Year 2

Learning Link: Heroes and Heroines

This term will be focusing on the skills needed to be super writers through our Heroes and Heroines topic. We will study important figures and learn about the changes in nursing by looking at the lives of Florence Nightingale, Mary Seacole and Edith Cavell and compare these to modern day nurses. We will look at traditional tales and use these to inform our own contemporary stories. In Art and Design we will look at a local hero, E. H Shepard and illustrate in his style. The children will be learning how to keep healthy as heroes and heroines do! 

St. Dorothy:

Mrs Della Maestra: mrsdellamaestra@st-thomas.surrey.sch.uk

St. David:

Miss Davis: missdavis@st-thomas.surrey.sch.uk

Curriculum Newsletters for Autumn, Spring and Summer can be accessed here as they become available

The Curriculum Evening Presentation can be accessed here

Year Group reminders

Week Commencing: Monday 26th January 2026

Week B

Monday:

Tuesday:

Wednesday: Both classes in PE kit today please.

Thursday: Library book to be returned today if your child would like to change it. 

Friday:  2D Forest School.  Please see separate email for further details. Space for Me- Your child is invited to bring in a small item that they would like to talk about linked to our learning below.  Please can you support your child to be ready to talk about their object in front of the class.  Open afternoon - a chance for your child to show you some of their learning.

‘Break the rules day’ to raise money for our Busenya partnership school. School council mentors and teachers have shared the six ‘special rules’ which can be broken on this day only. There will be more details in this week’s newsletter and donations of £1 will be made available to pay on Scopay. Children can break any of the ‘special rules or a combination of all of them if they would like to.

Cold weather: Please can you send children into school with gloves and hats to wear during break, lunch and PE Lessons please. Base layers for sports are appropriate on PE days and ideally would be Navy blue in colour. School tracksuit trousers are to be worn in the winter to replace PE shorts.

Looking further ahead:

• Friday 6th February - 2D Worship
• Monday 9th February - Safer Internet Day Parent Session (Breck Foundation)
• Tuesday 10th February - Face to face parent consultation meeting
• Tuesday 10th February - Safer Internet Day
• Friday 13th February - Safer Internet Day workshop (Breck Foundation)
• Monday 16th February - Friday 20th February - Half Term

Reminders:

Please ensure all items are clearly named so they find their way back to the children (water bottles, snack pots, coats, jumpers, cardigans etc.)

Please return Little Wandle reading book (if applicable), reading book, reading record book and orange spelling book in plastic folder every Monday. Reading book and reading record book to be in your child’s school bag everyday please. Thank you.

Homework

Spellings:

Spelling test on Monday - all orange spelling books in school today.  Please follow the instructions on the inside cover and ensure the grid is completed and sentences are written ready for their weekly spelling test on the following Monday.

Maths:

Your child will come home with a maths booklet on Friday 23rd January.  Please ensure they complete Spring Term Workout 3 only and return their booklet to school by Thursday 29th January where we will mark it as a class.

Reading for Pleasure

Book of the Week: My Princess Boy by Cheryl Kilodavis.

RE

Galilee to Jerusalem

The children will learn the story of the choosing of the 12 where Jesus leads his 12 apostles through the use of Godly play.

Later in the week we will reflect on the ‘Our Father’ and talk about what it really means and how it can help us to lead better lives.

English

We will begin the week by writing the ending of our traditional tale.  There must be a moral or learning in the story.

The rest of the week will be concentrating on comprehension work.  It is vital that the children are able to answer questions accurately about what they have read for both fiction and non fiction texts.  We will teach skills to help them achieve this.

Master Readers (Year 2)

Text: Rabbit and Bear.  Rabbit’s Bad Habits.  By Julian Gough and Jim Field

Focus vocabulary this week: furious; irritated; bounded; halt.

Phonics/ spellings

Phase 5 phonic sounds: ‘ar’ spelt /al/ and ‘ar’ spelt /a/.

SPAG

Spelling

Depending on their group, they will learn to spell words where ‘er’ and ‘est’ is added to words ending in y. 

To spell words with ‘oa’ and ‘oe’.

To spell words ending in ‘ie’ for ‘igh’ and ‘ee’.

Grammar

Adjectives and adverbs.

Maths

Topic: Properties of shapes

The children will be sorting 3D shapes and then doing the end of unit check.

New Topic: Money

The children will be counting coins and notes and learning the value of each coin.

Here is the knowledge organiser for our next topic.

Science

Topic: Animals including Humans

The children will be describing how humans change and using their observations and ideas to suggest answers to questions.

Art

The children will be planning a front cover for a superhero comic.

Computing

The children will be continuing to develop their touch typing skills.

History

Heroes and Heroines

We will be plotting the route the Florence Nightingale took from England to Scutari Hospital and describing the conditions of this journey.

French

To recognise, say and write the name of 6 vegetables in French

Music

We will learn a new song with three pitches, and begin to identify the pitches as high/middle/low. We will learn how to identify a ‘rest’.

PE

Fitness

Describe how my body feels during exercise. Show hopping and jumping movements with some balance and control. Show determination to continue working over a longer period of time. Understand that exercise is good for the body and mind and how it can help with a healthy lifestyle.

Gymnastics

Explore and perform gymnastic actions (pencil/straight, tuck, star, pike, dish and arch) and still shapes.

Copy, create and link movement phrases with beginnings, middles and ends.

Net and wall

Development of racket skills and control. Next skill step is to return a ball with two hands on the racket. Accurately hit the ball over the net and play against an opponent.

Learning for Life

Topic: Healthy Eating

We will be wondering what is inside our bodies, keeping us healthy and learning about healthy eating, and how it helps something very special inside out tummies called our Microblome.