Rabbits (Miss McCauslin and Mrs Bevan), Otters (Mrs Reilly and Mrs Farrell) and Badgers (Miss Smith and Miss Wilson)

Pupil Survey

Meet The Teacher 2023

Week beginning:  22 April 2024

English - This week the children will be retelling the story of The Bridge.

Maths -  This week the children will be learning about fractions.

Foundation Subjects for this half term

Geography -  This half term the children will be continuing to learn about Africa.  They will be answering the question: how is Africa different to the UK?

History - The children will be learning about significant people who have made history and deciding who is the greatest history maker?

Science - The children will be learning about plants and investigating what a seed needs to grow.

PE - The children will be preparing for sports day later this half term.

RE -  The children will be answering the key question: what happens during worship at a church and a synagogue?

PSD -  This half term's Unit is 'relationships'.

Computing - The children will be learning about key board skills and how to edit and save a document in Word.

Music - The children will be singing, listening and playing instruments. 

Art -  The children will be studying natural art sculpture.

Creative home learning task

This half term, the children have been asked to complete a creative home learning task that links with their learning at school. Please click the link below for more details.

Spellings

Summer 1

Maths

Summer 1

Spring 2

During the parent-teacher consultations, parents often asked how they can help their child at home. Below are the resources that were discussed with the year 2 staff that you might like to work on over the next few weeks. Please select the resources which are suited to your child if you would like to complete any additional learning. Note that this is optional and these resources have been provided to support parents.

1) Phonics screen resources

The BBC Bitesize website has videos to support the phase 3 phonics we have been revising this half term. 

Phonics Play also have some free games which involve reading real and 'alien' words. You can choose all of the phases up to Phase 5. Click on the pictures to play the games.

You can also look a the printable resources below - or use them on screen. Practise reading the individual graphemes or try to blend them in the phonic screen resources.

2) Common exception words

This is the list of words your child should be able to read and spell by the end of Year 2. Below is a game to help them spell them - pick either Year 1 or Year 2. Also there is a printable list of the words you can practise with your child.

3) Letter formation

A lot of children in Year 2 have some strange ways of forming their letters. We have been doing a lot of work on getting the correct formation. Below are some printable resources you can use. Twinkl also have a guide to using the resources here on YouTube.

4) Writing sentences

Use these prompts to write sentences. Encourage your child to write either one or two grammatically correct sentences, including a capital letter and a full stop. They should read each sentence back to make sure it makes sense. It is better to focus on writing a little and often.

5) Number formation

Getting numbers around the correct way is really important. If your child is still reversing numbers such as 5, you can use the sheets below to practise numbers. You can also use this YouTube video from former Greswold teacher Mrs Johnson for ways to help get the numbers around the correct way.

6) Counting

Counting back and forwards in 1s, 2s, 5s and 10s is a useful skill. Your child can use the 100 square below to practise their counting.

7) Number facts

We have previously set these number facts as homework. Knowing them off by heart is very useful, so you could continue to practise these with your child.

Maths Games

Karate Cats

Hit the Button

Mental Maths Train

Chopper Squad

Place Value Basketball

Words and numbers match

Robot more, Robot less

Robot addition

Number fact families

Finding out about Kenya

Physical Geography

Look at the country 

Savannah 1

Savannah 2

Savannah 3

Savannah 4

Conservation park

Mt Kenya

Near a lake

In a lake

By the sea

By the sea

Human Geography

Nairobi 1

Nairobi 2

Nairobi 3

Nairobi 4

Nairobi 5

Nairobi Airport

Explore Nairobi

Each day your child should bring:

•    Coat
•    Water bottle
•    Trainers (These are for the Daily dash and outdoor PE. They can be left on their pegs to change into when needed)
•    Book bag (if it is their book bag day starting w.b. 19.9.22)