Welcome to Year 2

Class Teachers:

Cedar: Miss Macdonald

Laurel: Miss Vickers

Support Staff: 

Mrs Jay (LSA)

Mrs Cleveland (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 in reading records.
• Children need to be playing Times Table Rock Stars (TTRS) at least 3 times a week. 
• Local area walk linking to science and geography topics - Monday 5th October

Autumn 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 'Grandad's Island' by Benji Davies, 'The Goose that lays the Golden Eggs' an Aesop's Fable's and 'Mrs Noah's Pockets' by Jackie Morris. 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 this half term the children will be building on their skills from Year 1. Children will have an opportunity to write for different purposes by writing character descriptions, poems and retelling a narrative. 

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 place value within 100 and addition and subtraction within 100. The will solve problems and using practical resources to answer questions within lessons, before completing an assessment at the end of each unit.

Science

This half term the children will be using observation skills to learn about living things and their habitats. The children will be learning about plants and animals and will understand what all living things have in common. They will also learn about food chains. The children will have an opportunity to explore the local area to discover what animals live in our community.

Geography

The children will be learning about human and physical features. Children will understand what is meant by these terms and also explore what human and physical features are in their local area.

Art

This half term, the children will be learning and improving their drawing skills. The children will be exploring mark making and use a range of marks to to represent movement, mood and texture. The children will use the sea as their inspiration. 

DT

In DT The children will be looking at textiles. The children will be sewing to complete a piece of patchwork and will repurpose an item of clothing to create something practical and useful. 

RE

This half term the children will be exploring the enquiry: Is it possible to be kind to everyone all of the time? The children will learn more about the religion of Christianity and will know how Christians might follow Jesus' example of being kind to people. 

PSHE

This half term the children will be looking at 'being me in my world'. The children will talk about their hopes and fears for the year. The children will learn about their rights and responsibilities as a member of their class and the school and learn about how to make the right choices and accept the consequences of their actions.  

ICT

The children will investigate Computing Systems and networks - IT around us.

Home learning

We expect children to read a minimum of 3 times a week at home; this should be logged in your reading records. 

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

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.