Welcome to Year 2

Class Teachers:

Cedar: Mrs Ffrench 

Laurel: Mrs Southgate

Support Staff: 

Mrs Shelley (LSA)

Mrs Rossi-Kerr (LSA)

Key Messages/Dates

• PE is on a Friday.
• Water bottles should contain only water.
• Children to be reading at least 3 times a week and recording it on Boom Reader.
• Children need to be playing TTRockstars at least 3 times a week.  
• Author visit 20th April
• Library trip- Cedar 22nd April
• Reading cafe-Cedar 5th May
• Reading cafe- Laurel 14th May

Summer 1

What are we learning?

Reading

These are the texts that we cover throughout the year:

At St Margaret's we are passionate about reading! We teach a daily reading session based on a  Curriculum for Unity School’s Partnership (CUSP) text.

This half term, our core texts are  Little People Big Dreams-David Attenborough by Maria Isabel Sanchez Vegara and Fantastically Great Women who changed the World by Kate Pankhurst. The core texts are supplemented by a variety of additional texts to support children developing their reading fluency and confidence across a range of text types.

Writing

At St Margaret's Primary Academy, we follow CUSP for our writing curriculum. The CUSP curriculum is a vocabulary rich, knowledge-based approach to help develop pupils' retrieval, vocabulary and deepen learning. During the Summer Term, Year 2 will be learning to retell stories using the past tense, using expanded noun phrases as well as learning to write in the third person. They will plan and sequence narratives, before editing for impact and publishing their work. They will also write personal recounts using first person and chronological order.

Maths 

At St Margaret's Primary Academy, we adopt a Mastery approach to teach maths lessons. The mastery approach supports children in becoming fluent and confident mathematicians. Maths lessons include ‘Flashback 4’ where children recap four previously learnt skills, fluency activities and opportunities for children to apply their knowledge to reasoning and problem solving.This half term the children will be learning about fractions , quarters, halves and three quarters. As well as learning to tell the time ,

o clock, quarter past . quarter to, and half past. They will solve problems using practical activities before completing an assessment at the end of each unit.

Science

This term the children will be investigating how plants grow from seeds or bulbs.They will learn what plants need to grow and thrive, and problem solve what to do when plants do not appear to thrive. 

History

This half term, the children The children will Study Historical Events, People and Places in their own locality. They will think about what Lowestoft is like today. They will discover why The Grit was built and what it was used for. They will look at what was Lowestoft like in the past, and find out about the great flood of Lowestoft.

Art/DT

 In art the children will explore the artists Danny Eastwood and John Kindness. They will learn skills to enable them to create a 3D sculpture that is decorated using patterns similar to those used in aboriginal art.

In DT The children will be looking at food and nutrition and creating simple recipes to demonstrate what they have learned.

RE

This half term the children will be exploring the enquiry: How important is Muhammad to Muslims? They will discuss what might make somebody important or special. They will learn why Muhammad was chosen to be a prophet and discuss why events in the life of Muhammad were important to Islam. They will learn how some of the sayings of Muhammad might help Muslims behave today. They will explain who is special to them and why discussing the qualities that they find important in people.

PSHE

As it is summer term the children will begin by learning about sun and water safety. They will then look at family relationships and learn the importance of cooperation. They will learn about physical contact and what is and is not acceptable. They will look at conflicts within friendships and how to solve them.  They will discuss who within their family, school and community they can turn to for help and support.

ICT

The children will investigate Robot algorithms and how to give instructions to move a robot in a desired way.

Home learning

We expect children to read a minimum of 3 times a week at home; this should be logged on Boom Reader. If you need support with Boom Reader, please come and speak to a member of the Year 2 team who will be more than happy to help. 

Children are expected to practise their times tables at home regularly using Times Tables Rockstars. 

https://ttrockstars.com/ 

If you need support with logging into TTRS or are unaware of your child's login, please reach out to a member of the Year 2 team.