Year 2
Our Classes
Welcome to Year 2
Below you can see the Year 2 team.
Here are the teaching staff:
Miss Palmer Mrs Clifford Mrs Marshall Miss Cole
We are very to lucky to have some great people supporting us in Year 2.
Mrs O' Mahoney and Mrs Coldwell work in both classes.
We have 2 classes in Year 2, with a total of 42 children.
Miss Palmer teaches 2A on Thursday afternoons and all day on Friday and Monday.
Mrs Clifford teaches 2A all day on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday mornings.
Mrs Marshall teaches 2B on Monday and Wednesday mornings, and all day Thursday and Friday.
Miss Cole teaches 2B on Monday and Wednesday afternoons, and all day Tuesday.
Mantle
Much of our curriculum is carefully woven into a Mantle story.
Autumn Term
A team of people organise rescue and recovery missions all around the world and beyond. They can advise people on risks. They need to have an extensive knowledge of materials and their properties. This helps them to use the most appropriate resources in their work.
As part of their rescue and recovery role, the team need to know how to deal with dangers faced by the explorers.
They need to know about the weather. How might different weather events affect the explorers? How might weather conditions change?
They also need to have a good knowledge of the continents and oceans on planet Earth. Where are the people needing help? How will they get there and how can they get them to safety?
Writing
We follow the Year 2 National Curriculum for writing and we use "The Write Stuff" by Jane Considine to learn how to stack fantastic sentences and create stories, non-fiction texts and poetry.
Our writing is often linked to the work we do in Mantle; we write to entertain and inform as described by Michael Tidd on his website.
Spelling and Handwriting
Once the children have completed the Little Wandles Phonics programme, they move onto Little Wandles Spelling programme. This begins with a review of phase 5, but focuses more on spelling and writing.
We follow Kinetic Letters for handwriting. These lessons are daily and some children may have individual practise too.
We have a login for Spelling Shed and can use this resource at school and at home to practise the different graphemes and spelling rules we are learning.
Reading
We begin by completing the Little Wandles Guided Reading programme with 3 guided reading sessions each week. These books are closely matched the phonics we are learning. We can also read these books at home via the eCollins website. Some of the children may move on to whole class reading. These lessons are three times a week. We look at new vocabulary, have a chance to read with a reading partner and on our own, as well as having the chance to discuss the text.
We read lots of non-fiction texts as part of our mantle stories and use websites like DK Find Out and BBC Bitesize.
Daily Story Time
In class we love to share a book. We read a whole range of books and texts. When we have read a book, it goes in our class reading corner for us to read again independently. We are trying to read more than 200 different books and poems this year! But sometimes we just like to re-read old favourites!
Most weeks we have the chance to go to the school library and choose a book for ourselves.
Home Reading
As well as our eCollins books, we also choose a home reader and change this as we need to. These books may have some unfamiliar words in them, but they are for us to share with our families. Our grown ups can make a comment in our reading diary. We have a reading at home challenge. Who will be the first to fill their book mark?
Maths
We follow the White Rose planning for Maths.
Four days a week we use the NCTEM's Mastering Number programme. These sessions help us to practise number bonds and calculation skills.
We also have a daily quiz. This challenge is to help us improve our fluency with number facts. Each quiz has 10 days of challenges. We love trying to beat our daily score.
Once we have cracked addition and subtraction facts within 20 we will move on to times tables facts. In the Spring Term we will also have access to TTRockstars.
Science
Sometimes we learn science through our Mantle story. Sometimes we just do science!
These are the National Curriculum areas of study we focus on:
Geography and History
We use Primary Connected History and Geography units for Key Stage 1. Mostly we will weave them into our Mantle stories, but sometimes we might teach them as individual history or geography units.
In History we learn about a local significant building. This is Kenilworth Castle. We will find out, why it was built there, who built it, how it changed, what life was like inside and which special people visited it.
In Geography we learn about and compare an area just a bus journey away from Woodrow, but one which is very different. Great Malvern and the Malvern Hills have lots of geographical features to explore and it has really interesting connections to famous writers and composers!
RE
We follow the Worcestershire Agreed Syllabus for RE.
Here are the questions we think about in Year 2:
RSE
We follow the PSHE Association's Thematic Builder. Here are the themes we learn about in Year 2:
Computing
We use the Teach Computing programme.
Music
We follow Kapow Primary Music to learn about the instruments in the orchestra and to develop our composing and perfoming skills. We are also really lucky to have Miss Capron-Tee working with us over the year. She loves to sing and we love to sing with her! She also teaches us how to play the ocarina.
PE
We follow GetSet4PE.
We are lucky to have a swimming on site and so we can swim for half a term in each term.
Lunches
All children in Year 2 are entitled to Universal Free School meals.
The children can have a school lunch or bring a packed lunch from home.
Lunches need to be ordered in advance via the parent app.
Previous Class Mantles