Monday 2nd June 2025
Dear Parents/Carers of Year 2,
RE: Year 2 Curriculum, Summer 2 ‘Out of the Ashes’
Welcome back to school. We hope that you all had a lovely half term and enjoyed the sunshine. In Year 2, we are looking forward to a busy final term of this academic year. Our topic this term is ‘Out of the Ashes’, during which the children will be comparing life in London in 1666 with life in London now and then learning about the events of The Great Fire of London. In English lessons, they will be writing a fact file about The Great Fire of London. Towards the end of the term, they will be focusing on the story, Vlad and The Great Fire of London, by Kate Cunningham and the children will be writing their own versions of the story.
Reading
We really appreciate your continued support with children’s reading at home. Reading at home with your child every day will enable them to make as much progress as possible before the end of Year 2.
Books and reading records should be brought to school every day. Reading records and books will be collected on Wednesday, and new books will be sent home on Fridays. New books cannot be sent home until the old ones have been returned.
PE
PE for Year 2 will be on every Monday from now on. Children are to come to school in their full PE kits this includes a plain white shirt, dark bottoms and trainers. Please ensure that children are wearing the correct shoes or they will not be able to take part.
Maths
In maths this term we will be focusing fractions, position and direction, time, and measurement.
We will continue setting weekly maths homework on Mathletics. The homework we set on Mathletics is a consolidation task of the work we have been doing at school and really helps to embed learning. Children’s logins are printed in their reading records.
Year 2 home learning project for ‘Near and Far’
Can your child design and make a Maasai shield? Help them to research Maasai shields, then to have a go at creating one of their own. They could use recycled materials like cardboard boxes. Please bring completed shields into school as soon as they are finished so that we can share them with the class.
If you would like to share photos of your child’s work, please email them to year2@kelvingrove.lewisham.sch.uk.
Additional events this term:
School trip: We will be visiting St Paul’s Cathedral as part of our ‘Out of the Ashes’ topic. A letter with the date and further details will be shared later this term.
Sports Day: A letter with the date will be sent out later in the term.
End of term reports and Transition to Year 3 activities: these will happen in last week of term
Thank you in advance for your continued support.
The Year 2 Team
Ms Sousa and Mrs Blackley
Examples of Maasai shields:
