Year 2

Welcome to Year 2

Welcome to Year 2's class page. Here you will find information about what your child will be learning about each term and lots of other useful information.

Important dates

 

Below you will find folders containing resources and links to help your child at home

Summer 1-The Great Outdoors

 

This half term we will be learning about ‘The Great Outdoors’. 

 Through investigations in our Green Wood and a visit to Judy Woods we will begin understand the human and physical features of our local area. We will also be identifying a variety of plants and animals in their habitats, including microhabitats.

We will be using our time exploring to complete a range of other activities such as symmetrical leaf drawings and exploring the woods to find and compare things that are living, dead, and things that have never been alive such as plastic bottles and fallen leaves.

 

* SATs will begin the week commencing 13th May and will be completed over two weeks.

Spring 2- Travel through time 

 

This half term we will continue our work on the Industrial Revolution. We will be focusing on the different transport used during the Victorian era, the wool process in more detail and learning about Queen Victoria.

 

 

Spring 1-Travel through time

This half term we will be learning about the Industrial Revolution and the changes that occurred in Bradford. We will be visiting Bradford Industrial Revolution on Friday 1st February to learn about what conditions were like for children working in the mills. We will also take part in two different workshops to learn about how woollen fabric was produced and what Victorian classrooms were like. 

Autumn 2- London's Burning 

This half term our theme is London’s Burning. We will be learning about the Great Fire of London in 1666 and about how certain materials, used during the time of the Great Fire of London, helped the fire to spread. We will also find out about the lives of significant people living at the time including Samuel Pepys.

 

Autumn 1- The Lady with the Lamp

This half term our theme is The Lady with the Lamp. We will be learning about Florence Nightingale, we will find out why she is a significant individual from the past. We will be taking part in a workshop all about her life at the Thackray Medical Museum in Leeds on Tuesday 25th September. We will find out what she used to wear in the hospitals, how she helped the injured soldiers and lots more about her life.