Year 2

Summer 2

Africa

Summer 1

Dare to be Different

Learning Conversations 

Spring 2

Dinosaurs

Spring 1

Pirates!

Spring 1 KIRF

Y2 Learning Conversations - Spring 1

Autumn 2

Fires and Festivals

This term 

PE -  Wednesday Kingfishers

PE -  Monday Swallows - please come to school wearing PE kit and suitable trainers.

Forest School every Wednesday starting 2nd November PM Swallows class. Please bring long sleeved top and bottoms to be worn over PE kit and wellington boots. Waterproofs will be provided by the school.

Learning Conversations

Autumn 1   2022-23

Seaside Rescue

Welcome back! We hope you have all enjoyed the summer break and are ready to return refreshed, excited and ready to learn! Take a look at the Topic Organiser to give you a flavour of some of the exciting things we will experiencing this half term.

Each week we will update you with a learning conversation which we will post on the website as well as emailing to you directly. Please see below for dates for PE and Forest School. 

Kind Regards, Year 2 Team

This term 

PE -  Wednesday Kingfishers

PE -  Monday Swallows - please come to school wearing PE kit and suitable trainers.

Forest School every Wednesday PM starting 7th September with Kingfishers class. Please bring long sleeved top and bottoms to be worn over PE kit and wellington boots. Waterproofs will be provided by the school.

Here is our Year 2 KIRF (Key Instant Recall of Facts) focus for this half term. We are securing our number bonds to 20.

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Summer 2 - Africa

Kingfishers’ Africa Projects

Summer  Term 1

Dare to be Different

Spring 2 Dinosaurs!

Learning Conversations

Pirate Day...

SONG: Tell Me Somebody.

Tell me somebody

Do you know what is Christmas?

I really would like to know

I’m gonna look around

Til the answer is found

Can anybody let me know?

Tell me somebody

Do you know what is Christmas?

It looks so good to me

With all the decorations that shine and glisten

With the lights on the Christmas tree.

Are you ready, everybody

To look around?

Are you ready, everybody

To look around?

Are you ready, everybody

To look around?

I really would like to know. (x2)

SONG: Winter Nights

When the winter nights grow long

And the stars are shining bright,

I will rock you in my arms

And hold you through the night.

When the winter nights grow dark

And the fire is burning bright

I will rock you in my arms

Until the morning light,

And my arms will keep you safe

And the fire will keep you warm

And the song inside your soul

Gives you shelter from the storm.

SONG: Glory to God

Glory to God in the highest

Glory to God in the highest

Glory to God in the highest

Glory to God x2

Good tidings of great joy we bring

To all the people

Good tidings of great joy we bring

To all the world

For unto us is born this day

In the town of David

A saviour who is Christ the Lord

Christ the Lord

(Repeat all then: )

Glory to God in the highest

Glory to God in the highest

Glory to God in the highest

Glory to God x2

Glisten and Sparkle.

I’m gonna shine from every part of me

I’m gonna glisten and sparkle

I’m gonna shine for all the world to see

I’m gonna glisten and sparkle

I’m gonna shine down with all of my heart

On the child born today

I’m gonna shine out to all the world

Showing all people the way

Shine out

Star of Bethlehem

Shine out

Glisten and sparkle

Shine out

Star of Bethlehem

Shine out

Glisten and sparkle

Shine out

Song: Welcome among us 

Welcome among us little baby

Welcome among us little one

Welcome among us precious Jesus, God’s own son

We adore you little baby

We adore you little one

We adore you precious Jesus, God’s own son.

Autumn Term 2 - Fires and Festivals

Please take a look at our exciting Fires and Festivals topic Knowledge Organiser.

The Three Tower Challenge!

Today we took part in the Year 2 Three Tower Challenge. We were tasked with building a monopole, self-standing and guyed tower to safely and securely hold an egg at the top.

During this investigation, we explored the structural engineering of each type of tower. We can now use some of the advantages of each type when building our model lighthouses, making sure they are just as secure!

(photographs pending!)

The Lighthouse Keeper's Lunch!

We had a very exciting launch into our new Talk for Writing unit around 'The Lighthouse Keeper's Lunch' by Ronda and David Armitage. Our Swallows and Kingfishers came across a rather scrumptious looking picnic, much like one which would have been packed for Mr Grinling, the Lighthouse Keeper. The children talked about which adjectives could be used to describe the food on the picnic blanket, inspired of course by the flavours, aromas and textures of the foods which they experienced after tasting them!

Yummy!

Autumn Term 1

Have a look at our topic organiser to see what exciting learning will be going on in the first Autumn term in Year 2. Our first topic is the Seaside Rescue! A lovely topic which works nicely as a transition unit of work, building on the seaside work which the children started at the end of Year 1. In our Seaside Rescue topic we will continue to explore the coast, this time through the eyes of our coastguards and the RNLI. We will also discover the story and history of Grace Darling as well study the geography of our beautiful coastline. 

Our first three weeks of writing will be inspired by the story, 'The Lighthouse Keeper's Lunch' by Ronda and David Armitage. Following that, we will look at instruction writing, which we will link with our DT unit, designing and building a model lighthouse!