Year 2

Year 2 Curriculum Project

Year 2 Project - Land Ahoy

Yo-ho-ho and a bottle of rum! In the Land Ahoy project, get ready to take to the high seas and set sail in search of treasure!

This half term, we’ll find out about boats and ships of all shapes and sizes. Our science skills will help us to understand how boats float and we’ll design and make model ships using a variety of materials. Our map reading skills will help us to identify different seas and oceans, and we’ll learn about famous sea explorers. Our pirates day will inspire us to make treasure maps, fact files and navigate the seven seas with a Beebot ship. We’ll even find out how to talk and sing like a pirate!

Help your child prepare for their project
The sea is fascinating! Why not take a trip to the coast? Visit the harbour, lifeboat station and beach and take plenty of interesting photographs. You could also make boats from plastic cartons, cardboard boxes and polystyrene trays. Add sails and cargo then see which boats sail around the bath successfully! Alternatively, sing along to some lively sea shanties performed by The Fisherman’s Friends from Port Isaac in Cornwall. Visit their website to access free sample tracks.

Memorable Experience: pirate day

Geography: Using and making maps; locational knowledge; directions.

History: Significant historical people - Captain James Cook, Grace Darling, Famous Pirates

This project is also supported by mini projects in; 

Science: Human Survival

Art and Design: Flower Head

Design and Technology: woodwork

Computing: lessons derived from D.A.R.E.S

Music: lessons derived from Kapow

PE: lessons derived from TeamThemeKent

PSHE: lessons derived from JIGSAW content

RE:  lessons derived from Kent SACRE scheme and Cornerstones projects 

 

More information about the Year 2 Curriculum can be found in the YEAR 2 Long Term Plan 2024-2025  document found below.

Y2 LAND AHOY Home Learning Ideas
Y2 LAND AHOY Knowledge Organiser

Year 2 Key Information

YEAR 2 Long Term Plan 2025 2026
Year 2 English Curriculum (1)
Year 2 Maths Curriculum (1)
Recommended Reading List For Year 2

For this term, PE is timetabled for every Tuesday and Wednesday. We will be doing dance on Tuesdays and netball on Wednesday. Please ensure that all earrings are removed on those days and that your child has their full PE kit in school. Please make sure that your child has a colder weather PE kit in school, including spare socks and trainers.

 

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English  

w/c 27.10.25

We will:

  • write a prediction
  • write exclamation sentences
  • use adjectives to describe the nouns
  • use conjunctions to join two clauses
  • identify verbs and write them in their past tense form

Reading - Remember that they do not need to read the entire book in one day. Please continue to hear them read daily and write it in their reading record books.

Spelling by phoneme:

In class, we focus on a different phoneme each week. The phoneme and its corresponding graphemes will be introduced on the Monday with different activities running until the Friday. This gives them the week to practice the spellings with you at home or on Edshed. Their understanding will then be checked by writing a dictated sentence.

This week (from 27.10.25), we will focus on the phoneme /er/ as the graphemes er in her; ir in bird and ur in turn

spellings = 

er

 

her

term

verb

germ

person

better

under

summer

winter

sister

consider

 

ir

 

girl

bird

shirt

first

thirst

twirl

skirt

dirty

circle

 

ur

turn

hurt

church

burst

curl

Thursday

surprise

blurted

 

Please practice these with your child all week as they will be tested on them on Friday 31.10.25.

Please practice all of the words but make extra effort with the underlined words as these are our focus words.

 

 

Maths

w/c  27.10.25 

We will: 

  • add to the next 10
  • add across a 10 (2 lessons)
  • subtract across a 10 (2 lessons)

FluencyBee:

addition and subtraction

Infinity maths:

The link is 

https://infinity.whiteroseeducation.com/Home 

click 'enter code'

They can then add the

School code

SLR - JJW

Quiz Pins:

Place value: 

09 - 15 - 96

Addition and subtraction:

13 - 45 - 93

17 - 31 - 58

Additional Information

Next term we will be having a pirate day (date will be released when we return) so please have a think now about what they could dress up in to be a pirate - remember they will be in it all day so make it comfortable and sensible to wear at school.

 

Your child came home with some focus spelling words stuck to their top/jumper. Please practice these with them over the weekend and all week.

 

Every child has now been moved on to the Accelerated Reader scheme and has chosen a book within their appropriate range (according to their assessment score). They can now complete quizzes on these books, after they have read them fluently with little or no sounding out. They MUST have a comment in their reading record from you (or us) to state that they have finished reading the whole book and how they have read it BEFORE we will allow them to do the quiz.

 

 

Some children have earrings - please can these be removed or taped before school on Tuesdays and Wednesdays to prevent the risk of them being caught during PE.

As the weather continues to be varied, please ensure that you send your child in with a coat and warm PE clothes (tracksuit bottoms and jumper/hoodie) as both our PE lessons are outside activities.

Please name everything!
Please hear your child 
read at home as much as possible. This really helps them in all subjects (please ensure that reading books are in school every day)
Show and Tell is only on Fridays and rotates between the houses:

Show and tell:

Friday 31st October 

Team: 31.10.25 = PAGE (green)

Future dates:

7.11.25 = YEE (red)

14.11.25 =  PIDCOCK (yellow)

21.11.25 = STOREY (blue)

28.11.25 = PAGE (green)

 

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        This week's homework is:

  • To read for at least 10 minutes everyday to an adult.
  • spend 20 minutes (over the week) on Numbots (Usernames and passwords are in your child's reading record) or Infinity (see link and codes in the maths section above)
  • spend 20 minutes (over the week) on Edshed (usernames and passwords in reading records)
  • For those wanting additional work -

  • English:

  • Practice writing the spelling words for the week.
  • write correctly punctuated sentences about their day eg We went to the shops. I got some sweets. Then use the coordinating conjunctions and so but to join the sentences together: eg We went to the shops and I got some sweets.
  • write sentences which include one or more of our spelling words.

         Maths:

  • correctly form numerals 0 - 50 ( numbers ALWAYS start at the top) IMPORTANT
  • can they count in 3s - they could write them down to bring in.
  • Ask them about the funky 3s song - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9XzfQUXqiYY
  • can they write all the number bonds to 10 ( there are 11 different ones)
  • can they add three 1 digit numbers by finding the number bonds to 10 eg 2 + 5 + 8 = is easier to work out as  8 + 2 + 5 = 10 + 5 = 15
  • can the add by making 10 eg 7 + 8 ( I know that 7 and 3 make 10, therefore I have used 3 of the 8 and have 5 left to add so 10 + 5 = 15)
  • write number words to fifteen correctly.

 

 

 

 

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