Your teachers are
Mrs Bell and Mrs Simmons.
Your teaching assistant is the lovely
Mrs Bryan.
Contacting Staff:
If you need to contact us then please speak to us on the door in the morning or after school. An email can be sent if you would prefer to communicate that way. The emails are checked regularly (but not daily).
Mrs Bell and Mrs Moore - y2mb@pelsallvillage.co.uk
Contact can also be made through Class Dojo.
Termly subject coverage – Spring 2 2024
Maths– Each week we will be completing work from different areas of maths. This half term we will be covering the following areas:
On a Friday, the children will spend time consolidating their maths work and then address any misconceptions from the week’s learning.
Reading – Every day the children will have a phonics session where all of the sounds are learnt; words are segmented and blended back together; read green words which can be decoded phonetically and read red words that need to be learnt by sight. Time will be spent completing phonic activities and reading texts to suit each child’s reading level.
For children who are ready to take the next step, comprehension sessions take place where a text is read and discussed in detail. The children then answer questions to test their overall comprehension skills.
The children are given time to read in school and take the Accelerated Reading tests when they have finished and understood their book. These tests ask the children questions to clarify their understanding and only allow them to move onto the next stage when ready. We would like each child to read one book per week and at least 3 pages per night.
Writing – During this half term we will be looking at the text ‘Minpins’ by Roald Dahl. We will be focussing on lots of different skills such as using subordination, using more exciting verbs, describing feelings, use of suffixes including -ment and -ness, the use of contrasting adjectives including dull and bright, past and present tenses, possessive apostrophes, capital letters for proper nouns and editing their work to make further improvements.
The children will use these skills to create a set of rules, a character description in the form of a DANGER poster, spend time looking at points of view, write a report about the Minpins, write a postcard and re-tell the story.
They will also spend some time looking at a variety of reading comprehensions with a SATS Focus.
Science: Plants – Growing Things
The children will explore outside and prepare tubs for planting vegetables. They will record the growth of a bean and look at how it develops.
Creative Curriculum - Spring 2
Geography – Waterways
History – Changes
Art – Sculpting and printing
Spellings –
The children have now all been given their spelling booklet which lists the spellings to be learnt each week until half term. Each week a spelling test will take place on a Thursday and then the new spelling list will be introduced.
Useful websites -
ictgames.com
topmarks.co.uk
BBC Bitesize
Oxfordowl.co.uk
uk.ixl.com