Year: 2

Week beginning:

Monday 20^th September

English

• We will be beginning our new class story The Egg Box Dragon by Richard Adams. We will be using expanding noun phrases to describe the appearance of the egg box dragon. We will be predicting what happens next in a scene and writing a short narrative.

Maths

• We will continue our topic of place value, comparing numbers within 50 using the language greater than, less than and equal to. We will also be looking at using place value charts. We will use our knowledge of this help us with addition.

PSHE

• We will be looking at rewards and consequences within the school context. We will be thinking about how we can make and celebrate good choices. We will be thinking about how we can learn and grow from our marvellous mistakes and why this is important.

Science

• We will be comparing everyday materials.  

Geography

• We will be developing our atlas skills and using these to find places in the UK.  

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.

Knowledge Organisers

•Every half term we will send home knowledge organisers for foundation subjects. These are to help with your child’s retrieval of knowledge e.g specific dates and key words. By learning the key facts at home and in school, the knowledge will become part of your child’s long term memory.

•The knowledge organisers contain core knowledge which is essential for progress in each subject area.

•Students are required to learn the key parts of the knowledge organiser and they will have a fun quiz at the end of the half term to see how much knowledge they have retained!

•Please use the knowledge organisers to have discussions with your child about their topics and also to help them remember the information. One helpful method could be ‘look, cover, write, check’. You will show your child one small part of the knowledge organiser, discuss it, memorise it, cover it, they will practise recording it and then you can check the answer together!

Spellings

• Phonics: We will review phases 5. 
• Spelling words: blue, blew, pie, time, go, house, once. Please encourage your children to write these words using lead-in strokes.

Reminders

• Please can children wear their PE kits on PE days (Monday and Friday)
• Reading: We are in the process of assessing ALL children against our new phonics framework.  We have ordered new decodable reading books and will begin practise reading sessions very soon.  More details to follow!
• Parent Forum:  Monday13^th September 4:30-5

PE Days

• Outdoor PE: Monday
• Indoor PE: Friday

Dates for your diary

• Gentle reminder: please label your children’s jumpers