Welcome to Year 2

Class Teachers:

Laurel: Mrs Pallister (Mrs P)

Cedar: Miss Hendley 

Support Staff: 

Miss Adams (LSA)

Key Messages/Dates

• PE is on a Tuesday.
• Cedar Reading Café – Thursday 6th March - 2:30 - 3:15
• Laurel Ready Café –  Thursday 27th February - 2:30 - 3:15 
• History local walk - Monday 3rd March 
• Local church visit - TBC 
• Afternoon tea party - TBC
• World Book Day - Thursday 6th March 2025. Children are invited to come to school dressed as their favourite book character 

What are we learning in Year 2 this half term?

Spring 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 Coming to England by Floella Benjamin. 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 Spring term Year 2 will be learning to write humorous poems on a theme, non-chronological reports, formal invitations, stories from other cultures and recounts 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 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 money, multiplication and division, length, height, mass, capacity and temperature.

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

Geography 

In geography, the children will be studying the 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.

Science

 This half term, children will learn about the uses of everyday materials. They will learn how to identify and compare the suitability of a variety of everyday materials, including wood, metal, plastic, glass, brick, rock, paper and cardboard for particular uses. They will also find out how the shapes of solid objects made from some materials can be changed by squashing, bending, twisting and stretching.

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.