Welcome to the Summer Term in Year 2,

Year 2 Team

Miss Luttrell will be the Year 2 class teacher and Miss Mason teaches the children on Tuesdays from 10.30am. Miss Tyson, Miss Sibley and Miss Taylor will support the children’s learning throughout the week.

English:

Reading and Spelling – This term, we will be starting Ready Steady Spell lessons which is designed to build confident, accurate spellers. It offers full National Curriculum coverage through a cyclical model that reinforces and embeds learning over time. Each week there will be five Ready Steady Spell lessons. The first four lessons will teach new spellings. The fifth lesson will give the children the opportunity to revise the week’s new learning and learn common exception words for Year 2. The children will explore a variety of prefixes and suffixes and their meanings, throughout the unit. The unit lessons will also explore homophones and near homophones e.g., two, to, too.

Writing – Our first half term will be based on the story ‘The King who Banned the Dark’. We will look at story structure and features of sentences. Our writing will focus on writing to narrate and inform. We will also use this book to focus on writing letters. In the second half of the term, we will use the book ‘Rosie Revere’ by Andrea Beaty and focus on writing invention narratives and explanations. 

Maths:

We will begin Summer 1 with learning about fractions. Within this unit, children will be introduced to fraction-specific key language, such as numerator and denominator, and will be able to explain what each word means in context. We will continue the term exploring units that focus on time, problem solving and efficient methods, position and direction and statistics.

Summer 1:

Science – plants – will learn how to observe and describe how seeds and bulbs grow into mature plants. We will also find out and describe how plants need water, light and suitable temperature to grow and stay healthy.

Geography – The children will be exploring the unit ‘Our Wonderful World’: What are the seven wonders of the world?

Art – Stick Transformation Project: In this pathway children are enabled to use their imagination and transform a familiar object (a stick) into new forms.

Summer 2:

Science – The children will build on prior learning, exploring the unit Animals including Humans 2 - Life Cycles

History - The children will be exploring the unit ‘Our Local Heroes’ : Who are our local heroes?

Music - Reflect, Rewind & Replay

RE – Islam Who is God to Muslims?

We are planning a trip to Amersham Field Centre in July. We also have Sports Day to look forward to on 24th June 2025.

Learning at home

Reading

Please record any reading at home in your child's reading record. We encourage the children to read at least four times a week. If they do, they will get a sticker put in their reading record. Once they have ten stickers, we congratulate them with a reading certificate.

Numbots

Please keep practising on Numbots to help your child develop their fluency in addition and subtraction. It will really help them as they encounter news maths topics.

Our week

Monday: The children will be welcomed back to school following the weekend by Miss Luttrell, Miss Taylor, Miss Sibley, Miss Picasso and Miss Tyson.

Tuesday:

The children will have PE which we hope will be outside as the weather warms up.

Wednesday:

Reading records and books collected in. Please make sure your child remembers to bring them to school on Wednesday each week.

Thursday:

Children will have a swimming lesson on Thursday morning. For swimming the children need a named swimming costume, hat, goggles and towel. Please practise getting ready for swimming and getting changed after swimming too as the children do need to change independently.

The children will visit the library and be able to choose a new library book to go home.

Friday:

Reading records and new books will be sent home, which will be returned to school the following Wednesday.

Other information

Please send in a named water bottle for classroom use, this is additional to the lunchtime drink. If you wish, you may also send in a named healthy snack for morning break. A piece of fruit or vegetable is provided for afternoon break.

If you have any questions or queries, please feel free to make an appointment through the office or send an email to office@cedarpark.bucks.sch.uk and I will get back to you as soon as possible.

Thank you!

Miss Luttrell