In Year 2 for the Lent 1 term, we will be learning about:

English: In English we are focusing on stories by the same author where the children will write an innovated explorer story based around reading Simon Bartram stories. Following this, our next learning topic focuses on non-chronological reports where the children will create their own report based on an explorer which will be collated to form a class book to share with the school.

Maths: In Maths our learning begins focusing on Money followed by Multiplication and Division, in particularly the 2’s, 5’s and 10’s to support fluency for the Year 2 SATs. Following this, we will be learning about Statistics where we will begin to look at tally charts and pictograms.

RE: In RE we begin our learning by exploring the topic of ‘Galilee to Jerusalem’ where we will look at how everyone is tempted to make bad choices; however, God loves and forgives people.

History: Our history learning will focus on what an explorer is and what significant explorers have found previously. For example, Neil Armstrong and Christopher Columbus.

Relationship and Sex Education (RSE): we will be learning about Online Safety and Keeping Safe in our daily lives.

In PE, the children will be doing dance and gymnastics.

You will see below our timetable for this next half term along with the knowledge organiser for our topic: Explorers.

In preparation for the children’s SATs in May we are going to be introducing intervention booster groups to develop the children’s confidence with reading style questions and Maths fluency with addition, subtraction, multiplication and division.

Therefore, it is crucial that children are reading and playing on TT Rockstars every day for 10 minutes, which we will be monitoring. The children’s logon details are on the front of their reading diaries. We appreciate your support with this at home.

Many thanks,

Mrs de Sousa and Mrs Brown