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

This Half Term:

In RAID and English this term Year 2 will embark on a reading journey, through the story of 'Paddington at the Palace' written by Michael Bond.

"When Mr Gruber takes Paddington to Buckingham Palace to watch the Changing of the Guard, there are so many people in the way he can't see anything! Luckily, a mysterious someone "on high" appears to like small bears...

Paddington Big Bang

On Wednesday 3^rd September, year 2 had a surprise delivery of an old suitcase.  Children gathered round to discover what was inside.  Firstly, objects such as a red bus, a red telephone box and models of Big Ben and Tower Bridge helped the children to decide that the focus was London.  Next, there was a toy soldier wearing a Busby and finally everyone was very excited to find Paddington himself had come to visit us along with some copies of the text ‘Paddington at the Palace’.  As a treat, anyone that wanted to try a marmalade sandwich (Paddington’s favourite!) enjoyed a delicious snack.

Writing opportunities include:

- character description

- setting description

- instructional writing

- diary entry

- informal letter

- information leaflet 

During RAID this half term we will be looking at our English text, 'Paddington at the Palace', 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 Autumn term 1 is place value. 

We will begin by looking at:

• Count objects to 100 and read and write numbers in numerals and words.
• Represent numbers to 100.
• Tens and ones with a part-whole model.
• Tens and ones using addition.
• Use a place value chart.
• Compare objects.
• Compare numbers.
• Order objects and numbers.
• Count in 2s, 5s and 10s.
• Count in 3s.

In Science this half term, we will be learning about plants and visiting forest school.

We will be exploring parts of a plant and the jobs they do to help the plant grow and reproduce new plants. We will examine seeds and bulbs and also recognise the life cycle of a bean plant.

Please look at the following website where you can watch short video clips about the life cycle of the plant.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zg8vwsg

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7a0u5jMYviM                                               

Key Vocabulary: seeds, bulbs, life cycle, germination, reproduction, growth

History - In history this half term we will be looking at the Great Fire of London, how and why it started, how it was tackled and subsequent changes made by King Charles II to ensure it never happened again. 

Jigsaw - This half term we will be looking at: hopes and fears

We will be looking at hopes and fears, responsibilities and rights, rewards and consequences and finally making good choices. 

In Art we are looking at the skill of 'drawing'. Taking inspiration from Pablo Picasso we will be exploring line, shape and texture and how mark making is used to define a piece of art. 

In PE this half term we will be learning about netball. Looking at the skills needed to play the game using passing, catching and throwing techniques and working together as a team.

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: