This year you are lucky enough to have two different teachers and two teaching assistants within your class.

Mrs Bramwell -  Class teacher on a Monday and Tuesday

Mrs Chappels - Class teacher on a Wednesday, Thursday and Friday.

Mrs Seatree - Teaching assistant every morning. 

PE will take place every week. The days we have PE may change each week due to the weather and so it would be great to have a PE kit that can stay in all week/half term.

For PE sessions please bring the following:

- Black shorts, leggings or jogging bottoms

- White t-shirt or polo shirt

- Black pumps or trainers

If you are unable to provide the PE kit above, then please provide any suitable clothing for your child to do PE in.

Children now have a reading folder with their reading books and record in. For most children, books will be changed on a Monday and so the folder must be in their bags then.

When ready, children will receive a Book Bag Book which matches the sounds they have been learning in their RWI class. This book should be read at least 3 times and the questions and activities completed at the back.

Children will also bring home a copy of the storybook sheet they read in their reading class the week before. Please let them show off their reading skills when reading this. Please do not tell your child that their reading book is too easy because it is a chance for them to build fluency and comprehension.

It is also crucial that you listen to your child read  and ensure that you sign their reading record highlighting what they have read and how they performed. 

Homework will be set on a Tuesday through our online learning platform, SeeSaw. A link for which is placed below:

https://app.seesaw.me/#/login

All homework should be completed by the following Monday and will be checked by your teacher on this day. Please make sure that if you are having difficulties with the homework, that you contact your class teacher with plenty of time so that they can assist your child in its completion. In addition, the school also run a homework club which can really help support those children that struggle completing their tasks independently.

Topic - Fire Fire

As mathematicians, we will learn about Place Value. We will:

• Find fact families – Addition and Subtraction Bonds to 20
• Check Calculations
• Related Facts
• Bonds to 100 (Tens)
• Add and Subtract 1s
• 10 More and 10 Less
• Add and Subtract 10s
• Add a 2-Digit Number and 1-Digit Number (Across a Ten)
• Subtract a 1-Digit Number from a 2-Digit Number (Across a Ten)
• Add a 2-Digit Number and a 2-Digit Number (Not Crossing Ten)
• Add a 2-Digit Number and a 2-Digit Number (Crossing Ten)
• Subtract a 2-Digit Number from a 2-Digit Number (Not Crossing Ten)
• Subtract a 2-Digit Number from a 2-Digit Number (Crossing Ten)
• Mixed Addition and Subtraction Problems
• Compare Number Sentences

As writers, we will:

• Read The Great Fire of London
• Use the text as a stimulus to write for a range of purposes.
• Use co-ordination (but, or)
• Add -ly to turn adjectives into adverbs
•  Use commas to separate items in a list
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As Scientists this term we will:

• Learning about different properties of materials.
• Understanding the suitability of materials and why they are used for different purposes.
• Plan and complete investigations to test materials for different properties. 
• Learn about Charles Mackintosh and his famous invention.

As learners of Religious Education we will be answering these questions

• What can we say about peace as part of the good news Christians  believe Jesus brings?
• How did Jesus choose his first disciples?
• What does the story Matthew and the tax collector tell us?
• What do Christians believe Jesus showed them about how to pray? 
• What does the story of Jesus and the Ten Lepers tell us?

As a Historian this term we will:

• Know that we can learn about the past through historical sources
• Know that historical sources can tell us different things
• Know the Great fire of London started on Sunday 2nd September 1666.
• Explain why the great fire spread so quicky (including weather, Tudor house design, compact streets and the lack of a fire service in my answer.)
• Know that Samuel Pepys was a famous diarist who kept an account of everything that happened around that time.

As Artists this term we will:

• Looking at and responding to a range of artwork.
• Using tools to shape materials.
• Joining materials.
• Learning how to add texture using running stitch.
• Planning and creating a piece of patchwork to go towards a whole class piece.

As Geographers this term. In Year two we will be finding out which countries form the United Kingdom, Great Britain and

• the British Isles and which ocean and seas surround our island home.
• We will be locating the capital cities of each country and their flags.
• We will find out why London is an important city in England and locating some of the famous monument
• we might in London; some of which we are learning about in History such as Pudding Lane.

As learners of PSHE we will answer the questions:

• As I get more independent, what opportunities and responsibilities will I have?
• What consequences will my choices make?
• Which food choices will keep me healthy.

As Musicians we will:

• Listen to work from well-known composers
• Explain whether we like a piece of music or not
• Be able to talk about successful music compositions and possible improvements we can
• make
• Use our voices to play along to a melody
• To use body percussion and percussion instruments to play along to a piece of music
• To represent our music using a graphic score

As learners of computing we will be learning that:

• An algorithm is when instructions are put in an exact order
• Decomposition means breaking a problem into manageable chunks, which is important in computing.
• Errors in an algorithm are called bugs and fixing these is called debugging.