TERM 1 and TERM 2

We would like to welcome you to Year 2 and hope the children will thoroughly enjoy our upcoming learning.

The first topic to start our school year is ‘Whizz, Pop, Bang’ and we are sure this is topic is one the children will find exciting, engaging and interesting! During our Hook Day the children were given the opportunity to make and bake bread rolls, as well as meeting two local firemen where they will have the opportunity to learn about the fire service and ask any questions that they may have about it. During Term 1 the children will learn about the Great Fire of London and the significant impact that historical event had on London as a city and the progression of the fire service to what it is today. Their history learning will then move on to finding out about Florence Nightingale and the impact she had on medicine and care in hospital which led to the much needed change to provide the medical service that we have in present times.

To start our English, the children will be writing instructions on how to make bread rolls. They will then study the text ‘Molly McDrew and the Great Fire of London’, focussing on how they can retell key events from the book, using a range of adventurous vocabulary to engage and interest the reader. They will also apply key skills taught in our Grammar sessions, including conjunctions, suffixes and power vocabulary to make our writing more interesting. Next term, the children will produce a non-chronological report and apply all the excitement of Christmas to their own poems!

In Maths, children will begin focussing on place value to 100, ensuring their digits are formed correctly and using their understanding of tens and ones to identify, order and describe different numbers. They will focus on representing numbers to 100 in a range of different ways which will eventually lead on to addition and subtraction. To end our Autumn term children will identify a range of 2D and 3D shapes and confidently explain their features and finding their lines of symmetry.

In Science, the children will begin to look at everyday materials. They will look at everyday objects and discover what materials have been used to produce these. They will be exposed to a range of vocabulary that we could use to describe these materials and begin to understand their properties and why this makes them important for their use. The children will complete a range of different experiments to put their theories to the test and find out all about the range of different materials.

Our focus this term for Art is collage. We will be looking into the work of the famous French artist Matisse, recreating one of his famous pieces, ‘The Snail’. We end the term with creating our final piece inspired by our learning around the Great Fire of London.

PE will continue this year twice a week with Mrs West and again with our PE teacher, Mr Heath.  In these lessons we will be doing gymnastics and working on our attacking, defending and shooting skills with Mr Heath.

This year the children will continue to deepen their understanding of Christianity during RE lessons. As well as deepen their understanding of Christianity, we will also explore and learn about the religion of Judaism.    

We are very excited to begin our new learning journey with the children in Year 2 and are certain that these will be a fun, engaging and memorable two terms!