Year 2

Class Teachers: Mrs Hodgson and Miss Robinson

Teaching Partners: Mrs Weaver,  Miss Young,  Mrs Willis,  Mrs Landers 

Learning Support Assistants: Mrs Thurman, Mrs Dumont, Miss Wilkinson

Welcome to Year 2!

Our class page is your go-to place for all of the key information about our learning journey together this year. The team can't wait to support you in your progress and learning this year, where we will be exploring lots of exciting new concepts and skills!

Please do not hesitate to contact Mrs Hodgson or Miss Robinson with any questions or queries.

Our Timetable - Spring Term

Please note that our PE day is on a Tuesday with Miss Robinson and the KS1 Team. Please come to school dressed in PE kit on these days. Earrings and other jewellery should be removed for PE and hair tied back where possible.

PE Kit includes:

• Red or dark PE hoodies,  black or grey tracksuit trousers or shorts (unbranded)

• Black, grey or white trainers

• Zip-up sports jackets are suitable for colder weather.

Curriculum Overview

Summer Term 1:

• English: We will be writing letters to persuade based upon the book 'The Day the Crayons Quit' by Drew Daywalt. Our class book will be: The Wild Robot by Peter Brown.
• Maths: Fractions: recognising and calculating halves, quarters and thirds; and Time: telling the time on an analogue clock to o'clock, half-past, quarter past and quarter to, minutes past and minutes to.

• Science: Plants - plant growth: investigating seeds, bulbs and plants and recognising the conditions required for germination and healthy plant growth.

• History: Children will explore significant people linked by the theme of flight, leading to the Moon Landing in 1969. They will learn about Neil Armstrong’s role as the first man on the Moon, why the mission was important, and how it was achieved. Pupils will investigate evidence, consider different viewpoints about space travel, and link the event to earlier pioneers like the Wright brothers and Amy Johnson. They will finish by creating a commemorative piece to celebrate this historic achievement.

• Art: The children will create their own seascape art using collage and watercolour, inspired by the work of Vanessa Gardiner and their own sculptures using carving techniques and forming using clay, inspired by Barbara Hepworth. The children will use pattern and embellish their sculptures, taking inspiration from Hepworth's use of shape.

• Computing: Children will learn to create and debug simple programs by selecting code blocks, placing them in the correct sequence and executing a program, use logical reasoning to predict behaviour of simple programs. Children will also use Scratch Jr to program inputs and conditions to debug (throughout Summer Term).
• Music: Exploring pitch and melody, find out about a range of instruments and learn to describe pitch and timbre (throughout Summer Term)
• Physical Education: Gym: learn, develop and apply flight and rotation on the floor and apparatus (continued throughout summer term). Co-ordination: sending and receiving. Agility: reaction and response.
• Religious Education: Spirited Arts
• Relationships, Sex and Health Education (including Economic Education): 'Fake is a Mistake' - focusing being true to ourselves, Developing an awareness of how to keep safe, including Sun Safety. Thinking about how we can look after our money.

Spring Term 2:

• English: We will be writing instructions on how to make playdough and how to look after a magical creature. Our class book will be: The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint Exupéry.
• Maths: Statistics: interpreting and presenting data; Position and Direction.

• Science: Making connections - Plant-based materials: consolidating knowledge of materials and plant growth through enquiry.

• Geography: Learning about the seas and oceans surrounding the UK, what a coast is. Looking at the features of the Jurassic Coast and seaside town of Weymouth. Collecting data to find out about how people use our local area and presenting this in a pictogram.
• DT: Children will design and make a moving monster, learning how to make pivots, levers and linkages.
• Music: Exploring pitch and melody, find out about a range of instruments and learn to describe pitch and timbre (throughout Summer Term)
• Physical Education: Gym: learn, develop and apply flight and rotation on the floor and apparatus (continued throughout summer term). Ball chasing and floor work.
• Religious Education: Stories of Jesus
• Relationships, Sex and Health Education (including Economic Education): 'No Way Through Isn't True' - exploring resilience and overcoming challenges. Making choices with money.

Homework

Spellings:

We send home 10 words each week for the children to practise spelling. These words are taken from the list for their year group in the National Curriculum. Spellings will be tested on a Thursday.

CGP 10 Minute 'Test's - Reading:

Please continue to complete one test per week, and bring booklets into school each Friday to be marked.

Reading

Please read with your child as often as possible, even if only for a few minutes. 

Mrs Hodgson will check the children's reading records each Friday, and for each Year 2 who has read 3 times or more to an adult outside of school during the week, they will be rewarded with a dip in the goodie bag! Please date and sign their reading record each time they read to an adult, and encourage them to read a range of text types. Useful documents including key questions to support with hearing your child read can be found below. These will also be sent home with the children at the start of the academic year.

Please note that we encourage the children in Year 2 to take responsibility for changing their own colour-banded books as they come into school each morning. Decodable (Phonics) books will be changed on a Friday by Mrs Hodgson. Please note that children are encouraged to read these books at least twice before being changed.

Key Dates

Parent-Teacher Meetings: 

We offer these termly, dates are included on our weekly newsletters.

Trips and Visits:

Southwell Minster Time Travelling - 18th June 2025

Communication

You can contact Mrs Hodgson or Miss Robinson via the below contact forms. Alternatively, please email teachers@archbishopcranmer.notts.sch.uk or the school office (office@archbishopcranmer.notts.sch.uk or schooladmin@archbishopcranmer.notts.sch.uk).