Welcome to Year Two

Mrs Bates

Miss Ashfield

Mrs Prestedge

Mrs Pereira

Mrs Castledine

Mrs Sherwood

Rabbit class

Salamander Class

8:40 Children enter class and begin morning activity

9:00 Start

10:30 Break time

12:00 Lunch time

2:30 Break time

3:30 Home time (wait under the covered way)

Numeracy and Literacy (including ERIC time) usually in the mornings

Topic work and PE in the afternoons

Phonics once a day

PhonicsReading and WritingNumeracyIPC

•Systematic progression in phonic teaching following on from prior teaching year groups•Based on Government’s Letters and Sounds programme will support phonics in the new national curriculum•Supported by interactive lessons, phonic based reading material both fiction and non-fiction

Individual reading with adult Parents Class teacher Teaching Assistant

Reading in groups – ERIC Parents Class teacher Teaching Assistant

Differentiated literacy groupings within class Spellings/Skills : Monday and Tuesday Writing : Wednesday, Thursday and Friday

Groupings for their current level of knowledge reviewed every half term

Using ABACUS resources

Buildings and Structures Famous People

Our Environment Transport

Flowers and Insects Super Me

ART and DT Looking at the work of craftsmen Looking at the use colour and texture inside and on the

outside of buildings GEOGRAPHY Finding out about different houses, homes and other

buildings around the world. HISTORY Finding out about how buildings were made in the past Finding out how buildings have been used SCIENCE Testing the strengths of structures Finding out about materials used in structures Properties of materials and how they can change ICT ESafety and sending messages and emails MUSIC Beat listening to music and making music with instruments

ART and DT Working with line and tone using charcoal and pastels GEOGRAPHY Looking at the cities and rivers where famous people resided at

points in history using past and current maps Different ways to communicate across the world HISTORY Finding out Samuel Pepys, Guy Fawkes, Henry VIII, Alexander Bell,

Tim Berners-Lee Reviewing communication inventors and their inventions SCIENCE Understanding the states of materials Recording investigations and drawing on observations ICT Using the keyboard to produce digital text and pictures for an eBook MUSIC Exploring sound through famous musicians

ART and DT Looking at paintings of different environments – urban and rural

through the Constable and Hockney Finding out about colours and material selection making model gardens

GEOGRAPHY Finding out about plans and maps of our classroom and journey

to school Finding out the effects of any changes to the environment, good

and bad

SCIENCE Making electrical circuits and learning about electricity

ICT Coding roamers and digital devices

MUSIC Exploring timbre and texture in song

ART and DT Creating texture through collages of transport Making plans and building a vehicle Testing different vehicles GEOGRAPHY Finding out about different types of transport here/abroad Finding out about getting to other countries Thinking about the good and bad things about different types of

transport HISTORY Reviewing transport through the ages SCIENCE Reviewing forces used in transport ICT Using word processing to build factsheets MUSIC Changing tempo and music improvisation 

ART Review of Van Gogh’s sunflowers and our multimedia

interpretations Observational sketches of living things SCIENCE

About where flowers and insects prefer to live and growAbout how and where seeds growHow to set up tests to discover how plants use waterHow to grow lots of different thingsAbout the life cycles of insectsAbout ants and bees

ICT/Geography How to collect and store data about creatures in the garden MUSIC Understanding pitch 

DT Levers and moving mechanisms in a body model GEOGRAPHY Continents of the world and where food comes from How food is transported SCIENCE

Food chains and sources of foodImportance of exercise, eating healthily and hygiene

ICT Using graphing software to represent data collected in PE MUSIC Exploring sound through beat in song and percussion

instruments

PSHE supports the key values per half term

Friendship Courage Honesty Tolerance Perseverance Happiness

Celebrating successPrepared for learningSupporting positive behaviour

School rules

Class rules

Golden time

Golden tickets

PSHE/Assembly times

PE teaching covers:

Gym and basic movement control Dance Unihoc and ball skills Orienteering Swimming and games Athletics

Kit in school for every PE lesson Outdoor

Jogging bottoms, sweater, outdoor trainers Indoor

Shorts, t-shirt, plimsolls

1 session with teacher 1 session with sports coach

Swimming – summer term Parent helpers

Daily reading Book and record to return to school the next

day Word packs to practise in home and school

Weekly spellings New spellings to learn in home book Tests in test book left at school

Weekly numeracy Weekly reading questions

Begins after Christmas Occasional topic homework

Please ask any further questions in classrooms.

We look forward to seeing you and your children in September!

Thank you for coming tonight