Welcome to Year 2 

cmccaskey@sjbos.thedcet.com

Mrs McCaskey is our Teacher

Mrs Crenol is our class Teaching Assistant, she works Tuesday-Friday.

Mrs Keen is our class Teaching Assistant on a Monday.

Miss Cooper is our class PPA Cover Teacher she teaches us 9-11am on a Friday morning.

Our Autumn Term Topics are

'How am I making history?'

and

'What is it like here ?' 

 In our Humanities lessons the children will learn to…

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• Order three photographs correctly on a simple timeline.
• Use the terms ‘before’ and ‘after’ when discussing their timelines.
• Talk about three memories and place one of them on a timeline.
• Explain why memories are special and name four events that they celebrate throughout the year.
• Think of three ways they celebrate their birthday.
• Ask a visitor one question about childhood in the past.
• Know a similarity and a difference between childhood now and in the past.
• Add three ideas to a time capsule about themselves.
• Use key vocabulary to compare the present, the past and possible changes in the future.

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• Locate three features on an aerial photograph of the school and know the name of the country and village, town or city in which they live.
• Make a map of the classroom with four key features, using objects to represent the distance and direction of features in the classroom.
• Recognise four features in the school grounds using a map.
• Explain how they feel about three areas of the playground and find out how others feel by looking at the results of a survey.
• Draw a design to improve three areas of the playground using the results from the survey.

Our science work will focus on 'Plants'.

• Identify plants and their features.
• Recall some of the roles that flowering plant parts have.
• Name some trees and their parts.
• Identify similarities and differences between deciduous and evergreen leaves.
• Recall that seeds and bulbs come from plants.
• Recognise that seeds need water for growth.

When working scientifically:

• Raise questions about plants and respond to suggestions on how to set up an investigation to answer a question.
• Draw and label a diagram of a flowering plant.
• Use an identification chart to name flowering plants.
• Sort plants into groups based on specific criteria.
• Use non-standard units to measure leaf length.
• Recognise similarities and differences in seeds and bulbs.
• Recognise that predictions do not always match observations.
• Identify which plant parts can be eaten.
• Recognise that scientific research into plants leads to important discoveries.

Homework

Weekly Homework Choice Grid

Children to complete an activity from different sections on the Homework Choice Grid below.

Homework can be recorded using writing, pictures, drawings etc. appropriate to the task.

Each task can only be completed once.

Books will be collected in on a Wednesday.

Share a story journal

Every week on a Friday, one child from the class will bring home the 'Share a story journal'. This is a further opportunity for you to read with your child while enjoying a nice cup of 'hot chocolate' (provided by the school). If it is your turn to complete the journal, we ask that it is returned on the Monday so that teachers have a chance to look over any work that has been completed.    

PE

PE is currently on a Tuesday and a Friday . Please ensure your child has the correct kit (including daps or trainers) on these days.

Reading Books

We are continuing to improve children's reading fluency and comprehension. Please continue to hear your child read as often as possible and use the question based bookmarks to support this process. We encourage children to change reading books as regularly as possible. Please ensure you record any reading that takes place at home with a simple comment inside the small blue/green book (Reading Record). Finished books can be placed inside the classroom crate on a daily basis but they will not be changed unless the reading record has been written in.