Year 2 2024 - 2025

Welcome to the Year 2 Page

Our Year 2 teachers are:

Mrs Hiblin (2H) and Miss Crossley (2C)

Our Year 2 LSA is Miss Smith

STAR ASSESSMENT

Important Information

2C PE: Tuesday                2H PE: Friday

 Children can come to school in their PE kit on these days.

Our daily homework is to read to an adult at home and practise our times tables and spellings in order to ensure we make the best possible progress during our time in Year 2. To record your child's reading, please fill in their reading record.

                                                 2C test times tables on: Monday

                                                   2H test times tables on: Tuesday

                                              We test spellings on: Friday

A typical day in Year 2 looks like...

8.20 - Starter of the Day

8.40 - 9.30 - English

9.30 - 9.45 - Maths Meeting

9.45 - 10.00 - Break Time

10.00 - 11.00 - Maths

11.00 - 11.45 - RWI

11.45 - 12.45 - Lunch

12.45 - 1.00 - Science Meetings or Intervention

1.00 - 1.20 - Handwriting

1.20 - 2.30 - Wider Curriculum Lesson

2.30 - 3.00 - High Quality Class Reading

Click here to download our yearly overview

Intrepid Explorers:

Our first topic is Intrepid Explorers! We will be learning all about the continents of the world in geography, and the explorers who've been there in history! In art, we will learn about colour and texture, and in music, we learn about the different types of instruments. We read some fantastic texts about people who have visited new places, such as Where The Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak and Tom Crean's Rabbit by Meredith Hooper. After half term, we learn more about the Polar regions, including the explorer Captain Robert Falcon Scott, and we learn about how animals are adapted to survive in cold places. Please see the Knowledge Organiser section of the website to discover what your child will learn during this topic.

Into The Woods:

In Spring, our topic is Into The Woods. We learn all about different plants and their lifecycles in Science, and we spend lots of our time in Forest School! In English, we read traditional Fairy Tales and even some modern twists on them, especially those by Anthony Browne. We also read Leaf by Sandra Dieckmann. In history we learn all abouts castles, and in geography we learn about the physical features of land, as well as developing our fieldwork skills. We even visit a local castle! In DT, we create our puppets based on a fairytale character. Don't forget to have a look at the Knowledge Organiser section of the website to find out more about this topic!

Beside The Seaside:

In Summer, our topic is 'Beside the Seaside!'. We learn about The Victorian era, and their seaside holidays. We even go on a trip to the seaside to experience it for ourselves! We read Winnie at the Seaside by Valerie Thomas, and we create potions whilst working scientifically just like Winnie the Witch! In geography, we learn all about how seasides are different to Doncaster, and we also think about the things that they have in common. In Science, we learn about the different animals who live in coastal habitats, and we also think about the effect that humans have on coastal areas, inspired by the book A Planet Full Of Plastic by Neal Hayton. See our knowledge organsiers for this topic to find out more!

Our Learning Journey so far...

2024 - 2025

Intrepid Explorers - Autumn Term

We love our weekly library sessions. We read a range of fiction and non fiction texts, role play traditional stories and tell our own stories using the story spoons.

We received a special parcel today all the way from Antartica! It was a mysterious egg! What could it be?

In History we loved learning about the Titanic. We received a ticket to board the unsinkable ship and experience a dinner in First, Second or Third Class. Which do you think we prefered?

We worked as a team to order the key events of the night the Titanic sank and then retold the tragic event of the sinking using play-doh. 

In Science we planned and carried out an investigation to test the absorbancy of different materials.

In Art this half term we are investigating and imitating abstract art. We started off by investigating tints and shades using the primary colours.

We then thought about how colours can convey emotions.

In our Computing lessons we have been learning about coding. We have learnt to use key press events and have investigated input and out put devices.

We had a spooktacula time on our Halloween Party Day.

  We are getting really fast on TTRS now!

In DT we are designing and making our own hand puppets. We practised over stitch and running stitch.

We the designed and made our own Arctic animal hand puppet.

In maths, we have investigated a range of strategies to solve addion and subtraction problems.

We had a great day in our Titanic workshop with One Day Creative !

  We celebrated our differences on Odd Sock Day 2024.