Year 2 2024 - 2025
Mrs Blatch
Miss Russell
Spring Term
The Year 2 Team:
Teachers - Miss Russell and Mrs Blatch
Teaching Assistant- Mrs Mason
SEN Teaching Assistants- Ms Kennedy and Ms Rossetti, Mrs Williamson, Miss Harris
This Spring Term is all about Fire and Dragons.
In English we start our topic looking at writing non-fiction reports.
We will use the the book The great Fire of London, written by Emma Adams to write a history report as well as a set of instructions on How to put out a fire.
We will then move onto the book The Dragon Machine to:
- Consolidate our understanding of coordination,
- Explore extending our use of noun phrases,
- Write narratives of personal experiences of others,
- Continue to work on our punctuation and spelling.
- Make inferences.
We will also use our Pathways reading books to develop vocabulary and higher level comprehension, skills. These books are; The Dragon Sitter by Josh Lacey and Real Dragons by Jennifer Szymansk
Maths looks at Money, Multiplication and division, Times Tables Rock Stars, length and height, Mass capacity and temperature
A great way to help your child would be to show them and let them play with and count any spare change you have lying around. This will help them to start understandig what money looks like and each coin/notes indidual values.
Science is all about materials and this links in with our DT topic, where the children get to build their own dragon machine.
In history we look at 3 Great Fires. Nantwich, London and Chicago and then in Geography we compare Chester and Chicago.
Should you need to email either class teacher please feel free to use the class email address below.
For 2R use 2Rhomelearning@chesterbluecoatce.cheshire.sch.uk for 2B use 2Bhomelearning@chesterbluecoatce.cheshire.sch.uk
Events this term
Monday 20th January- Trunk Theatre Company are coming to do a production of The Great Fire of London
A basic outline of the school day is also attached below.
School Uniform
Whilst we want to make sure all pupils are comfortable and happy at school we do ask that all pupils come to school dressed in the correct school uniform, this includes PE Kits only being worn on the days pupils are doing these lessons. This helps build our school community and provides unity among the pupils. Please see the correct uniform requirements using the link below.
http://www.chesterbluecoatce.cheshire.sch.uk/page/school-uniform/34353
PE
The children currently have 1 PE lesson per week - every Monday.
On PE days, children should come to school in their School PE KIT:
>trainers/ pumps
>black or blue shorts/ leggings/ jogging pants (plain with no logos or pictures)
>a white tshirt
>a sweatshirt/ hoodie ( plain -no pictures)
Long hair should be tied back and earrings should be removed. If this is not possible earrings should be covered with a plaster. Unfortunately, should your child come to school without covered earrings or their hair tied back they wont be able to join in with the lesson due to safety regulations.
Homework
At Chester Blue Coat we expect every child will do their best and work incredibly hard at school throughout the day, so therefore we keep homework expectations to a minimum.
However, in year 2, we expect children to complete regular reading and maths tasks at home, which are explained below.
Reading homework
The expectations in year 2 is that each child should read at home at least four times a week.
Please make a comment or just sign your child's reading record to show that your child has read.
Children also benefit greatly from listening to adults and older children read stories to them, so snuggle up and enjoy books together. Being read to, develop's children's understanding of story structure as well as vocabulary.
These videos from the Open University give top tips on how to share books with your child:
Maths
Please help your child to learn basic number facts, such as number bonds to 10, 20 or even 100.
The children are expected to instantly recall the two amounts which equal 10, and recognise the inverse operation of the amount remaining when a number is subtracted from 10. The quick speed of recall is ver important. A great game which we use in school is Hit the Button.
https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/hit-the-button
Alternatively, dominio type games or matching cards can be made and played to increase the speed recall of basic number facts. There are some resources attached.
Spelling and Phonics
An explanation of the terminology used in school and the phonic knowledge your child is expected to have is attached below.
Also, a list of 'common exception' words for Years 1 and 2 is attached too. These are words that the children may not be able to use their phonic knowledge to spell. They are words that tend to crop up regularly when they are writing and so it is helpful if the children learn how to spell them. We have attached below some ideas for practising spellings with your child.
If you need any help printing out resources, please speak to a member of the Y2 team.
If we feel that your child would benefit from some additional practice in reading, writing, phonics, maths or any subject, then we will approach you and ask for your help to complete work at home.
If you feel your child would benefit from some additional work, please let us know and we will organise work pertinent to your child's needs.