Welcome to Year 2!
Welcome to the Year 2 Curriculum overview for the Autumn Term. With our curriculum offer, we strive to ENABLE and INSPIRE children to be happy, healthy and successful in their learning.
Physical education
Your child will have 2 PE sessions a week. One with their class teacher and another with our PE specialist. Please check your child’s PE day and ensure they are dressed in appropriate PE uniform on these days (jogging bottoms/leggings/white t-shirt, jumper and trainers).
2A: Wednesday and Thursday
2N: Tuesday and Wednesday
Autumn Curriculum
Reading
In year 2, most pupils transition from phonics to whole class reading lessons. During the Autumn term children will continue to learn sounds, following the RWI programme. They will use these sounds to read books appropriate to their reading level. Once children complete the RWI program they will be developing their comprehension through the programme Talk Through Stories. Within these lessons, children will develop their vocabulary, understanding of characters and the main ideas within a text.
In addition to daily phonics lessons we will also be sharing a class story with the children each day. These texts support their comprehension and language development.
Please record any reading you do with your child in their R@homebook.
Writing
In English, we will be reading lots of high quality texts to engage children and spark their imagination. We will use these books as a stimulus for writing, drama and artwork, with a strong focus on developing language.
Students will have opportunities throughout the week to develop their handwriting, spelling, letter formation and sentence structure. This term will be exploring this by writing book reviews, poems and stories.
Each Friday, spelling words will be shared on Google Classroom and children will be tested the following Friday.
Remember you can practise you handwriting with the help of the Letter Join website:
Username: lj5501
Password: home
Maths
Our maths learning will focus on:
- Place value, with a particular focus on tens and ones.
- Addition and subtraction, introducing the column method.
Each Friday, a few maths questions will be shared on Google Classroom and children will be tested the following Friday. These questions will reflect what we have been learning that week and families are encouraged to use these questions to make their own.
Remember your child has a Numbots account, their log in details are found in their R@Homebook.
Geography
Through our geography unit ‘comparing regions of the UK’ we will be learning:
- The countries and capitals cities that make up the United Kingdom
- To identify geographical similarities and differences between places in the UK
- To identify and understand key aspects of physical geography. e.g. trees, plants, rivers, beaches, oceans,
- To read and use simple maps, atlases and globes to identify the UK and its countries.
Jigsaw
Our whole school theme this half term is ‘Being Me in My World’, where we will be learning about what to do when we feel worried and how we can make our time at school as happy, fair and safe as possible.
Art
Though our topic ‘Painting and Drawing’ we will be learning:
- To use different brushes and tools for specific purposes.
- To explore the effect on paint of adding different materials
- To create pattern and shape through selected use of primary and secondary colours.
We will use these elements to create our own abstract artworks.
Religion
This term we explore forgiveness through the lens of religion. We also learn more about Jesus Christ and the stories he told. Our R.E curriculum is agreed upon by the local SACRA and promotes the British Values.
Homework
- Homework is uploaded every Friday to Google Classroom
- A spelling test is taken each Friday and recorded in your child’s Red Homework Book
- A ‘Home Project’ is shared at the end of each term, also on Google Classroom
- Your child is encouraged to borrow a book from the class library at least once a week
- Your child is expected to read each night and complete their R@Home Book
If you are having trouble accessing Google Classroom, have misplaced your child’s Red Book or R@Home Book or have any other questions, please speak to the class teacher or email info@sheringham.lihtrust.uk with your child's name and class in the subject box.
You can visit our subject pages to find out more about how we learn across the curriculum at Sheringham, including our specialist programmes.
