Who's who?

Mrs Myers - Class Teacher

Miss Jones - Learning Support Assistant 

Mrs Stothard - Learning Support Assistant

Reading - Children should be reading regularly to an adult at home - a minimum of 3 times per week.  Reading records are checked every Thursday and the number of times your child has read is noted down. Reading certificates and gold coins are awarded after every 30th log in their record.

Homework - Below is our Year 2 Homework Grid which includes the spellings for the term. The children will be tested in a written test every Thursday. It is recommended that spellings are practised for a short period daily. The Homework Grid also includes extra pieces of homework that children can choose to complete to further their learning at home across the term. 

PE - PE lessons will take place every Tuesday afternoon. Children should come to school wearing their full PE kit (navy/black joggers or shorts, house colour/white t-shirt, and dark jogging top or blue school jumper). 

Spring Term Learning 

MATHS

In Year 2 we plan and teach using the White Rose scheme of work. This scheme of learning is designed to support a mastery approach to teaching and learning and is consistent with the aims and objectives of the National Curriculum. The children have opportunities to build competency through concrete, pictorial and abstract approaches. The children have opportunities to revisit and consolidate prior learning and build upon this, using strategies to solve problems and mathematical language to explain our reasoning. 

This term we are focussing on Money, Multiplication and Division, Length and height, Mass, capacity and temperature.

                                       

https://whiterosemaths.com/

Please find below a range of resources to support your child in maths:

Times Tables Rock Stars – Times Tables Rock Stars (ttrockstars.com)
Numbots Game
Numberblocks - BBC iPlayer

Hit the Button - Quick fire maths practise for 6-11 year olds (topmarks.co.uk)

Daily 10 - Mental Maths Challenge - Topmarks

1-Minute Maths App | White Rose Maths

 

ENGLISH

In Year 2 our literacy is taught through a key text which provides a stimulus for our literacy lessons. Throughout Y2, children are developing their skills in transcription, oral rehearsal of sentences, and sequencing their ideas. The children increase their confidence in writing and are encouraged to write more detailed pieces.  The children are taught a range of SPAG objectives and are encouraged to up-level their writing using descriptive language and a range of conjunctions. 
We develop their confidence in discussing and sharing their ideas with their peers and with staff.

Genres covered in Y2 writing may include: letters, instructions, setting and character descriptions, poetry and recounts.

Our key texts for the Spring term...

                                                   
Please find below a range of resources to support your child with reading and writing: 

Support for phonics

Books coming home

https://home.oxfordowl.co.uk/english/primary-spelling/spelling-year-2-age-6-7/

GEOGRAPHY

Hot and Cold is our topic for this term. The children will:

• Name and locate the world’s 7 continents and 5 oceans
• Understand geographical similarities and differences through studying the human and physical geography of a … contrasting non-European country – Kenya
• Identify the location of hot and cold areas of the world in relation to the Equator and the North and South Poles
• Use basic geographical vocabulary to refer to key physical features
• Use basic geographical vocabulary to refer to key human features
• Use world maps, atlases and globes to identify … the countries, continents and oceans studied
• Use simple compass directions
• Recognise … basic human and physical features

SCIENCE 

The units we will cover in the spring term are Materials and Animals, including humans.

In the Materials unit, children will:
- identify and compare the suitability of a variety of everyday materials, including wood, metal, plastic, glass, brick, rock, paper and cardboard for particular uses 
- find out how the shapes of solid objects made from some materials can be changed by squashing, bending, twisting and stretching.  

In the Animals, including humans unit, children will: 
- know that animals, including humans, have offspring which grow into adults  
- describe the basic needs of animals, including humans, for survival 
 -describe the importance for humans of exercise, eating the right amounts of different types of food, and hygiene. 
    

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