Welcome to our Year 2 page.
Meet the team!
Miss Mochan - Teacher
Mrs Pugh - Teacher
Mrs Kaur
Our Class saint:
St Teresa of Calcutta
She was educated at the nearby convent school and she went on a trip to the Church of the Black Madonna in Letnice when she was 12. Later she became a nun, travelling to Dublin, Ireland, to join the Sisters of Loreto. She became known as Sister Mary Teresa.
She convinced the city to donate an abandoned building, and there she set about creating a home for the city’s destitute. She also set up an open-air school under her new congregation, the Missionaries of Charity. Her work expanded visibly and she became known for her stellar work.
She established a leper colony, an orphanage, a nursing home, a family clinic and mobile health clinics in the city. Her efforts at providing effective care for the poor and unwanted garnered attention from Pope Paul VI, who conferred the Decree of Praise upon the Missionaries of Charity. In 1979, she was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for her outstanding efforts to alleviate human suffering.
Quote:
“Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier.”
This half term, we are focusing on the virtues of Learned and Wise. 
Learned, finding God in all things, and wise in the ways we use our learning for the common good.
Catholic Social Teaching: Dignity of Work
This Catholic Social Teaching reminds us that the human person should always come before the pursuit of profit. Workers have the right to join trade unions, to a just wage, to spend time with their families and to rest. Work is an essential part of our human dignity and everyone has the right to participate.
The Catholic social teaching principle of human dignity is about understanding that each of us is made in God’s image. Every person has an innate human dignity no one can take away. Human dignity is given freely to all human beings.
Summer 2 - RE
Our Church
Children will know that the Church is the Family of God and that the church building symbolises the beliefs of the people.
Children will be able to recognise the different roles and responsibilities of people in the parish community.
The Mass
Children will have a deeper understanding of the sequence of the Mass and of the meaning of some of the words and actions. Children will learn some reasons why the Mass is an important celebration for the Church. Children will be able to join in with important responses during the Mass.
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What do the children need to bring to school every day?
- Reading book and diary - Reading books will be changed every Wednesday.
- Water bottle containing only water (We have lots of filling stations in school.)
- A proper coat (not a hoodie)
PE
PE is on Monday afternoon.
The children are to come to school every Monday in a school PE kit instead of their usual school uniform.
They must be in the correct PE kit. They need to wear:
- Navy blue sweater or St. Paul’s sweatshirt (no hoodies)
- White polo shirt or crew neck t-shirt
- Navy or black joggers
- Trainers
Forest School - Tuesday afternoon. Children to wear old clothes and bring their wellies to change into.
Reading
The Year 2 curriculum in focused on building the children’s stamina, fluency and expression and developing the children’s understanding of what they are reading. They must be able to talk about the book that they reading confidently and answer questions referring back to the text to help them.
The children need to read at home every day and need to increase the amount that they can read in one go.
In school, we will hear every child read his/her reading book as often as we can each week. We will check for fluency and expression and ask questions to make sure that he/she understands the text. We will change books as soon as it is finished and we are happy with the reading and understanding.
The children also do:
- Guided Reading
- Modelled and Shared Reading
- Reading Aloud (story time)
- Independent Reading for Pleasure
Spelling
One of the main aims of Year 2 is to teach the children to be accurate spellers.
In Reception and Year 1, the children sound out the words that they want to write and as long as they write the correct sounds, it doesn’t matter if the graphemes aren’t correct.
However, as the children begin to learn alternative graphemes used to spell words, they are expected to try out such graphemes and decide which best fits the word they are writing. Therefore, their spelling should become more accurate throughout the year.
Homework
Spellings - Weekly Journals – There is a spelling test every Friday.
Reading Book- Daily and comment in diary.
English
This half term, children will be exploring persuasive texts and poetry. We will create a persuasive leaflet to persuade people to visit somewhere fun! Children will be encouraged to use a range of adjectives, adverbs, coordinating conjunctions (and, but, or) and subordinating conjunctions (when, if, that, because) in their writing.
Maths
Fractions
Children will learn how to recognise and find one half, one quarter, three quarters and one third of a shape and a quantity. Children will explore the connection between one half and two quarters.
Time
Children will be learning to compare and sequence intervals of time, tell and write the time to five minutes, including quarter past/to the hour and draw the hands on a clock to show these times. Children will learn the number of minutes in an hour and the number of hours in a day.
Position and Direction
Children will be able to order and arrange combinations of mathematical objects in patterns and sequences. They will begin to use mathematical vocabulary to describe position, direction and movement, including
movement in a straight line and distinguishing between rotation as a turn and in
terms of right angles for quarter, half and three-quarter turns.
Science:
Our Science topic is 'Astronomy.' Children will be naming the different planets in our solar system, understanding that Earth travels around the sun, learning that the moon orbits the sun and exploring star constellations.
KNOWLEDGE BASED CURRICULUM
Our knowledge based curriculum will ensure that all of our children have strong foundations in every subject throughout the year at varying times.
Geography
We are going to learn about Northern Europe. We will locate the countries in Northern Europe, explore the climate and learn about the physical and human features.
History - Powerful Voices
Children will be learning about the stories of some significant people who were not born into powerful positions (like a king or queen) but were able to use their voices to spread their beliefs to influence
change.
Music - Music Makes us Move
Art - Ancient Egypt
If you have any questions or if there is anything that I can help you with, please speak to me at the end of the day.
Mrs Pugh and Miss Mochan
