Welcome to Otters Class
The Year 2 class are called Otters. The class teacher is Miss Bone-Knell, with Mrs Young (Monday-Wednesday) and Mrs Alexander (Thursday-Friday) as our teaching assistants.
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 ebone-knell@Charing.kent.sch.uk if you ever need to contact me.
We have PE on Monday and Friday, so please could children come to school wearing their PE kits. Please remember to take earrings out.
Reading books will be sent home every Monday and Thursday. Please could all children read every night – this will improve their fluency and love of reading! ‘Read Write Inc’ (RWI) books will be sent home on. Please make sure these are returned to school.
Homework will be set weekly on a Friday and is due back on the following Wednesday. Please support your children with this as it reinforces their learning for the week!
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 | Mr Fawkes, The king and the gunpowder Plot | The Rainbow Bear | Jim and The Beanstalk | The Magic Finger | Pirates |
| Science | Uses of everyday Materials 2.6-2.9 | Investigation:Materials | Living things and their habitats2.11-2.13 | Animals incl. Humans2.1-2.5 | Plants2.10 | Investigation:Plants2.14 |
| RE | UC 1:4GOSPEL | UC 1:3INCARNATIONDigging Deeper | ISLAM | UC 1:5SALVATIONDigging Deeper | JUDAISM | UC 1:2CREATIONDigging Deeper |
| History | Gunpowder plot | Mary Seacole & Florence Nightingale | Pirates | |||
| Geography | Continents and Oceans | Hot and Cold places | Mugumareno Village, Zambia | |||
| Art and DT | Art/CraftSculpture and 3D“Clay houses” | Art & DesignDrawing“Life in Colour” | Design & TechnologyMechanismsMoving Monster | |||
| ICT | 2:1 Coding | 2:3 Spreadsheets2:5 Effective Searching | 2:2 Online Safety2:7 Making Music | 2:6 Creating Pictures | 2:4 Questioning | 2:8 Presenting ideas |
| PE | Ball SkillsFundamentals | GymnasticsInvasion | DanceTarget | Net & WallSending & Receiving | Striking & FieldingAthletics | Yoga/FitnessOAA and Team Building |
| PSHE | Introduction lesson Family and relationships | Family/ relationships Health/wellbeing | Health/wellbeingCitizenship | Citizenship | Safety and the changing body | Economic wellbeing Transition lesson |
| Music | RhythmHarvest | Pitch/melodyGlockenspielChristmas | Musical Instruments and the orchestraThe PlanetsRecorder | Composers through timeChanting/RomanticStomp | CompositionForm/graphic score | Performance |