Year 2 Summer Term

Welcome to Year 2!

First, a reminder about housekeeping, lots of children's uniform and PE kits still do NOT have names in and it is making it very difficult to find misplaced uniform.  

For our Topic work this half term, we have a History and Geography based topic about different significant explorers.  Children will explore why some people are considered to be significant before going on to learn about some significant explorers. Children will learn about and discuss the explorations of Ibn Battuta, an explorer who lived around 700 years ago and about Matthew Henson, a famous polar explorer who may have been the first man to step foot on the North Pole. They will use a range of oracy skills as we compare Matthew Henson’s polar exploration to a much more recent exploration by Felicity Aston, the first person to walk across Antarctica alone on skis using her own power. The lesson about Neil Armstrong, the space explorer, looks, not only at his achievements, but asks the children to explore if it is right that Neil Armstrong should be remembered more than the others involved in the Apollo 11 mission. Finally, the children investigate how we remember significant people and how values may change over time in relation to this. The lessons on Matthew Henson and Felicity Aston talk about racism and sexism in simple terms. Have a look at our knowledge organiser for more information.

We will be working hard to learn many key concepts in English and Maths. In English, we will be writing different genres based on our English text Nibbles together with working hard on the 4 operations in maths and looking at fractions and how to tell the time.

Reading is a crucial part of your child's learning so please make sure that you read daily with your child and ensure they learn their spelling homework.  Additional phonics videos to watch will also be sent home via class dojo for children who are still on the RWI programme. 

Year 2 have a P.E lesson on Thursday afternoon, so please make sure your child has the correct PE kit and ensure all items are labelled with your child’s name.  

Please also make sure you child has a water bottle in school each day so they can stay hydrated!

If you need to speak to me regarding any issues, my door is always open.

Thank you for your continued support.

Mrs Howarth

Homework

Spelling Homework - Given out Friday, test the following Friday

Maths Homework - This will be given out on a Friday and needs to be completed by the following Thursday

Reading & Phonics- Please read with your child daily.  Phonics reading books need to be read 3 times before we will change them to help children increase their fluency. 

PE

Thursday  - Please have full PE kit - white top, black shorts and black pumps.