Year 2
Summer 2, 2025!
Welcome back! We hope you are ready for lots of learning and fun this half term in Year 2.
Start time – 8:40am Pick-up time- 3:15pm
If you have any questions, concerns or worries, please contact us at year2@cpa.dsat.education and we will do our best to respond as soon as we can.
Please ensure that your child brings a labelled water bottle to school each day as well as ensuring that all items of your child's uniform is clearly labelled too. A healthy fruit snack is provided for all our Year 2 children.
Please follow the link below to view information from the Year 2 Beginning of Year Meeting.
Please follow the link below to view information from the Key Stage 1 Reading Information Meeting.
We are continuing to deliver the program to all year groups at school called myHappymind. myHappymind is all based around helping children to understand how their brain works and to support them in developing positive skills and habits to be their very best selves!
Please click on the link below to access an overview of what the program entails.
myHappymind Parent information
At the end of every myHappy mind session, we finish with our Let Your Light Shine prayer which you can find below.
Curriculum
Our Geography theme this half term is "Where do we live?'‘
Our theme this half-term will focus on developing our geographical knowledge of the local area. We will be looking at different types of maps and discussing how to give directions to someone who may not know the local area. We will focus on geographical features such as human and physical also. We will conduct a field study of our local area to get a better understanding of where we live and where our school is.
Writing
Our writing this half term will be based on the book Grandad's secret giant.
A GIANT story of belonging and friendship from David Litchfield, author ofThe Bear and the Piano. "He has hands the size of tables," Grandad said, "legs as long as drainpipes and feet as big as rowing boats. Do you know who I mean?" "Yes," sighed Billy. "The Secret Giant. But he's not real!" Billy doesn't believe his Grandad when he tells him there's a giant living in his town, doing good deeds for everyone. He knows that a giant is too big to keep himself hidden. And why would he want to keep himself a secret? But as time goes on, Billy learns that some secrets are too BIG to stay secret for long...
This delightful heartfelt story of belonging and friendship teaches the importance of tolerance and acceptance to young children.
In response to the book, we will engage in a variety of writing opportunities, including writing morals and the acceptance of others.
As a school we follow the Read, Write, Inc programme to deliver our phonics teaching. During this half term, we will continue to work hard embedding our knowledge of phoneme / grapheme correspondence, as well as continuing to segment and blend. We have lots of information on our schools phonics page.
For those children who have progressed from the RWInc phonics lessons, we will continue with our whole class reading lessons which are taught in the same style as KS2. We will focus on different skills throughout the week (vocabulary, retrieval, inference and sequencing) and how to answer different styles of questions.
Click on the link below to see the list of Year 1 and Year 2 Common Exception words that our children have to read and write confidently by the end of Year 2. Please support your child in learning these.
Year 1 and Year 2 Common Exception Words
Maths
This half term we will continue to build our knowledge of measurement and reading scales. We will use manipulatives to support our understanding of mass and what is heavier or lighter than each other as well as looking at capacity. Later we will look at calculation strategies and developing our times table knowledge in preparation for KS2.
This half term we will also be focusing on knowing and remembering our Key Instant Recall Facts (KIRFs) for Summer. Please click on the links below for Year 2 Summer KIRFs that will support your child with their reading time to the nearest five minutes. The online game, HIT THE BUTTON, will also support your child with this.
If you have any questions about these areas of Maths please don’t hesitate to come and speak to us.
R.E.
In RE, we will study Judaism, exploring the question 'How important is it for Jewish people to do what God has asked them to do? We will develop our understanding of the importance of the covenant - a promise that God made with Abraham - and why Abraham and Moses are so significant to Judaism. From our learning, we will understand the special relationship between Jews and God and the promises they make to each other.
Science - How do we care for plants
Our science theme this half term is How do we care for plants? In this module, we will:
● discover and learn the best ways to care for plants including the temperature, light that they recieve.
We will develop our scientific skills by:
● asking simple questions and recognising that they can be answered in different ways.
● performing simple tests.
● identifying and classifying.
● using their observations and ideas to suggest answers to questions.
● gathering and recording data to help in answering questions.
Design and Technology
In this study, we will be looking at structures and how we can best make chair for 'baby bear' from Goldilocks and the three bears.
P.E. - Athletics
In PE, our focus is Athletics. In our learning, we will explore focus on developing fundamental skills in running, jumping, and throwing. We will understand when to vary our pace and direction while running, jump for height and distance, and throw for accuracy, as well as developing our skills of teamwork and cooperation.
Our PE day is Tuesday. Please ensure that your child comes to school in the correct P.E kit and brings their school uniform to change into after their lesson. If your child wears earrings, these must be removed or provide tape to cover them. Ensure long hair is tied back away from the face.
P.S.H.E. - Engage/ Economic Education
We will also focus on the theme of Economic Education. We will recognise where money comes from and how it can be used. We will discuss the idea of spending and saving and understand why it is important to keep belongings, including money, safe. We will also learn about the different things on offer when we go shopping and how we need to identify the difference between the things we want and the things we need.
Computing – Information Technology - Creating pictures
In our computing lessons this half term, we will learn about Information technology: Creating picture. In this module, we will be able to:
- Use an online palette to select our colours
- Create an image online following Art movements
Music
In music this term we will be focusing on learning how to correctly play the recorder and focusing on the musical notes B, G , A. We will also learn how to read music so we can play a tune when reading a music sheet.
NUMBOTs – Every day 10 minutes
NUMBOTs is an on-line programme to boost addition and subtraction skills. It is available on a range of devices, including mobile phones. You can play online at NUMBOTs Game or download the NUMBOTs app. Playing little and often will significantly improve your child’s recall and understanding of number bonds and addition and subtraction facts. These are critical foundations in maths so we are excited by the impact NUMBOTs will have. In order to get the best out of NUMBOTs children should regularly play for short bursts of time over the week, there are 18 stages to complete!
If you have misplaced your log in details or are having trouble accessing the website, please email me to let us know.
READING – Every day 10 minutes
Please continue to enjoy your reading each day. Reading is fun and a great way to spend time together with your family, as well as developing our imaginations. Encourage your child to talk about what they have read and ask them a question or two about the book. This will help consolidate their comprehension work in school. Adults please remember to record what your child reads at home in their reading record. We will count all entries in the reading diaries weekly and award golden tickets to those who have read 20 times or more in a month.
Our book change day is Friday.
OXFORD OWL – One book a week
Oxford Owl is an e-book library to boost reading skills. Once your book has been read there is a short fun quiz to complete afterwards. Children will receive a golden ticket for every book they complete. Click on the link below to access Oxford Owl;
Oxford Owl for School and Home.
If you have misplaced your log in details or are having trouble accessing the website, please email me to let me know.
As always, thank you for your continued support with your child’s learning.
Miss Westwood and Mrs Watson