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!

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.

Year 2 Key Information

For this term, PE is timetabled for every Tuesday and Wednesday. We will be doing Tennis on Tuesdays and Tag Rugby 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 15.9.25

We will:

• continue our learning about regular action verbs (words where the root word remains the same for past tense - jump = jumped)
• identify 'to be' verbs and regular action verbs in sentences (2 lessons)
• learn about irregular action verbs (words where the root word changes for past tense - sit = sat, go = went (2 lessons)

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 15.9.25), we will focus on the phoneme /ay/ as the graphemes ai in rain, ay in say and a-e in cake:

spellings = 

ay

say

pay

hay

spray

betray

display

playful

spraying

 

ai

rain

pain

Spain

afraid

faith

paint

paid

mermaid

a-e

cake

make

made

safe

amaze

brave

blaze

behave

bookcase

Please practice these with your child all week as they will be tested on them on Friday 19.9.25.

 

 

Maths

w/c  15.9.25 

We will: 

• flexibly partition numbers to 100 (eg 45 instead of 40 and 5 we will try different ways to partition it such as 20 and 25 or 30 and 15)
• write numbers to 100 in expanded form (2 lessons)
• 10s on a number line to 100

FluencyBee:

Understand the composition of 8 and 9 including fact families

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: 

37 - 77 - 11

42 - 30 - 72

40 - 63 - 62

 

 

Additional Information

The children completed their first full week with excellent behaviour. I hope they enjoyed their week as much as we did but if you have any concerns please let us know.

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

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.

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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 or Infinity (Usernames and passwords are in your child's reading record)
• spend 20 minutes (over the week) on Edshed (usernames and passwords in reading records)
• For those wanting additional work -

• English:

• Practice and test your child on the spellings for this week.
• write a sentence for your child which includes common nouns and/or proper nouns - can your child identify the noun and tell you whether it is a common noun or a proper noun? (hint: common nouns are general people, places or things/objects such as theme park, teacher or drink - they do not have a capital letter (unless at the beginning of a sentence) as they are not the one and only. Proper nouns are specific people, places or things/objects such as Disneyland, Mrs Horlock or Coca-Cola - they MUST have a capital letter)

         Maths:

• correctly form numerals 0 - 9 ( numbers ALWAYS start at the top) IMPORTANT
• write numbers to 20 and then the tens numbers from there to 100 in words 
• write a 2-digit number - can your child draw the tens and ones for that number
• You say a number within 100 - can they correctly write that number? Maybe challenge them to write the words for that number.
• can they write the fact families for number bonds to 6, 7, 8, 9 or 10 (eg 4+2 = 6, 6=4+2, 2+4 = 6, 6= 2+4, 6-2 = 4, 4= 6-2, 6-4 = 2, 2 = 6-4 - there will be 8 facts for each one)

     

 

 

 

 

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