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.

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 laid the Golden Egg" an Aesop fable, "Mrs Noah's Pockets" by Jackie Morris and James Mayhew. 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 a character description, a funny poem and they will retell a narrative story. 

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 place value to 100 and adding and subtracting using these numbers.  

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.

Geography 

In geography, the children will be studying the human and physical features of our local area. 

Science

 This half term, children will learn about living things and their habitats covering both plants and animals. The children will be investigating what all living things have in common. They will also be finding out about the plants and animals in our local area. They will study food chains as well as discovering why plants and animals need each other to survive.

Art/DT

The children will be developing their drawing techniques  in art . In their DT lessons they will be creating a shared patchwork piece using fabric.

RE

This half term the children will be studying Christianity. This will be approached through the question: "Is it possible to be kind to everyone all of the time?"

PSHE

The children will be working through the unit "Being me in my world" where they will explore:

• How and who they may seek help from when they feel worried
• How they belong to their class
• How to make their class a safe and fair place for everybody to learn
• How to work cooperatively with their peers

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.