2Crystal - Mrs Loynds
2Lion - Mrs Dunn
Year 2 supported by Mrs Walta and Mrs Rubery
Key information:
P.E. - Monday & Friday
Children will need to come to school in their P.E. kits on their allocated P.E. days. Please ensure that children are wearing the correct P.E. kit (black shorts / red t-shirts, black trainers) and that long hair is tied up and earrings are removed on these days. During the colder months, black tracksuits are advised as we may be outside.
Reading Diaries - please send these to school everyday!
We value reading and have fabulous reading areas for the children to enjoy. We actively promote reading at home (aim for 15 minutes per evening). Children will be able to move their names up our reading challenge display each day in recognition of their efforts with home reading.
We have a daily reading lesson (Book Talk) which will develop your child’s passion for reading as well as their comprehension skills. The daily reading session will always start with the teacher reading to the children. We will be exploring and discussing the language, vocabulary, feelings and themes within a variety of high-quality texts. In addition to this, we will be listening to the children reading a range of texts and teaching them how to talk about books confidently and develop their comprehension skills to a deeper level.
Books will be changed on Fridays. Remember - Please make sure that reading diaries and books are in school everyday and that you comment in and sign your child’s reading records each time they read to you.
As we now have the addition of Rising Stars, our online reading system, we will also be setting books on there, but ask that children complete the comprehension to ensure understanding of what they have read.
If children have read their book from school and their Rising Stars books, we encourage children to read books from home. Why not visit the library? It's the perfect opportunity to look at different texts and find an author you love!
Recorders - Friday
We are very lucky to be able to have DPA providing recorder lessons each week. Update videos / photos of the classes progress shall be posted regularly on Dojo, so be sure to keep a look out. Later on in the year, the children will perform a recorder concert in-front of the parents. We look forward to this special afternoon in the summer term 2024.
Water bottles
Please bring fresh water or squash from home each day. We politely remind you that only sports bottles (not screw top bottles) are acceptable as they help to avoid any nasty spillages!
Grab-a-Bags
If your child requires a 'Grab-a-Bag' for lunch, please fill in the slip at home if possible. Blank slips can be obtained from any member of staff or in the ‘Grab Bag’ baskets in the classroom.
Our topic this half term is...
The Great Fire of London.
We will be learning all about this fascinating period in History. The children will learn how the fire is thought to have started and how it spread so quickly. They will encounter Samuel Pepys and find out why he is well known. Lessons will consider why the devastating fire spread and how it ruined most of London city and how this impacted on the area.
English -
This half term we will be writing narratives based on the story of Vlad and Boxton. This is a story set in London and takes place during The Great Fire. Children will begin by reading our model text and then work towards writing their own version. Instead of a fire, they may innovate the model text and adapt it to include a different type of disaster e.g. a flood. The children will be learning to create suspense by isolating the character, using sound effects and thinking how the character will react. We will continue to work on sentence structure and handwriting too.
Please remember to complete Doodle Spell each evening as these support the spelling / phonic lessons completed in school.
Maths -
In our Maths lessons this half term, we will be continuing to learn about money and then focusing on multiplication and division before moving on to fractions.
For multiplication and division, we will be learning about equal groups, arrays, doubles and halves, x2, x5, x10 tables.
For fractions we will be learning about equal and unequal parts, halves, quarters and thirds, unit and non-unit fractions.
Please visit https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/hit-the-button to help your child learn their times table facts (focus on x2, x3, x5 and x10).
Doodle Maths will need to be completed each evening please.