Year 2 Fir Class 2024 - 2025

Miss Brennan

Mrs Buttery

Support Staff: Mrs Praveen, Mrs Edwards, Miss Williams.


Miss Brennan	Mrs Buttery	Mrs Edwards

Curriculum information for Summer 1

English - Non-fiction- Information text ‘Holidays then’ compared with ‘Holidays now’. Fiction- Grandad's Secret Giant- Fantasy.

Maths – We will be covering units on length and height before moving onto mass, capacity and temperature. At the end of the term, we will start a unit on fractions.

Music – Musical structures (myths & legends).

Science – The children will be learning about animals including humans.

Geography – Our topic is ‘our wonderful world – what are the seven wonders of our world’.

DT – Mechanisms - fairground.

RE – What do humanists think a good life is about?

PE – Teambuilding and athletics.

PSHE – Citizenship

Computing – Robot algorithms.

Important Information

PE- Year 2 will have their PE sessions on Monday and Tuesday.

PE Uniform:

Team colour t-shirt

Plain black shorts

Black pumps for indoor PE

Trainers for outdoor PE

Tracksuits, sweatshirts and leggings can be worn for outdoor PE in colder weather

Ear rings must be removed and long hair must be tied back

Reading Book Changes

Expectations

It is expected that all children will read at home at least five times each week. This can be a mixture of reading with support from an adult and independent reading. It can be their home reader, a magazine, newspaper, library book, or any other book that your child would enjoy reading. All home reading should be recorded in home-school diaries, this can be as simple as individual date and signature and the book that has been read as well as comment about how your child has read.

All children at Whitby Heath read daily in class whether it be on a 1:1 basis or working within group. As a school, we aim for ‘Strive for Five’. Using our Dojo reward system to celebrate this achievement. As a result, parents will receive a notification of this via the Dojo app as well as children receiving a stamp in their Reading Record indicating their total number of reads each week.

Each child has an allocated day that their book/s will be changed, linked to their house teams:

Donaldson- Monday

Seuss- Tuesday

Dahl- Wednesday

Rowling- Thursday

In school, we use children’s Reading Records to keep a record of what the children are reading rather than a dialogue between parents and school. We love to see parent comments about how they have got on if you have listened to them reading aloud or have asked them some questions about what they have read. We look forward to catching up with parents about children's reading progress in our parent’s evenings.

Homework Information

Numbots Tasks: Set every week

Spelling homework: Bi-weekly (alternating with oracy)

Oracy homework: Bi-weekly (alternating with spelling)

ClassDojo

Should parents need to contact the Year 2 Team please send a direct message through ClassDojo. All communication from school will be shared in this way.

Other useful websites for learning at home