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 17.11.25

We will:

 

  • complete pirate reading and writing tasks
  • complete handwriting tasks
  • write descriptive sentences about different events
  • plan a recount about 'Something Fishy'
  • edit and neat write the recount

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 17.11.25), we will focus on the phoneme /igh/ as the graphemes i in find, ie in pie and igh in night

spellings = 

i

find

mind

triangle

kind

I

child

wild

climb

behind

 

ie

pie

cried

tried

quiet

fried

spied

replied

 

 

igh

night

right

light

bright

brighter

brightest

high

higher

highest

sigh

sighing

fortnight

 

Please practice these with your child all week as they will be tested on them on Friday 21.11.25.

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

 

 

Maths

w/c  17.11.25 

We will: 

  • complete pirate Maths tasks
  • subtract two 2-digit numbers (across a 10)
  • complete mixed addition and subtraction calculations

FluencyBee:

comparison to 20

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

47 - 31 - 12

72 - 38 - 98

Additional Information

The classroom is all set up for PIRATE DAY ON MONDAY!! We ARRRGH so excited for Pirate School.

Pirate day is Monday 17th November.

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

 

Remember to write that you have heard your child read and inform us when they are ready for the quiz.

 

 

If your child wears 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 14th November

Team: STOREY (blue)

Future dates:

28.11.25 = PAGE (green)

5.12.25 = YEE (red)

12.12.25 = PIDCOCK (yellow)

19.12.25 = STOREY (blue)

 

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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 sentences which include one or more of our spelling words.
  • give them a household object - can they write descriptive sentences about that object?
  • Learn how to spell and write these Year 1 common exception words - once, ask, school and friend. Can they write sentences which use these words?
  • Now do the same with these Year 2 common exception words - door, floor, poor and because.
  • practice writing the letters a,d,o,t,y and g correctly - watch out for incorrect formation (d and t are tall letters so should be taller than a and o - not excessively though. g and y have a tail so the tail should go under the line)

         Maths:

  • correctly form numerals 0 - 100 ( numbers ALWAYS start at the top) IMPORTANT
  • write number words zero to twenty correctly.
  • adult to write a 2-digit number - child to say it correctly. Then adult to say a 2-digit number and child to write it correctly.
  • Can complete these additions correctly? - 12+25 =?; 56 +23 = ?; 82 + 12 = ?; 25 + 34 = ?; 49 + 30 = ? ; 14 + 74 = ?
  • Can they complete these missing number calculations?  - 22 + ? = 35; ? + 15 = 27; 45 + ? = 66; ? + 17 = 38
  • can they complete these subtraction calculations? 67 - 32 = ?; 98 - 54 = ?; 45 - 12 = ?; 32 - 10 = ?; 29 - 19 = ? ; 73 - 61 = ?

 

 

 

 

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