Year 2

Welcome to Year 2!

Miss Tomlinson, Miss Follows, Mrs Dempsey and Mrs Symes-Goodman welcome you to Year Two. 

Below are more details of each subject and the topics for this term. There is also a link to the knowledge organisers for this term. 

English

This term we will be practising reading comprehension, ensuring they are understanding what they are reading. The children have been practising different aspects of comprehension using VIPERS.

V is Vocabulary (using knowledge of words to understand the text)

I is Inference (make inferences, using your knowledge of the text to explain ideas)

P is Predict (predict what you think will happen next)

E is Explain (explaining your thoughts and ideas)

R is Reasoning (using your knowledge of the text to reason)

S is Sequencing (ordering the events of the text)

We will also be focusing on grammar including different sentence types, word types (nouns, adjectives, verbs, adverbs), possessive apostrophe and past and present tense. 

Maths

During this term we will be developing our number skills, exploring fractions and working with money.

We will also be developing our reasoning skills by solving two step word problems.

Below are examples of the different methods we use for the our operations.

Keep practising your 2, 3, 5 and 10 times tables and use TT Rockstars to help. You can find a copy of your username and password in the back of your reading diary.

Homework and Spellings

Spellings will be set every Friday in the yellow books and tested the following week. We are currently teaching the children a variety of strategies to learn these independently at home. Please encourage your children to use these to support their learning of the spellings. Homework will be sent home in a red folder every Friday and due in the following Thursday. 

Science

In Science we will be learning about 'Everyday Materials'   This will include exploring different materials and learning about their properties. We will also be doing lots of fun experiments linked to materials.

Geography

This term in Geography we will be exploring maps and our local area. Perhaps you may like to spot features of the local area whilst you are out on a walk.

Art

This term in Art we will be exploring coastal artwork, thinking about colours and textures. What kind of features do you find at the coast? What could you include in coastal artwork?

French

Follow the link to find a selection of French songs that the children will be singing along to over the year. Why not ask your child to sing the song to you or to teach you it so that you can sing along together!

Music

RE

This term we are leaving about what Muslims believe.

Look forward to: an art challenge, a whispering game, tile creating and much more.

Our religious symbol challenge continues too! 

Computing

This term is Computing we will be researching. We will using different search engines to gather information and learning how to search for different topics. 

During computing we will also be exploring programming. We will be learning what an algorithm is, creating our own simple algorithm and using the Beebots.

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