Year 2

Year 2 @ Mount Street Primary

Welcome to the Autumn Term in Year 2!

Year 2 Gallery 2024-2025

English

This term we will continue to develop our fantastic phonics and reading skills. Reading continues to be a priority our school and so we will practise reading every day so that we become fluent, confident readers. We will have the opportunity to visit the library in school and in the city - to explore reading books for pleasure! Stories take us all over this world and into other worlds too! We are enjoying exploring new books, stories and poems.

At the start of this term, all children will continue to advance their phonic skills further through our Read Write Inc program. If you are in the Language and Literacy group you will be exploring sections from some fantastic new books and reading much longer books together as a group!

We will focus on answering questions on a range of new texts by using some of the the 6 VIPERS reading comprehension skills. (Vocabulary, Inference, Prediction, Explaining, Retrieval, Sequencing).

In writing, we will consolidate and build on our learned grammar skills. We will learn how to write stories that will engage the reader with exciting detail and fantastic word choices as well as developing our ability to write non-fiction texts (information texts) and poetry (Acrostic). We begin the term looking at Poetry, specifically Acrostic poems, where we will write our own poems all about our current season Autumn. Then we will progress to information texts later on in the term.

This term we will also continue to practise our writing skills by completing creative writing and imaginative quick writes through the week! We have been focusing on handwriting and our writing is super! Ask us to show you. will be on hand writing too - our writing has to be a uniform size and neat.

Maths

In Maths, we will continue to practice our fundamental skills of place value, simple addition and subtraction to develop our arithmetic skills. We will begin the term practising how to create and count numbers by counting the tens and then the ones in numbers. We will then move onto addition and subtraction, learning different methods to help us solve calculations and using some larger numbers than in Year 1. You can help your child become more fluent with their Maths learning at home by regularly counting both forwards and backwards in 1s, 2s, 3s (this is new!), 5s and 10s.

Using the Maths Mastery scheme daily, we will continue to secure our understanding of place value and use a variety of apparatus, mental maths strategies and jottings to represent tens and ones within numbers to solve a range of question types. We will also broaden our understanding of addition and subtraction and a variety of apparatus will be available to support the children with their learning.

Science

In Science, we will learn about plants and growth. We will look at the basic structure of a seed and learn how they germinate before moving onto learning about the basic needs that animals have to stay alive.

Art

This term we will explore printing - we will be looking at other art as inspiration including photographs from a range of artists before designing and creating our own polystyrene prints. We will used tools to imprint a design on a polystyrene square before using ink to roll on and create some amazing prints!

This term we are learning how to make salads! We will think about healthy foods that would taste good in salads before practising and perfecting techniques that enable us to make our own salads which will include chopped lettuce, grated carrot and a range of cheeses!

Computing

In Computing, we will continue learning about safety. We will think about how to use a computer safely and effectively, will learn what computers are used for before learning about the different algorithms used in daily electronic equipment.

Geography

This term's geography will learning all about maps. We will learn about scale, direction and think about different maps in terms of their locality before having a go at creating our own maps!

Music

In our Music lessons, we will be learning about pulse, pitch and rhythm using our bodies, voices and some instruments to do so. Later on in the term we will be learning about orchestras and what it means to be part of and play in an orchestra.

In PE, we will develop our fundamental skills of moving our bodies in different ways around a range of apparatus. In gymnastics we will be using our bodies to roll and create shapes before learning how to link these together to create simple sequences. At the start and end of each PE session we will also be completing our 'daily mile' to ensure the children have both healthy, happy minds to help them learn better and have more positive attitudes towards learning.

PHSE

For the first half of term we will focus on 'Being me in my world', thinking about democracy, rights and responsibilities. After half term, we will focus on differences between ourselves and our peers whilst also thinking about choices and how to make the right choices in different scenarios.

In RE, we will begin by thinking about the religion of Islam before focusing on the Christian celebration of Christmas before we break up for our Winter holidays.

Home learning

This will be set at the following times:

Home learning will be given out on a Friday (English and Maths ) and will be due in on the following Friday. Spelling Home learning will be sent home on a Friday to be quized on the following Friday.

Home learning will bet sent home in a paper format. Sometimes we will send the learning on Teams.

Reading – 10 minutes reading daily. We ask that an adult signs the reading diary and it is brought into school every day. The children will bring home Read Write Inc books that match their phonics group and reading levels. They will be able to decode these independently to you. We encourage them to read the same RWI book 3 times - by the final read their confidence and expression!

Numbots - an exciting way for your child to practice their maths skills daily at home. I Can't wait to see your child's weekly score! I have set 10 minute targets weekly.

Games and PE

Children will need their PE kit in school all week as children MUST have P.E. kit to take part for health and safety reasons. Lessons are Wednesday and Thursdays.

Kit: Trainers, white shirt, blue/black shorts, football/trainer socks.

In colder weather, a plain tracksuit may be worn outdoors for games.

Please ensure that all items of clothing are named. A small named bag containing your PE kit is all that is necessary as cloakroom space is limited. Please keep your PE kit in school and we will ensure that it is sent home each half term for washing.