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 ‘Amazing Rivers’ by Julie Vosburgh Agnone which is a non-fiction book based on rivers of the world.  The children will be using this text to write a persuasive text to encourage people to look after our waterways.  Later on in the term, we will focus on a  text called ‘A Stage Full of Shakespeare Stories’ Here the children will be planning and writing a story with a focus on descriptive writing and bringing characters to life through dialogue.  As this is the final term, the children will be consolidating all work focussed on throughout the year and showing confidence and good retrieval skills on what they have been taught.

Maths

To start the term, the children will continue with ‘Fractions’  We will move onto ‘Mass and Capacity’ and also ’Money, and ’Time.’  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.  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.  Their TTRS knowledge will be invaluable when the children learn about Fractions.

Science

Our focus for Science will be ‘Animals, including humans and Plants’.  Children identify and describe the functions of different parts of flowering plants: roots, stem/trunk, leaves and flowers, explore the requirements of plants for life and growth (air, light, water, nutrients from soil, and room to grow) and how they vary from plant to plant, investigate the way in which water is transported within plants, explore the part that flowers play in the life cycle of flowering plants, including pollination, seed formation and seed dispersal.  They will identify that animals, including humans, need the right types and amount of nutrition, and that they cannot make their own food; they get nutrition from what they eat and identify that humans and some other animals have skeletons and muscles for support, protection and movement.

Topic

Our History focus will be on The Census of the Local Area where the children will be finding out about people that lived in the village long ago and what kind of jobs those people did.  Within Geography, the children will be learning about Rivers.