Year 2 2022 - 2023
Miss Oakley
Teacher
Welcome back year 2!
We have got a busy Summer term ahead of us.
Have a look at our news page to see what we have been up to during our first term in Year 2...
Summer Term
This term we will discover the history of the Significant Individuals Rosa Parks and Emily Davison. 'Hot and Cold Places - Zoom in on Zambia' and The Worlds Oceans and Continents as our geography focus. We are going to explore these themes across our curriculum subjects. Discussing our ideas and recording them in a variety of ways. More information to follow regarding this so watch this space...
In English we will continue exploring our Read Write Inc and VIPERS schemes and apply this to a variety of writing tasks completed across our curriculum subjects. Tasks such as story writing, report writing, recount writing, information texts and poetry. Extending this further into the Literacy and Language scheme and Creative Writing.
In Maths we will continue our exploration of our number system - developing and enhancing our problem solving and reasoning skills through ' Mastery Maths'. We will extend our use of the numberline and various other ways of recording 'our working' (column method) to help us with our + and - . Linking these building skills to multiplication, division, fractions, money, time, shape and measures. Any extra work you can do at home with your son/daughter will support their learning enormously.
In Science we will be exploring our topics of Animals Including Humans - Growth and Life Cycles. Linking these to our other subject work where relevant. We will also be 'working scientifically' asking and investigating answers to a variety of questions.
PE
Our PE lessons are on a Monday and a Friday. This terms focus is Athletics and Orienteering. Your son/daughter can come to school in their kit (and remain in this for the days duration). If they are bringing their bag in these will be returned home at the end of the PE days to be washed. They won't be left in school on pegs as previously done.
We will also undertake the 'Golden Mile' Track task each day to support our PE lesson and fitness. This does not need to be done in PE kit.
As the weather can still be cool at this time of year I would aim to keep a pair of track suit pants or leggins in your bag for those outdoor lessons just incase it's a little chilly!
Talk Homework/SATs prep
Our talk homework/work activity will come home on a Friday via a workbook. Please return it by Thursday of the following week so a new piece can be added ready for you and your son/daughter to complete together. The work can be submitted as a written or printed document/collage/photo/post-it-note mind map or a combination of these mediums.There are also weekly spellings on our google classroom to learn ahead of a test each Friday.
Extra little challenges are also on the Google Classroom so keep checking - these will be linked to work/activities we are currently exploring in class.
We will continue to change reading books daily when they are returned to school. If we don't see a written comment in the diary we will assume the text hasn't been read yet.
Please keep using and checking the websites I've listed to help your son/daughters journey towards their SATs in May.
Useful Websites
Written below are some web addresses for sites we use regulary in class to support your childs learning.
Try them at home they are lots of fun!
www.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk
www.youngwriters.co.uk/world/pupils (SPAG Monsters)
Lots of information about our school day and what went well is sent out on Marvellous Me, so make sure you have the app downloaded to keep in touch with us during the day! We will also try to keep you up-to-date with all that is going on in our class on Twitter, so keep an eye out for us there too.
Miss Oakley, Mrs Townsend & Miss Yesilyurt