Welcome to Year 2

Your Year 2 team are Mr Keane, supported by Ms Foster and Mrs Egan.

Our PE days are Mondays and Thursdays, and we have Terrific Tuesday sessions for creative outdoor learning every other Tuesday afternoon. Don't forget to wear appropriate clothing.

Homework will be set on a Friday. This is to be completed in Homework books and returned for marking by the following Wednesday. Reading books will be changed twice a week on Mondays and Thursdays. Please ensure that children return their books and Reading Journals on these days.

Summer Term

This term our topic is 'Our Cultural World'. We will learn about the continents and oceans before focusing our attention on Africa. We will consider the similarities and differences between the United Kingdom and Kenya and learn about the wildlife that inhabits the African continent.

In Science our topics will be "Plants" followed by "Animals, including Humans".

In Maths, we are following the White Rose Maths Scheme of learning and will be covering Fractions, Statistics, Time, and Position and Direction.

In English, we will use texts including 'Traction Man is Here', 'The Ugly Five' and 'Tom's Sausage Lion' to develop our reading and writing skills. We will also write persuasive letters, instructions and non-chronological reports.

We will also continue with daily Monster Phonics sessions to help us to recognise all the phonemes and graphemes found in the English language. This will help ensure we become fluent readers and accurate spellers.

In P.E, we will be doing Dance, Bat & Ball Games and Athletics, whilst Computing lessons will focus on carrying out online research and simple coding. In Music, we are learning to play the recorder. In Art, we will develop our sketching and drawing skills and create paintings in the style of African artist Tinga Tinga.