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Class 2 – Parent Information Sheet
Spring Term 2014
Hook – we will begin our theme this term by dividing the class into 4 tribes. The children will design and make a badge for their tribe and collectively decide on
a name for their tribe. During some lessons throughout this term the children will work as a tribe on their activities.
Celebration – An Educational Visit to Martin Mere WWT – A Living History Celt and Roman Day.
Maths - Our main focus in number this term will be on understanding,
using and recalling multiplication facts. Y2’s will practise counting in 2’s,
5’s and 10’s. They will learn to recognise multiples of 2, 5 and 10 and odd
and even numbers up to 100.They will continue to practise and use their
knowledge of place value within 2 digit numbers. Y3’s will continue to
developing their understanding of multiplication and the instant recall of
the 2,3,4,5,8,10 and 11 times tables. Later in the term we will also look at
division and begin to investigate fractions of shapes and numbers.
This term all children have been given a password (stuck in their reading
diary) for the MyMaths.co.uk website. This will enable them to access
extra homework activities. Look out for a letter explaining this in more
details in your child’s bag.
RE- This term we will continue our focus on Founders and Leaders,
concentrating on the religion of Sikhism. We will consider what makes a
good leader and learn about Sikh Guru leaders.
Science – Our science work this term will link in a cross curricular way to
our theme of Crafty Celts. The children will develop their scientific skills,
knowledge and understanding of materials and their properties when we
look at the materials the Celts had access to and how they used them. We
will also shoot forward in time to 1820 to investigate how John McAdam
invented a new use of a material. In addition we shall be looking at the
skeletal and muscular system of humans and animals later in the term.
French Year 2’s will continue to enjoy an introduction to basic
phrases and vocabulary whilst Year 3 will build on their
knowledge further.
PE – Football and Hockey Skills (both outside
,weather permitting) will continue to be on
Tuesdays and Thursdays.
Music - Mrs Bird will continue to teach the
children Music on Fridays.
Literacy – children will continue to be given opportunity to practice and
develop their joined handwriting style. The children will begin the term doing a
lot of creative writing inspired by our theme. Towards the end of the term
they will be doing some non-fiction writing again linked to the theme in the
form of reports on events in history. Through this the Y2 children will be
concentrating on the use of capital letters and full stops and also will learn to
use exclamation marks and question marks. Y3’s will continue to develop their
sentence construction and use of a variety of punctuation including the above
and also speech marks and apostrophes for possession. Spelling lists will
continue to be sent home on a Monday each week and tested on a Friday.
Our outdoor role play area will be turned into a creative ‘Bard’s Den’ where the
children will have the opportunity to create stories, poems and songs to be
shared with others just as people did in Britain long ago.
The children will be creating their own role play area inside
the classroom once term has begun and they have had time to
decide what they would like it to be!
History – The children will learn how the Celts lived. They will find out what
the people were like, how they dressed, what jobs they would have done, what
their housing was like and patterns they used. Children will develop their
knowledge of the Celts by using a range of different practical activities. They
will learn to describe events using the words BC and AD. They will also use a
timeline to help them understand how long ago Celts lived and how the Iron
Age fits into British History.
Art and DT – Inspired by our Crafty Celt theme, our Art and DT will be very cross
curricular this term. For example: We plan to use different materials to design and make
Celtic roundhouses; we will be looking in detail at Celtic patterns and designs and using
these to inspire our own patterns in our sketch books; whilst learning about Celtic warriors
we plan to make Celtic shields, chariots and use red cabbage to mix our own war paint;
whilst learning about Celtic life we will have opportunity to prepare vegetables and cook a
Celtic stew.
Mrs Drinkall &
Mrs Kemp