Welcome to Year 2!
Our class teachers are Charlotte Walton (Monday and Tuesday) and Carly Grundy (Wednesday, Thursday and Friday). You can find out more about each member of staff by our Meet The Staff
What we are learning in Year 2
Year 2 Long Term Overview 2025
Important dates and information
P.E. days are a Wednesday and a Thursday if children can keep their P.E. kits in school.
Literacy
In Literacy, this term, we will be reading The King Who Banned the Dark- Emily Haworth-Booth. We will be using this to write our own similar story. We will then write an explanation text linked to our work in Geography.
After that, we will read The Day the Crayons Quit! We will be having a crayon day in school… more information to follow.
Maths
In school, we follow White Rose Maths. We will be looking at multiplication and division as well as Money and measure.
Science
In Science, we will be looking at uses of Everyday Materials.
Foundation subjects
In Geography, we will find out about hot and cold places.
In History, we will be finding out about the first airplane flights alongside other firsts!
In Computing,, we will be looking at Digital Music, they will identify simple differences in pieces of music.
In Art, we are working on our shading skills.
In DT, we will be designing a structure- a chair for Baby Bear!
In PSHE, we will be learning about belonging to a group.
In R.E. we will be looking at what it means to belong to Christianity.
How you can help your child:
We believe that any work you do at home with your child should be simple and purposeful. We would ask you to support you child in the following:
Reading- Reading any texts with your child will help improve their fluency and knowledge. We will send home a reading book assessed at their current reading level. We will send home a book for pleasure that can be enjoyed with your child.
Number skills- Basic number skills are a great way to help improve your child’s confidence in math. We would ask that you support them to play Numbots/ Timetable Rockstars as this will really help their basic skills. Could you also use any spare time, i.e. when you are walking or on car journey’s, to chant times tables and ask your child questions related to times tables. We have now worked on the 2’s, 5’s, 10’s, and learning these skills will support them in all areas of numeracy.
Spellings- Each week the children will learn a new spelling rule. You could support your child with understanding these rules by helping them to practice them. You could do the look/cover/ write/ check method or even play games such as letter scramble (mix all the letters up and then put in the correct order) or hangman.
Keeping homework fun helps to engage your child and not add any pressure to home life.
If there is anything we can support, you with then please let us know.
Thanks
Carly and Charlotte
