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.
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 6.10.25
We will:
- build single clause sentences with pronouns - stage 2
- build single clause sentences stage 3
- build single clause sentences with pronouns- stage 3
- subject and verb focus application stage
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 6.10.25), we will focus on the phoneme /e/ as the graphemes e in bed and eain head
spellings =
e
letter
fresh
carpet
ever
pencil
pen
spend
defend
bed
ea
head
bread
meant
instead
read
spread
thread
treasure
Please practice these with your child all week as they will be tested on them on Friday 10.10.25.
Please practice all of the words but make extra effort with the underlined words as these are our focus words.
Maths
w/c 6.10.25
We will:
- complete a post-topic check on place value
- complete a pre-topic check on addition and subtraction
- revisit bonds to 10
- use our knowledge of bonds to 10 to help us understand addition and subtraction within 20 (fact families - I know 2 + 8 = 10 so 12 + 8 = 20; 20 - 12 = 8; 20 - 8 = 12; 2 + 18 = 20; 20 - 2 = 18 and 20 - 18 = 2 )
- look at related facts ( 2 + 5 = 7 so 20 + 50 = 70)
- look at bonds to 100
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
Additional Information
New spellings are now on Edshed please look at them over the weekend - only a few children are accessing this outside of school. Edshed makes a huge difference to their spelling ability - please allow your child some time to use it throughout the week.
Parents' evening will be on Tuesday 14th October 3.30pm - 5.30pm (face to face)
Thursday 16th October 3pm - 6pm (face-to-face) and 6.05pm - 7pm (virtual)
Please sign up - if you haven't already.
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.
Show and tell:
Friday 10th October
Team: PIDCOCK (yellow)
Future dates:
17.10.25 = STOREY (blue)
31.10.25 = PAGE (green)
7.11.25 = YEE (red)
14.11.25 = PIDCOCK (yellow)
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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 -
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English:
- Practice and test your child on the spellings for this week.
- write a sentence for your child which includes a subject (noun/noun phrase) and a verb/verb phrase - eg The dog is barking loudly. She swam quickly. He sat down. They shouted all night! I had fun. Daisy jumped on the bed. Can they underline the subject correctly.
- write a sentence such as The black cat jumped off the table. Can they identify the verb (they should write a v above it) and the subject (write an s above it) (to find the subject first find the verb, then find who or what did the verb - verb = jumped ; who/what jumped? The black cat so subject = The black cat) plus can they now label the leftovers (by placing an arrow pointing to the subject and the verb) 'off the table'.
- An extra challenge would be to have two sentences without the full stops and capital letters - The black cat jumped off the table it ran out of the door - can they work out the two different sentences (by identifying the subject, verb and leftovers) and add the capital letters and full stops in the correct places. The black cat jumped off the table. It ran out of the door.
Maths:
- correctly form numerals 0 - 9 ( numbers ALWAYS start at the top) IMPORTANT
- can they write the fact families for number bonds to 20
- can they count in 2s - they could write them down to bring in.
- can they count in 5s - they could write them down to bring in.
- can they count in 10s - they could write them down to bring in.
- 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
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