Year 2
The Year 2 team is Miss Thornton, Mrs Scott, Pitt, Mrs Barker and Mrs Stajka
TLSA's - Mrs Taylor, Mrs Morris
Welcome to Year 2
Welcome to Year 2
There is a Welcome presentation for Key Stage1. Click on one of the links below.
Welcome to Key Stage One September 2025
AUTUMN term 2025
We are pleased to welcome the children back to school with a fantastic term planned ahead. Year 2 will begin with an exciting unit of work based around the story ‘The Colour Monster’. This story allows us to ease the children back into school, whilst focusing on our emotions and how we can recognise and regulate how we are feeling. This also links well to the zones of regulation we use in school to help the children to recognise how they are feeling throughout the day.
Our first History unit this year will be ‘How was school different in the past’. Through this, the children will look at what school was like in the past, and how it has changed to the way the children experience school life today. They will learn to correctly order and date events on a timeline, make comparisons between schools in the past and present, identify features of a classroom now and a classroom 100 years ago, identifying some similarities and differences and decide whether they would have preferred to go to school in the past or not and explain why.
Following this, we will begin our first geography unit ‘Would you prefer to live in a hot or cold place’. This involves learning about our world and the different climates different countries experience. The children will learn to name and locate the seven continents on a world map, as well as the North and the South Poles and the Equator, describe some similarities and differences between the UK and Kenya, investigate the weather, writing about it using key vocabulary and explaining whether they live in a hot or cold place. We always love hearing about parents who work in or have experiences related to our topics therefore if you feel this applies to you and would feel comfortable coming to talk to the childrenplease contact your child’s class teacher or Miss Thornton!
Our maths work will begin with place value, where the children will explore the structure and build-up of numbers, understanding hundreds, tens and ones. From there, the children will progress to addition and subtraction involving 2 digit numbers and crossing over tens. In English, we will continue to promote the love of reading through literature and will use a range of fiction and non-fiction texts to engage and excite the children, with links to our writing. Our science lessons will involve exploring our surroundings and noticing habitats within the local area. Later in the Autumn term, we will also be learning about materials and their suitability for different purposes. PSHE will focus on the topic 'Being Me In My World' from our Jigsaw curriculum. This will see the children learning about what we can do to help others, how to understand our own emotions and recognise emotions in others. It will allow children opportunities to work collaboratively with others and recognise their own strengths and successes.
Our PE sessions will be on Mondays, beginning on 8th September. Therefore, they will need to wear PE kit on Mondays. We are looking forward to an exciting Autumn term!
Curriculum Overview
You can find more details of the Dorridge Primary Curriculum on the Curriculum and Subject pages on the menu to the left. Below, you will find an overview of our termly units, with a brief overview of the areas we will be covering. We are always looking to enrich our curriculum with people who have worked in the industry, therefore if you or someone you know has worked a job linking to our topics, we would love to have you in to speak to the children. If you/someone you know is willing to do this, please contact your child's class teacher.