Year 2/ Year 3 Class

Teachers: Mrs Prophet and Mrs Kinnersley

Teaching Assistants: Mrs Simpson and Mrs Davies

English

This term we will be starting with an information book ‘The Stone Age Boy’ by Satoshi Kitamura  which is all about the adventures of a young boy living in the stone age period.  The children will be using the story to write their own version through the point of view of the main character.  Later on in the term, we will focus on a story book called ’The Big Blue Whale’ by Nicola Davies.  The children will use the story to write a set of instructions, focusing on structure and features needed. Throughout the term, children will be working on sentence work using examples of ’super sentences.’  The children will still be focussing on their spellings using sessions of phonics and Spelling Shed to support them.

Maths

To start the year, the children will be learning about ‘Length and Perimeter’. We will the move on to ’Fractions’ and ‘Mass and Capacity.’  We will also be developing and practising arithmetic skills in class every day. This will help the children to build confidence and fluency in carrying out mental and written calculations. The children will continue to work on their Times Tables using TTRS.  As with the rest of the year, the children should be practising their times tables regularly using TTRS at home as they are encouraged to do so in school. TTRS knowledge will be invaluable when the children learn about fractions.

Science

Our focus for Science will be ‘Forces and Magnets.’  Children will compare how things move on different surfaces, notice that some forces need contact between 2 objects, but magnetic forces can act at a distance, observe how magnets attract or repel each other and attract some materials and not others, compare and group together a variety of everyday materials on the basis of whether they are attracted to a magnet, and identify some magnetic materials, describe magnets as having 2 poles predict whether 2 magnets will attract or repel each other, depending on which poles are facing.

Later in the term, we will focus on ‘Rocks’ where the children will compare and group together different kinds of rocks on the basis of their appearance and simple physical properties, describe in simple terms how fossils are formed when things that have lived are trapped within rock and recognise that soils are made from rocks and organic matter.

Topic

Our history focus will be on Uneard Stories where the children will be finding out about how the achievements of significant people in British history including Winston Churchill, Jane Austin and William Turner. In geography, the children will be learning about why our population changes and how.  Other areas will be ‘Creating media, Data and Information’ in Computing;  swimming and Orienteering in P.E. In  PSHE the theme is Keeping Safe and in RE we will be exploring Christianity.