Welcome to Otters Class
Welcome to Otters Class 2025-2026!
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 Spreadsheet 2:5 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/Fitnes OAA 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 |