Class 2

Welcome to Year 2!

Class Teacher: Mrs Woolman & Mrs Pagliari

Learning Support Assistants: Mrs Knight and Mrs Hewitt

We would like to give you all a very warm welcome to our class webpage!

On this page you will find out what we will be learning about in class. We are going to have a very exciting year!

If you have any questions or need to pass on a message, please don’t hesitate to contact us via ClassDojo or email:

Monday – Wednesday: mwoolman@stpetersprimary.org

Thursday & Friday: kpagliari@stpetersprimary.org

Our Classroom

Yearly Overview 2022-23

Year 2 Yearly Overview 2022-23 website.pdf

Maths

This term in maths, we will be working on money, multiplication and division, length and height and mass, capacity and temperature.

Literacy (Talk for Writing)

In Literacy this term, we will be exploring settings through the story, ‘Jack and the Beanstalk’. This is a beating the monster story and we will be writing our own.

In our non-fiction writing, we will be writing persuasive adverts selling magic beans!

This half term in RE we will be learning about ‘books’. We will explore The Bible and The Gospels. We will then start our ‘Thanksgiving’ topic where we will retell ‘The Last Supper’ story and learn about the parts of the Mass.

RE Knowledge Organiser

Science

In Science this term, we will be learning about everyday materials. We will explore how materials change and their properties.

We will also be investigating famous scientists and their discoveries!

Science Knowledge Organiser

History

In History this term, we will be learning about the history of transport. We will find out about when and who invented different modes of transport.

History Knowledge Organiser

Geography

In Advent 1 2022, we learnt about the Sensational Safari! We found out all about Kenya, the animals that live on Safari and the Masaai Tribe.

Knowledge Organisers:

Year 2 – Safari(opens in new tab)

Year 2 – Wonderful World(opens in new tab)

Year 2 – Seaside

Homework

Homework consists of three parts: reading, spelling and a maths task.
Reading: Please read daily with your child and record it in their reading record. This is checked every week and your child will be rewarded for regular reading.
Reading books will be changed every Friday.
Spelling: New spellings will be given out every Friday for a spelling test the following Wednesday.
Maths task: This is set on a Friday and is due in on Wednesday each week.
This year your child will come home with a new homework book.
In the homework book, please complete the maths task and spelling practise.
Please return the completed homework in the homework book on a Wednesday.

Strategies for Learning Spellings

strategies-for-learning-spellings.pdf(opens in new tab)

Common Exception Words

Handwriting in Class 2

This is how each letter should be formed. We call the join going into the letter a ‘launcher’. Your child does not need to join their handwriting yet, we will build up to this.