Welcome to Year 2

                                                                                  Mrs Keeling                                      Mrs Finch

                                                                                                      Lavender Class Teacher                   Rosemary Class Teacher

                                                                                                        Mrs Ragaven                     Miss Adcock
                                                                                                     Lavender Class                   Lavender Class
                                                                                                 Teaching Assistent              Teaching Assistent

Over the half term, we will also be learning:

• MATHS – Place Value, Addition and Subtraction       
• SCIENCE – Living Things and their Habitats.
• COMPUTING – IT Around Us
• GEOGRAPHY – Seasonal changes and weather.
• ART – Trees and Nature
• RE – Leaders and Teachers
• PSHE – Digital Wellbeing
• OUTDOOR LEARNING – Living Things and their Habitats.
• PE – Gymnastics and Handball.

Key Dates for Autumn 1

PE and Outdoor Learning for Autumn 1

                    Please bring the correct PE kit and Outdoor Learning kit to school.

As part of our commitment to ensuring all children are fully prepared for PE lessons, we kindly ask that your child brings in their PE kit at the start of each half term. The kit should be placed in a clearly named bag and left on their peg for the duration of the half term.

PE kit consists of:

• Plain black shorts or jogging bottoms.
• Plain black jogging sweater.
• Plain white T-Shirt
• Plaain black trainers

In addition to PE kit, please ensure your child has a set of clothes for Outdoor Learning. These clothes should be ones that can get dirty and wet, as activities may include gardening, mud kitchen play and other hands-on learning experiences, in varying weather conditions. It's important that these clothes are durable and suitable for outdoor play and include a waterproof coat and wellies, when necessary. Please only send these on Outdoor Learning days and these will be sent home after the sessions.

Please bring PE kits into school at the beginning of the half term and leave them in school until the end of the half term.

This ensures that PE kit is in school when needed.

Outdoor learning kit goes home after each session and should be hung in the outside classroom before the start of the school day.

 Topic Knowledge Organisers

We will be using these topic knowledge organisers, throughout the half term, to help children recall key facts and vocabulary and to support them in all areas of the curriculum. Please use these at home with your children, to discuss their learning.

Homework in Year 2

Each week, we ask that all children read with somebody at home at least three times a week and record it in the Communication diary. This could be any adult, an older sibling or friend. Every little bit of reading really does help children on the learning journey and these children tend to make the most progress throughout the year. We also ask that all children practise the printed texts that are sent home each Friday in their reading bags. There will also be weekly spellings which can be found in Communication Diaries, along with the logins for NumBots and Times Table Rock Stars so that the children can practise their mathematical skills.

Housekeeping

Please ensure that everything that your child brings to school (including OL kit, PE kit, hats, scarves, gloves and water bottles) has their name on it. Name tags are great, but biro on a label is just as good. This will hopefully make it possible to return any lost property.