Welcome to Willow Class - Year 2
Summer 1
Class teacher: Mrs Pierce Apprentice teacher: Miss Wood
Support assistant: Mr Beaumont
IMPORTANT INFORMATION - SATs 2024
The children in Year 2 will be taking the end of Key Stage 1 SATs during this half term. The government have made these tests optional in KS1 but most schools in the UK are still administering them. As with previous years, the tests will be taken during the month of May.
The tests will be done informally in normal class time and look no different to tests the children have taken previously. The test results will be used to inform our end of year judgements when assessing the children. The children will be completing tests in the following:
English - Reading
English - Spelling, Grammar and Punctuation
Mathematics
If you would like further information please ask either myself or Miss Wood. The document below provides further information.
This is what we are learning this half term...
Maths
Our topics this half term are:
Measurement - height, mass, temperature and reading scales
Telling the time
Fractions (halves, thirds and quarters)
Please keep practising your number facts within 10, both addition and subtraction! We need to know these off-by-heart.
English
This half term our fiction writing will be a narrative and a character description based on the story 'Gorilla' by Anthony Browne.
Based on the story 'A Lighthouse Keeper's Lunch', our non-fiction writing will be a diary and a set of instructions.
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Science
In Science our theme is 'Plants'. We will be learning to:
- 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
Throughout the topic we will continue to develop our scientific enquiry skills.
Geography
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The geography this term will be completed mainly in the school geography week which will run from 22nd - 26th April. The 22nd April is 'Earth Day' so we have decided that the week will have an environmental focus. Year 2 will also be completing a mini-topic on continents.
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PE
This half term our topic is games. Within this unit the children will focus on striking and gathering skills.
OUR PE DAY IS TUESDAY - PLEASE COME TO SCHOOL IN YOUR PE KIT AND SUITABLE FOOTWEAR.
- Homework
Homework is given on a Friday to be returned the following Thursday.
- Spellings
The children have a spelling book which should be kept in the folder with their reading book. Spellings will be given out on Tuesdays and tested on the following Monday. Spellings will be based on our phonics/spelling lessons in class rather than high frequency words. Please support your child at home to learn their spellings.
- Reading
Please encourage your child to read every day or at least 3 times a week. This can be their school book or a book from home that they enjoy. Share the book with them and ask them questions about what they have read to check their understanding. Children will bring a reading book home every week to share with an adult. These will be changed in school any day but Mrs Pierce/Miss Wood will check and change books every Friday.
- Library
The children will choose a library book every Tuesday. Please return books weekly in order to swap them - thanks.
Please bring reading journals, reading books and spelling books to school every day.