Wonder, Believe, Shine & Achieve - Welcome to Year 2!
Summer Term
During the Summer Term, Year 2 will work on a project about the Environment. In role as Climatologists the class will study weather patterns and research the effects of climate change on our world. This will inspire the children in their writing lessons, creating their own stories, biographies, recounts and poetry. We will also look at the artist L.S. Lowry, creating our own drawings and paintings depicting our local area.
Our whole class reader this term is ‘The Twits’ by Roald Dahl and ‘I was a Rat!’ by Philip Pullman.
In Maths, the children will be looking at fractions, time, statistics and problem solving. The children should still use TT Rockstars to practise their times tables.
Using the Come and See programme, Year 2 will look at the importance of spreading the word, rules and treasures.
Homework
The children are expected to read for approximately 10-15 minutes every night with an entry in the reading record.
Each week the children are given homework for literacy and numeracy in a separate homework book. The literacy may include simple sentence work, poetry writing, story writing or character description. The numeracy work may include simple number work, a shape or money activity or some problem solving. Where possible, homework is linked to the learning at this time either to recap on teaching, practise skills or link to topic work.
It is expected that the child should be able to access their homework with limited support from parents.
In addition to this, the children also receive weekly spellings to learn. They are encouraged to use them in sentences in order to develop understanding.
Homework and spellings are given out on a Friday and expected to be returned by Wednesday morning.