Welcome to Year 2! We have some very exciting learning happening this year and we can’t wait to share it with you!

In English, we are very excited that our portal (the Bewitched Bean Tin) to Professor Klunk has reopened. We have crossed the Bridge of Doom and are now being sent on some amazing Curious Quests!

Every day, our Faithful Friends will send a message through the Bewitched Bean Tin challenging us to create, describe, invent and be amazing writers!

Our focus this term is building our understanding of sentence structure and learning how to improve our sentences by adding adjectives, conjunctions and sentence starters.

We are going to explore the book ‘The Storm Whale’ and then use our knowledge of habitats to create a non chronological report.

In Maths, we will begin by deepening our understanding of place value. We will be partitioning numbers into tens and ones using practical and written methods, including exploring how you can exchange one ten for ten ones. We will also be developing our ability to count in 2s, 3s ,5s and 10s starting from different numbers. We will then move on to learning about time where we will build on our learning from Year 1, with an aim to read clocks to 5 minute intervals. Finally, we will be using our place value knowledge to help us with addition and subtraction.

Our Geography question this term is ‘Would you prefer to live in a hot or cold place?’. Each lesson, we will focus on a different key question, to eventually be able to answer this question. Our other key questions throughout the term will be:

• Where are the continents?
• Where are the coldest places on Earth?
• Where is the Equator?
• What is life like in a hot place?
• Do we live in a hot or cold place?
• Would you prefer to live in a hot or cold place?

In Science, we are learning all about Habitats! We will look into life processes, identifying different plants and animals in various habitats, recognise how different habitats provide animals and plants the needs to survive and look at different food chains.

In Computing, we will be developing our word processing skills. We will be learning to touch type, find out about and use different keyboard short cuts and then finally present information clearly.

In Art, we will be learning about the artist L.S. Lowrey. We will be developing our understanding of sketching, how to create different tones and shading using sketching pencils and our observational drawing skills. 

In PE, we will be developing our gymnastics skills and our multisport skills with our wonderful Signature Sports team.

In PSHE, we will be exploring the question, ‘How can we look after our bodies?’. We will be looking at the effects of our diet, sleep, drinking and how we can make healthy choices.

In Music, the children will be listening to different styles of music and will be exploring beat and pulse. They will also listen to how music can be influenced by the environment.