Year 2/ Year 3 Class

Teachers: Mrs Prophet and Mrs Kinnersley

Teaching Assistants: Mrs Simpson and Mrs Davies

English

This term in English we will start with a strong focus on writing super sentences. This will include consolidation and revision of the essential punctuation, grammar and handwriting skills.   Later on in the term, we will read and share two key books: The Seal Surfer by Michael Foreman and Winter’s Child by Angela McAllister. These books will be starting points for a range of creative and extended writing opportunities. We will also reading and writing poems about autumn.  The children will be developing their spelling skills every day in school 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. Children will practise their arithmetic and calculation skills every day in class. They will also continue to work on their Times Tables knowledge 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 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 learning about how children’s lives were different in the past. We will be comparing life in Tudor times with life in the Victorian era. In geography, the children will be learning about the Alps. 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, numbers and colours. In RE we will be focussing on aspects of Christian faith and Judaism. In PSHE we will be learning about relationships and valuing differences.