Year 2 Curriculum Newsletter

Autumn 1 2023-24

Wider Curriculum

Over the next few weeks the children will be learning:

• Key information about significant nurses from the past (Florence Nightingale, Mary Seacole, Edith Cavell) and the impact they had on nursing.
• How to group animals into categories.
• What animals need to survive.
• The life cycles of a variety of animals as well as the offspring they have.
• How to draw inspiration from their environment in their artwork.
• How to use a range of materials and techniques to make sketches.

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Click here for this half term’s Knowledge Organisers:

Click here for this half term’s Optional Home Learning activities.

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English

Our focus book for next half term are:

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In Writing the children will be learning to:

• Extend their sentences using adjectives and conjunctions.
• Write a diary
• Write different sentence types
• Write an information text

Reading

Over the this half term, the children will be practising a range of reading skills. These include:

• Identifying key words from a question.
• Skimming and scanning for key words.
• Answering retrieval questions (Who? What? Where?)

Please remember to read 5 times a week and record it in your child’s reading diary.

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Maths

This half term, the children will be learning about:

• Numbers to 100
• Partitioning numbers into tens and ones
• Number bonds
• Methods for adding and subtracting (to and within 100)

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PE

Please ensure that your child has their PE kit in school every day. Your child will need the correct P.E kit: black shorts/ tracksuit bottoms, white t-shirt and trainers/plimsolls.

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PE is on the following days:

• Owls: PE Monday, Swimming Tuesday (starting the 19th September)
• Foxes: PE Monday, Swimming Wednesday (starting on 20th September)

Perfectly Norman & The Robot and the Bluebird

Year 2 Curriculum Newsletter

Autumn 1 2023-24

Home Learning

Reading - Reading diaries are to be handed in every Monday morning. Please read with your child at least five times a week.

English

Century - https://app.century.tech/login/

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Maths

Numbots - https://play.numbots.com/#/intro

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Times Table Rock Stars - https://play.ttrockstars.com/auth/school/student

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The children have usernames and passwords for all of the above websites. Please ask your child’s class teacher if you are having trouble accessing any of these.

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Please continue to practise reading and spelling the Year 2 Common Exception Words.

Reminders

• Please ensure all clothing is labelled.
• Please ensure that your child has a water bottle in school every day.
• Please ensure that your child has a weather appropriate coat.
• Please check your child's bag/Google Classroom daily for letters and other information.
• If your child has a packed lunch, please ensure that it is a healthy meal - no chocolate or cakes (including donuts).

Assessment

At various points throughout the year, your child will be assessed in order to determine the next steps in their learning. This may take a range of forms including: termly assessment tests, informal quizzes, listening to reading, independent writing and many more.

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