Year 2 2024 - 2025
Mrs Holt
Welcome to Year 2
Welcome back! We hope you have had a lovely break!
This half term, we will be starting our second Geography topic! We really enjoyed the first topic, learning about penguins, polar bears, camels, Antarctica, The Arctic circle, and the Sahara Desert. This half term's topic is all about food! We will be learning about where our food comes from, and hopefully answering the question "Why does is matter where my food comes from?" In this topic, we will be exploring various farming techniques, looking at transporting goods and the cost of our food on the environment.
In Science, we have now finished our animals topic, and are moving onto our term long topic of Plants. We will be recapping the needs of plants, british plants, and parts of plants, before moving onto life cycles, fertilisation, and different types of plants.
In D&T, we will be designing and making vehicles. This is part of our STEM topics (science, maths, engineering, maths). During this topic we will be looking at creating moving parts, axles and wheels, before creating our own moving vehicles.
Phonics will continue to follow the same format. Most of Year 2 are beginning to learn spelling rules to help with their writing.
Your child will read twice a week in school. Please read 4 times a week, at home and write in the planner. Books will be changed when they have been read at home and at school. Please ensure books are in bags every day as there may be opportunities for your child to read independently throughout the week.
We will be continuing with the class library scheme. Books will be sent out on a Thursday, and will be changed every Thursday each week.
Homework will be sent out on a Friday, to be returned on the following Tuesday. Please allow your child some time to complete this independently.
Our PE days, this half term, are Wednesdays and Fridays.
Please make sure both PE kits are in school at the beginning of each week. PE kits consist of an indoor PE kit - yellow t-shirt, blue shorts, pumps, and an outdoor PE kit - unbranded jogging bottoms/leggings, an unbranded hoody/jacket, trainers and a plain t-shirt.
Earrings must be removed for PE, either in the morning or before a session, if your child can remove them and replace them themselves.
Mrs Holt and Mrs Kerns