Welcome to Year 2!
Mrs. Wilson and Miss Leonard would like to welcome all of our new year 2 children back to school! We hope you all had a great summer and are ready for the new challenges Year 2 has to offer. We are really excited to start our Year 2 journey with our classes and have a lot of amazing and fun lessons planned for the curriculum.
Our English topic will be focused around the book ‘The Three Little Pigs’. Children will be looking at and exploring traditional tales and writing instructions. There will also be huge focus on phonics throughout this half term as we start to introduce our Read, Write, Inc phonics, reading and spellings.
For maths, we will be focussing on basic skills. We will count in steps of 2, 5, 10 and 3 and place value using dienes, numicon, place value cards and money. We will compare and order them using our place value knowledge. We will also begin adding and subtracting numbers, using apparatus such as number lines, hundred squares and numicon. We will move on to solve problems using the skills we have learnt.
In History, the children will be learning all about St George’s Hall and how it has changed over time. We will visit St George’s Hall where they will learn how it was used for different functions in the past to the present day.
During our science topic, children will be investigating different materials. This will be linked to our English topic as the children work out which materials will be best for the Three Little Pigs to use to build a safe and strong house.
During computing this half term, the children will learn how to take a good photograph and how to use lighting and effects to enhance their photos.
Our Art topic this half term will see the children exploring painting techniques and researching Liverpool artist Ben Johnson. We will take part in an Art workshop at The Museum of Liverpool and make collages of some iconic Liverpool buildings.
We will be exploring the theme of round and round for our music lessons.
Our RE and PSHE topics will focus on leaders and teachers and we will follow the Jigsaw scheme of ‘Being me in my own world’.
We are looking forward to getting to know you all!
Mrs Wilson & Miss Leonard
Some important information for Year 2 parents/carers:
- Home Reader books will be given out every Monday and should be returned to school to be changed every Friday. Children should read daily at home.
- We will be using school P.E kits this year so you do not need to send one to school with your child.
- It is important that every child has a water bottle in school each day.
Year 2 History Knowledge organiser 1.1
Year 2 Home School Sheet Autumn 1.1
Year 2 Science Knowledge Organiser 1.1