Yellow - Year 2
Spring 2
Welcome back!
We will be working on our Spring 2 topics for the next 5 weeks and our Summer 1 topics will start on Monday 31st March. This is because Summer 1 term is very short as Easter is late this year.
Mrs O'Mahony-Leach will be finishing for her maternity leave on Tuesday 11th March. Mrs Unzueta will be visiting school before she starts to teach. We hope you will all welcome her.
English and Maths
In English this term, our book will be Lila and the secret of rain by David Conway. We will be writing our own African adventures as well as writing information texts comparing the town and country.
We will focus on compound words, adverbials and apostrophes for possession.
Our spelling focus will be homophones and suffix endings.
In Maths, we will be measuring using length, height and mass. We will also explore capacity and temperature. To support your child's learning in school, please continue to help them thoroughly learn their 2, 5 and 10 times tables. In their reading records, children have a login for Times Tables Rock Stars. We also recommend using the website Top Marks and playing the game, Hit the Button.
Wider Curriculum
R.E - Celebrations - Easter
Science - Our local environment
Geography - Let's go on safari to Kenya
Art - Painting
Computing - Digital imagery
Music - Orawa and trains
P.E. - Indoor P.E. Wednesday
P.E. - Outdoor P.E. Monday
PSHE - Healthy me
Wider Curriculum
R.E - Celebrations - Easter
Science - Our local environment
Geography - Let's go on safari to Kenya
Art - Painting
Computing - Digital imagery
Music - Orawa and trains
P.E. - Indoor P.E. Wednesday
P.E. - Outdoor P.E. Monday
PSHE - Healthy me
Dates for your diary
Friday 7th March - World Book Day (Dress up as your favourite character or come in your PJ's)
Friday 21st March - Red Nose Day
Tuesday 8th April - Parent's Morning Easter crafts
Reading
Please can every child bring their reading record and book daily. It is expected that reading is done four times a week and an adult signs their record. We have lots of volunteer readers in school to support the children which is why they need to ensure they have their books.
Our next booktower prize will be awarded at Easter so keep reading to move up!
Puppets
This half-term in D&T we made puppets. We looked at puppets, practised our joining techniques before designing and making our own puppets for ourselves, our family and our friends. We improved our sewing skills, learning how to do an over-stitch and do a running stitch.
Spring 1 Newsletter
Hi everyone,
We hope you had a lovely Christmas break and we are so excited to welcome you back for Spring term.
As always, if you have any queries regarding your child's learning, please do get in touch.
Best wishes
Mrs O'Mahony, Mrs Moran and Mrs Birks
English and Maths
Our book this half term is Charlotte's Web by E.B. White. We will be using this classic novel to create letters in our writing. Later in the term we will focus on poetry. Alongside our English, we will focus on a range of grammar and spelling work.
In maths, we will finish our work on money and introduce multiplication and division. To support your child's learning in school, please continue to help them thoroughly learn their 2, 5 and 10 times tables. In their reading records, children have a login for Times Tables Rock Stars. We also recommend using the website Top Marks and playing the game, Hit the Button.
Wider Curriculum
R.E - Believing - Who is a Muslim and what do they believe?
Science - Squash, Bend, Twist and Stretch
History - Great Fire of London
D&T - Textiles puppets
Computing - Online safety
Music - Grandma rap
P.E. - Indoor P.E. Wednesday
P.E. - Outdoor P.E. Monday
PSHE - Dreams and goals
Dates for your diary
Friday 10th January - Cinderella panto at school
Tuesday 14th January - Scooter training at school
Monday 27th January - Staircase House trip
Friday 31st January - Islam assembly and parent workshop 9am
Reading and Homework
Thank you so much for your support with homework and home learning. We really value all of your support and help with your child's learning. Homework will continue to be given out on a Monday. The children will be asked to practise their times tables and number bonds, read every day and practise their keyword spellings and spelling patterns.
If your child would like us to look at their work, they can drop their book in the box each day. Homework books should be handed in on a Friday so we can stick the new homework in each week and return on a Monday.
It is vital that children bring their reading book and reading record to school every day. We have reading volunteers, Year 6 reading buddies, and teaching assistants who read with children daily. We also look at children's reading records during guided reading.
