Year 2 2024 - 2025

"Do everything in love” 1 Corinthians 16:14

Learning to love, loving to learn

Welcome to Year 2

Our staff

Mrs Lamb (Monday-Thursday) and Miss Webster (Friday) are our class teachers and Mrs Humphreys (Monday-Wednesday am) and Mrs Pearson (Wednesday pm-Friday) will be supporting our learning.

The following information tells you a little more about the coming term in Year 2 and your child's learning. However, if you have any queries or questions please don't hesitate to contact us.

elizabeth.lamb@st-marys.halton.sch.uk

jenna.webster@st-marys.halton.sch.uk

General information

• Please tie up long hair.
• Please have a bottle of water at school everyday. This can be refilled as necessary.
• Please return your homework and complete My Maths on or before Thursday for marking. Homework will be sent out on a Friday.
• Reading diaries will be checked on a Friday. Please ensure your child has read at least 4 times..
• All school uniform should be named.
• A full PE kit should be in school at all times.

PE is timetabled for Wednesday and Friday during Spring 1. This will be outside whenever possible so please account for this when sending in your child's PE kit.

Spring Term 2025

Happy New Year!

Mrs Lamb, Mrs Humphreys, Mrs Pearson and Miss Webster are excited to welcome you back. This term we have some exciting topics and experiences in store. We look forward to a fantastic term.

Our Christian Values

During the Spring Term, our Christian values are Respect and Courage.

"Respect everyone, and love the family of believers. Fear God, and respect the King." 1 Peter 2:17

English

In Spring 1, we will be reading  'The Dragon Machine' by Helen Ward and we will be using the text to develop our writing skills.

Our weekly routine will include spelling and grammar and guided reading sessions. Reading at home continues to be essential.

Our Pathways to Read text will be 'The Dragonsitter' by Josh Lacey.

Spelling

We will use Pathways to Spell as part of our English lessons to develop spelling strategies and learn spelling rules, as well as the Year 2 Common Exception Words.

Maths

As mathematicians, the children will learn through concrete experiences moving onto pictorial and abstract methods as their confidence builds. They will also be expected to use their learning to reason about maths and solve problems,

Science 

As scientists, we aim to develop our knowledge and understanding, scientific skills and measuring and recording abilities. This term we will be investigating materials and investigating living things.

History

As historians, we will be investigating an event that changed the world - 'The First Moon Landing'.

Geography

We will be focusing on cold places and what it is like at the North and South Poles. We will investigate life in the Arctic and Antarctic and how it has changed over time.

RE

For RE we will continue to use the Questful RE planning. This term we will think about Jesus and how he welcomed everyone. We will then look at Easter and how symbols help us to understand the Easter story.

Courageous Advocacy

As we continue to live our lives and act out the teachings of Jesus, we will look to be courageous advocates and think about Fairtrade and how we can promote this in our school.

PE

Our PE will concentrate on striking for accuracy whilst playing net games, dance and creating fictional characters and rule making during outdoor adventure.

Art and DT

As artists, we will study Henri Rousseau and we will use natural materials to create a jungle collage background. We will then use textiles with different textures to create a jungle animal to add to our collage.

PHSE

In PHSE, we will follow the Heartsmart scheme. Our topics are 'Too much selfie isn't healthy' and 'Don't Rub it in, Rub it out!'

Computing

This term we will be focusing on pictograms, making music and managing online information.

Music

Our focus this term will be 'Inventing a Musical Story' and 'Recognising Different Sounds'.

Possible trips and visitors

We are looking to book a visit this term. We will keep you updated.