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Jasmine class - Year 2
Welcome to Year 2
Jasmine Class
Teachers: Mr Richards & Mrs Stevens (Wednesdays)
Welcome to Jasmine Class!
Here you will find the latest updates of our work in class and any important information that you may need to help support children's learning at home.
Important Notes for Jasmine Class:
PE: This term we will have PE on a Tuesday & Thursday. Children will need to bring a PE kit into school every week. Some lessons will begin to be held outside so please ensure children have a suitable jumper or sweatshirt, trousers and a change of shoes.
Reading: Every child will have a reading book to take home.
This book will have been read in school previously with them and therefore they should be able to read it independently to you. This book will be given out on a Wednesday and needs to be returned every Friday.
Summer 1:
It will be a short but exciting half-term of learning for Year 2!
In English, we will look at a short animated story titled 'A Cloudy Lesson' as our inspiration for writing this term. As part of this, we will make predictions and write descriptions of characters and settings. We will then create our own alternative endings, using vocabulary taught throughout the topic. We will also continue to work hard on our reading comprehension in preparation for some KS1 Reading tests.
In Maths, our next unit will be on Statistics including collecting and presenting data and then answering questions about it. We study block diagrams, tally charts and bar charts in these lessons. We will then move our focus back to arithmetic, answering questions containing the four operations of addition, subtraction, multiplication and division.
In Science, we are going to be studying plants and how they grow. As part of this, we have an exciting visit to the University of Leicester's Botanical Gardens.
For Geography, we will apply all of our Geography learning from our time at KRIII to our final unit where we will conduct fieldwork about the use of buildings in West End, come up with an idea for a new shop to benefit the local area and then create detailed maps with symbols of where it is. Finally we will put our navigational skills to good use, by creating a set of directions so customers can find our shop.
In Art, we will become sculptors! We will study the work of Aardman Animations and how they created Wallace and Gromit out of clay and plasticine! Then we will have a go at creating our own short story in their style using the technique of stop motion.
In RE we will begin to understand Humanism and worldviews that do not focus on a belief in God.
Our PE lessons this half-term will have PE specialist coaches on Thursdays teaching Net and Wall games, and on Tuesdays we will be learning how to play Hockey!
In Music, we begin to compose our own pieces of music to play on the Glockenspiel, whilst learning more about different genres and styles.
Lastly, we have an exciting opportunity to go and visit the Year 2 children from Thythorn Fields as part of our Linking Project. We have been getting to know them by sending work over to each other and holding video calls, so we will be very excited to meet them in person before hosting them at KRIII in the second half-term of Summer.
For more information on what we are learning this term, please look at our Curriculum overview.
Learning planned across the year for Year 2 in 2024-25
Year 2 Curriculum:
Below you will find our Curriculum Maps for each term.
If you have any questions about Jasmine Class or curriculum content, please feel free to email the office or speak to Mr Richards at the end of the day.