Welcome to the Year 2 class page!

The teachers in Year 2 are:

Miss Moran (2C)

Mrs Preston (2P)

Welcome to the Year 2 class page!

The children have been working extremely hard throughout the year and will be encouraged to keep this up into their final term of Year 2. Summer will be a busy term and we would like to continue the outstanding efforts and progress the children have already made.

Religious Education:

In RE, we are learning about the meaning of the period between Easter and Pentecost. By the end of the topic, children will have a better understanding of how the Mass we have today has been influenced by scripture. The children will develop their understanding of how the Holy Spirit is with us today and guide us to have a closer connection with God.

In Summer 2 our focus will be on the ‘Kingdom of God’. During this term we will explore the Kingdom as described in the Bible, both in the Old Testament and in the New Testament. We will then get the chance to discover where we can see the Kingdom of God in action in our own lives, in our local community of Hounslow and the wider world. 

During Summer 2, we will also place emphasis on exploring other faiths. We will have an assigned week to explore one of the five other main faiths around the world today: Islam, Sikhism, Hinduism, Buddhism or Judaism – this will be our school’s ‘Inter-Faith Week.’

English:

We will begin with a story called The Man on the Moon. We will be retelling the story of The Man on the Moon in our own words, focusing on suffixes and interesting sentence openers. We will then look at a fiction story called Rocket – Look Up. We will continue to explore the story through role-plays, hot seating and writing in role. Then we will look at the inspirational story of the astronaut Mae Jemison.

In Summer 2, we will look at the stories Meerkat Mail and How the Stars Came to Be. We will also look at the non-fiction book Lands of Belonging: A History Of India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Britain. We will write a poem inspired by this.

Please continue to spend time at home reading with your child every night as our school mission is to empower our children to love and appreciate reading for life.

Maths:

Time is one of the first topics we will cover in Maths. We will first recap o’clock and half past, before moving on to quarter past and quarter to. By the end of the year, the children will be telling the time at 5-minute intervals. Enabling your child to wear an analogue clock to school is permitted to help them with this concept. 

After that, we will be learning about position and direction, length and height, time and mass, capacity and temperature. Children will be using different metric units to measure, like metres and centimetres, and grams and kilograms. 

We will also use this term to consolidate key topics involving number and place value - the four operations mainly. Please continue to help your child learn their timetables and related division facts – recalling these quickly is an important skill that will really help them with maths! 

History:

In history we will be looking at significant people and what makes them significant. We will study Neil Armstrong and Amelia Earhart, and discover how their accomplishments have impacted our society. They will be able to answer questions about them and recognise that information comes from different sources. They will also accurately order the events they have learnt about, creating a timeline to demonstrate their understanding.

Geography:

Our topic for the next few weeks will be “What’s in a Region?” and through this topic we will be exploring the country of Goa. Children will look at maps, locate the country on a world map and compare life in Goa to their own lives here in the United Kingdom. The children will have opportunities to learn about traditions and lifestyles in Goa and be able to complete a range of cross-curricular activities to scaffold their understanding of the topic.

Science:

In the summer term, students will explore Living Things and Their Habitats. The children will discover and compare the differences between things that are living, dead, and things that have never been alive. Identify that most living things live in habitats to which they are suited and describe how different habitats provide for the basic needs of different kinds of animals and plants, and how they depend on each other. They will also describe how animals obtain their food from plants and other animals, using the idea of a simple food chain, and identify and name different sources of food.

Expectations:

As is the case throughout school, we expect and encourage all children to adhere to high standards of behaviour both in class and in the playground.

The children in Year 2 will continue to follow the set of Golden Rules that they created in Autumn 2. The children have all agreed to follow these rules with the understanding that doing so will create a happy learning environment that will help their learning.

Working together with parents and guardians plays a big part in establishing good relationships and standards of behaviour.

General Reminders:

• Please ensure that your child brings their book bag to school every day.

• Homework is set regularly and must be returned the following week. We really appreciate your support when helping children with homework. The task set is related to what we covered in class that week and provides a chance for them to consolidate their learning. 

• PE takes place every Tuesday morning. Please ensure that your child comes to school in their full PE kit.

• Please ensure that your child brings in a named bottle of water every day. Water should not be warm/hot.