Welcome to Year 2

Class Teachers:

Cedar: Mrs Ffrench 

Laurel: Mrs Pallister (Mrs P)

Support Staff: 

Mrs Shelley (LSA)

Mrs Rossi-Kerr (LSA)

Key Messages/Dates

• PE is on a Friday
• Forest school is on a rolling programme as per individual letters
• Tuesday 11th November - Pakefield Pastures visiting school
• Monday 24th November- Trip to St Margaret's Church.
• Monday 8th December -Trip to Harleston House.
• 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.

Autumn 2 

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 "Paddington" by Michael Bond and " The Christmas Pine" by Julia Donaldson.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 Autumn Term, Year 2 will be learning to write narrative stories and formal invitations.

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 adding and subtracting numbers within 100, using our fact family knowledge. We will also be re visiting 2D and 3D shapes including lines of symmetry.

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

History 

In history, the children will be learning about the great fire of London, how it spread so quickly and the changes that took place because of it.  

Science

 This half term,the children will be studying animals and humans noticing that animals, including humans, have offspring which grow into adults. They will find out and describe the basic needs for survival and describe the importance of a healthy diet and exercise as well as knowing the importance of hygiene.

Art/DT

In art the children will be responding to music as they explore line, colour and space. They will use traditional painting tools as well as making their own to manipulate the paint they work with. In DT the children will consider what being healthy means. They will learn that eating a variety of vegetables provides the body with the nutrients it needs. They will make products using a range of vegetables and minimally processed foods.

RE

This half term the children will continue to study Christianity. This will be approached through the question " Why do Christians believe God gave Jesus to the world?" In PSHE the children will be working through the unit" Celebrating differences."

PSHE

The children will be working through the unit "Celebrating differences" where they will explore:

How everyone is different.

Stereotypes

How to help if someone is bullied.

How to stand up for yourself.

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.