Welcome to Elm Class

Here's what we've got coming up during Autumn in Elm Class.

This half term the children will be focusing on Grammar through the 'Grammarsaurus' programme; focuing on the key understanding of writing. 

Our humanities topic is Our village and beyond. Children will learn that people live in different types of settlements, including villages, towns and cities. They know that rural areas often have farms and open countryside, while cities have more buildings, roads and people. Compare their local rural community with a local town/ city using maps, photographs and observations.

Our maths focus will be place value and addition and subtraction. 

In science we will be exploring 'Materials' and their everyday uses.

Please see the curriculum overview for the Autumn term (under the curriculum tab) for a learning overview for each subject. 

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PE

Year 2 will have PE on a Tuesday afternoon, led by ASM.  Please ensure that your child has their PE kit and that it is in school all week. 

Helping your child at home

Reading: Please read regularly at home with your child and our school expectation is to read a minimum of 4 times weekly. All children will have a school reading book, however there is nothing stopping you and your child from finding other interesting texts to read together e.g. articles in the local newspaper, non-fiction books about a hobby or even comic books.

Maths: It is key at this stage that all children are confident and fluent with their number bonds to 10 and 20, as this will help them moving forward as we start to work with bigger numbers. NumBots is brilliant for building fluency as well as using apps such as One-Minute maths. Children can also practise counting in 2s, 5s and 10s. As the children get more confident they can start to use TT Rockstars to begin to build their timestable knowledge.

If you have any questions please get in touch via class dojo or jpriest@smallwood.cheshire.sch.uk