Year 2 - Miss Heslop 2025 - 2026
Miss Heslop
Mrs Sloanes
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Autumn Term
Reading and Writing
We use Talk Through Stories to explore story sequencing, inference and language practically through role play, discussion and games.
Our writing sequence allows us to practice applying our phonic skills as a route to decode and record new words. We use colourful semantics to begin to learn sentence construction by visually linking question words to sentence parts such as assigning orange to "who?" and yellow to "what doing".
Our books for this term are;
The Tiger Who Came to Tea Judith Kerr
The Owl Who Was Afraid of the Dark Jill Tomlinson
Crackle, Spit
Double, double, toil and trouble William Shakespeare
Aladdin
Santa Post Emma Yarlett
Maths
We follow Maths No problem which follows a concrete, pictorial, abstract approach allowing the children to fully embed new learning through discussion and practical learning before applying their skills to a written format.
In autumn term we will be looking at
This term, we focus on:
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Numbers within 100 (value, sequencing, number bonds, addition, subtraction)
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Daily Flashback 4 sessions to practise and revisit prior learning
Our Wider Curriculum
| Science | History |
Geography |
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Our science topic in Autumn term is 'my body' We will be looking at the parts of the body we can see, labelling them and knowing what they do for us. This includes linking the correct part of the body to the correct sense. We will be playing lots of games using our senses to find out just how important they are and discuss which one we feel is the most important. We will also look at how to keep our mind and body healthy through what we eat, exercise and sleep. |
Our history topic is 'buildings in Peterlee'.
We will be looking at the mining village of Peterlee and how it changed and adapted to become the town that it is today. We will investigate what houses used to look like, what the streets and neighboring villages may have looked like and how they have changed over time. We will be beginning to use a timeline to plot events. |
Our geography topic is Peterlee.
We will be able to locate Peterlee on a map and know the landforms within it including the woodland / forests and the coastline. We will be able to name the water bodies around Peterlee including the Castle Eden Burn / stream and the North Sea. |
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Art |
RE |
PSHE |
| In our art lessons with Mrs Foster we will be looking at portraits and collages. We will use a visual stimulus to create a portrait collage of ourselves using a variety of mediums. |
RE gives us the opportunity to explore the beliefs of different faiths. Our topic begins in Autumn with Christianity and finding out why the Bible is special to Christians. We will explore how and why they use the Bible as well as where they might find a Bible in their place of worship. |
We begin Year One with two very important topics in our PSHE lesson; Safety First, VIPS.
It is essential that we know how to keep ourselves and those around us safe as well as knowing who are trusted adults are and how they can be a duty bearer for our right to be safe. |
| DT |
Computing |
PE |
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Fruit and Vegetables The children will categorise food into fruits and vegetables before designing and making a healthy smoothie to enjoy. The chidlren will taste and evaluate their smoothie. A Balanced Diet The children will look at food groups and what food complimets each other well. They will use these food combinations to create ideas for wraps which offer people a healthy, balanced diet. |
Using PurpleMash we will practice logging in and logging out and explore online safety as a tool to keep us safe when using devices online. We will also us 2Go to begin to explore coding and writing simple algorithms.
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We are learning to: Unit focus: Send and Return
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