Year 2/ Year 3 Class

Teacher: Mrs Kinnersley and Mrs Prophet

Teaching assistants: Mrs Simpson

English

This term we will be starting with the story ‘Coming to England’ by Floella Benjamin where the children will be using recounts through letter writing to explore the story.  Later on in the term, we will focus on a story entitled ‘Nen and the Lonely Fisherman’ by Ian Eagleton and James Mayhew. In this unit the children will be writing their own fantasy story.  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 focus on ‘Place Value’ which underpins the children’s understanding of number and is a very important aspect to their learning.  We will move onto ‘Addition and Subtraction’ and ‘Multiplication and Division’ later in the term. The children will continue to work on their Times Tables using TTRS and will be able to access work to support tasks in class through Maths Shed and 1 Minute Maths.  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.

Science

Our focus for Science will be ‘Light.’  Children will recognise that they need light in order to see things and that dark is the absence of light, notice that light is reflected from surfaces and can recognise that light from the sun can be dangerous and that there are ways to protect their eyes,.  They will recognise that shadows are formed when the light from a light source is blocked by an opaque object and can find patterns in the way that the size of shadows change.

Later in the year, we will focus on ‘Sound’ where the children will identify how sounds are made, associating some of them with something vibrating. They will recognise that vibrations from sounds travel through a medium to the ear, find patterns between the pitch of a sound and features of the object that produced it. The children will find patterns between the volume of a sound and the strength of the vibrations that produced it and recognise that sounds get fainter as the distance from the sound source increases.

Topic and other curriculum areas

Our history focus will be the Tudors in which the children will learn all about life in the times of Henry VIII and Elizabeth I. In geography, the children will be learning about the Antarctic. In computing we will learn about computing systems and networks.  Netball and tag rugby will be covered in PE.  In French we will learn greetings and how to use adjectives. In RE we will be focussing on aspects of Christian faith and in PSHE – relationships and valuing difference.