Welcome to Year 2

Meet the Team

Mrs Malkin     Mrs Rennocks

Mrs Platt      Mrs Lee     Mrs Carroll     Mrs Dunning

In Year 2 we work together to provide a happy and enriching learning environment and have high expectations. We aim to make learning exciting and fun and aim inspire and challenge the children.

During Year 2, we build upon existing skills and concepts.  These are extended by encouraging the children to explore and investigate ideas further as they become increasingly independent in their learning. The children are encouraged to become responsible members of the school and community, by demonstrating our school values being responsible, brave, positive, inclusive and kind.

By the end of Year 2, our aim is for the children to have a smooth transition into KS2 as happy, confident and enthusiastic learners, equipped with the skills and independence needed to continue to develop a love for learning and achieve highly. 

Curriculum

Over the year the children will focus on historical events which are important to remember in the U.K such as The Gunpowder Plot, The Great Fire of London and Remembrance Day, Famous Explorers and Mexico. Further details can be found below on the termly overviews. Children’s learning is enriched through trips to Staircase House museum and The Lowry Art Gallery. Within the curriculum we study significant people who are relevant to the themes such as Samuel Pepys and David Attenborough. The curriculum is further enhanced through the study of additional significant people such as Mary Seacole, Amelia Earhart and Johannes Radebe.

Homework

Homework is given in Year 2 to consolidate and further enhance learning. Each week children are expected to complete the following:

• daily reading
• weekly spellings
• online maths activities

Dojo

We use class dojo as our main method of communicating with parents and post photos and updates on the class story. We also use it to enhance our behaviour policy and promote high expectations of behaviour as we award ‘dojo points’ to children for demonstrating our school values and learning behaviours.

myHappymind

At Moss Hey we follow myHappymind which is an NHS-backed curriculum for primary schools. It focuses on building resilience, self-esteem, and happiness in children. The lessons and activities contain quizzes, songs, animations and feature lovely characters. The children will complete five modules, Meet Your Brain, Celebrate, Appreciate, Relate and Engage. Each Year group works through the 5 modules allowing for a whole school culture to build Within each module they learn positive habitats which they will then use all of the time. The children have journal to records ideas and feelings.