Year 2

Termly Newsletters 2019-2020

Welcome to Year 2!

In Year 2 we have two classes - Williams and Honeycrisp Class:

WILLIAMS CLASS

Class Teacher: Miss E Attwood

Teaching Assistant: Mrs S Ellis (all day)

Key Workers: Mrs L Simpson

HONEYCRISP CLASS

Class Teacher: Mrs L Robinson (Mon/Tue) and Mrs J Hilden (Key Stage 1 Leader - Wed- Fri)

Teaching Assistants: Mrs K Willson (am) and Miss M Ford (pm)

Key Workers: Miss Parker

Thursday (Every other week) - PPA Time all day

Miss H Rootes - Williams Class

Mrs L Ingram - Honeycrisp Class

Tuesday Morning - Mrs J Hilden's Key Stage One Leader Release Time

Every other Monday Miss E Attwood will be out of class all day for her NQT Time

General Reminders

Please ensure your child has their PE kit in school and that all items are clearly labelled. We encourage children to practise getting dressed at home to help them get changed quickly in school! This term both classes have indoor PE on Tuesday and outdoor PE on Friday.
Library day is every Monday. Please make sure your child's library book is returned every Monday.
Any letters or reply slips, which need to be returned, can be put in your child’s book bag. The children are encouraged to check them each morning and give things in after the register. Please tell your child to show the class teacher if there is a message in the yellow communication book. These will be checked by a member of staff Monday, Wednesday and Friday.
Water bottles will be kept in class so the children can access water throughout the day and they will change their water regularly.

Year 2 Website Version Curriculum Overview 2019- 2020.pdf

Term 4 2020:

Topic Title:

Explorers: Columbus/ Pirates

This term we will be finding out about Ocean Explorers!

We will be learning:

What experiences did Columbus and his sailors encounter?
What did Columbus discover?
How has his discovery changed people’s lives?
What happened to Christopher Columbus?
Pirates: Who were they? What did they do?
Significant lives of famous pirates.
Which pirate was the most feared and why?

Year 2 will be reading “The Troll ” as our class text in English. This story is a children's story about a troll and some pirates The troll in this story is based on the troll from the "Three Billy Goats Gruff” fairy tale. However, in this story, no goats ever cross the troll's bridge and he is forced to survive on fish that he catches from the river. Meanwhile, the pirate captain Hank Chief and his crew (Peg Polkadot, Ben Buckle, and Percy Patch) are searching for the treasure that is marked on their map, but are unable to locate the correct island.

Term 3 2020:

Topic Title:

India

This term we will be exploring the incredible country India!

We will be learning to:

Understand the location of India in the world and find India on a map or globe.
Describe the location of India in detail in relation to other continents, countries and oceans of the world.
Locate the capital city, some main cities and oceans.
Ask geographical questions- Where is it? What is this place like? How far or near is it to…?
Compare India’s location to the location of the UK.
Recognise and identify human and physical features of India.
Identify important landmarks in India.
Describe human and physical features of three main cities New Delhi, Mumbai and Calcutta.
Compare Indian cities with London (The UK)

Year 2 will be reading “The Tiger Child” as our class text in English. This lively folk tale from Orissa, India, explains why tigers eat their food uncooked and why cats live with people. The tiger child is sent to fetch some more fire from the village, but on the way he gets distracted by his friends.

We will be using our class text to create a non-chronological report about Tigers.

We will be learning to:

Know that non-fiction books are organised differently from fiction texts.
Know that books or texts have a purpose.
Know how to find information in a non-fiction book.
Decide how a non-fiction is used to find the information that I need.
Find the answers to retrieval questions about non-fiction texts.
Plan and discuss the content of my writing.
Identify features of non-chronological report.
Create a non-chronological report.

Term 2 2019/2020:

Topic Title:

A Royal Rumble... Queen Elizabeth I v Queen Elizabeth II

Term 1 2019/2020:

Topic Title:

Where shall we live? Urban v Rural.

We will be reading the texts:

For Topic this term, we will be learning to locate the United Kingdom, its four countries and surrounding seas by using world maps, atlases and globes. We will be creating a large map for our topic display to help us with our learning! We will be reading the text, “Town Mouse and Country Mouse” to help us to recognise physical and human features of different places. Towards the end of the term, we will be learning to observe and use aerial photographs to help us identify similarities and differences between urban and rural places.

Can you use world maps, atlases or globes to find out the following:

What are the four countries of the United Kingdom?

Can you locate them on a map?

Can you name the capital cities for each country?

What are the names of the UK's surrounding seas?

Can you identify similarities and differences between urban and rural places?

Learning in Term 1:

We have created some lovely displays of our work!