Welcome to Otters

The Year 2 class are called Otters. The class teacher is Miss MacMillan, with Miss Piddock as our class Teaching Assistant. Mrs Hebbes will also work in Otters Class as a 1:1 Teaching Assistant.

We would love to meet and get to know all the parents so please feel free to approach us in the playground at home time. My email address is  emacmillan@charing.kent.sch.uk if you ever need to contact me.

Otters have PE on Wednesday and Thursday, so please could children come to school wearing their PE kits. Please remember to take earrings out on these days.

Reading is a priority throughout the school and we encourage you to read with your children as often as possible. We follow a new online reading log called ‘Learning with Parents.’  Your child’s book will be changed every Thursday.

We are looking forward to this year and have no doubt it will be amazing!

Our topics for this year are:

Otters Y2 Term 1 Term 2 Term 3 Term 4 Term 5 Term 6

Text The Whale Who wanted more

Meet the Oceans

Dolphin Boy Vlad and the Great Fire of London

Plague- a cross on the door

The Tin Forest The Rainbow Bear

Snow Leopard Grey Ghost of the Mountain Paddington at the Palace

The Kings Pants

King Charles (Little people Big Dreams) Jim and the Beanstalk

George’s Marvellous Medicine

Neil Armstrong Trailblasers

Mae Jemison The Magic Finger

Science

(Pzaz) Uses of everyday Materials

2.6-2.9 Living things and their habitats

2.11-2.13 Animals incl. Humans

2.1-2.5 Plants

2.10 Investigation:Plants

2.14 Investigations

RE(UC/ WF) UC1.2 CREATION

Who made the world? (core/ digging deeper) UNIVERSAL

How should we care for others and the world and why does it matter?

UC 1:3

INCARNATION

(digging deeper x 2 lessons) HUMANISM

Who are humanists and how do they live? UC 1:5

SALVATION

Why does Easter matter to Christians

(Digging Deeper) JUDAISM Who is Jewish and what do they believe? (Part 2) ISLAM

Who is a Muslim and what do they believe? (part 2)

History

(Chris Quigley) Great Fire

The Plague Queen Victoria

Queen Elizabeth II The First Flight

The Moon Landing

Geography

(Oddizzi) Continents and Oceans Hot and Cold places   Mugumareno Village, Zambia

Art and DT

(Kapow) Art – Craft and design: Map it out DT – Mechanisms: Fairground wheel Art – Painting and mixed media: Life in colour DT – Structures: Baby Bear’s chair DT -MechanismsMoving Monster Art -Sculpture and 3D: Clay houses

ICT

(Purple Mash) 2:1 Coding 2:3 Spreadsheets2:5 Effective Searching 2:2 Online Safety

2:7 Making Music 2:6 Creating Pictures 2:4 Questioning 2:8 Presenting ideas

PE Ball Skills

Fundamentals Gymnastics

Invasion Dance

Target Net & Wall

Sending & Receiving Striking & Fielding

Athletics Yoga/FitnessOAA and Team Building

PSHE

(Kapow) Introduction lesson

Family and relationships Family/ relationships

Health/wellbeing Health/wellbeing

Citizenship Citizenship Safety and the changing body Economic wellbeing Transition lesson

Music

(Sing up) Tony Chestnut Carnival of the Animals

Christmas

Performance Grandma Rap OrawaTrains Sing along with ShostakovichCharlie Chaplin Tanczymy Labada