Welcome to Year 2 Spring Term

 

Curriculum 

Our themes this term will be 'How did we learn to fly?' and 'Why is our world wonderful?'.

'How did we learn to fly?' will include learning all about the Wright brothers and their first flight, Bessie Coleman and why she is historically significant, as well as finding out about Amelia Earhart and the moon landing. With the theme 'Why is our world so wonderful?', we will be learning about the five oceans and recognising and identifying geographical features including physical and human features.

In English, we will be writing recounts, stories and non-chronological reports and will use different texts to support our writing - Amelia Earhart, The Dragon Machine and The Diversity of Life. These are all part of our Year 2s Monty reads. We will also be reading 'The Boy Who Grew Dragons' by Andy Shepherd for our active read text and develop our comprehension skills. We will continue to practise learning sounds and words for phonics to support our reading and use our knowledge of different aspects of grammar, punctuation and spelling to support our writing.

In Maths, we will practise our arithmetic skills and learn about money, multiplication and division, length and height, mass, capactiy and temperature. Children also have access to Times Table Rock Stars to practise their multiplication skills and are encouraged to practise our half termly KIRFs (Key Instant Recall of Facts). This term we are learning the 2X table including counting in 2s and learning multiplication and division facts, as well as learning doubles and halves of numbers to 20.

In Science, we will be finding out about habitats including looking at life processes, food chains and woodland, rainforest and ocean habitats. We will also classify objects into groups and research information to find answers to questions.

In Music, we will be focusing on dynamics - looking at how dynamics change in music and how they create an atmosphere. We will also create and play short pitch patterns using vocal and instrumental sounds. We will also be participating in the Infant Music Festival.

In ICT, our focus is algorithyms and debugging and word processing. In PSHE, we will be exploring 'Citizenship' and 'Economic Wellbeing' and in R.E. we will be thinking about the questions 'What is a prophet?' In PE we will be participating in Yoga, Sending and Receiving, Fitness and Net and Wall.

 

Reading 

Reading Journals - Children are encouraged to read regularly at home. It is recommended you read at least 5 times a week to help you earn your Star Reader Bronze, Silver, Gold and Platinum Awards. You can write your own reading comments in your planner and parents/carers can make comments too. Children can can change their reading books every day or as and when needed. Those children on Accelerated Reader can complete their quizzes at school once they have read their book.

Here's a list of websites that you can access for online books:

 

www.oxfordowl.co.uk                 www.freechildrenstories.com                 www.storylineonline.net

 

Reminders and Homework 

 

  • Reading - as above.
  • Homework Book:-
    • Maths - Arithmetic questions will be set every Monday and children are encouraged to practise multiplication facts on TimesTables Rock Stars each week. Children are also encouraged to practise their KIRFs (Key Instant Recall of Facts) and to log onto Active Learn to play games which relate to class lessons.
    • Spellings - Spellings will be set each Monday with a spelling test carried out on the same day.
  • PE days are on a Tuesday and Wednesday. Please remember to wear your PE kit to school, remove earrings and have long hair tied back.
  • Please ensure that all items of clothing, water bottles and lunchboxes are clearly named.
  • If you need to speak me, you can contact me through the school office using the admin email - admin@mps.robusmat.co.uk 

 

Here's looking forward to a great term.

Miss Moss and Mrs Carter-Brown