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Topics - 2 year rolling programme (mixed age class) 2015/ /2017Science AutumnKnights and the Monarchy Remembrance To the rescue (The Great Fire of London – significant people) Life of Florence Nightingale Remembrance Seasonal Changes/ Everyday materials. SpringKenya – continents and oceans Weather – comparisons. In your lifetime The United Kingdom (countries and capitals) Kenya – continents and oceans Plants/ animals including humans. SummerClimate around the world. – linked to how animals adapt. ICT week Local history ICT week. Habitats/ Movement

WALT – we are learning to Lesson Walt has been met. Respond to the marking independently. See the teacher for some help. Marking and what it means. T means that the teacher worked with that child in a focus group. TA means that the teaching assistant worked with that child in a focus group.

Behaviour – Rewards and Sanctions Traffic Lights. Green – going good. Amber – warning Red – miss our play time, it gets noted down on the Behaviour Log and we contact parents. Gold Star: above and beyond. – individual to each child. The behaviour log is there to keep a monitor of any patterns in behaviour. Our knights If we work super hard for Mrs Hodder then we get to move up the path. When we reach the dragon we get to go in the prize box. AND we cannot move down. (Purely positive)

Homework Is set on a Wednesday and due in on a Monday. It is aimed to build on the work that we are doing in class. It will contain a mixture of maths, literacy, phonics, topic. (not all of them) Please ask if you are not sure about any of it. Reading Books will be changed twice a week. (which is why I only give 2) At the end of each book band an assessment is carried out to see if they are ready to move up. If not then none bug club books will be given.

Assessment without levels.

Phonics Assessment. Year 1 (Year 2s) – Summer term – have to sound out the words and blend it together.  40 words which are a mixture of real and not real.  Pass mark last year was 32. Vital that you allow your children to sound (segment) and blend together as many words as possible. (do not want to frustrate them though.) Phonics teaching will go on in school every day. We are recapping our single sounds at the moment. Then moving onto diagraphs. ( 2 letters 1 sound)

Year 2 SATs Taken in the summer term. New Curriculum. SPaG, Reading and Maths 2 maths papers : 1 in arithmetic (25 questions) and 1 in reasoning (31 questions) Practise makes perfect. -reading and mental maths.

Sample Spelling

Sample Grammar Questions

Dates for your diary.  Our Kenyan visitors hopefully arrive on Wednesday 7 th October.  Harvest Service in Church – Sunday 11 th October 10am  Parents evenings – Wednesday 11 th November Thursday 12 th November 4.00 – 7.00  Our Class Assembly – Thursday 11 th February 9.15am  School Discos – Thursday 22 nd October KS1 5pm-6pm Thursday 11 th February KS1 5pm-6pm