Year 2 @ Mount Street Primary

Welcome to the Spring Term in Year 2!

English 

This term we will continue to develop our fantastic phonics and reading skills. Reading continues to be a  priority in our school and so we will practise reading every day so that we become fluent, confident readers. We will have the opportunity again to visit the library in school and in the city - to explore reading books for pleasure and exchange our borrowed books from our Autumn Term visit!  Stories take us all over our world and into other worlds too! We are enjoying exploring new books, stories and poems.   

At the start of this term, all children will continue to advance their phonic skills further through our Read Write Inc program. If you are in the Language and Literacy group you will be exploring sections from some fantastic new books and reading much longer books together as a group whilst focusing on what more complex words mean and quizzing on the books you've read at home! 

We will focus on answering questions on a range of new texts by using some of the the 6 VIPERS reading comprehension skills. (Vocabulary, Inference, Prediction, Explaining, Retrieval, Sequencing).  

In writing, we will consolidate and build on our learned grammar skills. We will learn how to write 'losing tale'  stories that will engage the reader with exciting detail and fantastic word choices as well as developing our ability to write non-fiction texts (letters) and poetry (diamante poems). We begin the term looking at Poetry, specifically diamante poems, where we will write our own poems all about our current season Winter and compare this to the season of Summer. Then we will progress onto letters later on in the term.

This term we will also continue to practise our writing skills by completing creative writing and imaginative quick writes through the week! We have been focusing on handwriting and our writing is super! Ask us to show you!

Maths

In Maths, we will continue to practice our fundamental skills of place value, simple addition and subtraction to develop our arithmetic skills. We will begin the term learning how to multiply numbers by creating arrays and learning how to divide by sharing using a range of methods. We will then move onto fractions later on in the term learning about halving, and finding both a quarter and a third of different numbers before progressing onto learning all about money. You can help your child become more fluent with their Maths learning at home by regularly counting both forwards and backwards in 1s, 2s, 3s (this is new!), 5s and 10s. 

Using the Maths Mastery scheme daily, we will continue to secure our understanding of place value and use a variety of apparatus, mental maths strategies and jottings to represent tens and ones within numbers to solve a range of question types. We will also broaden our understanding of addition and subtraction and a variety of apparatus will be available to support the children with their learning. 

Science

In Science, we will learn about materials and their properties in order to build upon our learning from Year 1. We will then look at living things, their habitats and what they need to stay alive. 

Art

This term we will explore colour and tone - we will be looking at other art and artists as inspiration before creating our own self-portraits and adding colour to them using our new knowledge from this unit of work. 

DT

This term we are learning all about wheels and axels! We will explore the make up of these important structures before designing a buggy that rolls smoothly and safely!

Computing

In Computing, we will continue learning about safety. We will learn about different computer systems and use the program 'Scratch.'

History

This term's history will be all about 'The Great Fire of London!' We will go back in time to view pictures of what London was like during the 1600s and experience the thrill of having a visitor to impersonate Samuel Pepys later on in the term.

Music

In our Music lessons, we will be learning about pulse, pitch and rhythm using our bodies, voices and some instruments to do so. Later on in the term we will be learning about orchestras and what it means to be part of and play in an orchestra.

PE

In PE, we will develop our fundamental skills of balancing in different ways around a range of apparatus and along lines both forwards and backwards. In dance we will be using our bodies to create short sequences to imitate different feelings and emotions whilst working in teams. At the start and end of each PE session we will also be completing our 'daily mile' to ensure the children have both healthy, happy minds to help them learn better and have more positive attitudes towards learning. 

PSHE

For the first half of term we will focus on our 'Dreams and Goals', thinking about what is important to us and what we would like to achieve. After half term, we will focus on being healthy and what this means to us in terms of food, medicine, keeping clean and exercising. 

RE

In RE, we will begin by thinking about different Christian stories that involve Jesus and his disciples before moving on to learning the Easter stories and how this links into how some of our class might celebrate this Christian event. 

Home learning

This will be set at the following times:

Home learning will be given out on a Friday (English and Maths ) and will be due in on the following  Friday. Spelling Home learning will be sent home on a Friday to be quized on the following Friday. 

Home learning will bet sent home in a paper format. Sometimes we will send the learning on Teams. 

Reading – 10 minutes reading daily. We ask that an adult signs the reading diary and it is brought into school every day.  The children will bring home Read Write Inc books that match their phonics group and reading levels. They will be able to decode these independently to you. We encourage them to read the same RWI book 3 times - by the final read their confidence and expression! 

Numbots - an exciting way for your child to practice their maths skills daily at home. I Can't wait to see your child's weekly score! I have set 10 minute targets weekly. 

Games and PE

Children will need their PE kit in school all week as children  MUST have P.E. kit to take part for health and safety reasons.  Lessons are Wednesday and Thursdays. 

Kit:        Trainers, white shirt, blue/black shorts, football/trainer socks.

In colder weather, a plain tracksuit may be worn outdoors for games.

Please ensure that all items of clothing are named. A small named bag containing your PE kit is all that is necessary as cloakroom space is limited.  Please keep your PE kit in school and we will ensure that it is sent home each half term for washing.

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