Welcome to Boater Class! We hope you enjoy looking at our wonderful website page where you can find out all about our fantastic learning.

Year Two Staff

Boater Class:

Class teacher – Mrs Parr

Teaching assistants – Mrs Pearce 

Top Hat Class:

Class teacher – Miss Murphy

Teaching assistant – Mrs Holmes

PE

Our PE days are Monday and Friday. Please send your child into school wearing their PE kit on these days.

Toast

Toast is available to buy daily at a cost of £1 per week. Please send your child’s money into school in a named envelope.

Autumn One Topic - The Power of Atherstone

This half term we will be finding out all about our amazing town - Atherstone! In English we will be reading an exciting story called Traction Man and doing lots of different writing about the story. In Maths we will be learning all about the place value of 2 - digit  numbers and we will be continuing to practise our number bonds to 10 and 20. In Science we will be investigating different materials and their properties and conducting some interesting experiments. Our History work will be all about Atherstone - including our famous hatting factory.

Reading Update

The children are really enjoying taking part in our year two Little Wandle reading groups at school. We hope you all enjoy discussing the texts they have been reading and learning about in depth at school. The children have now been given a school reading book, reading diary and folder. It is really important that the children bring their reading folder into school EVERY day so they can be read with individually and so that staff can change their books each week. We hope you are all enjoying reading and sharing lots of books together at home and please do not hesitate to speak to a member of the year two team if you have any questions about, or need any support with reading at home or school.

Forest Schools - Autumn One:

Our Forest School dates for this half term are:

Friday 22nd September

Friday 6th October

Friday 20th October

Autumn Two Topic - Remember, Remember the 5th of November

This half term we will be learning all about fireworks, why we have fireworks and about Guy Fawkes too! In English will be reading a brilliant new story about a King who banned the dark and in Maths we will be doing lots of work on adding and subtracting, including number bonds and fact families. In Science wee are continuing our learning on materials and their properties and we will also be planting bulbs that will grow in the Spring! We will be leaning and thinking about remembrance, symbols of remembrance and creating beautiful art work including poppies.

Forest Schools - Autumn Two:

Our Forest School dates for this half term are:

Friday 17th November

Friday 1st December

Friday 15th December

Spring One Topic - Winters Tale

To start the new year we will be enjoying a snowy and icy themed topic! We will be learning all about the Polar regions and the animals that inhabit them. In English we will be reading a brilliant story entitled Emperor's Egg - a tale about an emperor penguin and it's egg. In Maths we will be learning about multiplication and division and also how to solve problems using these operations. Our Science learning will be about humans and animals - focusing on how humans and animals grow and change. Our History work will take us on an exciting adventure all about the polar explorers of the past!

Forest Schools Dates - Spring One

Our Forest School dates for this half term are:

Friday 26th January

Friday 10th February

Spring Two Topic - African Adventure

This half term we are going on a journey to the amazing continent of Africa - finding out about the incredible animals and habitats that can be found there. In English we will be reading a book entitled 'One Day On Our Blue Planet' which is set in the African savannah. In Maths we are continuing to develop our multiplication and division skills - focusing on the 2, 5, and 10 times tables and the related division facts. In Science we will be learning about animal habitats and micro-habitats and we will also be learning the names and about the parts of plants. Our art topic is all about African lions and we will be making some fantastic 3D lion masks.

Forest School dates Spring Two:

Our Forest school dates for this half term are:

Friday 1st March

Friday 15th March

Times Tables Rock Stars!

The children have been given their Times Table Rock Stars logins and they are excited to get busy playing and practising their 2's, 5's and 10's times tables and related division facts!

Go to the website and enjoy all the fun games and tournaments!

https://ttrockstars.com/

Summer One Topic - Escape

This half term we will be learning all about World War Two in out History and Geography lessons. In English we we are going to be reading the Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe story and doing lots of wonderful narrative writing linked to the text. In Maths we are continuing to practise our times table facts and we will be learning about fractions, time and other measurements. In Science we are going to be finding out about different types of plants and also conducting experiments with plants to find out more about how they grow and what they need to grow.

Forest School Dates:

Forest school session are currently postponed.

Summer Two Topic - Water, Water Everywhere!

This half term we will be learning all about water including canals and rivers. In English we will be reading The Wind in the Willows story and be doing lots of exciting writing about the characters and events in the book. In Maths we are continuing to learn about fractions and also continuing to work on our mental maths skills including our times tables. We will be learning all about animal food chains in Science and we will be using maps atlases and globes in Geography.

Forest Schools

Our Forest School dates for this half term are:

Friday 7th June

Friday 21st June

Friday 5th July