Welcome to the Autumn Term 2024

Miss MacDonell, Miss Tombs and Miss Keeley would like to welcome you to our Maple Class page.

Over the next term we are going to be investigating our big question 'Where do owls live?' 'We will be learning about The United Kingdom, the area we live in and make comparisons to a small area of a non - European country.

In English, our text will be ‘Troll Swap’ by Leigh Hodgkinson. We will be developing our descriptive writing throughout the term by using adjectives to create an effect on the reader. Our text for our reading sessions will be ‘The Troll’ by Julia Donaldson which will focus on language, vocabulary and comparisons to the traditional story of 'Three Billy Goats Gruff'.

In Maths, we will be learning all about place values. Understanding the value of tens and ones, partitioning 2 digit numbers and making comparisons of the value of different numbers.  The children will also continue to practise their recall and fluency of pairs to 10, 20 and odd and even numbers..  

Our Connected Learning incorporates Science, History, Art, DT and Music. In Term 1 we will be studying the four countries of the United Kingdom.  We will identify and recognise physical and human features of a small area of the U.K which we will then compare to a small area on a non-European country.  In Science, we will be learning about animals including humans.  We will be studying the different needs of humans, such as, diet, exercise, life cycles and needs for survival.  In ICT, we will be looking at the importance of internet safety and how to access different programmes.  Our P.E learning this term will involve team games and ball skills.  In RE, we will continue to explore the big question ‘Who made the world?’, looking at the creation story and how Christians celebrate it.

Reading

Your child will continue to progress through the school phonic books. Once your child has competed the last stage they will the move onto the Accelerated Reader programme.  All books will be changed on a Monday, Wednesday or Friday if they have finished the text. If your child in using Accelerated Reader they will complete a short online Accelerated Reader quiz which comprises of 5 or 10 questions linked to the book they have completed.  Your child’s score will be recorded in their reading record, we may ask them to re-read their book if we feel they would benefit from exploring the text again.

Times Table Rockstars

As the year progresses your child will be given a log on for Times Tables Rockstars (which will be  in their orange reading record). They can also revise their times tables using Hit the Button, written or verbal practice. We will be focusing on 2, 5 and 10 times tables.

Don’t forget to keep an eye on Seesaw as we will continue to post learning, set challenges, and communicate with you all on the platform. 

Although there is no formal home learning in Year 2, we would appreciate you reading daily with your child and practising the spellings and times tables as this will have an impact with their confidence in lessons. We will also set termly challenges linked to our Connected Learning.

Children are provided with all log in information in the their reading records for Seesaw, Accelerated Reader and Times Tables Rockstars.

Please contact the office (on 01233 614660 or email on office@john-wesley.org.uk ) if you have any questions or would like to arrange a time to talk. The children also have their reading records which you can write notes in to communicate with us.