Year 2

At Glenmere we have established, within each year group, an overview for the year within out 'Broader Curriculum. This includes what is covered across the curriculum in addition to maths and English.

Year 2 Yearly Class Curriculum Overview

Class Newsletter

Our class newsletters celebrate all the great learning that has been going on in Year 2. They are full of the learning that has been taking place and how the children have been learning in many ways.

Autumn Newsletter

Spring Newsletter

Supporting Your Child Letter

Our supporting your child letters are full of useful ways to support your child at home with their learning. They contain recommended reading, strategies for problem-solving and useful web links about the topics that are being taught in school.

Autumn 2022

Spring 2023

Summer 2023

Knowledge Organisers

These are our year 2 knowledge organisers. They give you bite sized information about the learning that will be covered for each of our topics. They also include key vocabulary that is used in our lessons with their definitions.

Autumn 1 Geography - On Your Doorstep

Spring 1 Geography - Hot and Cold Places

Summer 1 Geography - Why is Our World So Wonderful?

Autumn 2 History - Crimean Nurses

Spring 2 History - The Great Fire of London

Summer 2 History - The history of Our Canals and Locks in Leicestershire

Autumn 1 Art

Spring 1 Art - P ainting and mixed media

Summer 1 Art - Sculpture & 3D

Spring 1 Computing - Programming

Spring 2 Computing - Data & Information - Pictograms

Summer 1 Computing - Creating Media - Digital Music

Summer 2 Computing - Programming Quizzes

Autumn 1 RE

Autumn 2 RE

Spring 1 RE - Who is Jewish, and How Do They Live? (pt2)

Spring 2 RE - What is the good news that Jesus brings?

Summer 1 RE - Why Does Easter Matter?

Summer 2 RE - How Should We Care For Others, the World, and Does it Matter?

Autumn 2 PSHE - Families and Relationships

Spring 1 PSHE - Citizenship

Spring 2 PSHE - Economic Wellbeing

Summer 1 PSHE- Safety

Summer 2 - RSE

Autumn 1 Music - Hands, Heart, Feet

Autumn 2 Music - Ho, Ho, Ho!

Spring 1 Music - I Wanna Play in a Band

Spring 2 Music - Zootime

Summer 1 Music - Friendship Song

Summer 2 Music - Reflect, Rewind & Replay

Personal Development

At Glenmere, we like to ensure our pupils to be prepared to engage as individuals, parents, workers and citizens with economic, social and cultural change, including the continued globalisation of the economy and society, are able to adapt to new work and leisure patterns and keep up with the rapid expansion of communication technologies. We will showcase our learning on Twitter and in our photo gallery.

Pease find below our Personal Development Overview

Personal Development

Phonics

At Glenmere, we use a systematic approach to the teaching of synthetic phonics to enable children to develop secure reading and spelling skills. It is proven that high quality phonics teaching is ‘the best route for children to become fluent and independent readers. A strong emphasis on high quality teaching of phonics can substantially reduce the number of children at risk of falling below age-related expectations for reading. At Glenmere we use Reading Planet Rocket Phonics to teach phonics.. Teachers make use of the resources(including online, interactive resources) to support the children’s learning of phonemes in KS1. This sequence sets out clear expectations of pupils’ progress in phonics week by week and term by term.

Click the weblink for more information.

https://www.risingstars-uk.com/series/rising-stars-reading-planet/phonics-guide/advice-for-parents

The Reading Planet Guide to Reading with your Child provides guidance for reading at home with children aged 4-7 years. This handy guides explains phonics and book banding and includes tips of developing comprehension skills.

Parent Guide to Reading Planet

Computing

The Teach Computing curriculum is structured into units for each year group, and each unit is broken down into lessons. Her you will find the unit overview for each of Year 2's half termly units

Autumn 1 - What is IT

Autumn 2 Digital Photography

Spring 1 - Robot Algorithms

Spring 2 - Data & Information - Pictograms

Summer 1 - Creating Media - Digital Music

Summer 2 - Programming Quizzes

White Rose Maths Resources

Here you will find lots of useful resources to link with our maths in school. We use the White Rose approach to our maths learning and there are some helping leaflets and web links for you to support mathematical learning at home

White Rose Maths is excited to have produced a range of work booklets for parents and children to use over the summer or during next year. These booklets can be found on Amazon for the Kindle or downloaded below. There is one booklet for each of our blocks for Y1 to Y6.

https://whiterosemaths.com/resources/primary-resources/parent-workbooks/

Recommended Book List for Year 2

Take a look at the books that are recommended for year 2 readers

Children in KS1 are encouraged to read a range of books, and I have included examples of the types of books which cover each genre the children need to be reading.

Title	Author	Genre
Mister Magnolia	Quentin Blake	Picture book
Gorilla	Anthony Browne	Picture book
Hey, Little Bug!	James Carter	Poetry
Strike!	Rob Childs	Football / Realistic fiction
Pumpkin Soup	Helen Cooper	Picture book
The Day The Crayons Quit	Drew Daywalt	Picture Book, Humour
Croc and Bird	Alexis Deacon	Picture Book
Aliens Love Underpants (series)	Clare Freedman	Picture book, Humour
The Ant and the Big Bad Bully Goat	Andrew Fusek Peters	Picture book
Toys in Space	Mini Grey	Picture book
Dear Greenpeace	Simon James	Picture book
The Chocolate Monster	Jan Page	Fantasy
Quick, Let’s Get Out of Here	Michael Rosen and Quentin Blake	Poetry
The Cat in the Hat	Dr Seuss	Picture book, Humour
It’s a book	Lane Smith	Picture book, Humour
	Non-Fiction
Title	Author	Genre
The Solar System	Emily Bone	Space (Science & Nature)
Cheetah	Suzi Eszterhas	Animals
Exploring Mountains	Anita Ganeri	Geography
Eddie’s Garden and How to Make Things Grow	Sarah Garland	Plants (Science & Nature)