Welcome to Snowy Owls.
Year 2
Snowy Owls
Welcome to Snowy Owls!
The summer term is here! Our last term together with lots of exciting things planned. We will be exploring Monarchs, castles and Sherwood Forest. As the weather is warming up please ensure if your child wears a hat to school it is labelled and apply suncream before school.
Please ensure your child has a water bottle every day. We will be having P.E outside occasionally please ensure your child has a hat on a Monday.
You will recieve a weekly email with more information about the Know 3 Homework. Spellings are activities linked to our phonics and we practice these in class too. Please support your child as much as you can with spellings, homework and reading.
2026 is the National Year of Reading and in Snowy Owls we love reading books together. Our class owl will be sent home to share stories with your child, please snap a picture and email it to me and return the bag, books and fluffy owl so another pupil can do the same.
Please see some important information below:
Homework and spellings
Homework and spellings will be set every Friday and will need to be completed and handed in by the following Thursday. This routine will help the children and encourages independence as they go through year 2. Please encourage your child to establish a consistent homework and spelling routine to reinforce their classroom learning.
P.E.
PE will take place on Mondays. On these days, please ensure your child comes to school in the correct PE kit. It is also important that on these days, they do not wear any jewellery or cover with plasters and shoulder length hair to be tied back.
Reading
Reading is a key part of school life and early reading is the start of a wonderful journey into discovering a whole new world of stories, facts and adventures.
We will be continuing our reading adventure with our very own snowy owl, Fluffy, who will be coming home with your child to share a reading book of their choice with Fluffy, in a place of their choice. All we ask is that you snap a picture of your child reading with the owl and email it to school - look out for a text and the bag coming home very soon!
Remember every Tuesday we change our books as it is Choosy Tuesday.
To support your child in their reading we encourage you to listen to them read as often as you can and make a note in their reading records on how they did.
Reading will be individual at the beginning or end of the term and all other reading will be in a guided group session.
More books for reading can be found here https://schoolreadinglist.co.uk/reading-lists-for-ks1-school-pupils/suggested-reading-list-year-2-pupils-ks1-age-6-7/
If you have any questions or queries please get in touch via the school office.
Many thanks for your continued support
Mrs Potton
Below are some helpful websites to support your child's learning:
Our author of the term is
Marcia Williams
Our Artists of the term are
Summer 1 - Roy Lichtenstein – “My work isn’t about form. It’s about seeing. I’m excited about seeing things, and I’m interested in the way I think other people see things.”
Summer 2 - Ruth Asawa – “I am interested in finding solutions to problems”
Our Scientists of the term are
Summer 1 - Rachel Carson – “Those who dwell among the beauties and mysteries of the earth are never alone or weary of life.”
Summer 2 - Gregor Mendel – “There are more grains in a handful of sugar than there are peas in the entire universe.”
Our Sports People of the half term are
Summer 1 - Michael Jordan – “Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence wins championships.”
Summer 2 - Virat Kohli – I should play and enjoy the game and inspire the next generation.
Our Composers of the term are
Summer 1 - Niccolo Paganini – “You are all artists”
(Violin shoe story – kindness)
Summer 2 - Ralph Vaughan Williams – “Music is the reaching out towards the utmost realities by any means of ordered sound”
What can you find out about these special people?
Our wonderful learning in pictures
What are we learning this term?
Here are our topics for this term:
English: Our work will be based on The Adventures of Robin Hood by Marcia Williams and the Katie Morag Stories by Mairi Hedderwick helping us to write a letter and an adventure story.
Our author is Marcia Williams
Maths: We will complete work around shape, fractions, money, time, position and direction as well as addition, subtraction and a focus on counting in 2, 5 and 10.
Computing: We will be focusing on Stop Motion followed by Programming using Scratch Jr.
Geography: We will be focusing on Beaches, Islands and Sustainability
History: We will be focusing on Monarchs followed by Sherwood Forest
Music: We will be focusing on Musical Me followed by On this Island: British songs.
Our musicians of the term are: Niccolo Paganini and Ralph Vaughan Williams
P.E: We will be focusing on REAL P.E Physical and REAL P.E Health and Fitness
Our sports people of the term are: Michael Jordan and Virat Kohli
Science: We will be focusing on Materials: Uses of everyday materials and Making connections: plant-based materials
Our scientists of the term are: Rachel Carson and Ole Kirk Christian
Design and Technology: We will be focusing on Mechanism: Fairgrounds
French: We will be learning days of the week, months of the year numbers to 30 and consolidating all of our learning from the year.
R.E: We will focus on Belonging followed by a unit exploring what God is like for Christians.
Art: We will focus on Clay work and 3D houses
Our Artists of the term are Roy Lichtenstein and Ruth Asawa
You can find a full overview of the year under the curriculum tab.
The school follows the National Curriculum 2014.
Please ask your child's teacher if you require any information.
