Mr Jenkins
assisted by Bev & Debbie
CURRICULUM
OVERVIEW
Click here for Year 2 overview
HOMEWORK & SPELLINGS
Homework is set on a Wednesday and must be uploaded on Google Classroom by the following Wednesday morning.
Spelling tests will take place each Wednesday and results recorded in reading records.
USEFUL NOTICES
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Reading packs must be in school every day.
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Bring a water bottle to school each day
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Swimming lessons take place on a Monday so make sure your swimming kit is in school then
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PE will be on a Wednesday and you are to come to school wearing your kit.
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Our library session is on a Tuesday so please have your library book in school to renew or change.
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Homework is set on a Wednesday and must be uploaded on Google Classroom by the following Wednesday.
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Spelling tests will take place each Wednesday and results recorded in reading records.
ENGLISH
Reading
The KS1 reading content domains focus on core comprehension skills, helping children understand texts by developing their vocabulary, retrieval, sequencing, prediction and inference skills. These skills are crucial for both fiction and non-fiction, ensuring they grasp characters, events, and key details. We will be building on these key skills by completing a range of tasks and questions to build deeper comprehension beyond just decoding words.
Writing
We will be focusing on writing sentences that are sequenced to sequenced to form a short narrative (real or fiction) and building on writing simple, coherent narratives about personal experiences and those of others (real or fiction) We will be building on our editing skills, making simple additions, revisions and proof-reading corrections to our own writing.
MATHS
During this half-term, we will continue to develop mental and written methods in all four operations (addition, subtraction, multiplication and division) and work on length, mass and temperature.
All children are expected to be able to recite their 2,5 and 10 times tables by the end of Year 2.
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Click here for Maths Methods Handbook
SCIENCE
Materials: We will be building on learning from Year 1 and children will:
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identify and compare the suitability of a variety of everyday materials, including wood, metal, plastic, glass, brick, rock, paper and cardboard for particular uses
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find out how the shapes of solid objects made from some materials can be changed by squashing, bending, twisting and stretching.
PSHE
At Boutcher School, we teach Personal, Social, Health Education (PSHE) and relationships as a whole-school approach to underpin children’s development as people and because we believe that this also supports their learning capacity. We use the Jigsaw Programme which offers us a comprehensive, carefully thought-through Scheme of Work which brings consistency and progression to our children’s learning in this vital curriculum area. This term the topic being covered across the school is Dreams and Goals. In this unit, children will think about their aspirations, how to achieve goals and develop their understanding of the emotions that go with this.
PE
At Boutcher, we follow the ‘Real PE’ approach. Real PE is a unique, child-centred approach that engages and challenges children in their PE lessons. It focuses on the development of agility, balance and coordination, healthy competition and cooperative learning. Real PE focuses on six key cogs, these are: Creative, Cognitive, Health and Fitness, Personal, Physical and Social.
In the spring term, we will be working through the ‘cognitive’ cog in our weekly PE lessons.
Our PE day is: Wednesday
PE kit is as follows:
- plain white t-shirt or polo top
- navy blue jogging bottoms, leggings or shorts (no logos)
- school navy blue jumper or cardigan
- suitable trainers for PE
HUMANITIES
Geography: Why is our world wonderful?
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History: How did we learn to fly?
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Our topics this term are:
What does it mean to be a Muslim?
Why are women so important in the Bible?
Do Easter symbols help us to understand Easter?
READING
Your child will be given a staged/phase book that will be taken home with them. There is no set day for changing books as children will be read to at different points in the week. To facilitate this, please ensure your child’s reading pack (with their book and reading record inside) is in their book bag every day. It is very important to hear your child read out loud each day and ask them questions about what they have read to check their understanding and develop their comprehension skills (see questions inside their Reading Record).
Their school reading book can be read more than once to ensure they not only read the words but most importantly, understand what it is about. Please remember to record the date and page number along with your signature. This helps us monitor your child’s progress.
In Key Stage One, we expect a minimum of 3 signatures a week as well as at least one written comment using the KS1 reading comprehension skills sheet that is in the front of your child’s reading record.
Our library visit will take place on Tuesdays.
RECOMMENDED READS
Click here for Year 2 book list