Year 2 Team - Mrs Purcell, Mrs Corbett, Mrs Day, Miss Gilbody, Miss Townsend, Mrs Townsend, Mr County and Mrs Dean

This Half Term:

In RAID and English this term Year 2 will embark on a reading journey, a fairy story imbued witrh magic that is perfect to read aloud...

"Just as the Tear Thief takes away children's tears, and in so doing, lessens the causes of them, so this dreamy and poetic story will have a calming effect on all those who hear it."

I wonder why she wants those tears? What does she do with them? Why are they so important that she wants to steal them?

We shall soon find out......!

Our Maths focus for Summer term 1 is time and measure.

We will begin by looking at o'clock and half past. Then move on to finding quarter past and quarter to and finally telling the time past the hour. We will also discuss how many hours there are in a day. How many minutes there are in an hour and look at five minute intervals on the clock.

Within our 'measure' unit we will look at centimetres and metres and make comparisons between length and height.

During RAID this half term we will be looking at our English text, 'The Tear Thief', exploring the text using our dog domains, Vocabulary Victor, Sequencing Suki, Rex Retriever, Predicting Pip, Inference Iggy, Fluency Fred and Expression Eric. Our dog domains will allow us to delve into the text a little further and enable us to open up the text to look at it in more depth.

In Science this half term we will be learning about animals and how they grow. We will be delving into their life cycles and how they grow and change.

The life cycles that we will be looking at include butterflies and frogs.

We will have our very own life cycle in school where we watch our caterpillars grow and change into butterflies before our very eyes. 

Key Vocabulary: life cycle, offspring, reproduction, growth, metamorphosis, frog spawn, tadpole, froglet, frog, pupa, cocoon, caterpillar, butterfly.

Geography - In geography this half term we will be looking at continents, oceans and differing weather around the world. We 

Jigsaw - This half term we will be looking at: Relationships.

Our relationships within our family and friends.

How to deal with conflict and resolve issues.

How to voice our thoughts and feelings and who we can voice them to.

In Art we are looking at the skill of 'sculpture'. Taking inspiration from Andy Goldsworthy. Famous for his land art and environmental scupltures. Children will explore sculpture through a variety of materials including natural forms.

In PE this half term we will be learning about athletics. Looking at a variety of events, which take place such as; javelin, sprinting and hurdles. We will then look at developing our own individual techniques.

Previous Learning

Class texts that we have enjoyed so far in Year 2 have been:

The text that we are reading as a class for pleasure is: