Year 2 2024 - 2025
Miss Bowen
Ms Howell
Meet the Team:
2H - Miss Howell, Ms Mohamed, Miss Osborne and Mrs Knight
2B - Miss Bowen, Miss Turner, Miss Osborne, Mrs Knight
If you have any questions, please speak to one of our Year 2 staff or email year2@almapark.manchester.sch.uk
Welcome
Welcome to Year 2! This year, children will continue to develop as enthusiastic and independent learners, with opportunities to challenge our thinking, take risks and learn from our mistakes.
Here, you can find an overview of the Year 2 Curriculum. You can use this information to discuss with your child what they have learned and continue to support their learning at home.
What's happening this half term?
Maths
This half term, we are exploring statistics, position and direction and reasoning. We are learning:
- How to read and represent data in different ways, including tally charts, bar charts and pictograms.
- How to describe position and direction using rotation and turns.
- How to solve reasoning questions using the four operations we have learnt.
We are continuing to learn the 2, 5 and 10 times tables, including multiplication and division facts.
English:
We will be writing a recount of a celebration using the past tense and sentence starters.
Our Talk for Write text is the Lighthouse Keeper’s Lunch. We will be writing a Defeating the Monster Tale. We will be focusing on character and setting descriptions using a range of vocabulary and punctuation. We will continue to focus on our everyday sentence targets of capital letters, full stops and the correct letter formation. We will also write a letter of persuasion to the greedy Captain Firebrand, who we read about last month.
Science:
We are learning about living things and their habitats. We will learn about animal habitats and food chains.
Click for the Knowledge Organiser.
Geography:
We are learning about Saving the Seaside. Children will learnt about what human and physical features of the seaside, local seaside towns and coastal erosion. We will also visit Formby Beach this term.
Click for the Knowledge Organiser.
Art:
We are learning about monoprinting. We will learn what a monoprint is and how to do one.
Click for the Knowledge Organiser.
Computing:
We are Detectives. Children will learn about internet and email safety. They will be able to send and receive emails.
Religious Education:
Children will learn about why caring for others is important.
Click for the Knowledge Organiser.
PHSE:
Children will learn about keeping safe and safe relationships.
Music:
Children will learn how to play the recorder.
PE:
Remember to come into school wearing your PE kit on the following days.
- Gymnastics - Monday or outdoor games
Kit: Black shorts or tight-fitting black leggings and a plain white t-shirt. Please ensure hair is tied back.
- Outdoor Games (run, jump throw) - Wednesday
Kit: Trainers, black shorts or tight-fitting black leggings, and a plain white t-shirt (a tracksuit top and joggers may be worn if cold). Please ensure hair is tied back.
Reading:
Please read with your child every day and comment in their reading record when you do. Reading books should be in school everyday for independent reading and will be changed everyday when required and signed.
Please use the Collins eBooks for Little Wandle books using your child's home logins. These books will be read in groups at school - click here
Homework:
Spellings will be sent out every week on Thursday, which children will learn for a spelling test the following Thursday.
This half term's BrainBuilder can be found here.
Year 2 children need to be able to read and spell these words - Year 2 Common Exception Words