The Year 2 team

Mrs C Sayer - Year Lead

Mrs G Scott - Class teacher

Mrs K Richardson - Class teacher 

TLSA's - Mrs Taylor and Mrs Morris

 

Welcome to Year 2

There is a Welcome presentation for Key Stage 1. Click on one of the links below. 

Welcome to Key Stage One September 2026

KS1 information sheet

AUTUMN TERM 2026

Year 2 will begin with an exciting unit of work based around the story ‘Return’. This leads on from the fantastic work children have already done around the books ‘Quest’ and ‘Journey’ in Year 1. We are looking forward to reading their fantastic writing.

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. 

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.

Curriculum Overview

You can find more details of the Dorridge Primary Curriculum on the Curriculum and Subject pages on the menu to the left.