Year 2 Olive Class

Welcome to Year 2

Class teacher - Mrs Davis

Teaching support - Miss Bowden (Monday-Thursday)

Teaching support - Mrs Paton (Friday)

Wednesday afternoon class cover teacher - Mrs Sharples

                                      Our Class Saint - Saint Francis
 

Class Virtue - Gentleness

• Please read with your child as regularly as possible. The more they practise, the more confident and fluent your child will become. We love to read your comments, so please write in your child's reading record book with how they have done with their reading at home.
• We always aim to have books changed every Wednesday.
• Our PE day is on a Tuesday. The children will need their PE kit in school, this consists of plain black jogging bottoms or shorts, a white t-shirt and jumper. They will also need pumps or trainers. It is essential that they have their full P.E kit in school at all times. Their kits should be taken home every holiday to be washed.
• Outdoor Learning will take place on Friday afternoons, your child will need wellies in school. 
• We use Twitter to update snippets from our day and showcase out wonderful work. Please be sure to follow us @stjosephskly. Olive Class adventures will be shared using the hashtag #TeamOlive. 

If you have any questions or queries, please email the school email address parents@sjk.bcwcat.co.uk and your email will be forwarded to me. There is no problem too big or too small.  Alternatively, I am available everyday before or after school.

Our Learning

In Olive Class we aim for the children to be happy, confident and excited in their learning. We encourage fun throughout the curriculum and aim to ensure that children are happy and excited to come to school. Friendship and community are at the heart of Olive Class and both teamwork and kindness are encouraged and celebrated in everything that we do. 

In Olive class we organise our learning by building upon the skills that we have learned in EYFS and in Year 1, as well as learning new skills, to ensure that we are continually progressing in each area. Through our creative curriculum, we ensure that the children learn a range of topics and grow their skills through those topics. This school year we will be focusing on the following topics:

Geography - My School Community (Autumn 1)

History - Remembrance Day (Autumn 2)

Geography - What a Wonderful World! (Spring 1)

History - Florence Nightingale (Spring 2)

Geography - Let's go on Safari (Summer 1)

History - Significant Explorers (Summer 2)

 These exciting topics show a full coverage of the National Curriculum, as well as providing learning opportunities that will capture the creativity and imagination of our children. It is through these topics we endeavour to Believe in God, ourselves and others.  

We plan on lots of exciting trips and learning opportunities throughout the year, which will engage the children in their learning and ensure they have the #bestdaysoftheirlives, thus inspiring writing, enthusiasm and a quest for learning!

Curriculum Overview

Knowledge Organisers

Letters