Welcome to Class Two

Class teacher: Mrs Mali

Teaching Assistants: Mrs Cant

CLASS INFORMATION

Reading

Daily reading is essential.  Reading with your child and discussing the text with them is significant in developing their comprehension and inference skills.  Please ensure your child has their reading record in school as this is checked daily.

Spellings

Spellings will be sent home on a Friday and books need to be handed in on a Wednesday. Children will be tested every Friday and they will have the opportunity to learn their spellings at school.

Mental Arithmetic

Mental Arithmetic Maths books will also be sent home on a Friday and books need to be handed in on a Wednesday. Please ensure children complete only one test per week and no more or less.

Times tables

We practise our times tables daily, through chanting them as a song.  It is a great and fun way to practise those times tables.  ‘Hit the button’ is a fantastic website for the children to practice their tables on.

PE

Children will have PE lessons every Wednesday and swimming on Friday. Please ensure children have suitable footwear please and the correct PE kit/swim wear.  Please do not forget that all Kit should be labelled.

USEFUL WEBSITES:

www.phonicsplay.com

www.ictgames.co.uk

www.bbc.co.uk/schools

www.hitthebutton.co.uk

Spring Term

Welcome back to an exciting new term. It is going to be a very busy one!

Literacy

In literacy, the children will be writing our own myths and legends, reading various traditional stories to then go on and write their own play script.  Children will also be writing some kenning poetry.  They will also be learning how to write their own non chronological report.

Math

This term, children will focus on developing key skills, such as, addition, subtraction, multiplication, division and fractions.  Every week the children will have the opportunity to put their learning into practise with a problem-solving lesson.

RE:

Our RE lessons will be discussing belonging.  The children will discuss things that are important to them and how learn what belonging looks like in different religions.  We will also be learning about Easter.

History

The children will be leaning about the Anglo Saxons. They will begin to understand the significance of the Anglo Saxons and describe the reasons they travelled to Britain.  Following on they will also learn about the key aspects of the Anglo Saxon life.

Geography

This spring term, the children will be learning about the water cycle.  They will learn about the different stages of the water cycle, different types of clouds and climate change.  Through their learning, they will research and investigate the effects of climate changes in different areas of the world.