Year 2
Welcome to our Year 2 Class Page
We have a very exciting year of learning ahead of us. We hope that the following information about our curriculum and routines will help you and your child throughout their year in Willow Class.
Year 2 Teaching Team
Mrs Noone – Class Teacher
Mrs Robinson – Teaching Assistant (Monday and Tuesday)
Mrs Fleming- Teaching Assistant (Wednesday, Thursday and Friday)
Mrs Graham - Teaching Assistant (Intervention)
Physical Education Reminders
P.E takes place on a Monday (Dance) & Thursday (P.E.)
Homework Reminders
On a Tuesday the children will be given homework and spellings, the homework should be completed by Friday. Children should aim to read and learn spellings on a daily basis.
Year 2 Reading:
Please ensure your child’s reading book and dairy are in school daily as we do not have set days to listen to the children read. Please try to listen to your child read regularly and write in your child's reading diary each time you have listened to the read.
Curriculum Information
This year at Kings Meadow, we are following a newly revised curriculum. Our bespoke, carefully designed Kings Meadow ‘CRACKING’ curriculum is a:
Creative, Real-life, Ambitious, Careers-focussed curriculum building Knowledge & skills for every Individual Nurturing Global citizens of the future
During this academic year, the children in Year 2 will be taught the following themes:
A Very Victorian Adventure
Heroes and Heroines
An Influential Woman
A Pirates Journey
Paddington and Peru
In Year 2 our class mascot is ‘Sandy the Sand Lizard’’. Sandy helps us to focus on the following characteristics of effective learning.
In Year 2, through our teaching, and the experiences we offer, our children will learn how to become:
DETERMINED - I will always try and will never give up.
RESOURCEFUL- I am able to find quick and clever ways to overcome challenges.
INDEPEDENT - I can work by myself.
CREATIVE - I am able to invent and develop original ideas.
Current CRACKING Curriculum Theme
Our current theme is ‘A Very Victorian Adventure’. It is part of our whole school COMMUNITY driver.
In this unit, pupils will explore why people did things, why events happened and what happened as a result. They will compare seaside holidays in Victorian times with seaside holidays now, comparing pictures and photographs and identifying similarities and differences. Pupils will also explore the work of Thomas Barnardo, and how the work that he did had is still impactful today.