Year Two

This term's value and virtues are generous and grateful. 

Pupils in a Jesuit school are becoming grateful for their gifts and to generous with their gifts, helping others. 

Our class saint is St George. 

Year 2 start the year with the Christmas unit. We learn about the different stories of this liturgical season and consider the responses people made to this important event. Then we will move onto Parables and Miracles. We will read, role play, sequence and explore these to help develop our understanding of Jesus as our teacher. Finally we share and discuss Special Celebrations in church. 

We are focusing on the following prayers in Year 2.  Please support your child in praying them at home.  

We are very proud to be a part of the Building the Kingdom programme, the aim of which is to embed distinctive Catholic Curriculum design for the transformation of society. As said on their website, ‘through the National School of Formation, a dynamic and challenging approach to teaching and learning in a Catholic School has been developed. This initiative calls for the contextualising of all learning within the beliefs and values of the Gospel and the Catholic tradition, aspiring to reach the highest possible levels of learning. We call it Building the Kingdom…’

Through Building the Kingdom, we explore the big questions of purpose and meaning that arise throughout the Liturgical year, and then create lessons and events which engage students with the skills needed to be agents for a Spirit fuelled transformation of society.  

Through our curriculum work this term we will be focusing on

Catholic Social Teaching - Human Dignity

British Value - Democracy

Curriculum

This term our Curriculum is about

Towers, Turrets and Tunnels.

See the castle ahead? Get ready to invade its mighty walls. Shoot a projectile with an archer’s aim! Head across the drawbridge, over the moat and up to the top of the tower…  

Discover the mystical land of knights, princesses and dragons and be inspired by the fairy tale land around you.

Science

This term, we are learning about Forces. 

We will be learning about Forces and Movement. We will be looking at the forces that play a part in everyday life. We will also be investigating the different movement techniques used in different objects.   

Reminders

Reading

Please ensure that you listen to your child read at least 3 times a week and record it in their diary. Children who read 3 times a week will receive a gold star.

Spelling

As part of our curriculum this half term, Year 2 will be learning new spelling rules. Please practice these every week with your child. Due on Monday. 

Homework

Please complete the times table task and grammar task on the Emile website/app. Due on Wednesday. 

Water bottles 
Please ensure that your child has access to a water bottle in school throughout the day.

Clothing

Please check that all your child’s belongings have been labelled with their names. We are encouraging more responsibility and independence this term so this will help your child greatly. 

PE

On the day your child has PE please can you send them into school in their PE kit and trainers as well as their School Jumper and coat.  Your child's PE day is on a Tuesday and Wednesday.