Your class teacher is Mr Bayley.

This year you are lucky enough to have Mrs Seatree as a teaching assistant in class and supporting with learning interventions.

Every Wednesday, to cover Mr Bayley's PPA, Miss Conlon will teach 2WB all day.

PE will take place every Tuesday.

For PE sessions please bring the following:

- Black shorts, leggings or jogging bottoms

- White t-shirt or polo shirt

- Black pumps or trainers

Please ensure that your child's kit is clearly labelled with their name.

It is usually best to leave your child's PE kit in school for the half-term so that it is always available to use.

Please ensure that your child has warm clothes, a waterproof coat and wellies to be worn for forest school.

It is important that your child brings their reading book into school each day as the days on which they will be able to read with an adult may change from time to time. It is also crucial that you listen to your child read each evening and ensure that you sign their reading record highlighting what they have read and how they performed.

Within this class reading records will be checked and additional reading books will be changed on a Thursday.

Book bag books will be changed every Thursday by your child's Read, Write, Inc. teacher.

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.

Who Did It?

As readers and writers of English we will be:

• Practising our segmenting and blending of set 2 and 3 sounds to read new words.
• Practising our comprehension skills via Read, Write, Inc.
• Learning and practising the year two spelling and grammar rules
• Exploring the text Troll Swap by Leigh Hodgkinson
• Writing our own version of the story.
• Focusing on the following mastery keys in our writing: 
  • Using punctuation correctly – full stops, capital letter.
  • Using expanded noun phrases to describe and specify
  • Using subordination (because) and coordination (and)

As Mathematicians, we will:

• Learning the place value of 2-digit numbers
• Reading and writing numbers in words and digits
• Partitioning numbers in different ways
• Writing numbers in their expanded form
• Ordering and comparing numbers
• Estimating numbers
• Counting in 2s, 5s,10s and 3s

As Scientists, we will:

• Learn how living things change, and that animals have offspring that grow into adults.
• Learn which offspring comes from which parent animal.
• Know the stages in some animal life cycle.
• Know that animals, including humans, need water, food and air to survive.
• Understand the importance of exercise, a balanced diet and hygiene for humans.

As Geographers this term we will:

• Be learning about where we live and what geographical features it has.

As Historians this term we will:

• Name different ways that they can find out about the past
• Be recognising the difference between the police in the past and the present. 
• Be explaining how policing was similar and different between the past and the present.
• Placing a few police objects or images in order using common phrases to show the passing of time.
• Be using common words and phrases relating to the passing of time.
• Be recognising who Robert Peel was and how he contribution can still be seen today.
• Be recognising who Henry Faulds was and how his contribution can still be seen today.

As Artists we will:

• Research fingerprint techniques used by the artist Judith Anne Braun.
• Use paint or charcoal to design, share and create fingerprint designs.
• Use a range of techniques to create a finger palette portrait.
• Evaluate our portraits.

As learners of Religious education we will be exploring the big question:

• How do we celebrate special and sacred times?

We will be asking:

• How do Christians and other religions celebrate festivals?
• How do Jewish people celebrate Rosh Hashanah?
• How do Jewish people celebrate  Chanukah?
• How do Christians celebrate and express their beliefs for Christmas?

As Computer Technicians we will be programming by:

• Recognising cause and effect when pressing buttons on a Bee-Bot.
• Discussing and demonstrating how the Bee-Bot works.
• Recording videos, ensuring everyone is in the shot.
• Giving several clear instructions in sequence.
• Programming a Bee-Bot to reach a destination.
• Identifying and correcting mistakes in their programming.

As musicians we will:

• Clap the rhythm of our name.
• Clap in time to music.
• Sing the overall shape of a melody.
• Play in time to music.
• Copy and create rhythms based on word patterns.
• Play on the pulse.