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 9-11am on a Friday morning.

Our Spring Term Topics are

'How was school different in the past?'

and

'Would you prefer to live in a hot or cold place?' 

 In our Humanities lessons the children will learn to…

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- Correctly order and date four photographs on a timeline and add some dates.

- Ask one question about schools in the past.

- Make one comparison between schools in the past and present.

- Use sources to research and develop an understanding of what schools were like 100 years ago.

- Identify three features of a classroom now and a classroom 100 years ago, identifying some similarities and differences.

- Recognise two similarities and two differences between schools now and schools in the past.

- State whether they would have preferred to go to school in the past or not and explain why.

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- Name and locate the seven continents on a world map.

- Locate the North and the South Poles on a world map.

- Locate the Equator on a world map.

- Describe some similarities and differences between the UK and Kenya.

- Investigate the weather, writing about it using key vocabulary and explaining whether they live in a hot or cold place.

- Recognise the features of hot and cold places.

- Locate some countries with hot or cold climates on a world map.

Our science work will focus on 'Living Things and their Habitats'.

• explore and compare the differences between things that are living, dead, and things that have never been alive
• identify that most living things live in habitats to which they are suited and describe how different habitats provide for the basic needs of different kinds of animals and plants, and how they depend on each other
• identify and name a variety of plants and animals in their habitats, including microhabitats
• describe how animals obtain their food from plants and other animals, using the idea of a simple food chain, and identify and name different sources of food.

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 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.