Wonder, Believe, Shine & Achieve - Welcome to Year 2!
Autumn Term
During the Autumn Term, Year 2 will embark on a cross-curricular project focused on London. Approaching the topic as a team of specialist experts, the children will explore map work of key London landmarks, the River Thames, the London Underground, and wider city transport systems. These studies will provide inspiration for their writing, enabling them to create original stories, character descriptions, biographies, and poetry. In addition, the class will investigate London’s architecture, using it as a stimulus for both art and design technology projects.
Our whole class reader this term is ‘Flat Stanley’ by Jeff Brown and ‘Diary of a Killer Cat!’ by Anne Fine.
In Maths, the children will be looking at place value, numbers up to 100, subtraction and addition including word problems. The children are encouraged to use TT Rockstars to practise their times tables.
Using the newly launched ‘Source to Summit:Lighting the Path’ programme, Year 2 will look at the books of the Bible, Noah’s Story and Baptism with a focus on the meaning of Covenant and Testament.
Homework
The children are expected to read for approximately 10-15 minutes every night with an entry in the reading record.
Each week the children are given homework for literacy and numeracy in a separate homework book. The literacy may include simple sentence work, spellings, grammar and punctuation tasks, story writing or character description. The numeracy work may include simple number work, a shape or money activity or some problem solving. Where possible, homework is linked to current learning either to recap on teaching, practise skills or link to topic work.
It is expected that the child should be able to access their homework with limited support from parents.
In addition to this, the children also receive weekly spellings to learn. They are encouraged to use them in sentences in order to develop understanding.
Homework and spellings are given out on a Friday and expected to be returned by Wednesday morning.