Enchanted Wood
Welcome to Year 2! Your class teacher this year is Mrs Whelpdale, along with our wonderful class teaching assistant Mrs Robertson. Our class name for this school year is ‘Enchanted Wood ’. This story setting is inspired by the one of our year 2 recommended read books called ‘Enchanted Wood’ by Enid Blyton. Both Mrs Robertson and I believe that books are the key to unlocking our imaginations and therefore we will explore a wide range of books over the next school term.
We will enjoy various texts to provide us with a purpose for writing in Literacy. This will include ‘Jim and the Beanstalk’, ‘Wolves, ‘The Journey Home’ and non-fiction information based on ‘Guy Fawkes which coincides perfectly with our history topic all about The Gunpowder Plot. In guided reading lessons, we will be focussing on reading extracts and then retrieving information from what we have read. We will be using the skill of skimming and scanning to help us to do this as well as a continued focus on using our phonic knowledge to build upon our fluency skills.
In Maths, we will cover many topics over the term which include, comparing numbers, place value, number patterns, as well as adding and subtracting. We will continue to master addition and subtraction which involve renaming and the multiplication and division facts for the 3 times table. We will revisit our knowledge of number bonds to 10 and extend this onto number bonds to 20. We will cover the 1 and 2 times tables and their corresponding division facts.
We will cover a range of topic areas in our wider curriculum learning including, Science, PSHE, DT, ICT, RE, Geography, History and Art. We will create our own moving vehicles in DT and develop our sketching skills based around self portraits in Art. We will be learning about Esafety in ICT, exploring materials in Science and discussing our families and friends in PSHE to find out what makes a good friend.
We will enjoy various texts to provide us with a purpose for writing in Literacy. This will include ‘Jim and the Beanstalk’, ‘Wolves, ‘The Journey Home’ and non-fiction information based on ‘Guy Fawkes which coincides perfectly with our history topic all about The Gunpowder Plot. In guided reading lessons, we will be focussing on reading extracts and then retrieving information from what we have read. We will be using the skill of skimming and scanning to help us to do this as well as a continued focus on using our phonic knowledge to build upon our fluency skills.
In Maths, we will cover many topics over the term which include, comparing numbers, place value, number patterns, as well as adding and subtracting. We will continue to master addition and subtraction which involve renaming and the multiplication and division facts for the 3 times table. We will revisit our knowledge of number bonds to 10 and extend this onto number bonds to 20. We will cover the 1 and 2 times tables and their corresponding division facts.
We will cover a range of topic areas in our wider curriculum learning including, Science, PSHE, DT, ICT, RE, Geography, History and Art. We will create our own moving vehicles in DT and develop our sketching skills based around self portraits in Art. We will be learning about Esafety in ICT, exploring materials in Science and discussing our families and friends in PSHE to find out what makes a good friend.
