This half term, our core text is the book ‘Coming to England’ by Floella Benjamin. The children will be planning and writing narratives. The children will be comparing and contrasting the geographical features of the UK and Trinidad and Tobago to aid them in their storytelling. The children will also be reviewing the features of a letter and writing an informal letter in character. The children will be reviewing, editing and up-levelling their work as they go along to correct spellings and include suffixes to add variety to their sentences. The children will also be including coordinating and subordinating conjunctions such as 'if, but and so' to change the meaning of their sentences. 

In RE, children will be focusing on 'how we show that someone is important to us'. We will answer this question by looking how different religions worship God.

Children will continue to practice decoding, prosody and comprehension during daily reading sessions.  They will also use a range of reading strategies including making connections, predicting and summarising. Children will continue to build on their oracy skills to answer questions using the text as evidence and explore answering different types of questions  to show understanding of the text.  

This half term the children will be completing another DT project. They will be making their own headdress based on their core text ‘Coming to England.’ They will learn about carnival and how to create a headdress using different joins, careful cutting and sticking. They will develop their designs and reflect on their outcomes. 

In maths, this half term Year 2 will learn how to apply their knowledge of measures and will use a variety of scales and shapes to support their understanding of weight, mass, length and volume.  They will also learn about telling the time to o’clock, half past, quarter past, quarter to and identifying the times at each 5-minute interval on a clock.

In outdoor PE, children will be playing attack vs defence games to develop their sending and receiving skills.  They will also learn how to intercept and keep possession of an object away from a defender.  Indoor PE will involve games to involve sequencing different movements  and developing reaction and response skills. 

This term the children will be learning about plants and growing. They will identify and label plant parts. They will carry out an investigation about how seeds germinate for growth. The children will be conducting a fair test to investigate how water, light, air and heat affect germination.  

In computing, the children will be using Purple Mash to create sequenced programs using a variety of events and timers. They will also be continuing to focus on internet safety including how to search for information online and how to spot the difference between factual information and information that is not real. 

In geography, children will focus on the similarities and differences between the city of London in the UK and a city outside of Europe. They will develop their understanding that different countries have their own traditions, cultural customs, symbols and flags. 

Children will learn about economic wellbeing, which includes understanding the role of bank accounts, and the difference between a want and a need.  They will also identify their skills and talents and why it is important to treat people equally and inclusively.

Children will continue to listen and respond to a variety of music genres.  They will learn to sing songs, improvise along to the music using instruments and perform their own compositions. 

• PE every Tuesday and Friday.

• Little Wandle reading books are changed every Tuesday and Thursday.  Reading for pleasure books are changed every Friday.

• Homework books are collected every Friday.

• Drop and Read session take place every Friday from 8:35-8:50 am. All parents and carers are welcome to join in with reading.

• Wilderness Trust trip - date to be confirmed.

• Friday 2nd May 2025 - Film night - KS1 (Yr 1&Yr 2 ) 3:30pm - 5:30pm 

• Monday 5th May 2025 - May Day Bank Holiday - School Closed  for pupils and staff

• Tuesday 6th May 2025 - School open as normal 

• Friday 23rd May: Last day of term (normal school day) 

• Monday 2nd June: Back to school