This week’s Learning at a glance

This week’s learning in Year 2 at a glance!

 

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

Mrs Royce (Weds to Fri) : mrsroyce@st-thomas.surrey.sch.uk

Mr Jones (Mon-Tues): mrjones@st-thomas.surrey.sch.uk
Spring Curriculum Information Booklet

Year 2 Curriculum Evening Presentation

Year Group reminders

 Week Commencing: Monday 17th March 2025

Week B

Weekly reminders:

Monday: Spelling test today – please remember orange books. NO PE for 2D today – on Thursday instead.

Tuesday:

Wednesday: PE for both classes.

Thursday: PE for 2D.

Friday: 2D Class Worship. Parents and carers are welcome from 9am in the Junior Hall. Please bring in Maths CGP booklets today to be marked in school and the new workout will be set. Please return Barnaby Bear and the Class Sketchbook today. Library book exchange day.

Looking further ahead:

Thursday 3rd April: Year 2 Heroes and Heroines SPACE Day. Children can come to school dressed as a hero, heroine or superhero!

Any other reminders:

Please make sure your child has their reading record and reading book in school every day.

We are running low on boxes of tissues so if you are able to bring one in for the class we would be grateful, thank you.

Please can your child bring in a new glue stick if theirs has run out (£1 at the stationery shop).

Reading for Pleasure

 Book of the Week:

Keeping Clean by Ryan Wheatcroft and Katie Woolley

RE

 Desert to Garden

LC: To understand the importance of light in the Easter Vigil

This week we will look at the Easter Vigil and the symbolism of light during this very special celebration. 

English

 Writing

LC: To apply the features of story writing to write an exciting resolution and ending to our superhero stories

The children will write the remaining parts of their superhero stories this week. They will describe how their superhero solved the problem in their resolution and explain where the different characters are at the end of their story.

LC: To use a text to answer questions carefully.

We will practise how to locate answers in a text, picking out key words that give us clues where to find the relevant information

 

Master Readers (Year 2)

Text: The Collins Children’s Picture Atlas, Illustrated by Steve Evans

Focus vocabulary this week: consists, populated, declared, assembled, lunar, inhabited.

Phonics/

spellings

 We will be reviewing:

/s/ sound spelt ‘ce’ e.g. dance, spelt ‘ss’ e.g. dress, spelt ‘se’ e.g. moose and spelt ‘c’ e.g. princess

/z/ sound spelt ‘se’ e.g. noise, spelt ‘zz’ e.g. fizzy and spelt ‘ze’ e.g. snooze.

SPAG

 Please practise the spellings in your child’s orange book using the grid provided. Your child needs to write 3 sentences using these spelling words.

Patted hummed dropped clapped clipped wrapped napped ripped drummed dragged

Maths

 End of topic test (carried over from last week)

We will start the lesson by addressing any misconceptions and checking understanding, then complete an end of topic test for multiplication and division.

Measurement

LQ: Can measure accurately?

Today we will look closely at a ruler and how to measure correctly avoiding mistakes.

LQ: Can I measure in cm?

The children will find objects around the room and measure them accurately using cm as their unit of measurement.

Science

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

LC: To know what plants needs to grow well

In this lesson, children will be able recognise seeds and bulbs, to draw a labelled diagram and suggest how to care for a plant so it grows well.

Art

 LC: To design a salad, using my research to help

The children will use their recent research and tasting to help design their own healthy salads. As well as thinking about the foods that they like, they will also need to think about the textures and colours.

Computing

 LQ: What is an algorithm?

?       An algorithm is a set of instructions that you must follow precisely otherwise mistakes (errors) will occur.

 

Use a floor robot to test your algorithm

Geography

 LC: To learn more about the life of a significant individual.

Having learnt about Jamaica, the children will delve into the life of Mary Seacole and the challenges she faced trying to do her job.

French

 LC: To recognise, say and write 6 words for food in French

Music

 Keeping a steady beat: Caterpillar/ Butterfly Song and Game (Part 1)

Recognising Pitch – Rediscover Kodaly Hand Signs: Do, Re, Mi, Fa, So  – Sign and Sing

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

 Busenya Learning

LC: To build a sense of self so that we can better connect with others.

This week we will be sharing our link with Busenya Primary school and sharing its history and future plans.

Homework

 Reading homework: Reading for pleasure book (RP): sent home on Fridays and returned Fridays to change in the library. Reading scheme book (RS): Some children will continue to bring home a Little Waddle book on Fridays to be returned on Mondays. Some children will take home alternative books more frequently. This will be explained in a label stuck into your child’s reading record book if applicable.

Spellings homework: please practise the spellings at least three times throughout the week and write three sentences using at least one of the spellings in each sentence. Due in on Mondays.

Maths homework: CGP Maths booklet ‘10-Minute Weekly Workouts’. Autumn Workout 3 (page 6-7) due in Friday 21st March and Autumn Workout 4 (pages 8-9) will be set. Workout 4 needs to be completed and returned to school by Friday 28th March.