School Year 2025-2026

We are so looking forward to the year ahead.

We are Eagle Owls and Wise Owls

Information for parents

PE days: Mondays and Fridays  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.

Mondays: Active Circuits - using equipment to get our heart rates up.

Fridays: Sending and receiving - Using balls to think about throwing and catching. 

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.

Please click on the PDF or scan the QR code to practise your child's spellings.

Spring 1 - The Lady and the Lamp

This half term we will be looking at Florence Nightingale or as she was known...... The Lady of the Lamp. We're going to look at the changes Florence Nightingale made to medicine and how lot's of these changes help us today. We'll be comparing what it was like to live during this time to how we live today. We'll be also looking at another important but lesser known lady during this time Mary Seacole and looking at the contributions she made to medicine as well. 

In Science we'll be continuing our medicine theme by looking at how we keep healthy and what food does to our bodies. We'll be sorting food into groups and learning about why we need to eat healthily. We'll also be thinking about how we keep ourselves clean by washing our hands. 

In our writing we'll be exploring the story of The Misadventures of Frederick and using this story we'll be writing instructions and letters. In Maths we'll be continuing to look at our place value to help our adding and subtraction. 

Autumn 2 - Let's Explore Antarctica

Year 2 are excited to leave the hot, vibrant culture of Brazil to travel south to the coldest part of our planet Antarctica. We will continue being explorers learning about the icy, cold desert of Antarctica and comparing it to the Arctic in the North of our planet. We'll be thinking about what makes Antarctica and the Arctic so cold and what it might be like to live there. 

In science we'll be taking what we have learned about the animals who live here and thinking about what they need to survive. We'll be looking at food chains using the words consumer and producer to think about where a food chain starts and ends. 

In English our writing will look at helping the Blue Penguin understand why the other penguins stopped talking to him. We'll be taking what we have learnt in our PSHE lesson's to think about Empathy and resilience. We'll be building on our sentence writing to form a short narrative. 

In Math's we've built on our prior learning of place value to start understanding multiplication and division. 

Autumn 1 - Let's Explore: Brazil

Year 2 are excited to launch their year by exploring the exciting country of Brazil. Year 2 will become Geographers in exploring Brazil's different landscapes from the exciting city of Rio de Janerio to the Amazon rainforests. In Art we're going to be looking at Brazilian artist Beatriz Milhazes and we will have a go at creating our own master pieces in her eclectic style.

In English we'll be using the story of Little Red Riding Hood by Lari Den to grow our understanding of writing sentences using what we've learnt so far in year one. We'll be developing our understanding of adjectives to include expanded noun phrases in our writing. At the end of our topic we'll be writing warning posters to warn others in our school about an escaped wolf.... Watch out!

In Maths, we'll be building on our learning from year 1 to be able to solve problems using place value. In Science we'll be looking at the scientist Mary Anning to explore habitats and micro habitats. We'll even do some exploring around the school to look at the habitats of insects. 

Come back and visit our page to see updates of our learning. 

Topmarks Place Value game - What is the 2 digit number?