Welcome to Year 2
A Very Warm Welcome to Year 2
Welcome back to the first part of the Summer term 2025 from all of the Year 2 team.
We are really excited to jump into teaching and learning with our amazing ' art and PSHE' led topic.
'What would the world be like without colour?'
This half term we will be exploring colour thinking about the different emotions colours make us feel. We will be learning about primary and secondary colours and what happens when we mix them together to make different colours. Our whole class reading books are linked to colour in 'The Day the Crayons Quit', 'Mixed' and 'The Colour Monster' and poetry. In PSHE we will be thinking about different emotions and how they make us feel.
Over the half term, we will also be learning:
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- MATHS – Revision of place value, addition/subtraction, multiplication/division, shape, time and fractions
- SCIENCE – What plants need to grow and the life cycle of a plant
- COMPUTING – designing a simple algorithm
- GEOGRAPHY – looking and making simple maps, compass points and naming the countries in the UK
- ART – painting and colour mixing, primary and secondary colours and how to create tones by adding black and white paint
- RE – rites of passage and Christian marriage and baptisms
- PSHE – staying safe at home and road safety
- MUSIC – Learn to sing Tańczymy labada following a changing beat and tempo, playing percussian accompaniment
- OUTDOOR LEARNING – planting and growing
- PE – athletics, country and Maypole dancing
PE and Outdoor Learning for Summer 1
Please bring the correct PE kit and Outdoor Learning kit to school on the following days:
PE kits consist of PLAIN black shorts or jogging bottoms, PLAIN white t-shirt, and trainers. Children should wear their school jumper too. The children will take part in Outdoor Learning every other week and they will need wellies, warm clothing and a waterproof coat. Outdoor Learning kit will need to be brought into school in a named bag.
Please bring PE kits into school at the beginning of the half term and leave them in school until the end of the half term.
This ensures that PE kit is in school when needed.
Outdoor learning kit goes home after each session and should be hung in the outside classroom before the start of the school day.
Topic Knowledge Organisers
We will be using these topic knowledge organisers throughout the half term to help children recall key facts and vocabulary and to support them in all areas of the curriculum. Please use these at home with your children to discuss their learning.
Homework in Year 2
Each week, we ask that all children read with somebody at home at least three times a week and record it in the Communication diary. This could be any adult, an older sibling or friend. Every little bit of reading really does help children on the learning journey and these children tend to make the most progress throughout the year. We also ask that all children practise the printed texts that are sent home each Friday in their reading bags. There will also be weekly spellings which can be found in Communication Diaries, along with the logins for NumBots and Times Table Rock Stars so that the children can practise their mathematical skills.
Housekeeping
Please ensure that everything that your child brings to school (including OL kit, PE kit, hats, scarves, gloves and water bottles) has their name on it. Name tags are great, but biro on a label is just as good. This will hopefully make it possible to return any lost property.
