Hello and a warm welcome to Year 2 at Ombersley First School!
The Year 2 team consists of:
Miss Smedley - Class teacher
Miss Dunne – Teaching Assistant
We aim to ensure that all children experience a smooth and seamless transition from year 1 into year 2 to complete their Key Stage 1 journey, thereby building on the foundations that the National Curriculum depends on.
Year 2 is one of the busiest year and exciting years in the school! During the Year, our pupils will be exploring ideas, discovering different ways to learn, and will be enjoying a variety of fantastic and new experiences. We will endeavour to instil a love of learning in each and every one of the pupils, and to inspire children's imaginations using our new, terrific topics!
We go on lots of exciting trips in year 2, such as Avoncroft Museum and West Midlands Safari Park.
- In year 2, we follow the White Rose scheme of learning.
- We also do a Mastering Number starter every day which helps with our fluency.
- Our topics for maths are:
- Autumn term - Place value within 100, addition and subtraction within 100 and geometry, Measurement (money)
- Spring term - Multiplication and division, length and height, mass and volume, Fractions.
- Summer term - Fractions, measurement (time), , geometry (position and direction),
- In year 2, we follow the Twinkl scheme of learning for Guided Reading. We read the text together as a whole class, individually and chorally.
- We answer questions to develop our knowledge of Vocabulary and Meaning, Inference, Recall and sequencing.
- In year 2, we follow the I Am a Clever Writer scheme of learning.
- Our books are are:
- Autumn term - The Colour Monster goes to School, Field Trip to the Moon, What the Worm saw, Once Upon a Ordinary School Day, The Great Explorer, Stuck, The Three Little Pigs, Too much Stuff! and the Snowman.
- Spring term - The Year we Learn to Fly, Amelia Earheart, Journey, Astro Girl, Wonder Wings, Goldilocks and the Three Bears, The Leaf Thief, The Sun and the Wind, Storm, Catch it and Iceberg.
- Summer term - The King's Pants, Meet the King, King Charles, The Tiny Seed, The Song of the River, The Snail and the Whale, A River and The Rhythm of the Rain.
- We use Get Set 4 PE for our lessons in PE.
- We also have specialist coaches in to support us in our learning.
- Our topics are:
- Autumn term: Ball skills, fundamentals, sending and receiving and dance.
- Spring term: Dance, gymnastics, invasion games, gymnastics.
- Summer term: Net and wall games, OAA, athletics and fitness.
- We follow Purple Mash for our computing lessons:.
- Our topics throughout the year are:
- Online safety, grouping and sorting, pictograms, Lego builders, maze explorers, animated stories, coding and tech outside school.
- We follow Kapow for our History.
- Our topics are:
- Autumn term - How was school different in the past?
- Spring term - How did we learn to fly?
- Summer term - What is a monarch?
- We follow Kapow for our Geography.
- Our topics are:
- Autumn term - Where would you prefer to live - in a hot or cold place?
- Spring term - Why is our world wonderful?
- Summer term - What is it like to live at the coast?
- We follow Kapow for our Science. Our topics are:
- Autumn term - Living things: Habitats and Living things: Microhabitats.
- Spring term - Materials: uses of everyday materials and Animals including humans: lifecycles and health.
- Summer term - Plants: plant growth and Making connections@ plant based materials.
- We follow Kapow for our Art. Our topics are:
- Autumn term - Drawing understanding tone and texture.
- Spring term - Painting and mixed media: life in colour.
- Summer term - Sculpture and 3D: Clay houses.
- We follow the Design and Technology scheme of work for our DT. Our topics are:
- Autumn term - Mechanisms: Fairground wheel.
- Spring term - Cooking and nutrition: Balanced diet.
- Summer term - Textiles: Pouches.
- Our music lessons follow Charanga.
