Welcome to Otters Class
Welcome to Otters Class 2024- 2025!
The Year 2 class are called Otters. The class teacher is Miss Bone-Knell, with Miss Cole as our class TA. Miss Stickles Mrs Ball also work in Squirrels Class as 1:1 Teaching Assistants.
We would love to meet and get to know all the parents so please feel free to approach us in the playground at home time. My email address is ebone-knell@Charing.kent.sch.uk if you ever need to contact me.
Otters have PE on Tuesday and Thursday, so please could children come to school wearing their PE kits. Please remember to take earrings out.
Reading is a priority throughout the school and we encourage you to read with your children as often as possible. We expect children to read at home a minimum of 4 times a week. Reading books will be changed on Mondays and Thursdays if it has been read at home. Please bring in the reading books and record in every day.
Homework will be set weekly on a Friday and is due back on the following Wednesday. Please support your children with this as it reinforces their learning for the week.
We are looking forward to this year and have no doubt it will be amazing!
Our topics for this year are:
| Otters Y2 | Term 1 | Term 2 | Term 3 | Term 4 | Term 5 | Term 6 |
| Text | The Whale Who wanted more Meet the Oceans Dolphin Boy | Vlad and the Great Fire of London Plague- a cross on the door The Tin Forest | The Rainbow Bear Snow Leopard Grey Ghost of the Mountain | Paddington at the Palace The Kings Pants King Charles (Little people Big Dreams) | Jim and the Beanstalk The Magic Finger | George’s Marvellous Medicine Neil Armstrong Trailblasers Mae Jemison |
| Science(Pzaz) | Uses of everyday Materials 2.6-2.9 | Investigation: Materials | Living things and their habitats 2.11-2.13 | Animals incl. Humans 2.1-2.5 | Plants 2.10 | Investigation: Plants 2.14 |
| RE(UC/ WF) | UC 1:4 GOSPEL | UC 1:3 INCARNATION Digging Deeper | ISLAM | UC 1:5 SALVATION Digging Deeper | JUDAISM | UC 1:2 CREATION Digging Deeper |
| History(Chris Quigley) | Great Fire The Plague | Queen Victoria Queen Elizabeth II | The First Flight The Moon Landing | |||
| Geography(Oddizzi) | Continents and Oceans | Hot and Cold places | Mugumareno Village, Zambia | |||
| Art and DT(Kapow) | Art – Craft and design: Map it out | DT – Mechanisms: Fairground wheel | Art – Painting and mixed media: Life in colour | DT – Structures: Baby Bear’s chair | DT -Mechanisms Moving Monster | Art – Sculpture and 3D: Clay houses |
| ICT(Purple Mash) | 2:1 Coding | 2:3 Spreadsheets 2:5 Effective Searching | 2:2 Online Safety 2:7 Making Music | 2:6 Creating Pictures | 2:4 Questioning | 2:8 Presenting ideas |
| PE | Ball Skills Fundamentals | Gymnastics Invasion | Dance Target | Net & Wall Sending & Receiving | Striking & Fielding Athletics | Yoga/Fitness OAA and Team Building |
| PSHE(Kapow) | Introduction lesson Family and relationships | Family/ relationships Health/wellbeing | Health/wellbeing Citizenship | Citizenship | Safety and the changing body | Economic wellbeing Transition lesson |
| Music(Sing up) | Tony Chestnut | Carnival of the Animals Christmas Performance | Grandma Rap | Orawa Trains | Sing along with Shostakovich Charlie Chaplin | Tanczymy Labada |