Year 2
September 2024: Welcome to Year 2!
Welcome back to school after what I hope was a fantastic summer holiday.
This term our main topics are 'The Great Fire of London' and ‘Our Local Area’. Keep an eye out for pictures of the children at work in their new class as the weeks progress...on this webpage and on their Seesaw account.
I have attached the overview of the term's topics.
PE days are:
Monday - Games with Mr Fyfe (outside weather permitting)
I would recommend sending your child to school without earrings on PE days. If not, please ensure your child can remove their own earrings (there is a mirror in class or a friend will be invited to help them). If they can’t put them back in, I will send them home in an envelope or you can send in a little pot for them to place them in safely so that they do not get lost from class to home. All clothing and footwear needs to be clearly labelled.
Homework and Class Newsletter:
Homework will be set each Thursday or Friday and sent home via the NO REPLY email. Spellings will usually be tested on a Thursday or Friday – we aim to photograph the results when we have time and add to Seesaw so you can see how well they have done and which ones may still need some practise. Library and reading quizzes will be completed on the following days:
Monday - Matthew Team
Tuesday - Mark Team
Wednesday - Luke Team
Thursday - John Team
Library bedtime books are to be shared together and they will not be quizzed on these - they have a Reading Journey sticker on them and are not necessarily at your child’s reading level and can be enjoyed together with an adult reading to them if necessary.
Autumn 2024 Overview
April 2024
Welcome back to school after what I hope was a restful and faithful Easter break.
This term our main topics are 'Where in the World' and ‘Regal Royalty’. Keep an eye out for pictures of the children at work as the weeks progress...on this webpage and on our Seesaw account.
I have attached the overview of this term's topic.
Summer Curriculum Overview
RE Summer Term
PE days are:
Tuesday - Games with Mr Fyfe (outside weather permitting)
I would recommend sending your child to school without earrings on PE days. If not, please ensure your child can remove their own earrings (there is a mirror in class or a friend will be invited to help them). If they can’t put them back in, I will send them home in an envelope or you can send in a little pot for them to place them in safely so that they do not get lost from class to home. All clothing and footwear needs to be clearly labelled.
Homework and Class Newsletter:
Homework will be set each Thursday or Friday and sent home via the NO REPLY email. Spellings will usually be tested on a Thursday – results of these are photographed by your child and added to Seesaw so you can see how well they have done and which ones may still need some practise. Library and reading quizzes will be completed on the following days:
Monday - Matthew Team
Tuesday - Mark Team
Wednesday - Luke Team
Thursday - John Team
Library bedtime books are to be shared together and they will not be quizzed on these - they have a Reading Journey sticker on them and are not necessarily at your child’s reading level and can be enjoyed together with an adult reading to them if necessary.
Summer 2024 - What are God's treasures?
Each child chose a key chain from the tree and this will remind them of the special treasures in their lives. We held our keys in our hands as we reflected and praised God for the amazing treasures in our lives.
Summer 2024 - Prayer Partners Catch Up sharing our work and talking about how our work and scripture helps us to live our lives in God's image.
Summer 2024 - Learning about Judaism as Passover is celebrated. We created seder plates and discussed the items significant representation. We also learned about the story of Moses.
Summer 2024 - Class collective worship led by the children in class
Summer 2024-Science investigating absorbancy
Summer 2024-Art weaving in teams
January 2024: Happy New Year
Welcome back to school after what I hope was a fantastic Christmas break and hopefully feeling healthier and better than the end of our Autumn term.
This term our main topics are 'Hot and Cold' and ‘Extraordinary Explorers’. Keep an eye out for pictures of the children at work as the weeks progress...on this webpage and on our Seesaw account.
I have attached the overview of this term's topic.
Spring 2024 Curriculum Overview
February 2024 - English - working in teams to sort pictures and labels linked to our learning about the text 'What do you do with a tail like this?'
February 2024 - Celebrating Ash Wednesday, the start of Lent.
January 2024 - Maths - Learning about coins and giving change by playing 'shops' in class.
February 2024 - Anti Bullying Week - Children have had a circle time together to share what kindness looks like...then created their own booklets ‘Kindness is...’ They have also been working with different children in the class helping each other with work throughout the week. I led an assembly with the whole school on bullying behaviour and what this looks like and how we can change the behaviour to become a positive thing. Just because someone shows bullying behaviour once, doesn’t mean they have to do it again - behaviour is a choice that can be changed.
January 2024 - PE Fitness Tests
Prayer Partners - Year 2 and Year 4 have been matched together. Each person has a prayer partner from the other class and we meet together to talk, pray, share our thoughts and feelings about topics.
Prayer Bags and Collective Worship in Year 2 - Each week, we celebrate in class together with prayers, scripture and hymns. We use the CST animals to help us learn about how best to live God's messages and rules to make the world a better place and to become closer to God. The child who has had the Prayer Bag each week leads the collective worship by setting the table and sharing their prayer written at home.
CST Animals - We love learning about each animal. It helps us think how to be part of God's world living God's word in how we behave and act towards others in our class, family, community and the world. We look forward to receiving our CST jar each week so that we can recognise and nomninate children in our class when they are demonstrating these great qualities.
January 2024 - RE and Drama - Acting out parts of the mass
January 2024 - RE and Drama - Jesus Presentation at the Temple
September 2023: Welcome to Year 2!
Welcome back to school after what I hope was a fantastic summer holiday.
This term our main topics are 'The Great Fire of London' and ‘Our Local Area’. Keep an eye out for pictures of the children at work in their new class as the weeks progress...on this webpage and on our Seesaw account.
I have attached the overview of the term's topic.
Autumn Term Overview 2023
December 2023 - Key Stage One Christmas Nativity - The Noisy Nativity - The children sung, narrated and acted their amazing nativity and learned the true meaning of Christmas while using scripture to present this to parents and friends.
December 2023 - RE-based art work - we discovered the 'Adoration of the Shepherds' and discussed what we could see in the artwork and then created our own to reflect Jesus as an image/symbol in the middle of the page using bright and light colours and darker shades as we move away from this image - just like the artist did in the original piece.
December 2023 - Advent Preparations - We made our own Advent wreaths in teams and each week we discussed what each candle represented.
September 2023 - RE Creation Story team work to create posters to show scripture inspired by theatre visit ‘God’s Planet’
September 2023 - International Dot Day - celebrating the children's bravery, creativity and self-expression - God's special gifts to us to make us unique
September 2023 - Enjoying God's creations on out local area walk and learning to cross the road safely
Autumn in the Forest School
