Welcome to Year 2

Class Teachers:

Cedar: Miss Hendley 

Laurel: Mrs Pallister (Mrs P)

Support Staff: 

Miss Adams (LSA)

Key Messages/Dates

• PE is on a Tuesday.
• St Margaret’s Church Trip – 2.5.2025
• Book Worms book sale – 6.5.2025 

What are we learning in Year 2 this half term?

Summer 1 

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 text is 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 write non chronological reports, a simple retelling of a narrative, a recount from a personal experience, poetry and character descriptions.  

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 4 previously learnt skills, fluency activities and opportunities for children to apply their knowledge to reasoning and problem solving. This half term we will be covering fractions, time, statistics and position and direction.  

Children will have the opportunity to practise and develop their times table knowledge daily. This term we are focusing on the two-, five- and ten-times table.

Geography 

In geography, the children will be studying fieldwork and map skills as well as studying human and physical geography of a small area of the United Kingdom (Lowestoft), and of a contrasting Non-European country (Kenya).

History

In history, we will be studying historical events, people and places in our own locality and events beyond our living memory such as the Great Fire of London.

Science

 This half term, children will learn about plants. They will observe and describe how seeds and bulbs grow into mature plants and find out and describe how plants need water, light and a suitable temperature to grow and stay healthy. They will also learn about living things and their habitats. For example, the children will identify that most living things live in habitats to which they are suited and describe how different habitats provide for the basic needs of different kinds of animals and plants, and how they depend on each other.

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.