On a Tuesday and Thursday, if their record is signed, children can change their reading book and move up the reading challenge.
Children are reminded to bring their reading book and record home every day so they can read at home. Please continue to sign their records. Thank you!
Nativity
All of Year 2 should be so proud of themselves for their amazing performances in their nativity shows.
Shine Star Shine was about the big star needing type show the way to the stable where a special baby was being born but there's one problem - he just can't shine! His friends, the other stars, try all they can to make him believe he can shine and when they lead him to the stable to see the baby he realises that Jesus' love will give him the strength to shine again.
Autumn 2 Newsletter
Welcome back to the Autumn 2 half-term. We have lots of exciting learning to look forward to this half-term as well as preparing for our Christmas celebrations.
English and Maths
Our book for this half-term is The secret of black rock by Joe Todd Stanton. We will be using this beautiful book to inspire our own underwater adventure stories as well as writing some non-fiction fact books about sharks. In our grammar work we will be identifying and writing noun phrases.
In Maths, we will continue to develop our addition and subtraction skills, developing fluency and applying what we've learnt to one and two-step problems.
Wider Curriculum
R.E- Celebrating special and sacred times.
Science-Materials Monster.
Geography-Let's go to Liverpool on the coast.
Computing-Research
Art- 3d and Collage, focus artist-Yayoi Kusama
Music-Carnival of the animals and Christmas production
P.E- Monday outdoor-City in the Community-Ball skills
Wednesday indoor-gymnastics
PHSE- Celebrating difference
Dates for your diary
Our Christmas Nativity; Shine Star, Shine will be performed on Thursday 5th December at 9.30am
and 5pm.
Reading and Homework
Homework will be given out on a Monday. The children will be asked to practise their times tables and number bonds, read every day and practise their keyword spellings and spelling patterns.
They can drop their book in the box each day if they would like us to look at their work. Books should be returned by Friday ready for the new homework to be stuck in.
We try to read with many of the children every day, whether it be with the teacher, teaching assistants or with one of our reading volunteers. Please can you encourage your child to remember to bring their reading book and reading record every day. This daily reading makes such a difference!
Home School Communication
We are always available at the door in the morning and at the end of the school day if there is anything you need to discuss and we can always make an appointment for a longer chat if needed.
Mrs O'Mahony-Leach, Mrs Moran and Mrs Birks
DEAL - English writing
This term, we have been using our DEAL strategies (Drama, Engagement and Active Learning) to explore the characters' feelings in Pattan's Pumpkin. We have been using the story to support our English work this term. Working in small groups, we created our own news report describing the impact the floods had on the Indian village and its residents. We then focused on the different emotions the characters felt throughout the story and explored a range of vocabulary to support our writing in role.
We love using DEAL to support our learning.
Autumn 1 Newsletter
A very warm welcome to Yellow Class.
Literacy and Maths
Our focus this half-term is Myself and Others and is all about health, well-being and different cultures. We will be looking specifically at Indian folk tales and the book Pattan's Pumpkin by Chitra Soundar. We will be writing letters and diary entries as characters from the book. We will use lots of Drama strategies to inspire and engage us.
In SPAG we will pay close attention to the four different sentence types: questions, commands, exclamations and statements to help children vary their sentences when writing.
In Maths, we will be developing understanding of place value through counting, comparing and representing numbers. We will also be adding and subtracting one, two and three-digit numbers sometimes crossing a boundary of ten. Continuing to count objects and work on number bonds to 10 and 20 at home with your child will help to support them in Year 2.
Dates for your diary
Meet the teacher - Tuesday 3rd September 15:30 - 16:30
Wider curriculum
R.E - What can we learn from sacred texts?
History- Intrepid Explorers
Science - Healthy Me
D. T- Food and nutrition. Perfect pizzas
Music - Sing up unit 'Tony Chestnut' focusing on beat, rhythm, melody and tuned and untuned instruments.
Computing - Making music
P.E- Outdoor games on Monday
- Indoor P.E on Wednesday
Additional information
Children will be reading every day and can change their books on a Tuesday and Friday. Please ensure book bags are in school every day. Just ten minutes reading at home each day makes such a difference, so please support our home school reading partnership.
P.E days for this half-term are Monday and Wednesday.
Homework will be sent home on a Monday.