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.  
• Book worms book shop 2nd June
• Colour run 5th June
• Class photos 12th June
• Family planting session 17th June
• Summer fair date to be confirmed
• Sports Day 1st July
• DT tasting afternoon Wednesday 15th July
• Transition Days 8th/9th July

Summer 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  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 the children will be writing a non-chronological report based on what they have learned about plants. They will also be exploring poetry as well as writing a recount from personal experiences.

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 

continuing to learn about time, understanding hours and minutes using these to tell the time. They will solve problems using practical activities before completing an assessment at the end of each unit. They will then move on to statistics such as tally charts, pictograms and block graphs. They will solve problems using practical activities before completing an assessment at the end of each unit.

Science

This term the children will further investigate 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 will be learning about air flight and transport. They will discover how it has changed over time.

DT

In DT The children will be looking at food and nutrition and creating simple recipes to demonstrate what they have learned. The children will also investigate structures. They will try to build towers that can support a weight without breaking!

RE

This half term the children will be exploring the enquiry: How important is the Qur’an to Muslims. They will learn how Muslims show respect towards the Qur’an and discuss some of the instructions they may follow.

PSHE

This half term the children will be looking at life cycles. They will learn how their body changes as they grow. They will recognize simple differences between boys and girls.

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.