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Bluebell class - Year 2
We are Bluebell class!
Year 2
The adults who work in Bluebell Class are:
Mrs Wilson and Miss Aspinall
Welcome to our class page! We hope that you will find some of the information below useful.
PE is on a Thursday and Friday this year. Please send your child to school with suitable PE clothes in a bag on this day (joggers, t-shirt, jumper and trainers). The children will need to get changed in school. Please make sure all items are labelled with the child's name!
Spring 1:
We have another exciting half-term of learning for Year 2!
In English, we will be using the book Meerkat Mail by Emily Garrett as the basis of our work. We will create our own postcards just like Sunny the Meerkat, learn about the use of commas and write non-chronological reports about meerkats. Throughout all of our writing, we will be practising the skills we have already learned and working on our handwriting and presentation to make our work even better!
In Maths, we will continue to explore money for the first week before moving onto multiplication and division. As part of this, we will learn our 2, 5 and 10 times table and begin to understand two different methods of dividing - grouping and sharing.
In Science, we will focus on how to work scientifically using our observation and recording skills to cinduct experiments.
For History, we will be diving into the world of communication to see how methods of communicating have changed over the past 200 years. As part of this we will study old and new phones and our children will encounter the shocking revelation that phones were only able to ring people until recently!
In Art, we will be exploring how different painters paint expressively using loose brush strokes. We will study the work of Charlie French and Vincent Van Gogh, and have a go at recreating some of their work.
In Design and Technology, our topic will be mechanisms. We will aim to understand how axles and wheels work to make things move, and will use this knowledge to create a wind-powered vehicle which we will race in school!
In Music sessions, we will start to learn how to play the recorder and listen to a series of different songs around the theme of 'Friendship'.
In PSHE we will expand our knowledge of different jobs that people have, including why people need jobs and what skills we would need to have for our dream jobs.
In RE, we will look at different religious and non-religious beliefs, helping the children understand their identity and some of the key religious beliefs in some major religions.
In our PE lessons this half-term we will have PE specialist coaches on Thursdays teaching gymnastics, and we will be working on our movement skills in Friday sessions.
We also have an exciting trip planned to the Library and will take part in Leicestershire Libraries' Our Best Picture Book challenge.
For more information on what we are learning this term, please look at our Curriculum overview.
How to help your child's learning at home:
Reading
Read or share a story with your child every day. Your child will bring home a 'Little Wandle Letters and Sounds' reading book every Wednesday. They will be able to read this book as they have read it in school. Ask them to read it to you and then discuss the book.
What did they like about the story?
What was their favourite part of the story?
Was there anything which surprised them?
Please make sure that these book are returned to school on Mondays.
Maths
Work on addition facts to 10 (e.g. 3+4=7, 6+1=7, 2+7=9 etc)
Work on subtraction facts within 10 (e.g. 8-2=6, 4-1=3, 7-4=3 etc)
Practise x tables (2s, 5s & 10s)
Learning planned across the year for Year 2 in 2024-5
If you have any questions about Bluebell Class or our curriculum content, please feel free to email the office or speak to Mrs Wilson at the end of the day.