Year: 2

Week beginning:

Monday 4^th July

English

• This week we will be writing a diary entry as the grandma from ‘George’s Marvellous Medicine’. We will be thinking about what her life might have been like as a child, using our imagination to help us.

Maths

• We will recap our learning about division. We will be learning how to solve division problems using the grouping and sharing methods.  

PSHE

• We will continue our new PSHE topic ‘Changing Me’. We will be learning about boy’s and girls’ bodies. We will be learning how to recognise the physical differences between most girls and boys, using correct names for parts of the body. This includes understanding that some parts of the body are private.

RE

• We will continue our new RE topic ‘Islam’. We will be learning about the Qur’an (holy book for Muslims). We will be learning about why this is important to Muslims and what it teaches them.

Computing

• We will begin our new topic ‘pictograms’. We will be learning how to use tally charts to represent data and how to use this to create a pictogram.

History

• We will continue our topic ‘Nurturing Nurses’. We will compare the three nurses we have learnt about (Florence Nightingale, Mary Seacole and Edith Cavell) with modern day nurses.

Science

• We will continue learning about plants, including what plants need to grow and stay healthy.

Exciting visits

• On Tuesday 5^th July we will be visited by some students from Tiffin Girls who are sharing a story that they have written. On Wednesday 6^th July we will be spending the afternoon with our new teacher for Year 3.

Homework

Please practise our spellings for this week. Your child will have a handwriting sheet to complete. This homework will go home on a Thursday and will need to be returned by the following Tuesday (stuck in).

Please also complete the maths sheet to consolidate our learning.  Your child will also receive an optional dive deeper maths challenge.

Spellings

Spelling words: gold, hold, told, door, floor, poor

Reminders

• Please can children wear their PE kits on PE days (Monday and Thursday). Your child is allowed to wear their Tens Project t-shirt to school on Monday for tennis.
• Reading: Children on the decodable reading scheme will complete 3 x reading groups a week. All children will choose a reading for pleasure book on a Friday. Please can reading books come back to school every day.
• Please ensure your child comes to school wearing the correct school uniform.
• Please note that this term we will have two outdoor PE sessions on a Monday and a Friday as we will begin our tennis lessons.

PE Days

• Outdoor PE: Monday (Tens project tennis project)
• Outdoor PE: Thursday