Lent 2 Term- what will we learn?

Hello Families,

Welcome to Year 2’s class page. I am so excited to be back form maternity leave and teaching in Year 2 alongside Mrs Pyatt. Mrs Brown will be teaching Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday and Mrs Pyatt will be teaching the class on Thursday and Friday.

Please read below for an overview of what the children will be learning about this second Lent half term:

Our topic this term is called ‘The Farm Shop’. Within this topic we will be learning all about farms and the different things we get from farms.

In English this term, we will be innovating our own story based on a farmyard setting using the story ‘The Pig in the Pond by Martin Waddell. The children will need to include a clear opening, build-up, problem and resolution and effective use of adjectives (including those with suffixes). Afterwards, our learning will focus on Persuasion and Poetry, exploring Riddles

In Maths our learning first of all continues with multiplication and division. We will then be moving onto length and height, followed by mass, capacity and temperature.

In RE, we will be starting the topic Desert to Garden. This topic will support us in our learning about lent.

The other subjects we will be learning as part of the Farm Shop topic are Science and Design & Technology.

Our Science topic focuses on Plant Growth. The children will use our school Disciplinary Skills of a Good Scientist to observe and describe how seeds and bulbs grow into mature plants. We will use gardening to develop these skills, making links to our Design and Technology topic for this term.

In Design & Technology we will use the disciplinary skills of being a good designer by planning, designing and then creating our own salads using foods from each of the different food groups and thinking about where the different foods we are using have come from. We will integrate Food for Life sessions to taste test lots of healthy ingredients and promote healthy eating.

In computing we will be learning about data handling.

In Relationship and Sex Education (RSE) and PSHE (Personal, social, health and economic) we will be learning about ‘Keeping Safe’ and then moving onto ‘Living in the wider world’.

In PE this term the children are doing invasion games. PE lessons will continue to be on Monday and Friday afternoons.

You will see below our timetable for this second Lent half term along with the knowledge organisers for our different subjects this term.

Look out for up-to-date messages and homework on Class Dojo.

Many thanks,

Mrs Brown and Mrs Pyatt