Year 2
Welcome to Year 2! In Year 2 this year, the class teachers will be Mr Stone, Mr Palethorpe, Miss Stagg and Mr Dunn and we will be supported by our wonderful teaching assistants.
We are going to spend the year becoming masters of Maths as we follow the Mastery program to think deeper about how numbers have relationships in order to add, subtract, multiply and divide. We will look at telling the time to the nearest 5 minutes and explore the properties of 2D and 3D shapes. When writing for different purposes in English lessons, we will look closely at choosing words to create an effect and add plenty of detail through interesting adjectives, verbs and conjunctions. While reading a range of books, children will develop their prosody by thinking about how words and phrases can be said with feeling and expression. We will use interesting texts to develop skills of retrieval and inference by finding clues to answer challenging questions
We are really excited about our learning this year. In Year 2, children will have the opportunity to read, amongst other high-quality books, one of Miss Stagg’s personal favourites, The Day the Crayons Quit. Mr Stone is particularly looking forward to exploring the topic of Kings Heath Now and Then during our history lessons, Mr Palethorpe can’t wait to get stuck into the Wheels and Axles project as part of our DT this year and Mr Dunn is super excited about finding different habitats in Kings Heath Park. In addition to this, we will explore compass directions, develop skills using an atlas, learn to sew to create a product and use multimedia to create an impression of the Great Fire on London.