Welcome to Year 2!
Class 2T
Teacher - Miss Taylor
Teaching Assistant - Mrs Aynsworth
Class 2S
Teacher - Miss Saxon
Teaching Assistant - Mrs Monk
Reminders
PE:
Year 2 PE days are Tuesday (outdoor) and Friday (indoor).
Please come in your PE kits on these days.
Homework:
Homework will be set via google classroom on a Friday and will be due the following Friday.
Reading:
Please send your child into school with their reading record, and book everyday.
Termly curriculum overview
This is a brief overview of what we will be learning this half term.
Parent Information
Here is some important information you will need for this year.
English
Our focus text for writing this half term is 'Aziza's Secret Fairy Door'
Reading
Please read with your child for five to ten minutes fives times a week. Use the reading VIPERS below to support questioning. Questioning when reading with your child is fundamental at this stage in their reading development to help them develop their comprehension skills as your children become more able to read fluently.
We will be reading with your child every week. We will be having small group guided reading sessions for those following Little Wandle and 1:1 for those on the stage books.
During the guided reading sessions, we will also be focusing on the VIPERS skills. This half term we will be reading 'Aziza's Secret Fairy Door'.
Phonics
Our school has chosen Little Wandle Letters and Sounds Revised as our new systematic synthetic phonics (SSP) programme to teach early reading and spelling.
Please click on the link below which will take you to the parent support page for phonics information.
https://www.littlewandlelettersandsounds.org.uk/resources/for-parents/
Spelling
Below are the common exception words and high frequency words for KS1.
Common exception words = words that cannot be decoded using phonics.
High frequency words = words that are frequently used in books (some are decodable, some are not).
RE
In RE, we will look at the importance of churches to Christians and mosques to Muslims.
Art/DT
This half term, we will be focusing on Art.
We will look at artist Megan Coyle and then using her technique create our own collage of a hedgehog. This will then lead to creating 3D models of a hedgehog using clay. We will learn how to join the clay and shape the clay by using water.
PSHE
To explore our topic of 'Caring Relationships' we will look into the qualities of a good friend, what healthy friendships look like and how to resolve ups and downs.
Our Online Safety will be embedded into this topic as we look at online relationships.
Music
This term, we will learn to sing and perform ‘Twinkle Twinkle Little Star’ independently, as an ensemble and in a round.
Computing
This half term we will be focusing on 'We are Zoologists’.
Maths
We will set maths homework on Times Tables Rock Stars and may send home some additional work if we feel that it is required.
When counting or practising times tables with your children at home, please remember to count forwards AND backwards. This is vital to their knowledge and understanding of number patterns.
Below are maths mats that show some of the objectives your child will be learning in school. You might find them useful when working with your child at home.
The areas we will be focusing on are fractions, mass, capacity and temperature.
Useful Maths websites:
https://www.ictgames.com/mobilePage/
https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/subjects/zjxhfg8
https://home.oxfordowl.co.uk/kids-activities/fun-maths-games-and-activities/
Topic
We will focus on Florence Nightingale and Mary Seacole to solve the enquiry question ‘Who was most significant to our history of nursing and why?’. Whilst doing so, we will look into what the most important achievements of Florence’s life were and explore her influences. This will then lead into looking at which were the most important achievements of Mary Seacole and working out why Mary had been so badly treated.
Science
In Science, we will be learning about Habitats .
This half term we will continue to identify and name a variety of animals in their habitats. We will focus on food chains and think about who the consumer, predators, prey and producers are in different habitats.
PE
Both PE sessions will be outdoors this half term.
We will prepare for sports day with different athletic activities.
We will also learn the strategies of invasion games. Pupils develop their understanding of the principles of defending and attacking.
