Dear Parents and Carers,
Year 2 – Spring
Curriculum Newsletter
Welcome back to the New Term! We hope you find this
letter informative. This term, University of Mead begins! Each week on a Friday
afternoon, the children will attend their chosen course, which they are very
excited about. Later in the term children will ‘graduate’.
Homework:
As agreed in the home
school agreement that has been signed by you.
Our expectation at Mead is that every child should
do the following every night:
15 minutes reading to
themselves or an adult and note in the reading record
15 minutes practicing spellings
15 minutes rehearsing times tables facts/counting
Please ensure your child brings their bookbag and
spelling book into school everyday. We are teaching children to be responsible for their learning and to be
prepared.
If children would like to
attempt an additional challenge, we have a new Learning Challenge for children
to attempt this Spring which they have received in their homework folders. All
of the activities are based around a significant person, poem or painting
relating to our topics. Children do not have to attempt every activity but
instead select the activities that they are most interested in and compile a
project that reflects the extra time and effort that they have put into their
challenge.
In Year 2 we also provide Bingo homework. This
homework relates to the National Curriculum for Year 2 and is aimed at
reinforcing the children’s learning. We hope that children will take their time
with the homework and be proud of the work they produce they should hand this
into their teacher at the end of the Half Term in their folders.
Spellings:
Spellings will be given out on Fridays. The
children should practise their words every evening. The test will take place on
Thursdays.
Trips & sharing assemblies
Year 2 will have a Sculpture workshop this term and
will have a trip out which is yet to be confirmed. The Living Egg experience
will take place before Easter where the children will have the opportunity to
witness the hatching of live chicken eggs. In previous years the chickens have
been kept and they still reside in the Mead Farm.
We will also be going to Hilldene School for our
annual infant music festival.
You will be invited in to year 2 this half term for
a meeting to chat about end of year assessment arrangements. Details of this
will be provided in a separate letter.
Curriculum Information
We have included a summary of the topics which the
children will be covering this term. If you would like to make any suggestions
of what you or your child would like to learn in relation to the topics taught,
please let the team know. We welcome any suggestions you may have.
Yours Sincerely,
Mrs Rolph
Miss Gibson Miss Murray
Madagascar Teacher
Year 2
Leader
Egypt
teacher
Kenya Teacher
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Spring
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1st Half Term
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2nd Half Term
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Topic
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Fantastic Explorers -
Oceans
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Fantastic Explorers -
Space
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Literacy
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RWI and Literacy and Language
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RWI and Literacy and Language
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Please fill in the reading record after hearing your child read.
For a good selection of children books visit your local library.
Useful web links-
To promote a love
of reading and books the children will be encouraged regularly to bring a
library book home from the class libraries.
Please encourage
them to look after these books.
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Numeracy
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Multiplication & Division
Statistics
Geometry
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Fractions
Length & height
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Please practice the times tables with your children.
We complete Rock Stars Maths daily.
Useful websites:
www.mymaths.co.uk (the children have their own log ins and there is a set activity for them
to complete)
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Computing
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Google Earth/Maps
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Coding-Expresso Coding and other apps.
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For
extra Coding opportunities go on the coding website www.espresso.co.uk
and complete 1 whole unit. Try to debug your work.
Log
in- student12206 Password-
mead60
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Science
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Materials - toys
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Materials - toys
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You could visit the
Science Museum. Admission is free. Located at Exhibition Road in South Kensington, London,
SW7 2DD.
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History/Geography
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Christopher Columbus –
compass points
The Oceans &
Continents
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Isambard Kingdom Brunel
Neil Armstrong - Space
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You could
visit The Cutty Sark and the Maritime museum.
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P.E
(Tuesday)
PE Kits need to be in school.
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Hockey
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Tennis
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Music
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Music lessons Tuesdays
and Thursdays
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Music lessons Tuesdays
and Thursdays.
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Art/ Design and
Technology
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Design and make a
Windmill
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Drawing skills-texture
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P.H.S.E/ R.E
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Learning
Behaviours
(4 R’s Resilience, resourcefulness,
reflectiveness and reciprocity)
Judaism
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Easter
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