Welcome to Year 2!
With our curriculum offer, we strive to ENABLE and INSPIRE children to be happy, healthy and successful in their learning.
A warm welcome to the Year 2 area of the Sheringham website. Here you will find important information about the year ahead.
This year, our Year 2 team includes:
Ms A Wood, Year Group Leader (Class 2W)
Ms C Russell, Class Teacher (Class 2R)
Ms Y Islam, Class Teacher (Class 2I)
Ms F Boudebza (Educational Assistant)
Ms M Farmhouse (Educational Assistant)
We're really excited about our curriculum in Year 2. Please read on for more details about what we're learning this year. To find out more, visit our website's curriculum area or have a read about the specific skills and knowledge in the National Curriculum here
Physical Education
Physical Education (PE) is a really important part of our curriculum, supporting physical health and wellbeing as well as developing key skills such as teamwork. Your child will have 2 PE lessons a week - one with their class teacher and one with our PE specialist, Mr Owusu.
Please check your child's PE days (below) so that you can make sure they're wearing appropriate clothing to school on these days (jogging bottoms or leggings, a white t-shirt and trainers - plus a sweatshirt/jumper in colder weather).
Reading
We love reading at Sheringham and know that it is a really important part of our curriculum. In Year 2, we use the Read Write Inc. (RWI) programme to teach phonics through engaging lessons. Children learn to recognise and blend sounds to read words, while developing their confidence and fluency in reading and writing.
We also spend 10mins at least twice a week reading a book where we can practise fluency and accuracy while reading.
Developing a love of reading is a huge part of our curriculum. We'll be enjoying a range of text types and authors, including:
Writing
Our writing curriculum focuses on key areas including handwriting, spelling and composition. This year, we will read and share lots of high quality texts to engage the children and spark their imagination. We will focus on:
- Developing more complex sentence structure (compound sentences, subordinating clauses)
- Using phonics to support with identifying sounds to spell unknown words
- Expanding our ideas using interesting vocabulary
- Ensuring children are able to articulate their ideas clearly before writing by including lots of oracy opportunities
We'll be applying our learning across a range of text types, including:
- Stories set in other cultures
- Stories with a familiar setting
- Structured visual poems
- Non-chronological reports
- Explanation text
We dedicate time each week to teaching handwriting. It is important for children to form their letters from the correct starting point.
Maths
We're really passionate about maths at Sheringham! Children have two maths sessions a day. Our main lessons use the DfE approved mastery scheme Maths No Problem to support children to develop their knowledge and understanding. In addition, children have a daily fluency session using Mastering Number.
This year, we'll be learning about:
- Number and place value- count to and across numbers to 100
- Addition and subtraction within 100
- Multiplication and division of 2, 5, 10
- Fractions (half and quarters)
- Measurement - Length, Mass, Temperature, Volume
- Time
- Money
- Pictograms
- Shapes - 2D and 3D
- Fractions - halves, quarters, thirds
Children have access to Numbots. Your child's login details will be in their red homework books. Click here to login.
Wider Curriculum
We ensure our children have a rich, broad and balanced curriculum. We block our curriculum so that children can immerse themselves in a topic for a number of weeks.
This year, the curriculum includes:
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Autumn 1 |
Autumn 2 |
Spring 1 |
Spring 2 |
Summer 1 |
Summer 2 |
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Art - Painting and Drawing Geography - Understanding the countries of the UK Computer Science - Coding on Scratch Jnr |
RE - Where does the world come from? Science - Uses of Everyday Materials DT - Textiles RE - Stories Jesus Told |
RE - Forgiveness Geography - Understanding Europe Art - Printing |
Science - Growing Plants DT - Cooking and Nutrition |
RE- Why do people fast? Art - 3D Design & Sculpture History - Significant Individuals RE - Special Books |
DT Structures and Mechanisms Science - Living Things and their Habitats, Animals including Humans |
Children also have a weekly RHE lesson using Oak Academy.
Enrichment
The Sheringham curriculum is enriched with lots of experiences, workshops and educational visits. This helps bring learning to life and gives all children the experiences they need to fully access their learning.
This year, our offer includes:
- Manor Park library visit
- Science workshop
- Fire Brigade visit
- Trip to the seaside
In addition, Year 2 will be invited to attend a school movie night. This opportunity is designed to give children the opportunity to build positive relationships, develop their independence and have fun! It takes place in Autumn 2 and more information will be shared via Arbor, closer to the time
Homework
Our homework offer is designed to give children time to practice their developing skills.
The main focus is reading. Every child will bring home a book once a week. We ask that parents sign their children’s reading journals at least 5 times a week so that teachers can be aware of how children are getting on with reading at home.
In addition, we send home weekly spellings and maths homework. This is shared in print and on Google Classroom. The children also have access to Reading Eggs, to help develop their reading skills, and Numbots, to help develop their maths fluency and accuracy.
We invite parents to workshops over the year, to share information about how we learn at school. Please check our weekly Arbor updates for upcoming workshop dates.
- 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
If you are having trouble accessing Google Classroom, have misplaced your child’s Red Book or Reading Journal, please speak to the class teacher or email info@sheringham.lihtrust.uk with your child's name and class in the subject box.
