Parent Overview Year 2

Please find below our Parent Overview detailing what our children in Year 2 are learning this week.
Date w/c 06/10/25

Curriculum area	We are learning to…
Literacy	Using our facts about Mars that we learnt last week we will be starting to write our draft fact file. We will be writing sentences using the conjunctions and, but, if, or, because. In our reading we are learning to infer information referring to the text.
Phonics, Handwriting and Spelling	Handwriting: We will be looking at making our letters the correct size.
Maths	We will be revisiting our number facts, as we work systematically to find our facts within ten and then twenty. We will also be looking at subtraction as a difference

Science	This week is Science week at SIA. We will be learning about Mae Jemison, making our own rocket (and attempting) to launch it, designing a lander to get people to Mars safely, and learning about the moon phases.
Wider Curriculum	Art – Preparing our polystyrene block with our design ready for printing. Outside PE – Exploring dodging and running effectively. Indoor PE – Gymnastics; Creating sequences Geography - Looking at key landmarks in Wales and Northen Ireland. Computing –Using 2paint to create a picture. Music – Sing Harvest songs
Other information	STEM Days – Thursday & Friday, messy clothes for experiments! Year 2 Harvest Assembly – Tuesday 21st October 9.30

Please note this is a basic overview of the planning for this week. It is impossible to cover in this outline all the learning that takes place during a week! We also believe in listening to your children and responding to their interests and ideas therefore all our planning is flexible. Please note some of the learning will take place across more than one week and during some weeks the learning focus may not cover all curriculum areas.