Welcome to Year 2!
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2JG Monday-Wednesday |
Mrs Gilbertson 2JG Thursday-Friday 2GB Monday |
Mrs Browne 2GB Tuesday-Friday
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2JG Everyday |
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Autumn Term 2 Thank you to everyone for coming to parents' evening, it was great to meet with parents and carers now we have all settled into the first half term of Year 2. We would like to take this opportunity to say how proud we are of all of the children for having such a positive start to Year 2. This half term we are starting new topics of work and will have 2 fantastic enrichment days to look forward to. The children will visit Crableigh Fire Station to learn how the Fire Service keeps us safe. Then we will be welcoming Those History People to our school for a brilliant historical inquiry-based workshop all about our new history topic, The Great Fire of London. More information to follow. This webpage is updated each half term to make parents, carers, and children aware of what the half term has in store in all subjects across the curriculum. It also has important information about homework, library and PE days, and important events happening during the term. We will continue to ask children to come to school in their PE uniform on their PE days (please see below).
The year two teachers will be there to meet the children by the double doors near the school hall at 8:45am every morning and we would like the children to line up in their respective classes. The children are to be collected at the end of each day at 3:20pm in the smaller playground near the sports hall and library. If someone else is going to pick up your child, please let a member of staff or the office know on the day or in advance if need be. We have an open-door policy and encourage parents to discuss any worries or concerns with teachers. If you would like to meet with a teacher to discuss any issues please contact the office or speak to the teacher briefly at drop-off or pick-up to arrange at an appropriate time. Autumn 2 Term Dates:
4th Oct 24 - Return to school 11th - 15th Nov - Anti-Bullying Week 21st Nov - Fire Station morning trip 28th Nov - Fire of London History workshop 30th Nov - PTFA Christmas fair 2nd Dec - Flu Vaccine 13th Dec - PTFA Mrs Claus's giftshop 13th Dec - PTFA Christmas Disco 16th Dec - Decoration Day 16th Dec - Christmas concert 18th Dec - Christmas Jumper Day and Christmas lunch 19th Dec - St Niccholas Chaurch service 20th Dec - Early finish 2pm
English: As a school, we use Talk4Writing as a framework- all units are based on this. To start, we will return to creative story writing. We will base our learning around the text of 'Jim and the Violin' - a fictional short about a young lad who lost his precious violin whilst escaping the Great Fire. Children will develop their character and setting descriptions by using adjectives, similes, and adverbs. Children will bring characters to life using descriptive phrases for appearances but also think about how characters feel to extend their creative writing. The Fire of London provides many opportunities for children to immerse the reader back in time using all five senses through adjectives, expanded noun phrases, similes and adverbs. In narrative, the ‘building blocks’ also have to be thought about – how does a writer build and develop a character, handle dialogue, use setting to create atmosphere, build suspense, handle action, open a tale invitingly or draw a story to a conclusion? When writing stories, children will draw on their reading experiences but it is just as important for them to use their own experience, using real people, places and events and fictionalising them. This provides the concrete details that make a character, setting or event sound realistic. It helps if the writer can visualise what is happening in their head, painting the picture for the reader.
We will then move back to non-fiction writing and will learn more about writing a diary. We will use 'Samuel Pepys Diary' as a starting point to base our information text on. The children will look at tools to include when writing interesting and engaging texts. We will look at what chronological means and why people might write a diary.
Cursive Handwriting This year we will be teaching joined writing and will be following a new program bought into the school. Children will learn to join letters in a planned sequence and will each use a handwriting booklet to record their work.
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Reading, Phonics and Spelling : Phonics/spelling lessons happen every day. We will do this as a class and provide extra support for children who need it.
Practice Reading sessions Phonic-based readers -In these small group lessons, the focus is largely on decoding, fluency, and comprehension. The children will read independently and to an adult, within their group. It will be marked in their reading records that they have had a practice reading session with adult support on that day. They will read with adult support several times a week depending on the week Once the children have read a book with their reading group at school, they will bring it home for further practice, along with an additional decodable book which will be changed weekly. Please help us to make sure that we can send home decodable books for all the children by returning both your child's reading books every Friday. Once the children are fluent readers, they will be reading longer books in school and will be able to independently change their home readers whenever they need to. Please continue to send their reading record book to school every day.
