Class Teachers: Mrs Magee and Mrs Brown

Teaching Assistants: Mrs Clark, Mrs Manns and Mrs Griffiths

PTFA Class Representatives: Mrs Rolls and Mrs Churchill

Important Information

Please make sure your child has a named PE kit, water bottle, reading book and message book in school every day. Year 2 have PE on a Tuesday and Wednesday.

Spellings will be placed in children's message books and our spelling tests are on Friday mornings. Spelling books will come home on Fridays via your child's book bag, please ensure these are returned into school on the Monday morning.

We will be learning our 2 times tables this half term. Please practise these at home too.

Year 2 will go the library on Fridays, please ensure library books are in book bags every Friday to enable your child to choose a new one.

This half term our topic is...

Why is our world wonderful?

This half term we will be...

• Identify and locate characteristics of the UK on a map.
• Identify human and physical features.
• Locate human and physical features on a world map.
• Explain the difference between oceans and seas.
• Name and locate the five oceans on a world map.
• Use an aerial photograph to draw a simple sketch map.
• Collect data by sketching findings on a map and completing a tally chart.
• Present their findings in a bar chart

Click on the picture of the world to find out more. 

Here is some vocabulary that we will be using this term...

data collection, fieldwork, human feature, key, land, landmark, locate, location, map, physical feature, OS map, sample, scale, symbol, tally chart

In Science we are going to be learning about...

Animals including humans: life cycles and health

Key vocabulary

survival, balanced diet,  life cycles, humans, hygiene, carbohydrates, fruits and vegetables, dairy and alternatives, protein and oils and spreads.

Click on the picture above to learn more!

Our class author is...

Oliver Jeffers!

Click on the picture of him to see his website. 

Did you know that Oliver Jeffers is also an illustrator?

Have you read any of his books?

What is your favourite book?