St. John's CofE VA Primary School

Welcome to Year 2!

Teachers: Miss Coleman

Teaching Assistant: Mrs Berneaud, Mr Norris and Mrs Pereria

Key Information

Each week, we will have PE on Tuesday (indoor) and Thursday (outdoor). Please remember to wear your PE kit to school on these days.

Home Learning will be set once every half-term, please check this page to see the latest tasks.

Reading books will also be changed every Friday in preparation for the following week.

In Autumn 1, we will be learning:

English – We will be reading 'The Journey Home' by Frann Preston-Gannon. Through this wonderful text, we will be exploring narrative writing through the 4 sentence types.

Maths - Our focus is 'number and place value', exploring the value of 2 digit numbers up to 100. We will later be looking at various addition methods.

Science - Our first unit is 'The uses of everyday materials' where we will explore the purpose and functionality of various materials.

Georgraphy - Where do we live? We will be learning more about our school and local area by looking at maps and using compass directions.

RE - Who Created the World?

Indoor PE: Floor gymnastics - exploring balances, movement and rolls.

Outdoor PE: Ball skills - developing our fundamental throwing, catching and kicking skills.

PSHE – Being me in my world

Computing - IT around us

Spanish - Minibeasts

Art - The work of Yayoi Kusama

Music - Exploring beat and rhythm

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