Welcome to Year 2
Our Year 2 teachers are:
- 2F – Mrs Folland
- 2G – Mrs Grant
- 2ME – Mrs Mountain and Mrs Everett
- Miss Williams teaches in 2F every Friday.
- Mrs Lenk teaches in 2G every Tuesday morning.
Our Learning support Assistants are:
- Mrs King (Monday – Wednesday)
- Mrs Mehra
Individual children across the year group are supported by:
- Mrs McCafferty
- Mrs Chidgey
- Mrs Matthews
- Mrs Lonsborough (Mornings)
- Mrs Christy
Termly Overviews
In Year 2, we start our year by learning about Nurturing Nurses where we find out all about Florence Nightingale, Mary Seacole and Edith Cavell. We then learn all about Maps where we draw aerial views of our school and how to include things on our map using a key. In Science, we learn all about animals and humans and start with looking at ourselves and how we change in different stages of life. During the Autumn term, we also learn to play the recorder with a teacher from the Hillingdon Music Hub.
In the Spring term, we learn all about the Great Fire of London and write our own Great Fire of London stories in English. We then learn about Medieval Castles and write detailed fact files about Castles. In Science we learn about materials and plants in which we have a go at growing our own beans in the classroom.
Finally, in Summer term, we learn about human and physical features at the seaside from past and in the present. We then learn all about the country Mexico, comparing Mexico and their culture to where we live. We celebrate the end of our topic with a Mexico day where we try Mexican food and enjoy playing some Mexican party games. In Science we then learn about living things and their habitats and spend them in our Sensory Garden. 
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Key vocabulary
Throughout the year we will be introducing different vocabulary to the children as part of the topics they will learn. Please see the links below for specific vocabulary for each term which you may begin to introduce at home too:
Spellings
In year 2, children will receive weekly spelling homework. Spellings are given out on a Wednesday and are tested on a Tuesday. This will be focused around the pattern that they are learning at school that week. The spelling pattern is explicitly taught at school which they are then expected to practise it at home. The children will be given a task to help them to practise it. Tasks are varied to aid them to apply it to a variety of situations. Please see the link below for the year group spellings:
Trips
During the autumn term, we visit the Florence Nightingale Museum in Westminster and have the chance to meet her and ask her about her life and work as well as see some of her actual possessions. During the spring term, we visit Pudding Lane, where the Great Fire of London broke out and walk around many other monuments and places that were affected in the fire. During summer term, we visit Amersham Case Study in the summer term to support our learning about Habitats. We have a great time pond dipping and bug hunting in the woods.
Production
We enjoy performing a Christmas production every December to the parents and the rest of the school. All children have the chance to play a part and to take part in singing songs as a group and learning some BSL actions to go with it.
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