This week's Learning in Year 2 at a glance!
Year 2
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Learning Link: Heroes and HeroinesThis 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! |
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St. Dorothy: Mrs Della Maestra: mrsdellamaestra@st-thomas.surrey.sch.uk St. David: Miss Davis: missdavis@st-thomas.surrey.sch.uk |
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Curriculum Newsletters for Autumn, Spring and Summer can be accessed here as they become available |
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Year Group reminders |
Week Commencing: Monday 9th March 2026 Week A Monday: Both classes in PE kit today please. Science Fair project deadline. Tuesday: Wednesday: Both classes in PE kit today please Thursday: Mass at St Pius - if you would like to join us, please be at St Pius church at 11am. Library book to be returned today if your child would like to change it. Friday: INSET Day - the school will be closed.
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:
Reminders: If you could send your child in with a box of tissues please we would be very grateful, 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: 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: Please ensure they complete Spring Term Workout 8 only and return their booklet to school by Thursday 12th March where we will mark it as a class. |
Reading for Pleasure |
Book of the Week: Keeping Clean by Ryan Wheatcroft and Katie Woolley. |
RE |
Desert to Garden Thinking about forgiveness and reconciliation this week, we will reflect on the ultimate forgiveness of Jesus who died for our sins. |
English |
After working hard last week on our comprehension skills, we will conclude our superhero stories. We will think about using language for effect on the reader, how we can make it exciting and continue developing our descriptive writing skills.
Master Readers (Year 2) Text: Children’s Picture Atlas. Published by Collins and illustrated by Steve Evans. Focus vocabulary this week: consists; populated; declared; assembled; lunar; inhabited. |
Phonics/ spellings |
Phase 5 phonic sounds: /sh/ and /c/ as in chef, parachute, echo and chemist |
SPAG |
Spelling Depending on their group, the children will learn how to add -ed to words with single syllables; ‘ue’ and ‘ew’ words. ‘Ph’ and ‘wh’ words. Grammar Adjectives, adverbs, inverted commas. |
Maths |
Multiplication and division. We will learn the 5 times-table in a number of contexts. They will work out 5 times-table multiplication sentences using arrays, number lines and pictorial representations. |
Science |
Topic: Animals including Humans Children recognise how animals grow and reproduce and that it is a cycle |
DT |
There will be no lesson this week due to the INSET day. |
Computing |
The children will learn how to use the new log on process which you will find in their reading record books. |
Geography |
Heroes and Heroines The children will learn more about Jamaica and compare Kingston to Guildford, thinking about our own lives and how they might compare to children living in Jamaica. |
French |
To recognise and say 6 words for food in French |
Music |
We will explore the instruments in the woodwind family to learn how they are played and what they sound like. |
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 |
HEALTHY EATING No lesson this week due to extra PE lesson. |