Year 2 2023 - 2024
Class Teacher - Mr Beeston & Mrs Herbert-Jackson
Teaching Assistant - Miss Lomas & Mrs Kenny
General information
Mrs Herbert-Jackson will teach on a Wednesday PM and all day Friday.
PE days are Tuesday and Thursday
Homework will come home on a Friday and is due back by Wednesday.
Year 2 Favourite reads book will come home with one child per week on a Thursday and should be brough back the following Tuesday to be shared with the class.
Summer Term
Our Wonderful World!
What a busy term we have planned! This term we will be learning about the continents, famous explorers, habitats, animals and mini-beasts.
During the Summer term we will be teachng the following -
English - Fantasy world narratives; Explanation texts, Own version narratives; Guidebooks.
Maths - Mass, capacity and temperature; Fractions; Time; Statistics; Position and direction.
Science - The Apprentice gardner continued; Materials - good choices; What's in your habitat?
Art - Sculpt clay animals/mini-beasts; observation drawings.
DT - Puppets - joining materials.
Computing - Making music; Programming.
PE - Cricket; Athletics; Rounders
Spring Term
Fire, Fire!
We are very excited to start our new learning ‘FIRE, FIRE!’ This term, we are learning about dragons, comparing The Great Fire of London with The Great Fire of Nantwich and we will also make our own fire engines!
We will be visiting the Nantwich museum and looking around the town to find clues from the Tudor times.
During the Spring term we will be teachng the following -
English - Fantasy Stories, How to Guide, Non-Chronological report, character descriptions and instructions.
Maths - Money, Multilication & Division, Length & height and Mass, capacity & temperature.
Science - Materials and The Apprentice Gardner
Art - Exploring line, colour and pattern.
Computing - Programming a robot and Creating Music
PE - Dance and Netball; Gymnastics and Hockey
Autumn Term
ADVENTURES AT SEA
This term our focus is sea adventures.
We will start the term by learning about the UK, its four countries and the capital cities. Later in the term we will learn about the Great Fire of London, ready to compare it with the Great Fire of Nantwich in the Spring term.
Make sure you check the 'What we've been up to' page of the website to see photos of our learning.