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Welcome to Y2CP!
I am Mrs Patino and this year will be teaching Year 2, I will be working very closely with Mrs Saphier in our other Year 2 class. Across our Year 2 classes we will have Miss Bennett, Miss Johnson, Mrs Dandy and Miss Jackson who are all fabulous members of our support staff.
During this half term, in Maths we will be learning more about money, shapes and patterns before we move onto measuring capacity and volume. Later in the term we will be furthering our knowledge of number by learning all about numbers upto 1000!
We will be exploring a range of texts in our English sessions and using these to help us write our own narratives and instructions. Some of the texts we will be reading include 'George's Marvellous Medicine' and 'Flat Stanley'.
In History, we will be continuing with our local history theme and learning all about the Rainhill Trials and why it was a significant event in Rainhill's history.
In Geography, we will be learning more about Canada! We will be looking further into what you can do in Canada and what there is to see. We will also be thinking about if Canada would be a good place for a tourist to visit.
In Science we will be conducting and experiment to help us learn about what plants need to grow.
During our Music sessions, we will be consolidating our exploration of rhythm, tempo and melody by revisiting songs from throughout the year.
In Computing we will be learning all about programming on ScratchJr to create quizzes.
In RE we will be revisiting the religion of Judaism and the Ten Commandments.
PE this half term will be on Tuesdays and Thursdays. Tuesdays lesson will be an Outdoors PE session and Thursdays lesson will be Dance. Please ensure your child has their full kit in school including pumps. Kits will then be sent home at the end of each half term to be washed.
In KS1 we have three different books that are sent home.
Reading for Pleasure books – these are sent home on Monday and returned on Friday. These are books that are to be shared as a family, at bed time, before tea or just snuggled up on the sofa.
RWI books – these are sent home on Monday and returned on Friday. These are phonetically plausible books that are chosen specific in line with your child’s phonic knowledge.
Phonetically decodable or banded reading books – these are changed every Tuesday and Friday. Don’t worry about reading a full book each day, reading a couple of pages each day will be great. Please just make a note of which page you have read up to.
Please remember to read with your child as often as possible - ideally three times a week. School planners are checked daily for any messages.
In addition to reading daily, we have Rainbow Challenges for KS1. These are challenges set for each half term. The PURPLE Rainbow Challenge has six different activities for you to complete before the end of the school year. You can take pictures of you completing each activity and add it onto School Spider (Rainbow Challenges Purple Summer 2) or you can simply write a note in your child's planner to say which challenge they have completed. If you have completed four or more of these challenges before the end Summer 2, you will earn your PURPLE Rainbow Certificate.
If you ever have any concerns or want to discuss something, please make a note in your child’s planner or email the school office.
We are so excited to help your children to grow and flourish over the coming year! Let's keep up the hard work from the Spring Term!
Mrs Patino
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