Year 2
Year 2 Curriculum Project
Year 2 Project - Land Ahoy
Yo-ho-ho and a bottle of rum! In the Land Ahoy project, get ready to take to the high seas and set sail in search of treasure!
This half term, we’ll find out about boats and ships of all shapes and sizes. Our science skills will help us to understand how boats float and we’ll design and make model ships using a variety of materials. Our map reading skills will help us to identify different seas and oceans, and we’ll learn about famous sea explorers. Our pirates day will inspire us to make treasure maps, fact files and navigate the seven seas with a Beebot ship. We’ll even find out how to talk and sing like a pirate!
Help your child prepare for their project
The sea is fascinating! Why not take a trip to the coast? Visit the harbour, lifeboat station and beach and take plenty of interesting photographs. You could also make boats from plastic cartons, cardboard boxes and polystyrene trays. Add sails and cargo then see which boats sail around the bath successfully! Alternatively, sing along to some lively sea shanties performed by The Fisherman’s Friends from Port Isaac in Cornwall. Visit their website to access free sample tracks.
Memorable Experience: pirate day
Geography: Using and making maps; locational knowledge; directions.
History: Significant historical people - Captain James Cook, Grace Darling, Famous Pirates
This project is also supported by mini projects in;
Science: Human Survival
Art and Design: Flower Head
Design and Technology: woodwork
Computing: lessons derived from D.A.R.E.S
Music: lessons derived from Kapow
PE: lessons derived from TeamThemeKent
PSHE: lessons derived from JIGSAW content
RE: lessons derived from Kent SACRE scheme and Cornerstones projects
More information about the Year 2 Curriculum can be found in the YEAR 2 Long Term Plan 2024-2025 document found below.
Year 2 Key Information
For this term, PE is timetabled for every Tuesday and Wednesday. We will be doing Tennis on Tuesdays and Tag Rugby on Wednesday. Please ensure that all earrings are removed on those days and that your child has their full PE kit in school. Please make sure that your child has a colder weather PE kit in school, including spare socks and trainers.
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English
w/c 8.9.25
We will:
- review common and proper nouns
- learn about the being verb - to be
- learn about the being verb - to have
- learn about regular action verbs (2 lessons)
Reading - Remember that they do not need to read the entire book in one day. Please continue to hear them read daily and write it in their reading record books.
Spelling by phoneme:
In class (from 8.9.25), we will focus on a different phoneme each week. The phoneme and its corresponding graphemes will be introduced on the Monday with different activities running until the Friday. This gives them the week to practice the spellings with you at home or on Edshed. Their understanding will then be checked by writing a dictated sentence.
This week (from 8.9.25), we will focus on the phoneme /a/ as the grapheme a in cat:
spellings =
cat
mat
map
tap
tan
camp
land
flap
swam
splats
claps
cramp
clash
match
snack
whack
hang
added
cracker
mammal
unlatch
Please practice these with your child all week as they will be tested on them on Friday 12.9.25.
Maths
w/c 8.9.25
We will:
- understand and use a place value chart
- partition numbers to 100
- write numbers to 100 in words - 2 lessons or more
- flexibly partition numbers to 100
FluencyBee:
Understand the composition of 6 and 7 including fact families
Infinity maths:
The link is
https://infinity.whiteroseeducation.com/Home
click 'enter code'
They can then add the
School code
SLR - JJW
Quiz Pins:
Place value:
37 - 77 - 11
42 - 30 - 72
Additional Information
The children seem to have settled in extremely well and are adjusting well to the change of teachers and classrooms - if you feel that they are struggling, please let me know so I can support them by doing extra check ins.
School starts on Wednesday 3rd September - please try to bring in their PE kit and wellies on the the 1st day.
Show and tell:
Friday 12th September
Team: PIDCOCK (yellow)
Future dates:
19.9.25 = STOREY (blue)
26.9.25 = PAGE (green)
3.10.25 = YEE (red)
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This week's homework is:
- To read for at least 10 minutes everyday to an adult.
- spend 20 minutes (over the week) on Numbots or Infinity (Usernames and passwords are in your child's reading record)
- spend 20 minutes (over the week) on Edshed (usernames and passwords in reading records)
- For those wanting additional work -
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English:
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Practice spelling these Year 1 tricky words: said, are, put, school, ask, house, one, once, they, friend, you, your, come, our, were, there, where, here, some and was. Then write sentences which include one or more of them.
- Practice and test your child on the spelling for this week.
Maths:
- correctly form numerals 0 - 9 ( numbers ALWAYS start at the top)
- write numbers to 100
- write (and correctly spell) number words to 20
- write a 2-digit number - can your child tell you how many tens and how many ones are in that number?
- You say a number within 100 - can they correctly write that number? Maybe challenge them to write the words for that number.
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