School Year 2026-2027

Welcome to Year 2

We are so looking forward to the year ahead.

We are Eagle Owls and Wise Owls

• Mrs C Epstein, Year Lead and Eagle Owls Class Teacher
• Miss M Hankova, Eagle Owls LSA
• Miss C Wilby, Wise Owls Class Teacher
• Miss K Smith, Wise Owls LSA
• Mrs S Silk, Support Teacher

Information for parents

PE days: Mondays and Thursdays Please wear PE kits with a school jumper or cardigan on top.

Please make sure jewellery is removed before coming to school. Long hair needs to be tied up.

Monday - Gymnastics - wall bars, shape and balance

Thursday: Sports Coach.

There will be times when we are outside so please make sure your child's kit has suitable clothes and footwear for inside and outside PE.

Homework

Daily Tasks

Reading and keywords

Spelling practice

Counting forwards and backwards to 100 and in steps of 2, 5, 10

Purple Mash remote learning

Rocket Phonics Reading

Children also have Merton Missions set every half term. These can be found on our topic newsletters.

• Maths BBC Bitesize videos -Measure
• KS1 Maths: Number Patterns with Maggie Magpie
• KS1 Maths: Number Bonds with Martin Dougan

Autumn 1

The Lady with the lamp

This half term our topic is history based and we will be learning about two important historical people: Florence Nightingale and Mary Seacole. We will be learning about who they were, how they helped people and look at the changes they made to medicine which still helps us today.

In Science we will be continuing our medicine theme by looking at how we keep healthy and what food does to our bodies. We will be sorting food into groups and learning the importance of a healthy lifestyle and the benefits of maintaining a balanced diet. We will also be finding out about the work of Jerry Morris a scientist whos research had a signifcant impact into the importance of exercise as part of a healthy lifestyle.

In Literacy we will be using the story of Little Red Riding Hood by Lari Den and The Wolf's Story by Toby Forward to further grow our understanding of writing sentences using what we have learnt so far in year one. We will continue to develope our understanding of Nouns, Verbs and Adjectives and learn how to use Expanded Noun Phrases in our writing. After writng character profiles we will retell the story from either Little Red Riding Hood's or the Wolf's point of view.

In Maths we will be building on our learning from year one to be able to solve problems using place value, addition and subtraction.

In Art we will be looking at the work of Pablo Picasso 1881-1973 The children will learn that Picasso was a co founder of the cubist movement and will create their own masterpieces in the style of Picasso.

In R.E the children will be learning about the festival of Sukkot and making their own Sukkahs.

In our Jigsaw lessons we will be thinking about our hopes and fears for the coming year. To understand our rights and responsibilities of being part of our class and school. and to think about eveyones right to learn.

• BBC Bitesize Florence Nightingale

• BBC bitesize English Skills Games Can you test your growing knowledge of sentences, adjectives and punctuation? Play this game to get the different karate belts.
• What are adjectives? Information to help you understand what an adjective is and how we use these in sentences.