Rift House Primary School

Welcome to Year 2 (Class 4)

Welcome to our Year 2 class. Your teachers this year are Mrs Ward, Mrs Foster and Mr Neville.

Mrs Ward
Class Teacher

Mrs Foster

Support Staff

Mr Neville

Support Staff

In Year 2, we have a positive learning attitude and work hard to achieve our personal goals and targets. We all try to make the right 'CHOICES' and give a 100% in everything we do.

Mrs Ward, the class teacher, Mrs Foster and Mr Neville, the teaching assistants offer challenges and support to all children to ensure they reach their potential in all areas of the curriculum.

We encourage the children to explore the world using their senses and to begin to ask questions about their learning and the world around them.

In our class it's ok to not know, but it's not ok to not try, as we all learn from our mistakes and support one another to achieve and succeed!

Classroom Environment -


Our classroom, with our CHOICES displayed.	The view from the back of the classroom.	The view from the side of the classroom.	Our fantastic Non-fiction books and games for indoor playtimes.

The cloakroom and our PE kits.	The amazing book corner to enjoy reading with our friends.	Look at all the books we can choose.	Our amazing well being area

Year 2 Timetable

At Rift House we aim for your child to participate in a broad and balanced curriculum. Our timetable shows various opportunities that your child will access daily, including opportunities for mindfulness through Primary Movement and energizers.

*Please be aware this is subject to change.

Topics Over Year

English - We cover a range of fictional texts and Non fiction as well as poetry across the year. This includes adventures stories, real life stories, traditional tales and focusing on a famous author. The non-fiction texts include reports, newspapers, recounts and book reviews. When studying poetry, we explore nonsense poems, shape poems and poems that use rhyme and description.

Maths: Over the year, we look at place value, addition and subtraction, money, multiplication and division, statistics, properties of shape, fractions, length and height, position and direction, time and finally mass, capacity and temperature.

Things you can support your child with over this half term...

Practice counting in 2s, 5s, and 10s forwards and backwards.
Practice spellings with your child.
Return reading bags daily - Complete reading records at least 3 times a week.
Practice using phonic sounds to read unfamiliar words.
Ensure PE Kits are in school for -Tuesday and Wednesday (White PE T Shirt and Black Shorts)

What we have been up to...

Science learning

In science, we measured our height and created a bar chart.

Summerhill - Magical wands and broomsticks

At Summerhill, we had a wonderful time making wands and broomsticks. We even flew our broomsticks back to school!

Aboriginal Art

We created Aboriginal art. We used our fingers and cotton buds to print the patterns.

Summerhill - Material and their Properties

We visited Summerhill to learn about materials and their properties. The children enjoyed building their own dens and talking about the materials used. After that, we explored the purpose of different everyday material uses as part of our science work. We also carried out an orienteering activity to answer questions about materials.

Music

Year 2 had a visitor come in to explore music. We improvised with musical instruments, created autumn equinox and recorded sound on location.

Our learning

Year 2, enjoyed learning about the French language and French food. We practiced saying key vocabulary and tasting food. They have also been learning about places of worship and the capital cities of Scotland, Ireland, England and Wales.

History

Year 2 had a great time learning about leading women in History. They really enjoyed their peaceful protest and making a scrapbook page about Queen Elizabeth