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Year 2 - The Doves


Welcome to Year 2! 

Important Information

  • PE Day:  Thursdays– Children must bring appropriate PE kit (a white or house colour top and black shorts or jogging bottoms) and footwear. Earrings must be removed or covered with tape from home.

  • Swimming: Thursdays- Children have a very healthy day on Thursdays with swimming and PE. They will swim every Thursday all year so please remember to send them to school with PE kit and swimming kit each week.

  • ​Children should bring a healthy snack to enjoy after break time alongside free school fruit each day

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What We’re Learning This Year

  • Autumn Term

  • Science: We will be looking at the properties of different materials and their suitability to a purpose. Key vocabulary: Materials, properties, flexible, rigid, transparent, opaque, translucent, waterproof. We will also look at the positives and negatives involved with the use of plastic in our world.

  • English: We will be working on Narrative and Instruction writing whilst ensuring writing is correctly formed and sitting appropriately on the lines. Basic spellings will become embedded and spelling patterns explored. Children will begin to focus more on comprehension of the text as their reading becomes more fluent and effortless.

  • Geography: We will be comparing villages, towns and cities and looking at human and mannade features in the environment

  • History: We will look at the story of Robin Hood and compare life then to now and consider how we know about the past.

  • Computing: We will look at how  at online safety


    Spring Term

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  • Reading
    Reading records are checked weekly. Every read earns a raffle ticket, with books as prizes at term’s end. Children should aim to read at least four times per week. Each child has a guided reading book and a personal choice book.  We use the Rocket Phonics scheme to support our teaching of reading in KS1.

    What we've been up this term

    W/C 14.09.26: This week we compared our crowd scenes to those of the artist LS Lowry. We looked at the values of each digit in 1 and 2 digit numbers and built these numbers to explore adding 1 more, 10 more to a number.

    W/C 21/09/26: We will explore why certain inventions like sock wellies and tissue paper umbrellas would never work and match properties to a range of materials. We will write a description using adjectives to add interest.



     

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