Year 2 - Summer 1 2025
Our Year 2 team this year is as follows:
Mrs West, Miss Spence, Mrs Di Micelli (Wed - Fri) , Mrs Bennett (Mon - Wed) and Mrs Smith (morning classroom support)
CLOTHING: PLEASE can you make sure all your child's clothing and belongings are labelled with their names especially as we move into summer with hats / caps.
As the weather improves you may want to bring in a labelled water bottle. Thank you.
PE
PE is on a Friday this half term. The children will need to come into school in their PE kit and please remove any earrings at home.
This half term our topic is Athletics and our lessons will be outside. The children will learn to perform jumps with control and balance, use agility to change direction at pace, to under-arm throw for accuracy and over-arm throwing for accuracy and power. The pupils will also learn how to apply these skills across a range of events.
Reading
We will be having a big focus on reading this year. The children will have daily phonics lessons where they will build on their phonic knowledge. During these lessons they will read a book matched to their phonics group.
Shared reading
For our shared reading we will focus on the following texts:
- The Secret of the Tattered Shoes
- A poems from the book The Owl and the Pussycat
During these lessons we will learn reading strategies and skills, comprehension skills, vocabulary and how to refer to the text.
Spellings
Spellings will be given out on a Monday and tested on the Friday that week unless there is a Bank Holiday and then they will be given out on the Tuesday.
Homework
Homework will be given out on a Monday and expected back the following Monday unless it is a Bank Holiday then it will be given out on the Tuesday.
English
Our text this half term is The King who Banned the Dark by Emily Haworth-Booth. The pupils will use this text to write a persuasive letter and a mistake narrative.
• MATHS
For maths we will learn about Fractions including recognising and identifying halves, quarter, thirds, three-quarters. Pupils will be taught to recognise these fractions in the context of shape, length and a quantity.
Pupils will also learn about position and direction and use the mathematical vocabulary to describe position, direction and movement. Pupils will also learn about rotation in terms of clockwise, anti-clockwise half and three-quarter turns.
For maths basic skills we will be learning from the Mastering Number programme.
Numbots
Pupils will be given a Numbots login which will be placed inside the cover of their reading logs. Children can access this in school and at home to play maths games and unlock new levels.
Science
This half term we will be learning about Plants and will continue to observe the bulbs we planted in the Autumn term. Pupils will also know that their bulbs have needed, light, water and the right temperature to grow. Pupils will compare seeds and plants and find out and describe how plants need water, light and a suitable temperature to grow and stay healthy.
History
Our topic this half-term is Modern Britons. Pupils will learn about the lives of significant individuals in the past who have contributed to national and international achievements. We will learn about Florence Nightingale, Mary Seacole and Kitty Wilkinson and how they have influenced modern day practices.
