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Homework
A weekly numeracy, literacy or topicbased task will be sent home every
Friday and is due back the following
Wednesday.
The Half Term Homework Menu can be
found in the homework book and on the
Year 2 page on the school’s website.
The children are given an opportunity
to share their work to the class before
the end of the half term.
Parent-Teacher
Surgeries
We value the support you give your
child. Please feel free to talk to us at
the end of the day if there is anything
about your child you would like to
share.
Our after school surgery is Wednesday
and Thursday . The sign up sheet is in
the cloakroom next to the ‘Collected by’
sheet.
Clare Kerins and Keeley Rayner
The children have made a
wonderful start to Year 2
and are hard-working and
enthusiastic.
This leaflet outlines some
of the topics and activities
taking place during this
term.
William Westley C of E Primary
School
Mill Lane
Whittlesford, CB22 4NE
[email protected]
01223 832176
Literacy
The children will be
completing units of work on poetry,
reading and writing instructions and
stories with familiar settings.
Phonics lessons will take place daily. We
will focus on learning spelling rules,
alternative phoneme spellings and
suffixes and prefixes.
Spellings will continue to be sent home
every week on Monday (check bags) and
will be tested each Friday.
Reading - Group reading will take place
weekly with an adult and your child will
be heard to read individually once a
week. Thank you for hearing your child
read on a regular basis at home. Please
write in their Home-School book as we
greatly value your comments.
Maths
We will be continuing to
develop the children’s
understanding of place value,
addition and subtraction, odd and even
numbers and recognising patterns in
sequences of numbers. The children will
also have opportunities to collect data
and make graphs. The children will be
measuring the length and mass of items
and exploring simple fractions in shapes
and small numbers of objects.
D.T.
In D.T. we will design and make sledges,
inspired by the journey of Shackleton.
We design tests to see how well made
they are and examine using a fair test.
History and
Geography
The wonderful topic
of ‘Chocolate’ allows
the children to investigate
where cocoa beans are grown,
how chocolate is made and when
it was first introduced to Europe. They
will use maps and globes to compare and
contrast the geographical features of
England and Africa.
During the second half
of the term the
children will focus on
using a range of written and visual
accounts to gather information about
Shackleton’s expedition to the
Antarctic. A trip to the Scott Polar
Research Institute is currently being
organised, details to follow.
Art
The children will explore painting and
printing designs based on African art.
The Antarctic will be the inspiration
for colour-mixing and collage after the
half term holiday.
Science
We begin by studying ‘Living things’ and
explore and compare the differences
between things that are living, dead and
things that have never been alive! Next,
is ‘Health and Growth.’ We examine how
to stay healthy and look after ourselves.
We consider what a healthy diet is, how
to wash our hands well, how to clean our
teeth and why it is important.
ICT
After learning the skills and techniques
needed to create pictures on the
computer, the children will design and
produce their own African art work.
The children will be learning to organise
and change the style of text and to
present information in various ways.
They will use these skills to produce
their own information sheet. They will
continue to study and practise internet
safety.
P.S.H.E.
We will be looking at our feelings and
emotions. We learn how to be a good
friend, how we can say no and maintain
friendships and how to be a part of a
wider community. This often involves
role-play to help the children on the
playground and in the classroom.
P.E.
Please make sure your child has a
complete P.E. kit in school at all times
including warm clothes and outdoor
shoes. In gym we are looking at ways of
movement using rocking and rolling
motions. In outdoor PE we are improving
our throwing and catching skills.
R.E.
In R.E. we are learning about Sikhism.
We look at who Guru Nanak was, what is
the Guru Granth Sahib and the
importance of the 5 Ks for Sikhs.
After the half term we will looking at
why Christmas is important for
Christians.