Large Group Guided Reading sessions Fluent Readers - Once the children become ‘fluent readers’ we will be reading whole class texts with the children. They will read more challenging texts, such as chapter books, using a range of skills to discuss and answer questions about the books. These sessions are not recorded in their Reading Records, but they have a Guided Reading book, where they record work relating to the text that is being studied. We will endeavor to hear individual readers as often as possible. Children are assessed with their phonics and reading regularly throughout the year. English Homework: Reading We would like the children to read at home at least 4- 5 times a week with an adult. More able readers will then start to read more independently but it is still important for children to read out loud and have the opportunity to ask and answer questions about the vocabulary and text. Alongside reading school books we actively encourage children to read a wide range of books at home.
Spelling
Spelling challenges are set every Friday on Spelling Shed .. The words will comprise spellings linked to the spelling taught that week alongside some year 2 Common Exception Words. We would like children to practice their spelling at least 3 x a week.
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Extra English support: Please take a look at these helpful questions to discuss with your child. They can be used when your child reads to you, when you read to your child or to prompt discussion about books your child is reading independently.
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www.oxfordowl.co.uk - Free eBook library when you create a username and password. |
(link) (logins in reading records)
Maths
We will be following the White Rose maths curriculum. 
Addition and subtraction ( continued):
Children will solve addition and subtraction problems involving numbers, quantities, and measures. They will be applying their increasing knowledge of mental and written methods, recall and use addition and subtraction facts to 20 fluently, and derive and use related facts up to 100.
Children will add and subtract numbers using concrete objects, pictorial representations, and mentally, including: a two-digit number and ones, a two-digit number and tens , two two-digit numbers , adding three one-digit numbers. They will be taught that addition of two numbers can be done in any order (commutative) and that subtraction of one number from another cannot and recognise and use the inverse relationship between addition and subtraction and use this to check calculations and solve missing number problems.
Pupils will extend their understanding of the language of addition and subtraction to include sum and difference. Pupils practice addition and subtraction to 20 to become increasingly fluent in deriving facts such as using 3 + 7 = 10; 10 – 7 = 3 and 7 = 10 – 3 to calculate 30 + 70 = 100; 100 – 70 = 30 and 70 = 100 – 30. They check their calculations, including by adding to check subtraction and adding numbers in a different order to check addition (for example, 5 + 2 + 1 = 1 + 5 + 2 = 1 + 2 + 5). This establishes commutativity and associativity of addition.
Shape:
We will revisit what children know about 2D and 3D shapes and build and develop their knowledge of shapes and their properties. We will be introducing the children to symmetry and encourage problem solving and reasoning skills with bot 2D and 3D shapes including patterns
Maths homework:
Homework activity Autumn Term 1 - play Numbots for at least 10 minutes, 3 times per week to help build fluency with number facts.
Log-ins for Numbots will be in the front of your child's reading record.
Numbots is an ongoing maths challenge program, that supports children's mathematical knowledge and understanding. We would like children to extend their learning by using Numbots at least 3 times a week.
We will also set the children optional homework on My Maths . Children have been introduced to this and have the logins in the front of their reading records. Activities will be set in blocks to continue previous learning in maths that we have been doing at school. This is optional.
What are we doing in other subjects this half term?
Science: Materials
In this unit 'Changing materials) Will continue to look at materials and how they can or cannot change. We will continue to teach children to undertake simple experiments and present their findings.
History: The Great Fire of London
In this first history unit, children will go back in time to 1666. An important time in British history that led to the change and expansion of London and the wider effects that had. Children will have to use their historical inquiry skills to ask and answer key questions about the Great Fire posed at the start of each lesson. Good enquiry questions support higher order skills such as: analysing, evaluating, researching, interpreting, critical thinking and reaching a final judgement or conclusion.
DT: Moving Pictures - Fire of London
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MUSIC: Rythm and pace
(The children have a weekly music lesson with our music specialist teacher, Mrs Bell, in the music room)
Useful Information
PE Days
Our PE days are Tuesdays and Thursdays. Please ensure children come to school in their PE kit on these days.
Library Days
We will be visiting the library to change books every Monday.
Books are issued for two weeks at a time but can be returned earlier. If your child wishes to keep a book for longer than two weeks, please send it in to school on a Wednesday so that it can be renewed.
You can check which books your child currently has on loan along with the return dates on Reading Cloud. Log-in details are in the front of your child's reading record. If a book has got lost, we ask for a £5 contribution towards replacing the book. Please speak to your child's class teacher.
Link to Reading Cloud:
Park Mead Primary School, Park Drive, Cranleigh, Surrey, GU6 7HB
01483 274315
info@park-mead.surrey.sch.uk
