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; extending this to the book 'The Great Explorer' by Chris Judge - writing a set of instructions.  

Our humanities topic is Amazing Explorers. Children will all about explorers through history focusing on Neil Armstrong, Amy Johnson, Ibn Battuta and Earnest Shackleton.

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

In science we will be exploring 'Animals Including Humans'.

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

Enrichment is taught weekly on Wednesday afternoon. 

Forest School

Forest school sessions will be once every half term. 

PE

Year 2 will have PE on a Friday morning. 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