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Year 2 Class Newsletter November 2015

The wider curriculum...  In Science lessons we will be completing our unit of work on Plants then finding out about animals including humans. The children will discover some basic animal life cycles and will explore the basic needs of animals to survive. We will look in finer detail at the importance to humans of hygiene, balanced diet and exercise.  Our theme work this term looks at the lives of famous people in History. We have already learned about Guy Fawkes and the Gunpowder Plot. We will be going on to learn about Florence Nightingale and Mary Seacole 

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Year 2 Christmas Performance

The title of the performance will remain a surprise. The children may soon be bringing home lines to learn or song lyrics to practice. Nearer the time, we may also ask you for help with costumes although we do not expect parents to rush out to buy costumes. Your help and encouragement is always greatly appreciated.

Maths

Children will be learning about multiplication and division . We will begin with the 2x, 5x and 10x tables. It is very useful to know tables by heart and parents are invaluable in helping children achieve these In Music the children will be learning songs targets (as well as number bonds to 20!) We then move f or ou r f or th c o mi n g C h r is tma s on to Fractions of shape and numbers followed by work on Measures and Data performance this half term. Handling. In PE we are continuing our gymnastics and will performing our polished routines to each other in the hall. Children will continue to have multiskills training with the coaches Our new literacy genre is traditional tales, where we will use ‘Talk for Writing’ to embed the story and that come into school each week. inspire the children to write their own version. We will In Art and Design Technology, children will be making and creating all things then move on to information texts where we will be ‘Christmassy’– the glitter season is around reading a range of texts and looking at the different features which are the corner! used to organize the information. In French the children will be continuing We will then be planning and making using simple greetings and asking and our own information texts to link answering questions about themselves as with our theme work. well as learning to count to ten in French.

Literacy

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 In I.C.T. the children will be learning to use various tools in paint packages create their own digital art work as well as learning word Key Stage 1 (Y1/2) Christmas Performance processing skills. Thursday 10th December 9.20am  In R.E. we are continuing our work on Judaism and looking at the Jewish festival Year 2 Christmas Party of Hanukah.

Useful Dates

Wednesday 16th December 1:15p.m.

We would like to take this opportunity to thank you for your continued support this term so far. As always, if you ever have any questions or queries, please approach one of the Year 2 team.