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 |
2GB Everyday |
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Summer term 2 Welcome back! We hope that everyone had a fantastic half term. We have an action-packed final half term including our Year 2 production 'Croak"! We are excited to work alongside them during this final half term, looking at new units of learning. These include learning all about making puppets Isalmic art , growing our own plants, and The Stone Age. 26th -30th May - Half Term 2nd June - INSET day 13th June - One World Day 16th June - School photographer 18th /19th June - @2.15pm -Year 2 production 'Croak" 20th June - PTFA Family Bingo 22nd June - PTFA Circus! 2nd July - Art exhibition 10th July - Marwell Trip 12th July - Parkfest!
English: As a school, we use Talk4Writing as a framework- all units are based on this.
First, we will continue to work on fiction writing. A warning tale full of action. We will base our learning around the text of 'The Lion King' - We use the classic and much-loved children's classic story as a model text. The text focuses on Narla and Simba being warned by their mothers not to venture too far away, and certainly never to The Elephant's Graveyard, but do they listen??? Children will continue to work on developing their 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. We will be focusing on using language to create atmosphere, settings, and suspense. We will also writing a report of Marwell zoo and then moving on to writing a persuasive text.
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.
Guided Reading sessions Whole-class 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. 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. 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. 
Time -
Children will be taught to:
- compare and sequence intervals of time
- tell and write the time to five minutes, including quarter past/to the hour and draw the hands on a clock face to show these times
- know the number of minutes in an hour and the number of hours in a day.
Children use standard units of measurement with increasing accuracy, using their knowledge of the number system. They become fluent in telling the time on analogue clocks and recording it.
Statistics -
Children in year 2 are taught how to collect and sort data into pictograms, bar charts, and tally charts or tables. They are also taught to use the data they have organised, to ask and answer questions, either by counting individual groups, comparing categories, or adding up two or more categories.
Maths homework:
Homework activity - 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: Plants
History: Stone Age
We will be introducing the Opening Worlds curriculum which KS2 all follow in History, Geography and RE. We will look at Stone Age Britain and Stonehenge.
Art: Printing - Islamic Art (SH RAZA)
RE: How do Muslims worship him?
ICT: Create a presentation
PHSCE: Personal safety
MUSIC: tone and singing and Year 2 production!
(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
