Welcome to Year 2

Mrs Law, Miss Collins and Mrs Mottram The Teaching Team Mrs Law, Miss Collins and Mrs Mottram & Miss Aktan, Mrs Mottram and Miss Collins

Your child’s role Be prepared to take part Engage with learning Be organised and responsible Be considerate, cooperative, respectful, tidy and alert In Year 2 children need to become more independent as learners and in personal organisation

Your Role Provide appropriate clothing - Indoor shoes/outdoor clothing (all weather), P.E, a school book bag - All the time Get children to school on time between 8:30 - 8:50 and pick them up at 3.05. Good breakfast, provide healthy packed lunch, plenty of sleep Support with home learning Be interested in your child’s learning = your child will be ready for learning through a supportive parent school partnership

Days to Remember PE: Monday and Thursday for Kingfishers Monday and Tuesdays for Sparrows Home Learning: Out: at the beginning of each half term. In: every Friday Class Books: Books can be changed daily during Early Morning time and home readers are changed weekly during guided reading sessions on your child’s reading day. (Home learning books- follow up task)

Morning Routines Aim: To help the children settle ready for learning and to become more independent. Early Morning Activities from 8:30 am to 8:50am Activities: independent puzzles, problem solving involving numbers and words, quiet reading, topic work, change class books It is important you encourage your child to organise themselves for class independently. E.g. Sorting out home and school snacks, signing in, putting belongings away and settling down to their Early Morning Work.

Learning Cross-Curricular learning: Curriculum Overviews will be sent home and on website with each new topic. Topics covered through a variety of different subject areas, eg literacy, art, drama, ICT… Maths, Reading and Writing are taught daily.

Home Learning All home learning will link to the learning we are covering in class and it is an important part of your child’s learning. Parents you need to support your child at home with their Home-learning. If you feel that they have succeeded in this, practice times tables, read and write HF words, recall number bonds etc

Your child needs In school everyday: PE kit: coloured short sleeved t-shirt and shorts plus jogging bottoms, sweatshirt for outdoors, trainers in a named bag. Please leave them in school. Book Bag. Breakfast and healthy snack for playtime Termly-£5 class fund.

Year 2 Curriculum Overview Autumn 1 Welcome to Year 2 We look forward to working together to ensure that your children are inspired to work to achieve their full potential. . Reminders PE Days – PE kit needed everyday Home Learning – To be returned every Friday. Learning Review - Week Beginning 31st October Dates Tuesday 13th September - Class Induction Meeting for all parents Friday 14th October - Play ground Idol

Our World Well-Being Futures Standards As Religiously aware students we will be finding out about the festival of Diwali. As Athletes we will improve our skills when dribbling a ball. We will play games involving dribbling. We will use different equipment within our circus performance including hula-hooping, balls for juggling and ribbons for dance. As Gymnasts we will be learning to balance and co- ordinate our bodies on a range of different apparatus. As Socially Aware students we will be successful by working as a team, trying new things, pushing ourselves to improve and not giving up. As Historians we will investigate and interpret the past. We will find out about the first circus and how they have changed over time.   As Scientists we will be investigating the properties of different materials and identifying those best suited for uses in everyday life. As Linguists we will be focusing on adding suffixes and prefixes to different words to change the meaning. We will also be developing our understanding of apostrophes and how to use them correctly. Futures Standards As Readers we will make predictions, ask and answer questions and express our own views based on what we have read. We will locate specific information using non fiction texts. As Writers we will be writing instructions for others to follow, label and caption information and create imaginative descriptions as story tellers and story writers. We will be exploring the book Traction Man. As Mathematicians we will be learning to copy and solve addition and subtraction problems vertically with a mixture of 2, 3 and 4 digit numbers. We will draw the minute and hour hands on a clock face, read the time to o’clock, half past and quarter hour using both analogue and digital clocks. As Artists we will master techniques in drawing and take inspiration from the greats to create our own portraits. We will even paint each other’s faces! As Musicians we will use African drumming to further our understanding of rhythm and begin to notate the music we create. As Technicians we’ll learn how to use computer programmes to build maps of a circus site, research using the internet and create posters and tickets for our circus. As performers we will create and perform short circus routines to others.

Thank you in advance for all your support!