Welcome to Year 2 Foxes!

Teacher

Miss Marsden

Teaching Assistant

Creative Curriculum

Autumn Term

Our topic for the creative curriculum this term is ‘The Great Fire of London’ Through this topic children will cover Geography, History, Art and DT objectives.

We will be doing lots of exciting activities, such as:

• Identifying key physical and human features of the UK including London. 
• Learning all about the Great Fire of London
• Visiting the Staircase House Museum on Stockport Market.
• Investigating free standing structures in DT and painting Tudor Houses in Art. 

In Science we will begin looking at seasonal changes around us and also learn about plants and animals including humans .

In RE our questions are: Who is Jewish and what do they believe? What can we learn from sacred books?

In PHSE we will be looking at ‘Being me in my world’ and ‘Celebrating Difference’

In Computing we will be learning about online safety and effective searching.

In Music we will spend the first half term learning about rhythm and composition and then the second half term will be all about our Christmas Nativity Show. How exciting!

Monday’s PE session will be outdoor games with Mr Rowe and on Wednesday we will be doing dance. 

Forest School  - We are also very lucky to be offering Forest School sessions throughout the year. I will notify you via Class Dojo when it is our turn. Your child will need appropriate clothing for the weather, I will send more details closer to the time.  

Spring term

Sensational Stockport 

In the Spring Term, the children will learn all about their local area, focussing on key landmarks in Stockport and we will even have a trip there for the children to see it for themselves. More information will be provided in the Spring Term. 

Summer term

 Going on Safari

In the Summer Term, the children will begin to make comparisons between a non-European country (Africa) and the UK. Our children will also focus on human and physical geography, locational knowledge of the country of Africa and it's history, landmarks and culture. We will them compare the similiarities and differences between Africa and our own local area through the physical and human features. More information will be provided in the Summer Term. 

Important Information for parents

PE

The children will have PE twice a week, usually this is once with the class teacher and once with internal/external coaches. During the Autumn term, the children will have PE on Monday afternoon and Wednesday morning. The children should come to school wearing their PE kit and they will stay in their kit all day. PE kits must be a white t-shirt, black shorts/joggers/leggings and pumps/trainers. 

Homework

In Year 1 and 2 we focus on reading homework and prioritize this since it is so critical to the child's progress in all curriculum areas. Children should read at home every day - just for a few minutes. Reading books should be brought to school every day. We aim to change books twice per week as long as the child is ready to move onto a new book. The more a child reads, the more progress they make. If you want any support, tips or advice on how to help/encourage your child to read at home, please just ask. 

At Abingdon we practise our timestables using TTRS. It is an amazing and fun way for the children to learn their timestables. Every child has their own login and we regularly have competitions between classes to see who can earn the most coins. 

https://ttrockstars.com

At Abingdon we also subscribe to Spelling Shed to improve the children's spellings. I will send home the login information for this.

If you and and your child would like to do some extra activites at home, I will send home login information for Numbots/TT-Rockstars for them to practise some additional maths work, and for Spelling Shed. 

You can also request a login for Nessy to help with reading, maths, etc. Nessy is a new support app and I will send more information in due course.

 Newsletter and Programme of Study

Please see the files below for our latest Autumn Newsletter.  

Geography/History Knowledge Organisers 

Please see files below for the Knowledge Organisers for The Great Fire of London.  

Year 2 Spellings

Below is a list of spellings children in Year 2 should know how to read and write by the end of the year. Please practise these as often as is possible.

Class Dojo/Contact

At Abingdon we use Class Dojo which is embedded within every year group. We use Class Dojo to engage parents by sharing photos and videos of exciting moments in the classroom. It is also an effective way for parents and teachers to communicate. I will reply to messages as soon as is possible, but please be aware that it might not always be the same day. Therefore if a message is urgent, please contact the school office directly. 

Useful Websites

Here are some websites that you might find useful for learning at home.

BBC Bitesized:https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize

Topmarks: https://www.topmarks.co.uk/

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

Oxford Owl for Home, great for phonics resources :https://home.oxfordowl.co.uk/

If you have a maths whizz you might want to try some of these challenges at home: https://nrich.maths.org/primary

Great for crafting and laming things linked to topics: https://www.activityvillage.co.uk/

Purple Mash- great for ICT/Coding and much much more! School log in required from me in order to use: https://www.purplemash.com/sch/abingdon-sk5

Great for maths games : http://www.ictgames.com/ 

Great for Science and arts and DT: https://www.funology.com/

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