Welcome to Year 2 – Maple & Willow Classes

Welcome to Year 2’s page!

If you have any enquiries, please contact us via the school office.

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Year 2 Staff

Miss Lindsay - Maple class teacher

Mrs Jaggard - Willow class teacher

Mrs Foord - Teaching Assistant

Mrs Mountford - Teaching Assistant

Mrs Cade - HLTA  - PPA cover – Maple class every Wednesday and Willow class alternate Tuesdays.

General Information

This term, PE will take place on Monday (outdoors) and Thursday (indoors) and children should arrive in school wearing their PE kits.  Please ensure that your child is able to remove and put back on any trainers especially if they have laces.

Homework will be set on Wednesday for return the following Wednesday.  It will be set via google classroom. Homework will include English, maths and topic work.
If you have difficulty accessing google classroom please call the office or speak to your class teacher who will be able to help.

Spring 2

‘Emperor’s Egg’ by Martin Jenkins and Jane Chapman

Can you imagine being a male emperor penguin and standing around in the freezing cold with an egg on your feet for two months?

Welcome to the story of the world’s most devoted dad!

The children will be exploring the lifecycle of emperor penguins in Antarctica. They will work on sequencing, retrieval of facts and report writing. We will also be writing cinquain poems using different word classes and phrases about penguins and Antarctica.

English

‘Leaf’ by Sandra Deickmann

Crow saw it first. The strange white creature, carried upon the dark waves towards the shore... When a polar bear arrives unexpectedly in the woods, the other animals fear and avoid him, suspecting him to be dangerous and his odd habit of collecting leaves only adds to their distrust. Then one day, they watch as he attempts to fly over the water with wings made of colourful leaves... trying to get back home.

We will be making predictions and inferring what is happening in this very moving story. We will write fact files about polar bears and plan a diary about the story of the Leaf. Finally, the children will retell the story in their own words.

Maths

This half term we will look at 3D shape, telling the time and solving word problems. It will really help your child if you can refer to analogue clocks as much as possible in order for them to master this challenging maths topic.

Our upcoming topics are very important life skills for your child to acquire, we encourage discussion of these topics at home as much as possible. If you are able to, please encourage your child to use their numbots and TT rockstars accounts which will really help to develop their knowledge and skills across these two subjects. If you don’t have your child’s login please speak to their class teacher.

Curriculum: The Poles

Can a polar bear eat a penguin?

This half term we will be looking at the north and south poles.

We will revisit our knowledge of continents and oceans and also looking at the equator and different temperature zones in our world.

Exploring the difference between weather and climate will see us taking the temperature over a week and noticing changes in the temperature and weather. We will also consider the difference between weather and climate.

We will be using our computing knowledge to research Matthew Henson, the first black person to stand on top of the world and comparing his experiences with Felicity Henson who was the first woman to ski alone across Antarctica.

In art we will look at the art work of Nerys Levy and trying to use her mixed-media techniques to produce our own works of art.

Reading

Reading books must be returned on Thursday and will be swapped on Fridays.

Your child will either receive both a RWInc book and a RWInc book bag book based upon your child’s latest RWInc assessment. Once they are no longer using RWInc they will receive a book appropriate to their reading level and a ‘reading for pleasure’ self-chosen book.

Once your child is a confident reader they should concentrate on comprehension as well as understanding new vocabulary. As well as their school reading books, please encourage your child to read as widely as possible. The libraries in Eastham and Bromborough are now back open so you will be able to visit them for free books!