Year 2 2024 - 2025
Mrs Holt
Welcome to Year 2
Welcome back! We hope you have had a lovely break! We are in our final half term of Year 2!
This half term, we will be starting our Third Geography topic! We really enjoyed the first two topics, learning about penguins, polar bears, camels, Antarctica, The Arctic circle, and the Sahara Desert, then moving onto food and where it comes from. This half term we will be focussing on comparing and contrasting an area of the world that is different to ours. Our topic is called 'How does the geography of Kampong Ayer compare with the geography of where I live?'
In Science, we will be continuing our topic on Plants. After recapping the needs of plants, british plants, and parts of plants, we moved onto life cycles, fertilisation, and different types of plants. This half term will be focussed on seed germination and how plants mature.
In D&T, we will be designing and making our own puppets. We will be cutting out felt and sewing our creations together!
Phonics will continue to follow the same format. Most of Year 2 are beginning to learn spelling rules to help with their writing.
Your child will read twice a week in school. Please read 4 times a week, at home and write in the planner. Books will be changed when they have been read at home and at school. Please ensure books are in bags every day as there may be opportunities for your child to read independently throughout the week.
We will be continuing with the class library scheme. Books will be sent out on a Thursday, and will be changed every Thursday each week.
Homework will be sent out on a Friday, to be returned on the following Tuesday. Please allow your child some time to complete this independently.
Our PE days, this half term, are Tuesdays and Fridays.
Please make sure both PE kits are in school at the beginning of each week. PE kits consist of an indoor PE kit - yellow t-shirt, blue shorts, pumps, and an outdoor PE kit - unbranded jogging bottoms/leggings, an unbranded hoody/jacket, trainers and a plain t-shirt.
Earrings must be removed for PE, either in the morning or before a session, if your child can remove them and replace them themselves.
Mrs Holt and Mrs Kerns