Year 2 – Hedgehogs - Year 2

Welcome to Year 2 – Hedgehogs Class

Hello and welcome to Hedgehogs class.

We are Mrs Matthews and Mrs Belsham. The Teaching Assistants are Mrs Adair & Miss Sturge.

Hedgehogs Class have got a very busy term lined up!

We are starting off the first half of the Autumn term with our History topic, A Blast from the Past! In History lessons, the children will take a look at some of the changes that have happened in their own lives so far. We will then begin to explore the events surrounding the Great Fire of London in 1666. We will investigate the types of buildings that were found in London at the time and look in greater detail at the types of equipment that were used to try and stop the fire from spreading. We will finish off our learning with a comparison of London at the time of the fire and the present day.

We will be learning about materials in Science, finding out the difference between an object and the material it is made of and experimenting to find out the different properties of a range of materials.

In Maths, we will be developing our understanding of the place value of numbers within 100. We will explore the value of each digit in a two-digit number and find different ways of representing numbers, using concrete objects and pictorial representations. We will be developing our partitioning skills too.

In the second half of the Autumn term, our topic will be Frozen Planet. In Geography lessons we will explore and map our local area. We will then look at different climate zones around the world and discuss in more detail what life in a polar climate might be like.

In Music lessons, we will be creating our own soundscapes and finding out more about timbre and dynamics, and how these things can change how we feel about a piece of music.

In Religious Education, we will be learning about festivals and times that are celebrated in different religions.