Matisse-Year 2

Welcome to Matisse - Year 2!

Welcome to the Matisse class page of our school website.

The Year 2 Class Teacher is Mrs Smith and Ms Nielsen is our LSA.

Our concept for our final term in Year 2 is FUTURE. We will be answering these questions:

What do we want in the future?

When is the Future?

What has already changed in our lives? (Link back to our ‘Change’ concept)

What can we expect to change in the Future?

Visit to Bluebell woods to look at local habitat.

What changes does it go through during the year?

What can we expect in the Future?

In PE this term we will be preparing for sports day with a focus on athletics. We will also be participating in team games thinking about how to include everyone, how to work together and how to show support. Our computing sessions will be centred on coding where we will investigate algorithms and how to implement these. We will continue our PSHCE sessions thinking about how to keep our bodies and minds healthy. We will also be exploring a new unit in Our Happy Minds Program. In Science, children will be building on their scientific enquiry skills to look at living things and their habitats. We will be looking at how habitats change over time and how living things change. This half term our RE topic is Gospel - we will be asking the question ‘What is the good news that Jesus brings?’ We will be focusing on three pieces of good news; Jesus is a friend to the friendless, God will forgive you if you do wrong, and God can give you peace.

We will be continuing our Art themed around Henri Matisse and the children will design and create their own papercuts, in the style of Matisse, using the natural world as their stimulus. Our history will focus on the enquiry question: “Why is our school special?” We will start to explore the foundation of our school in 1853 by the Rev. Charles Kingsley. We will use artefacts and documents kept in the school to learn about how and why our school was established. Our Music this term is called “Friendship Song” This is a song about being friends. The children will listen and appraise, play musical games, improvise and compose their own musical pieces.