Welcome to Year 2
Woody and Buzz
Welcome to our page! Please keep up to date with everything that is happening in both classes on this page or via Class Dojo.
Please don't hesitate to speak to your child's class teacher too if you have any questions.
Mrs Gaunt Mrs Harpham
Mrs Boston. Miss Leach
Mr Greenfield Mrs Martin
Miss Smedley
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Mrs Gibson
Mrs Wright
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Year 2 Project
Spring A
What's Great About Rochdale?
Within this project we will -
In English
This half term we will be studying instructions. The text we will focus on is ‘The Disgusting Sandwich’ by Gareth Edwards. We will begin by testing instructions and identifying features before exploring the text in the detail. We will finish by writing our own set of instructions.
In Maths
Before the Christmas break we started money. We will continue with this before moving on to multiplication and division.
In History
We will be exploring our home town of Rochdale. We will research the history of the town as well as its well-known buildings.
In Science
In Science this half term will focus on living things and their habitats. We will explore living things and how their habitats are suited to them as well as how they obtain their food. We will also explore and compare the differences between living and non-living things.
In Geography
This term we will be linking the Geography to our History work by studying Rochdale. We will then be comparing our home town to a contrasting locality in Zambia.
In RE
Our focus question in RE will be ‘What makes places sacred?’ Children will explore what makes some places sacred and why. They will also talk about the importance of respecting other people’s precious or sacred belongings.
In Art and DT
In Art, we will be creating African masks to link with our work on contrasting locality Zambia. In DT we will create animal puppets which links nicely to our work in Science.
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Class Newsletters
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Medium Term Plans
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PE
Children have PE twice a week.
Please ensure that your child has a sensible PE kit, including trainers in school for PE lessons on Mondays.
The children will need to come to school on Tuesdays dressed in their PE kits.
SOME PE LESSONS WILL BE OUTDOORS - PLEASE ENSURE CHILDREN HAVE ADEQUATE CLOTHING IN THEIR KIT
(THIS MUST INCLUDE TRAINERS AND A WARM JACKET).
Homework
Homework is set on a weekly basis for Spellings and Number facts. The spellings and timestables are sent out via the apps (Spelling Shed and Timestables Rockstars) and can be accessed at home. All children have log ins for both sites. These need to be completed at least daily, to ensure the children get the best opportunities to succeed.
Reading
Reading is a life skill, so it is so important that your child reads on a daily basis. Please make sure that your child reads every single night. Encourage them to read a variety of different books. Record how they read in their reading records.
*Ask your child questions about the book e.g.
-Can you predict what will happen next?
-Can you describe how the character might be feeling?
-Can you summarise the key points in the story?
-Is this fiction or non-fiction? How do you know?
Reading books must be in school every day so that their progress can be monitored and their name moved up the class reading tree, the children will also need to read during the day.
Maths
-Encourage your child to practice times tables at home.
-Ask your child mental maths questions as often as possible e.g. when you are sat in the car/ walking to school/ sat together at home. You could ask them additions, subtractions, doubles etc.
-Ask any siblings if they can remember a maths game that they played in school and encourage them to play together to make maths fun.
Useful websites
- http://www.broadfield.rochdale.sch.uk
- www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games
- http://resources.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/interactive/literacy.html
- http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/games/
- www.ictgames.com
- http://www.literacyshed.com
- www.spellingshed.com
- www.ttrockstars.com
- http://learnenglishkids.britishcouncil.org/en/
Please join our class dojo page too! Click on the link HERE to go straight to the website and sign up using your child's code. If you don't have the code please speak to Mrs Gaunt or Mrs Harpham who will be able to give you your child's individual code.
Please keep checking back for updates on what we have been doing!
