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Class 2

Our class is a pure Year 2 class with Miss Bannister as Class Teacher and Mrs Ford as Teaching Assistant.

This class page is designed to give a brief overview of what we are covering in class. We share more detailed information about what we get up to using the Class Dojo app. Parents can request login details via their child's class teacher.

Websites that will help your child at home

Don't forget to keep reading and challenging yourselves with your phonics and spelling rules.

Here is a fun website we use to help us:

www.phonicsplay.co.uk/freeIndex.htm

You could also have fun on:

www.topmarks.co.uk/

Enjoy working on your times tables with TTRockstars:

ttrockstars.com/

Class 2 Topics

Our Topics 2024-2025:

Autumn Term 1 2024:
'Know Your Place - Bolsover'

This term our topic is 'Know your place- Bolsover'. We will be looking at:

  • The continents and oceans of the world.
  • Maps and their symbols. 
  • Using maps and compass points.
  • Naming the capital cities of the four countries. 
  • Identifying Bolsover on a map and looking at the human and physical features. 
  • Creating a fact-file using our information.
  • Experimenting with lines to create different effects.
  • Beginning to use Microsoft Word. 

Below is a knowledge organiser which outlines the information we expect you to learn and remember at the end of the topic.

Knowledge Organiser - Know your Place - Bolsover:

Maths

In maths, we are learning Place Value. This includes: 

  • Recognising tens and ones.
  • Partitioning numbers to 100. 
  • Putting numbers on a number line.
  • Order objects and numbers. 
  • Count in 2s, 5s and 10s. 
  • Count in 3s. 

Don't forget, Mathletics is really important and links to the work we are doing in class. Here is the link below. 

Mathletics 

Science 

In Science we are learning about Uses of Everyday Materials. Here is the Knowledge Organiser below. 

Other Subjects

PE

We are learning fundamental movement skills. During all PE lessons, the children will be working on their personal and social skills. 

The unit gives us a chance to develop footwork skills, one-legged balances and seated balances. 

 

PSHE

During PSHE lessons, the children will be learning how to explore different emotions and how to develop ways to deal with these to different situations. 

We hope that they will be able to apply these on the playground. 

 

RE

This half term, we will be learning who is a Christian and what they believe. This links to some of our British Values especially tolerance. 

 

French

We are learning how to meet and greet each other in french and beginning to practise simple conversations with others. 

 

Music

In music, we are learning how to find the beat to different music, listening to a range of genres and learning and performing songs with actions. The children also use xylophones and play them to music. 

 

Autumn Term 2 2024:
'Improve Our World & Guy Fawkes'

This term our topic is 'Improve Our World!'

We will be learning about:

  • Waste and how we can improve and help the environment.
  • Litter and air pollution.
  • Different sewing skills and creating an earth using these.
  • Evaluating our learning both verbally and written.
  • Gymnastics.
  • Re-telling a story using adverbial phrases.

As well as learning about this topic, we will also learn about Guy Fawkes and his plot to destroy the houses of parliament!  

Spring Term 1 2025:
'Who makes the rules? - Monarchy'

Our topic this term is 'Who makes the rules?'

We will be learning about:

  • Queen Elizabeth I.
  • Queen Victoria.
  • Comparing both the queens and looking at their similarities and differences.
  • Creating characters on Scratch Jr and developing conversations.
  • Creating artwork in the style of George Seurat.

Knowledge Organiser – Who Makes The Rules?

Spring Term 2 2025:
'Heroes and Villains - Mary Seacole'

This term, our topic is Heroes and Villains: Mary Seacole.

We will be learning:

  • All about Mary Seacole and recapping Florence Nightingale.
  • Creating a non-chronological report on Mary Seacole using Purple Mash.
  • Writing a diary as though we are Mary Seacole.
  • How to perform a dance in PE.
  • Everyday materials and their uses in Science.

Knowledge Organiser - Heroes and Villains (Mary Seacole)

Summer Term 1 2025:
'Fairy Tales'

This term our topic is ' Once upon a time - Fairy Tales.'

We will be looking at:

  • Ordering fairy tales.
  • Re-tell some well-known fairy tales.
  • Plan and write a story with an alternate ending. 
  • Mix colours on the colour wheel. 
  • Experiment with printing.
  • Listen to music and clap in time with the beats. 

Knowledge Organiser for Fairy Tales

 

Summer Term 2 Topic 2025:
'Explorers: Christopher Columbus'

This term our topic is 'Explorers: Christopher Columbus.'

We will be looking at:

  • Who Christopher Columbus is and what he did.
  • Create a fact-file about him using the correct terminology.
  • Comparing old and new ships. 
  • The different routes Christopher Columbus took and why he did this. 
  • Understanding tones and tints and using these skills to paint backgrounds relating to Christopher Columbus.

We will also be looking at staying safe on the internet and discussing why this is important. 

Knowledge Organiser for Explorers - Christopher Columbus

 

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