Elm (Year 2)
Welcome to Year 2!
Hello, and welcome to the year 2 class page! For those of you who do not know me, my name is Mr Hussain, and I am the class teacher alongside, Mrs Clayton. We are extremely excited to learn and explore alongside you this year in your final year of Key Stage 1!
We have a very exciting term ahead with fun and exciting activities designed to hook the children's interest across the curriculum. I really want to see the children enjoying their learning even more so, so we have lots planned for the remainder of the school year.
Please use this webpage to find useful dates, links for homework and to see what we are learning about this term. You can also find photos of what we have been getting up to and examples of wonderful work that will be uploaded throughout the year.
As always, please do not hesitate to make an appointment with either myself or another member of the Year 2 team if you have any queries about our learning.
Mr Hussain and Mrs Clayton
Autumn 1 Newsletter
Curriculum Overview
Autumn term 1 Knowledge Organisers
Look out for our new 'Reading Nook' in the ks1 corridor
Learning this Term - Autumn
English
Across school, we ensure reading is at the heart of everything we do. This term, we are studying The Comet using Jane Considine's approach and we will be writing our own diary entry relating to The Great Fire of London.
English Writing
We aim to prepare and equip our Year 2 children with the writing skills they need to become confident, independent writers, who are able to write effectively for a range of purposes and audiences. Through a balanced and broad curriculum, we provide regular opportunities for children to write from different perspectives and learn how to entertain the reader.
Maths
The term the children will be focusing on place value and building their number knowledge to start learning the column method for addition and subtraction.
Humanities
This term, our focus is on learning about the Great Fire of 1666...
Great Fire of London inspired learning
Science
This half term, our attentions in Science turn to materials, and how we can manipulate and use them.
Don't ask what we were up to in this term's experiment...as we were testing the levels of absorbency! It might get a bit messy
Art
This term, year 2 will be focusing on the artist 'William Turner' and learning how to use water colours to create a fire scene. Furthermore, they will be looking at Rangoli Art, inspired by Jagdish Chavan for Diwali.