Welcome to the Summer Term in Year 2. 

Class Teachers - Mrs Jury and Mrs Guy    Learning Support Officer - Mrs Hemming and Mrs Pooley

            Class Teachers - Miss Davies   Learning Support Officers - Miss Lewis and Mrs Lewis

• May - Co-operation and Being a good citizen within society

• June - Showing gratitude, and care and generosity

• July - Taking and managing risks

Our first book this term is called 'Rosie Revere, Engineer' by Andrea Beaty. The children find out about a little girl who has experienced disappointment when her inventions do not work. They will be writing short explanations, reports and adverts before receiving a letter from Rosie asking for help with writing a series of leaflets about local landmarks.

The final book that children will read is 'The Dragon Machine' by Helen Ward. Children will create a guide, exploring descriptive and positional language. They engage with the main character in the story’s thoughts and emotions through letter writing. Throughout the activities, children will also explore a number of spelling patterns and rules. 

In addition to literacy lessons, children will participate in Whole-Class Reading sessions where they will be reading 'The Lost Species', as well as other books, to develop their phonic knowledge. Children will use a variety of reading strategies and develop their comprehension skills through weekly activities.

Children will continue to consolidate and reinforce their understanding of the Welsh language by participating in daily Helpwr Heddiw sessions. They will also learn to discuss both their own and others' likes and dislikes in Welsh and will be revisiting language patterns previously taught and extending their answers to include more detail.  They will also continue to work on their reading skills in Welsh by reading familiar texts such as Tedi Twt and progressing to titles; Dora and Fflop.

For their individual reading books, children will be reading books from the Oxford Reading Tree scheme and a choice of 'chapter books'. These will be sent home and need to be returned on your child's set reading day.

During their numeracy lessons, the children will enjoy a range of activities some of which are listed below:-

• Fractions - practical activities to recognise halves and quarters. Exploring simple joining of fractions and simple equivalent fractions.

• Statistics - pictograms, block graphs - both digitally and in their work books, interpreting graphs and creating questions.

• Time - reading analogue and digital clocks, seasons and months of the year.

• Position - turning to the left, right, through 90 degrees, following directions.

• Measure - weight, length, height, capacity

• Number - revise and extend knowledge of the four operations - add, subtract, multiply, divide

• Place Value [revision] - ones, tens, hundreds and thousands

The children's experiences of these areas will be delivered through a variety of activities - both indoor and outdoor - using meaningful and exciting contexts to add curiosity and interest to their learning. 

Within our classroom, we will be encouraging the children to take age-appropriate responsibility whilst continuing to be clear, firm and compassionate. We will be supporting the children as they get ready for Year 3, the next step in their education.

Activities will provide opportunities for children to take different levels of responsibility for a range of tasks. We will also be creating situations with different roles to explore situations from each person's perspective.

They will enjoy physical activities to practise skills needed for Sports Day and enhance their well-being. 

During our afternoon sessions, children will explore various concepts through our unit of work, Incredible Inventions and Inventors: Shaping our world. The children will begin by finding out about famous inventors throughout history. They will then research different inventions and sequence these on a timeline. We will then explore electricity and its impact on the world. Children will have the opportunity to explore simple electrical circuits and work collaboratively to solve problems. The topic will culminate with children designing and building their own inventions, which they will present to the class. During this time, children will be encouraged to use the principles of Voice 21 to develop their oracy skills.

PE is on a Tuesday for both classes. The children should wear the agreed PE kit to school, including sensible footwear, and we politely request that they do not wear jewellery. 

Each child will have a designated reading day. Please ensure reading books are bought in on these days. 

Please ensure all school uniform and water bottles are clearly labelled with your child's name. 

Don't forget to download our School App via the Play or App stores - The School App will provide you with up to date information about activities and events at Oldcastle Primary School.  

Please look out for our weekly newsletter issued via The School App and available on our website on a Friday afternoon.  The newsletter contains all forthcoming diary dates for the school.