Year 2 – Owls - Year 2

Welcome to Year 2 – Owls Class

Hello and welcome to Owls Class.

I am Miss Pell and our Learning Support Assistant is Mrs Tiddeman.

A Blast from the Past!

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 also.

In English, the children will explore two books. The first will be ‘The Bear Under the Stairs,’ where they will learn about the four different sentence types, letter writing, sequencing, researching and creating a non-fiction report. The second book will be ‘The Bear and the Piano’ where the children will create predictions about the text based on clues they find. They will learn about expanded noun phrases and will finish the unit with an extended piece of writing.

In History lessons, the children will learn about the Great Fire of London in 1666, exploring what caused the fire, how it spread and its impact on the people and city of London. They will learn about historical sources, including Samuel Pepys’ diary, maps and paintings. They will find out about life in the past and compare it with life today, while developing their understanding of chronology, cause and consequence and historical evidence. In Science we will explore a range of everyday materials, including wood, metal, plastic, glass, and fabric. The children will investigate and describe the different properties of materials and consider why particular materials are suitable for different purposes. In RE the children will learn about three holy books; the Qur’an, the Torah Scroll and the Bible and listen to stories from each of them. The children will be designing, making and evaluating their own Tudor style house as part of their DT learning and in Art, the children will learn about portraiture. They will create their own portraits; making choices about line, colour and composition. In PSHCE, the children will learn about making healthy choices and how these choices can help them to feel happy, healthy and confident. In Computing, we will start the unit with an E-Safety lesson, where we will look at what is safe and unsafe to share online. In PE, the children will work together to create a dance to the theme of the Great Fire of London.

Pole to Pole!

In Maths, the children will continue to develop their addition and subtraction skills, before beginning to explore shape. They will use practical equipment, drawings and number facts to solve calculations and problems. In English, the children will explore fiction and non-fiction writing through the texts; ‘Wolves’ and ‘Me and You.’ They will write for different purposes, including letters, posters, retellings and information texts.

In Geography, the children will locate the North and South poles and the Equator on a globe and map. They will then use this knowledge to discuss different climates from around the world. They will compare physical and human features from the UK and Kenya. The children will also name the 7 continents and locate them on a world map. In Music lessons, we will be creating our own soundscapes and finding out more about timbre and dynamics as well as discussing how music can change how we feel. In RE, we will be learning about festivals and times that are celebrated in different religions and in PSHCE, we will be learning how families and communities can be similar and different. In DT, our unit will focus on mechanisms where the children will plan, design and make a moving Christmas cracker with levers and pivots. In Art, we will be learning the skill of printing where the children will be creating their very own Arctic polar bear scene using ink and printing tiles. In Computing, the children will learn about algorithms and how to debug them.