Year 2
Here is the ‘Meet the Teacher’ information for Year 2: Welcome to Year 2 September 2020
Here is the PowerPoint from our recent zoom meeting regarding phonics testing and the year 2 SAT tests: St. Theresa’s Year 2 SATs meeting 12th October 2020
Please see the following for the end of year expectations for Year 2:
Year 2 Maths expected standard
Year 2 Reading at Expected Standard
Year 2 Reading at Greater Depth
Year 2 Writing Working at Expected Standard
Year 2 Writing Working at Greater Depth
Useful Websites for Home Learning
Teach Your Monster How To Read
The last topic our Year 2 class will be covering is ‘Cats, Men and Mice’. The children will be looking at the books such as ‘How to Hide a lion’ and ‘Dread Cat’. Using these texts the children will be writing postcards, letters and explanation texts whilst focusing on the grammar objectives of identifying verbs, adverbs and adjectives from the text. In Geography they will looking at identifying seasonal and daily weather patterns in the UK. For more details about this topic click the link below.
This half term to start of our Summer term the Year 2 class will be looking at the topic ‘Bounce’. The children will be looking at the importance of keeping fit and healthy and covering lots of different exercises and game in P.E. For literacy the children will be carrying on with their diary writing and using books such as ‘The Storm Whale’ and ‘The Dairy of a Wombat’ to help them with their writing. Click the link below to see the whole curriculum map.
For the second part of the Autumn Term Year 2 looked at the classic ‘Jim and the Beanstalk’ as part of their topic ‘The Scented Garden’. In Science they looked closely at the lifecycle of plants and naming the different parts of a plant and its features. Click the link below to see the overview of the topic and see all areas of the curriculum covered.
The Scented Garden Autumn Term 2 Planning Year 2
Year two spent the first half term learning all about pirates! They write diary entries as a ferocious pirate and used their knowledge of materials to come up with fantastic designs for their very own pirate ships to sails the seven seas! Click the link below to see the overview of the topic and see all areas of the curriculum covered.
