Year 2
We have 2 classes in Year 2: Elm and Elder
Elm Elder
Class Teacher: Mrs Long Class Teacher: Mrs Minchinton
Teaching Assistant: Mrs Connor Teaching Assistant: Mrs Hornsby
To find out more about us, you can read our ‘All About Us’ sheets below. These are also displayed in the classroom and shared with children during transition.
Daily Timetable
Please see our timetables below.
Elm
Elder
Curriculum Overview of the Year
The table below gives an overview of the topics we will be studying across the course of the year.
| Autumn 1 | Autumn 2 | Spring 1 | Spring 2 | Summer 1 | Summer 2 | |
| Maths | Place Value
Addition and subtraction |
Addition and Subtraction (cont)
Shape Money |
Money (cont)
Multiplication and division |
Multiplication and division (cont)
Fractions |
Fractions (cont)
Time |
Measurement
Statistics Position and direction. |
| English | A River | The Night Gardner | The Bog Baby | Grandad’s Island | Rosie Revere Enginner | The King Who Banned the Dark
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| Art/DT | Matisse | Making a healthy wrap | Illustration | Structures | Print making and digital art | Making moving monsters |
| History/Geography | Would you prefer to live in a hot or cold place? | How was school different in the past? | Why is our world wonderful? | How did we learn to fly? | What is it like to live by the coast? | What is a monarch? |
| Science &
Sustainability |
Habitats | Micro Habitats | Use of Everyday Materials | Life Cycles | Plant Growth | Sustainability |
| PSHE | Being in my world | Celebrating difference | Dreams and Goals | Healthy Me | Relationships | Changing Me |
| PE | Gymnastics | Dance | Send and return | Hit, catch, run | Attack, defend, shoot | Sports day practice |
| Computing | Coding | Spreadsheets | Presenting ideas | Questioning | Creating pictures | Effective searching |
| RE | Who is Jesus? | What is most important for different people? | Why has the Coventry Blitz shaped Christian worldviews locally and globally? | |||
Music
We have a music specialist who will provide classes with a 45-minute music lesson each week, focusing on singing; playing instruments (including steel pans, ukuleles, keyboards and glockenspiels); and creating music through composition and improvisation. Children will also learn to listen to music critically, read music notation, explore different styles and traditions, and understand how music has changed over time. Both Elm and Elder class will have music on Wednesday afternoon.
Home Learning Menus and Reading Expectations
At Lower Farm, we expect children to read a minimum of 3 times a week with an adult who can question children and help further develop the skills taught in school.
In year 2, children need to become fluent with their 2s, 5s and 10 times tables.
In addition to reading and times tables, your class teacher will send home a half termly ‘Home Learning Menu’. Your children can choose activities that interest and engage whilst furthering the learning taking place in school.
11 Before 11 Promises
“11 Before 11” is an initiative by the REAch2 Academy Trust, designed to ensure that every child experiences a rich and memorable primary education beyond the core curriculum. It’s a set of 11 promises – unique, character-building experiences – that every child in a REAch2 school is entitled to complete before they leave primary school at age 11. These experiences are designed to:
- Inspire ambition
- Build confidence
- Encourage curiosity
- Foster resilience
- Create lifelong memories
In Year 2, we will be ‘Wildlife Warriors’ and create a sustainable wildlife habitat for our school. As part of the experience, children will have the opportunity to create their very own wild flower meadow on our school grounds and the children can watch their flowers grow from seeds to fully grown plants. The children can visit their garden and help to protect the precious wildlife in our community.
Trips, Visits and Experiences
Along with our 11 before 11 offer, we will be going on a number of trips, welcoming experts into our school and supporting our learning with a variety of fantastic experiences.
The table below gives further details, including the cost of futures trips to allow better planning.
| When | Where | About the trip/visitor | Approximate Cost Breakdown |
| Autumn Term | Lower Farm Academy | Yoga- a yoga and mindfulness teacher will teach hold a lesson for all children to practice mindfulness strategies which can help regulate emotions and support a healthy mind. | £2 per child |
| Autumn Term
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Lower Farm Academy | History based visit: Grandad Pat
LO: to learn about school life in the 1940s. Grandad Pat, Mrs Long’ Grandad, attended school in the 1940s. This visit enables the children to use a Primary source to learn about what school life was like then. The children will do a question and answer session with Pat and also speak to him about their learning in school of school life in the 1900s (something which the children will have learnt about at this point). |
£0 |
| Spring Term | Lower Farm Academy | 11 before 11 promise: ‘Wildlife Warriors’
After learning about habitats, the children will be preparing an area of land within the school grounds to create a wildlife friendly habitat. They will be sowing wildflower seeds to encourage a variety of wildlife to visit our grounds which we can then observe and record. |
£0 |
| Spring Term
|
The National Space Centre | History Topic: How did we learn to fly?
As part of our topic which looks at key figures in aviation and space travel, we will be visiting the National Space Centre to really enhance the children’s learning experience. As part of the visit, we will be visiting the planetarium to take a journey into Space. We will also be doing a workshop where children we create their own model rockets, as well as exploring the rest of the Space Centre during the course of the day. |
Admission, planetarium & workshop– Approx £20 per child + coach travel. Approximate total cost is £30 per child. |
| Summer Term | Lower Farm Academy & the local area | Fieldwork: Plant growth
We will be looking at the plants growing in our local area and undertaking a scientific investigation into what conditions are needed for a seed to grow. |
£0 |
| Summer Term | Lower Farm Academy | Andy Tooze- AKA Poet of the Peaks will come and inspire the children to write their very own poetry. He will come and deliver a workshop to the children and teach them how easy and enjoyable poetry is to write. | Cost covered by school. |
| Approximate total cost of trips for the year | £32 | ||
PE Days for Each Class
Our PE days in Year 2 are Mondays and Fridays. On these days, children will need to wear appropriate PE kit:
- Purple T-shirt/polo shirt
- Black shorts/leggings/tracksuit bottoms
- Purple sweatshirt/cardigan/fleece
- Plain practical trainers.
Jewellery (other than stud earrings) is not to be worn in school as per our uniform policy.