Welcome to Elm Class

Welcome back, we hope you've had a fabulous summer and we can't wait to start our learning journey with you as you start year 2.

This half term our text in English is called 'A River'. The children will be using their knowledge and skills to write a circular narrative about a journey along a river.

Linking in with our text, our humanities topic is 'Landscapes that form our world'. The children will be learning all about villages, towns and cities, comparing them and exploring their physical and human features. In art we will be studying the landscape artist Hundertwasser and building our drawing and painting skills. 

Our maths focus will be on place value.

In science we will be exploring using materials, looking at their properties and deciding which materials might be best for certain jobs.

During our RE lessons we will be looking at different bible stories and stories from other religions and discussing why we think these stories are important.

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

Forest School

Forest school is every other Wednesday, led by Mrs Darlington. Children should come into school in their forest school clothes and have appropriate footwear with them.

PE

Year 2 will have PE on a Thursday 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. 

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