Mrs. Johnson - Teacher
Miss Amos - Teacher
Mrs Addison - Teaching Assistant (1:1)
Mr. Hodgson - Teaching assistant (1:1)
Hello everyone. We hope you have all had a wonderful and restful break. We are looking forward to welcoming the children back and fingers crossed we may see some warmer weather too! It will be lovely to see the children in their summer uniforms. This will be our final half term with our lovely year 2 class. We cannot believe how quickly this year has flown by! So, this half term we will focus on preparing our class for year 3 so that they will be excited for the future in September. PHSE is a vital part of our final half term together.
There are a few points to draw your attention to if we may for this next half term.
Firstly, PE days have changed to a TUESDAY and THURSDAY.
With the weather (hopefully) getting warmer, please ensure that your child has a water bottle in school. It really is essential that they can drink throughout the day, when they need to. Also, please can they still bring a light waterproof coat to school every day.
This half term we have some exciting texts to read in literacy. We will spend the first 2 weeks completing our work on the book “The bear and the piano”. We will write a postcard home from Bear- telling his friends back home all about the excitement of his trip to Broadway! Then we will begin tgo explore the fabulous text “Where ocean meets sky,” by the Fan brothers. In our class reader, we will complete our Non-fiction text “FANATICAL ABOUT FROGS!” Daily phonics lessons, will be continuing in order to develop fluency in reading and writing.
In maths, we will begin a new unit on division but we will also be consolidating other operations of addition, subtraction and multiplication. Recall and use multiplication and division facts for the 2, 5 and 10 and 3 x multiplication tables.
FYI, the children have started a times table club in class now- which they really seem to love! The idea is to answer rapid recall questions in 2x 5 x 10 table. Answer more that 30 in 5 minutes then you move up to the 40 club! Then there will be 40 questions and a new times table to learn.. and so on! As well as this, we will do “BIG MATHS” which involves answering a MIXTURE of addition and multiplication questions in 5 mins.
TOPIC MATHS- Position and direction and TIME.
Direction involves describing how something moves, for example forwards, backwards or in a full or half turn. In year 2, your child will learn how to order and arrange objects in patterns and sequences.
As a school we alternate the teaching of history and geography. This half term our focus will be history.
In history we will learn about toys through time. We will discuss their favourite toy using language related to the past and ask questions about toys in the past. We will make comparisons between toys in the past and present as well as sequence artefacts from different periods of time and describe how they have changed.
In Science we will learn continue to learn about materials and their properties.
In our music sessions we will continue to work with Liverpool Cathedral to learn some new songs and learn important terms such as dynamics and tempo. Also please watch out for messages about our up coming trip to the Catholic Cathedral where the children will have an amazing opportunity to sing.
Homework will be sent home weekly.
Spellings will go home on Mondays. The children will have a spelling test on a Friday. We encourage the children to regularly practice at home. Look at the word, cover it up, then try to spell. Regular practice really helps!
Maths/English will be sent home or set online on a Friday to be completed and returned to school for Monday.
Reading books will be sent home on a WEDNESDAY. Please return on MONDAY the following week. Again, practice at home really is essential. We appreciate and welcome comments by parents/ carers in the reading record book.
All children now have their Reading Eggs login and they will be able to access this at home too.
As you know, we have a class dojo system. We will use class dojo to communicate regarding homework and other matters. We may also want to send you a message to let you know how well your child is doing and recognise particular efforts and achievements. Please ensure you are signed up to class dojo. If you need further information, please contact the school office by email or telephone.
Points to note: Your children will need to bring a clearly labelled water bottle as it is vital that your child feels hydrated each day.
All children should come to school wearing their PE kits on the days when they have their PE lesson. In Year 2, this is each Monday and Thursday.
Please feel free to contact us at any time.
Thank you. The YEAR 2 team!
Sylvester Primary Academy
St Johns Road
Huyton
Knowsley
L36 0UX
Tel: 0151 477 8320
Email: school@sylvesterprimaryschool.co.uk