Welcome to Year 2 

from

Miss Spowart and Mr Fear

The topics we cover this year are:

India

Land Ahoy!

The Great Fire of London

Look below to see some of things we have been up to!

PE Kits

In Year 2, our PE day is a Thursday. Please remember that the children can come into school wearing their school PE kit. 

Our email address is: year2@kingsleyschool.org.uk.

This is checked regularly however, if you need to speak to a member of staff as a matter of urgency, please either speak to a member of the leadership team on the gate on a morning or ring the school office.

Here are our curriculum jigsaws for 2025-2026.

If you require any additional information regarding our curriculum, please do not hesitate to contact your child's class teacher or a member of the Leadership Team.

2025-2026

We invited parents into school for a reading event. We spoke about reading, spelling and handwriting. The children had lots of fun! 

Geography

Our topic this term is India. We learnt about India and found its location on a map. We compared life in India to life in the UK. Also, we learnt about the monsoon season and Diwali. To finish our topic, we tasted some Indian food!

Literacy

Our focus this half term on the film 'Something Fishy'. First, we made predictions about the clip before we watched it and then ordered the story. After this, we learnt about expanded noun phrases and discussed the features of a sentence. Then, we acted the story as part of a group. Finally, we wrote a retell of the story.

P.E

We have enjoyed our orienteering sessions in P.E. We have learnt how to follow a map, follow verbal instructions(while being blindfolded!) and developed our team work skills. We have played lots of warm up games and discussed how our bodies felt after.

Computing

Our focus this term has been on digital photography. We learnt about the different techniques we could use to take a 'good' photograph. We experimented with orientation, lighting and using special effects. We enjoyed using the iPads to take our photographs.

Design and Technology

Our focus for this term is food and developing our cutting skills. We tasted lots of different fruits and designed our own smoothie. We followed the design brief carefully and evaluated our final product.

2024-2025

Orienteering 

During this PE session we challenged ourselves to explore an obstacle course whilst wearing blindfolds. We had to rely on verbal instructions to complete the course.

Design and Technology

Our new topic is freestanding structures. For our first lesson, we tried to make our own freestanding structure using paper and tape. We had a competition for the tallest tower!

Royal Shakespeare Company Playmaking Festival

Some children from our year group had the opportunity to visit English Martyrs Secondary School where we took part in a festival linked with the RSC. We each performed a section from the 'Tempest'. Our children were absolutely fantastic and performed brilliantly!

Dance

For our dance topic, we listened to the story 'Penguin Small' and created a dance as if we were the animals in the story. Can you guess which animal we were?

Art

Year 2 enjoyed reading the aboriginal story ' The Rainbow Snake'. We drew our favourite part of the story and created a dot painting. We enjoyed experimenting with different materials to make the dots. 

Fire Service Visit

We were extremely lucky to have the Fire Service come in for an assembly and then we were allowed to go out and see the fire engine.

Rockstar Day

To launch our Times Table Rock Stars learning platform, we held a Rock Stars Day. Children were encouraged to dress up as a rockstar on the day, rocking their air guitars (or inflatable ones)! They all looked rock-tastic!

Santa Claus Is Coming To Kingsley!

The children had a special visit from Santa Claus during our Christmas party and they had a lovely time playing games, partying and busting some moves.

Bethlehem Ballroom

The children were fantastic in our Year 1 and Year 2 Christmas performance of Bethlehem Ballroom and all played their parts fantastically!

PE

We are lucky this half-term to have a wonderful coach teach us for PE. We have been practicing our balancing skills using the tennis rackets and bean bags.

Remembrance Day

We stood for our two minutes silence and listened to the last post played on the trumpet. Then we created some beautiful poppy field artwork to honor the members of the armed forces for their service and sacrifice for our country.

For Anti-Bullying Week 2024, we came to school in odd socks. We designed our own odd socks and talked about bullying as class. We spoke about the impact of bullying and which trusted adults we could talk to if we had any worries.

RE

I the story of Rama and Sita, people light lamps with candles to guide Rama and Sita home. We made our Diva lamps with clay and decorated them with paint and sparkly gems.

Computing

We have been exploring what makes a good photograph. We have looked at making sure the subject is in focus, capturing the photograph in either landscape or portrait, what happens if there is too much or not enough lighting for the photograph and that the subject must be in the frame. 

Our topic this half-term is India. We have been learning about monsoon rain and how it impacts life in India. We listened to rainfall and painted how it made us feel.

Science

In Science we have been looking at living things and their habitats. Part of this was looking at the microhabitats that minibeasts live in. We made our own microhabitats and minibeast homes.

Art

In art we have been learning about block printing. We learnt about the origins of the technique and why it was so popular in India. Then, we used a range of objects to practise our printing technique. We then designed, made and evaluated our own printing block.

PE

We have enjoyed our 'Attack and Defend' unit of work in P.E. We have been learning how to stop, kick, catch, dribble and bounce a ball.