Who's who?

Mrs Myers - Class Teacher

Miss Jones - 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 Friday 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.

 

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). 

 

Summer 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 focusing on Fractions, Time, Statistics and Position and Direction. 

                                       

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 Summer 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 and HISTORY

Ocean Explorers is our topic for this term.

In Geography, the children will:

• Name and locate the world’s seven continents and five oceans.
• Name [and] locate … the four countries … of the UK and its surrounding seas.
• Use basic geographical vocabulary to refer to key physical features: beach, cliff, coast, hill, mountain, sea, ocean, vegetation.
• Use basic geographical vocabulary to refer to key human features: port, harbour.
• Use world maps, atlases and globes to identify the UK and its countries, as well as the countries, continents and oceans studied.
• Use simple compass directions (NSEW) and locational and directional language to describe … routes on a map.
• Devise a simple map.
• Use and construct basic symbols in a key.

In History the children will be taught about:

• The lives of significant people in the past who have contributed to national and international achievements – Christopher Columbus and James Cook.

SCIENCE 

The unit we will cover this term is Plants.

The children will:

• Observe and describe how seeds and bulbs grow into mature plants.
• Find out and describe how plants need water, light and a suitable temperature to grow and stay healthy.
• Describe in detail the growth of seeds and bulbs into plants from their own observations and from measurements, including the use of charts and graphs.
• Explain in simple terms why a number of plants should be used to provide reliable evidence about plant growth.
• Know that plants make their own food but that humans and many animals use plants as food.

    

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