Year 2B 2024 - 2025

Welcome to 2B

Welcome back to the final term of Year 2! We have a very excited term planned, with lots of great activities and learning ahead. We will be enjoying our last trip of Year 2 at Springfield Park. I think we are all ready now to share our new learning into place all about bees and pollination!

This half term, in English, we are going to be reading ‘Pirates Next Door’, by Jonny Duddle. Have you ever read a pirate book? I wonder what will happen? We will spend time exploring the illustrations, asking questions about the characters, writing our own descriptions and end with writing our very own pirate story! I can’t wait to hear your ideas!

In Maths, we will revisit place value, placing numbers on a number line, fractions, time and solve reasoning questions. We will continue with our ‘mad minutes’ weekly challenges, and hopefully you will be awarded with your next Mad Minutes certificate!

Our Science topic is ‘Bees and Pollination’, which we already know lots about from our school trip. We will look closely at the life cycle of a bee and study their purpose in the world. What is an eco-system? We will learn lots of new scientific vocabulary!

It is time to do History this half term, and we will be studying past and present explorers. Have you ever heard of Christopher Columbus? I wonder what qualities you need to be an explorer. I am excited to learn more about this, and see if maybe you could ever be an explorer!

In RE our new topic is ‘What makes places sacred to believers?’ and within this topic pupils will find out about various places of worship and why they are important to many believers. They will focus on the key features of churches, mosques and synagogues learning about how these can vary within different traditions.

We will continue to give homework every Friday. Please support your child with completing these and handing them in on time (every Thursday).

Thank you for your continued support. 

Mrs Bradley and the Year Two Team :)