Year 2

Learning Link: Beside the Seaside

This term we will be learning about the seaside and how holidays have changed over the years. We will look at changes in transportation and the impact this has had on the places we can visit including comparing Guildford and Brighton. We will be focusing on Victorian seaside holidays in history and we will be celebrating our learning at our S=P+A+C+E day where we hope to have donkey rides and a Punch and Judy show!  

St. Dorothy:

Mrs Della Maestra

St. David:

Miss Davis

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 13^th July 2026

Week A

Monday: Both classes in PE kit today please.

Tuesday:

Wednesday: Both classes in PE kits today.  Family Picnic after school

Thursday: Library book to be returned today (no new books for the summer holiday).

Friday: Treat morning –your child can bring in a board game (no electrics please) as a reward for gaining enough Golden Tokens throughout the year. End of term – 2pm

Have a wonderful summer holiday!

Looking further ahead:

• New term starts Thursday 3^rd September

Reminders:

If you could send your child in with a glue stick we would be very grateful as we are running low.  Thank you!

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:

No spelling homework.

Maths:

No maths homework.

Reading for Pleasure

Book of the Week: The Truth Pixie by Matt Haig.

RE

Dialogue and Encounter

No lesson this week.

English

The children will complete their leaflet about a made up sea creature using all the features of non-fiction writing.  They will also write a letter to their new Year 3 teacher.

Master Readers (Year 2)

Text: Hotel Flamingo by Alex Milway

Focus vocabulary this week: rowdy; brute; dashing; astounding; donned; acquainted.

Phonics/ spellings

SPAG

Spelling

There will be no spelling test or lesson this week.

Grammar

Contents; appendix; captions.

Maths

Measurement

The children will be using capacity to solve problems.

Science

To observe and describe how seeds and bulbs grow into mature plants

DT

. The children will evaluate their own soft toy sea creature.

Computing

To explain the life cycle of a plant.

Geography

Beside the Seaside

The children will conclude this topic by deciding where they would rather live, Guildford or Brighton based on their geographical research.

French

To revise the shapes and colours in French

Music

Using the idea of weather, we will create sounds on percussion instruments and body percussion to improvise a musical piece about the weather.

PE

Athletics

Children will run at different speeds and start to combine this with jumping. They will also be Jumping for distance and height in isolation and throwing for distance with accuracy and velocity. Children will start to remember, repeat and link combinations of actions.

Striking and Fielding

Children will develop overarm and underarm throwing to progress to Rounders and cricket in KS2. Track and collect a rolling ball, catching to get someone out, use hitting effectively and understand the rules of the game to play fairly.

Team building

KS1 OAA equivalent and begins with teamwork, building trust with good communication, strategy and planning, problem solving and basic map awareness.

Learning for Life

To know that God loves us for all our talents.