Year 2 Curriculum Newsletter

Summer 1 2023-24

Wider Curriculum

Over the next few weeks the children will be learning about:

• Plants in Science
• The geography of China
• How to make art inspired by the sounds we hear.

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Click here for this half term’s Knowledge Organisers:

Click here for this half term’s Optional Home Learning activities.

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English

Our focus book for next half term are:

George’s Marvellous Medicine

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In Writing the children will be learning to:

• Write recounts in the form of a diary
• Write a set of instructions for how to make a medicine
• Write their own story opening

Reading

Over this half term, the children will be practising a range of reading strategies. These include:

• Retrieving information from a text.
• Making inferences about how a character is feeling.
• Sequencing events in the order they happen in a text.
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Please remember to read 5 times a week and record it in your child’s reading diary.

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Maths

This half term, the children will be learning about:

• 2D and 3D shapes
• How to solve word problems
• Spending and saving in financial education

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PE

Please ensure that your child has their PE kit in school every day. Your child will need the correct P.E kit: black shorts/ tracksuit bottoms, white t-shirt and trainers/plimsolls.

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PE is on the following days:

• Both Foxes & Owls: Monday & Thursday

Year 2 Curriculum Newsletter

Summer 1 2023-24

Home Learning

Reading - Reading diaries are to be handed in every Monday morning. Please read with your child at least five times a week and record it in the reading diary.

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Maths

20 minutes of Numbots - https://play.numbots.com/#/intro

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Optional Activities

Century - https://app.century.tech/login/

Times Table Rock Stars - https://play.ttrockstars.com/auth/school/student

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The children have usernames and passwords for all of the above websites. Please ask your child’s class teacher if you are having trouble accessing any of these.

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Please continue to practise reading and spelling the Year 2 Common Exception Words.

Reminders

• Please ensure all clothing is labelled.
• Please ensure that your child has a water bottle in school every day.
• Please ensure that your child has a weather appropriate coat.
• Please check your child's bag/Google Classroom daily for letters and other information.
• If your child has a packed lunch, please ensure that it is a healthy meal - no chocolate or cakes (including donuts).

Assessment

At various points throughout the year, your child will be assessed in order to determine the next steps in their learning. This may take a range of forms including: termly assessment tests, informal quizzes, listening to reading, independent writing and many more.

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