Year 2

Welcome to Year 2!

Our Year 2 class is called Bramble Class – named after inspiration from the beautiful book, The Lost Words by Robert Macfarlane. You can find our class poem in the school entrance.  

Curriculum Learning

As the second part of our Key Stage One journey continues, we are exploring how transport has changed over time.  We love learning about inventions like the bicycle and the train.  Our Geography curriculum is also full of interesting learning, we learn about Cleethorpes, Cairo, UK landmarks and much more!  In art we will learn about sculptures and still life, we will create our own assemblages.  We will learn about lots of artists and their techniques.  We will become artists ourselves as we explore our very own styles.  In RE we will learn about the different beliefs about God in the Christian and Jewish religions.

Home Learning

Each half term will see a new half termly menu with a wide variety of learning tasks.  These will range from creative tasks such as draw one of the ships sailed by Christopher Columbus or make a model space shuttle, to discussion tasks e.g. tell your parents 5 things that you have learnt about space travel.  In addition to this, feel free to undertake your own ideas.

Maths home learning

We use Magma Maths to help us practise our maths learning. Children will be sent home with log in details to access the site.

Times Tables

Children will benefit from practising their times tables as much as possible. They can do this on TT Rockstars, which is a fun app that aids recall of facts. In Year 2 we learn the quick recall of x2, x3, x5 and x 10.

Reading at Home – reading is a key that unlocks different worlds and many places!

Please continue to share the love of books with your child. Encourage them to read/share books at least 5 times per week. This can be recorded in their Reading Record.  Reads will be counted and certificates awards for 25, 50, 100 and more reads. To celebrate 100 reads, children will get to visit RORY, our book vending machine which is full of great books. Reading should be a delightful, shared experience and we encourage you to revisit and re-read favourite books and stories.  

PE

Please ensure that children bring the correct full outdoor/indoor PE kit. Long hair should be tied back please and children should have no earrings in for PE due to health and safety.  Please LABEL ALL uniform and PE kit items.