Welcome to Year 2
A Very Warm Welcome to Year 2
Welcome back to the second 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 ' history and literacy' led topic.
'Why do we like to be beside the seaside?'
This half term we will be finding out about the history of going on holiday to the seaside from the Victorian times to present day, thinking about where we go and what we do when we get there. We are using the book 'The Sand Horse' by Anne Turnbull, which tells the story of a horse made from sand, who magically turns into white horse splashing with his friends in the sea. We will also be writing instructions to help us build sandcastles and make fork biscuits for our end of term picnic on the field.
Over the half term, we will also be learning:
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- MATHS – Measurements and geometry (position and direction), along with revision and revisiting of maths skills
- SCIENCE – What humans need to do to stay healthy
- COMPUTING – create programmes and run them using Scratchjunior
- History- looking at the history of holidays and why we like to go to the seaside
- DT – finding out about and making healthy sandwiches, designing and making sandwich boxes, cooking fork biscuits
- RE – finding out about Sikhism
- PSHE – keeping safe and changes
- MUSIC – finding out about Rock 'n' Roll music by learning the Rockpool Rock song, and singing songs about holidays
- OUTDOOR LEARNING – measures and position and direction
- PE – athletics and basketball
PE and Outdoor Learning for Summer 2
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.
