure that any belongings are labelled - it makes it easier to return when left around school.

Learning showcase

The children in year 2 enjoyed a day of learning all about the catastrophic events in the Great Fire of London.  They learned how to stitch clothes using a dutch weave; make scent bags to stay healthy; mould candle holders out of clay and use a quill and ink to write a letter to the King.  

Home learning

For your home learning tasks you are expected to access Education City and Hit the Button and Times Table Rockstars. In addition to this it would benefit your child to download the new White Rose Maths app. Click below to access these websites.

Education City

Hit the Button

Times Table Rockstars

White Rose Maths 1 - Minute Maths app