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

Spring Term:

In RAID and English this term Year 2 will embark on a reading journey, through the following stories or fact files;

- Disgusting sandwich

- Stone soup

- Florence Nightingale

- Healthy eating

- Monkey puzzle

- Rainbow fish

- Catch it!

- Somebody crunched Colin

Writing opportunities include:

- retell a story

- character description

- setting description

- recount of a famous person

- non-chronological report

- information leaflet 

During RAID this half term we will be looking at 'The owl who is afraid of the dark', by Jill Tomlinson 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.

Our Maths focus for Spring term is multiplcation and division. 

We will begin by looking at:

• Recognise equal groups
• Make equal groups
• Add equal groups
• Multiplication sentences using the x symbol
• Multiplication symbols from pictures
• Use arrays
• 2 times table
• 5 times table
• 10 times table
• Make equal groups -sharing
• Make equal groups - grouping
• Divided by 2
• Odd and even numbers
• Divide by 5
• Divide by 10

In Science this term, we will be learning about growing, healthy eating and hygiene. 

We will be exploring how all animals have babies (offspring) and that some animals give birth live to their young and some lay eggs. We will find out the basic needs of a human and how exercise is important for our heart and well-being. We will explore healthy eating by looking at a balanced diet and how hygiene is important for a healthy lifestyle.  

Please look at the following website where you can watch short video clips about growing and changing. 

Key Vocabulary: offspring, basic needs, balanced diet, exercise, survive and hygiene.

History - In history this half term we will be looking at healthcare through the ages focusing on hospital conditions and treatment. We will be exploring the following nurses;

- Florence Nightingale

- Mary Secole

- Sister Dora 

Jigsaw - This half term we will be looking at dreams and goals and then healthy me.

We will be looking at goals to success and steps to success. Then we will explore making good and healthy choices with food and lifestyle.  

In Art we are looking at the skill of 'collage' Taking inspiration from work linked to mosiacs. 

In PE this term we will be looking at gymnastics and dance. Skills will focus on balance and co-ordination. 

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: