We are so excited to welcome you to Spring 2! We are looking forward to an amazing year filled with learning, laughter, creativity and lots of exciting adventures. We can’t wait to see our children grow in confidence, independence and curiosity as they take on all the wonderful challenges that Year 2 has to offer.

Your Year 2 Team:

Class Teacher: Miss Islam

Assistant Teacher: Mr Amin

Take a look at some of the things we will be getting up to over the next few weeks.

What Are We Learning During Autumn Term?

We have lots of exciting learning planned this term! Our classrooms will be full of opportunities to investigate, create, ask questions, solve problems and develop our skills.

English: The Papaya That Spoke

This term, we will be exploring The Papaya That Spoke and using it as inspiration to write our very own action stories. We will learn how authors create excitement and suspense, describe characters and settings, and choose adventurous vocabulary to bring our stories to life.

We will be practising:

✏️ Writing exciting opening sentences

💥 Using action verbs and powerful vocabulary

👀 Describing characters and settings

🗣️ Using speech in our stories

📖 Sequencing events clearly

🔍 Editing and improving our writing

By the end of our unit, we hope our Year 2 authors will be ready to create an action-packed story that makes their readers want to keep turning the pages!

Maths: Place Value

In Maths, we are becoming place value experts!

We will explore numbers and discover how each digit has a different value depending on its position. We will use practical resources, drawings and mathematical language to help us understand numbers.

We will be learning to:

Recognise and represent numbers

Partition numbers into tens and ones

Compare and order numbers

Count forwards and backwards

Find one more and one less

Use mathematical symbols to compare numbers

We will be working hard to explain how we know our answers, not just what the answer is.

History: Accrington’s Story

This term, we are becoming local history detectives!

Our History topic focuses on Accrington Pals and the fascinating story of Basil Arthur Horsfall. We will discover what life was like in Accrington during the First World War and explore how people from our local area contributed to history.

We will investigate historical photographs, stories and sources and think carefully about what they can tell us about the past.

We will ask questions such as:

Who were the Accrington Pals?

Who was Basil Arthur Horsfall?

Why were the Accrington Pals important?

What was life like in Accrington during the First World War?

How has our local area changed over time?

We can’t wait to uncover some of the amazing history right on our doorstep!

Science: Living Things and Their Habitats

Our scientists will be exploring the wonderful world of living things and their habitats.

We will learn how to identify things that are living, dead and have never been alive. We will investigate different habitats and discover how plants and animals are suited to the places where they live.

We will be asking questions, making observations, sorting and classifying living things and recording what we discover.

Art: Express Yourself!

In Art, we will explore how paint can be used to express creativity. We will experiment with colours, lines, shapes, patterns and different painting techniques.

We will have opportunities to:

🎨 Mix and create colours

🖌️ Experiment with different brush techniques

🖼️ Explore artists and their work

✨ Create our own imaginative artwork

💭 Use art to express ideas and feelings

There are no limits to our creativity!

 RE: Christianity and God

In RE, we will be exploring Christianity and thinking about the Christian belief in God.

We will explore Christian stories, beliefs and ideas and consider what Christians believe about God and how these beliefs influence the way people live.

We will also have opportunities to share our own ideas, ask thoughtful questions and respectfully listen to the beliefs and opinions of others.