Year 2 - Summer 2 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. Our PE kit is black shorts and a white T-Shirt.
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 Rosie Revere Engineer by Andrea Beaty. The pupils will use this text to write a
Invention Narrative and an Explanation Text.
• MATHS
For maths we will learn about Statistics and interpret and construct simple pictograms, block diagrams and simple tables. We will ask and answer questions related to interpreting and understanding the data.
Year 2 pupils will also revisit addition and subtraction using a range of contexts such as measure including money, time and measurements. Pupils will also engage in multiplication and division calculations and learn about the inverse.
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 Living things and their habitats. Pupils will learn that a habitat provides shelter, food and water for plants and animals living there. They will also learn that animals obtain their food from plants and other animals.
Geography
Our topic this half-term is Let's Go Safari. The pupils will have the opportunity to compare and contrast the physical features of a small area of the UK and a contrasting non-European country. Pupils will also learn to locate hot and cold areas of the world in relation to the equator and north and south poles.
