Year 2
Dr. Kirby and Miss Stanley
Mrs Crompton
Welcome to the Year 2 web page. You will find Dr Kirby in 2MK and Miss Stanley in 2JS with Mrs Crompton working across both rooms, along with all of our wonderful Year 2 children. If you have any concerns or queries, do not hesitate to get in touch with the school.
On this page you can find:
- Class information including spellings and home learning;
- Information about our curriculum and learning, including an overview of our current topic.
Click on our logo to find out about our Year 2 Curriculum
KS1 SATs 2024 Information:
Please find the slides for our recent presentation on the KS1 SATs process here.
Year 2 Learning in Spring Unit 1
For Spring, unit 3, year 2 are becoming explorers. In history we are studying the lives of significant historical figures (Mary Anning and Neil Armstrong) to determine what they did and the impact it had. This is complemented by our two English texts, Amelia Earhart by Maria Vegara and Look Up! By Nathan Bryon, which will inspire our writing to inform (a recount of Amelia’s life) and writing to entertain with character descriptions of Rocket, a space-crazed chatterbox!
In science we are exploring everyday materials through experimentation to determine their useful properties and to discover which materials can change shape by squashing, bending, stretching and twisting. Our ‘hands on’ learning continues in maths where we are measuring length, height and mass using rulers and scales. The rest of our curriculum is looking as exciting as ever, in art we are looking at the Renaissance and will be recreating Leonardo da Vinci’s famous portrait. In P.E. children will be building strength, flexibility coordination and balance through yoga and we will be continuing to extend our knowledge of religion and the good news of forgiveness, peace and love that Christians believe Jesus brings. Lastly, we will be learning about another pioneer, a Mediaeval composer, Hildegard of Bingen.
We’re looking forward to all the exciting learning and adventures ahead!
Spellings will be sent out on Mondays to practice at home before the tests on the following Monday. Current spellings can be found online on the link to the right. Maths fluency questions are set on Wednesday and due back by the following Monday. On a Wednesday evening your child will be sent home with both their spelling test book and their maths home learning book so you can see how your child is progressing. We also strongly encourage the children to read at least three times a week at home and reading books will be changed every Thursday.
Please make sure children wear their PE kits for our sporting activities: we have Games on Tuesdays and PE on Wednesdays. Tuesdays Games lessons will be outdoors (weather permitting) and you may wish to consider your child having a tracksuit for the day. This must be PLAIN navy please. Please make sure all earrings are removed or covered with tape before school on these days.
Year 2 Medium Term Plan Unit 3
2MK Timetable
2JS TimetableKS1 Spellings
Year 2 Reading Workshop Slides