Welcome to Year 2 

cberry@sjbos.thedcet.com

Miss Berry 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 10-12am on a Thursday morning.

Our Autumn Term Humanities is

'What is History?' 

 In our Humanities lessons the children will learn …

• Create a personal timeline by ordering three events correctly on a simple timeline.
• Use the vocabulary ‘before’ and ‘after’ when talking about their timeline.
• Recognise what is similar and different between the ‘past’ and ‘now’.
• Talk about three holiday memories.
• Place one holiday memory on a timeline.
• Identify how people spend their holidays differently.
• Describe what photographs tell us about holidays in the past.
• Identify similarities and differences between holidays in the past and now.
• Order photographs on a timeline.
• Ask one question about holidays in the past.
• Find answers to simple questions about the past.
• Identify features of holidays in the past.
• Describe what holidays in the past were like and compare them to now.
• Find similarities and differences.
• Use time vocabulary to talk about their memories.
• Recognise similarities and differences between their lives now and in the past.

Our science work will focus on 'Everyday Materials'.

The children will learn:

• identify and compare the suitability of a variety of everyday materials, including wood, metal, plastic, glass, brick, rock, paper and cardboard for different uses
• compare how things move on different surfaces.
• find out how the shapes of solid objects made from some materials can be changed by squashing, bending, twisting and stretching
• ask simple questions and recognise that they can be answered in different ways
• observe closely, using simple equipment
• perform simple tests
• identify and classify
• use my observations and ideas to suggest answers to questions
• gather and record data to help in answering questions.

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.

Spellings
Spellings are also handed out on a Friday ready for a test the following Friday. Please make sure the children are practicing their spellings every week.

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 Monday 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.