Hello and welcome back to Spring 2.

This term, we will be reading The Great Fire of London by Liz Gogerly.  It is the extension of our history unit from last term. The fire, we learned, started at a baker's shop on Pudding Lane and burned for almost five days, destroying over 13,000 tightly packed wooden houses, 87 churches and the iconic landmark, St Paul's Cathedral.   We will focus on the account of a key eyewitness, Mr Samuel Pepys diary, whose biography we are going to explore. Then in turn, write a biography about a famous person we have researched about.

Mrs Gilpin and I, aim to develop your child’s writing skills, through poetry and biographies- including the required Year 2 punctuations and terminologies.

In Maths, we will be focusing on multiplication, division and measures, whilst revisiting our number and calculation skills from previous terms. We will continue to embed our knowledge of the 2, 5, and 10 times tables and division tables. Every Friday, we have a mental arithmetic and times table test to help with their memory and the use of their number skills. A frequent visit to TTRS will help your child to speed up their multiplication and division skills.

Spellings will be undertaken each week and children will be expected to learn them and will be tested on them every Friday. Please encourage your child to use the words given in sentences. This will help them use the words in context and practice the spellings. 

 Reading

Children are expected to read at home every day. Kindly sign and date sign the reading record every time you hear your child read. Also, write the pages you heard that your child read in the reading records. This will help us know when that your child has completed reading that book. We will change the book once your child is able to express understanding of what you child has read.  Please support your child’s reading every day for about 15 minutes and help them to record this in their reading record. Please encourage your child to login to Oxford Reading Buddy, and complete the related quizzes after reading.

Homework

This will be given on Fridays each week and will be expected to be completed by Tuesday the following week. It will usually be a Literacy and Mathematics task. Sometimes it may also be topic based. Each task should not take longer than 30 minutes to complete.  

 PE

PE is on Wednesdays. Therefore, please ensure that earrings are removed on PE days due to safeguarding. Children must wear the appropriate PE kit – white top with black or red bottom to school on Tuesdays. They need to wear the school jumper as well.

I look forward to continue working with you, in my aspirations to help your child achieve excellence.

Miss Attoh

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