Year 2 - Cedar

Autumn Term 2 2024

Wow what a half term we have had already. Visits from Netherton Fire engine, Mrs Glenn dancing our socks off, teddy bears picnic, just to name a few. We can’t wait to start the Autumn 2 term with our build up to Christmas, as we are all now truly settled into the year 2 routine, ready to conquer anything!

Here’s a little look at what we’ll be studying this half term

English
The children have already begun our adventure by watching an exciting clip called ‘A cloudy lesson’. This clip is about a boy and his Grandad who are the makers of clouds. It has no words, so its exciting to see what imagination and inspiration the children will bring to their writing. We also might make our very own cheeky cloud machine too, following our very own instructions! Following this, linking to Bonfire Night, we begin to look at the Bonfire night and the Great Fire of London, using our book ‘Vlad and the Great Fire of London’, I wonder what we might see happen in Pudding Lane in 1666. We continue to focus on our punctuation, sentence structure, and grammar, and practice beautiful cursive handwriting. This book will carry us over into the Spring term too.

Maths
In Maths, we continue to explore more in-depth addition, subtraction, multiplication and division, looking at a range of ways which might be suitable for us. We aim to then decide on the method that works the best for each of us. Shape will be an area we focus on I wonder who will spot a hexagon the first? Every morning, we’ll jump into our Morning Maths sessions, where we’ll work on essential skills like counting, adding, and subtracting to become maths whizzes!

Science
In Science, materials is our next topic. We will learn to describe materials in different ways, Find out if it’s bendy, ridged, smooth, hard, sharp. We will be investigating what materials are used for and select the best materials for the chosen job. I wonder what materials will be put on our tables to investigate.

Computing
Ever wondered ‘What are algorithms and debugging’ In this unit, we’ll find out! We’ll identify that computers use algorithm to make predictions, we will make an algorithm that has a loop and understand what abstraction means, giving an example. Mrs Londesborough is a whizz on the computer and can’t wait to teach the year 2’s some more skills.

Art
Nancy McCroskey is our artist we will be studying this halt term. Focusing on tones in shading, painting for purpose and pleasure, homing in on our painting skills. We will learn to be critical and develop a more rigorous understanding of art and design.

History
Remember, remember the 5^th of November. Can you guess what we will be learning about. We will be starting our adventure into Bonfire Night, continuing it into the Spring term where we focus more on the Great fire of London. We will find out about a guy called Guy Fawkes and understand why he took the actions he did., Was he a villain or a hero? The children will come up with their own conclusions.

Music
With Christmas fast approaching, we will be perfecting our Christmas nativity performances. Developing our performing skills with our signing, whilst composing our own music to play with the instruments

PE
This term in PE, we’re honing our locomotion skills perfecting our jumping skills! We will be working with Beth Tweddle Gymnastics we’ll practice gymnastics, focusing on linking movements together to make a set piece. We can’t wait to show our moves in the PE hall!

RE
Our RE focus is on festivals. We will be studying some very important festivals in the Christian, Jewish and Muslim faiths. Our focus will be in Easter, Eid and Passover, looking at the similarities and differences between them. How do the different religions celebrate the, and what do they symbolise.

PSHE
In PSHE, our mission is to identify the foods that are healthy to eat and know the importance of brushing our teeth.

It is a very exciting time in school on the run up to Christmas, Please keep an eye on our school twitter page for more updates of our amazing learning.

Mrs Pike, Mrs Smith and Mrs Londesborough