Welcome to Class 2
A caring village school with a family feel where relationships are at the heart of all we do. Our unique community is connected under the protection of the tree of life, where all are enabled to grow and flourish in their own surprising ways’
Welcome to Class 2! Our classroom is a happy, productive learning space and we would love to share it with you! We look forward to welcoming you in for book looks, parent evenings and FOSS events throughout the year. Best wishes, Mrs Down
This term’s big question is:
Where would you rather live - Kenya or England?
These are some of the ways we will be exploring our Big Question across the curriculum.
History - The Great Fire of London.
Geography - Human and Physical geography of Peak District and Masai Mara.
Science - Living things and their Habitats (Y2) Light (Y3)
RE - What do Hindus believe God is like?
Art - Printing: Simple print making - Artist: Joseph Cartoon
DT - Cooking and nutrition: Food from England and Kenya
PSHE - Me and My Relationships
Spanish - Aprendo español: I am learning Spanish
PE - Ball skills
This term’s timetable
Monday - Math, English, History
Tuesday - Maths, English, RE
Wednesday - Maths, English, Spanish, Computing
Thursday - Science, English, Maths, Art
Friday - Maths, English, PSHE, PE
Helping Your Child at Home
Reading with your child at home has a huge, positive impact on their education. We recommend that every child reads at home for at least 10-15mins every day. It’s lovely to see how much the children enjoy putting up their House Points as a reward for reading at home!
Spelling homework helps to support children’s learning of spelling rules learned that week in class. They are sent home on a Monday and tested on a Friday. Please encourage your child to practice them daily.
In Year 3, children will begin to learn the times tables in a more formal way. Weekly homework will be provided to support your child to learn the times table they are focusing on. Please encourage your child to complete this alongside logging on to TTRockstars regularly. They will have a times table test each Friday.
In class 2 we like to make learning fun! Below are links to a few websites that support your child’s learning in both Maths and English. Have fun exploring them!
Routines
Drinks and Snacks
Please send your child to school with a refillable water bottle which they will have free access to in the classroom throughout the day.
You are welcome to provide your child with a healthy snack to eat at morning breaktime. We will provide children in Year 2 with a healthy morning snack as part of The School Fruit and Vegetable Scheme available to all children in Key Stage 1.
PE
PE is on Fridays. Please send your child to school in their PE kit.
Class News
Monday 18th November 2024What a great start to term 2! We thoroughly enjoyed our learning about The Great Fire of London last term so we are using our new found knowledge to write a diary extract about the historic event in English. So far we have explored lots of examples of diaries and found the important features we need to include when we write our own. We have also role played how people would have felt at different points on the timeline of events and gathered a vocabulary bank ready to include in our own writing.
In Maths, we are working on addition and subtraction. Year 2 are getting to grips with adding across a ten whilst Year 3 are practicing adding across tens and hundreds. The children have been using lots of maths resources to support their learning including our new rekenreks which help build number sense and encourage lots of valuable maths talk.
Last week, we began to use a new handwriting app on the iPads which the children thoroughly enjoyed. I’m looking forward to seeing how this impacts the children’s handwriting in their books!
It was lovely to catch up with you all at parents evening and celebrate your children’s achievements. I’m so proud of the positive attitude the children come to school with everyday. They really are growing and flourishing with friendship and love.
Best wishes,
Mrs Down
