Welcome to Year 2

This term we will be reading our new class text 'The Dragon Machine' by Helen Ward.

  Please see our curriculum map for all of the other wonderful things we have planned over the year.

At Rode Heath we follow our Maths No Problem scheme of work for maths which begins with a real-life problem to show the children why maths is so important in their everyday lives.  This scheme starts in year one and we will build on the areas covered to ensure the children have a real depth of understanding.

Of course there will be plenty of opportunities for Art, Design & Technology, Computing, Music, PE, Religion & Worldviews, History & Geography.

Alongside all of this, we are very much aware of the importance of ensuring the children are happy, safe and secure in school and to help us do this, we will be following our Hearts & Minds curriculum.  More information about our Hearts & Minds curriculum and our weekly planning can be found using this link: Hearts & Minds

Continuing the Learning Journey at home...

Week beginning: Monday 3rd February 2025

English:

• Phonics - Phase 5c Alternative Spellings of the 'ow' & 'ng' phonemes.  Tricky words for reading & spelling: through, thought, mouse & work.
• To create a leaflet about caring for dragons
• To write a description

Maths:

• Division

Science:

• Living things and their Habitats 

History / Geography:

• Geography - Why is our world wonderful?

DT / Art:

• Art - Van Gogh

Religion & Worldviews:

• What do candles mean to people?

Computing:

• Scratch Jr.

Hearts & Minds:

•  To understand what diversity is by reading 'The Great Big Book of Families'. 

Music:

• Instruments - Musical Story Telling

PE:

• Gymnastics (Tuesdays) - indoors 
• Multi-skills with NAR Sports Coaches (Wednesdays) - outdoors - weather depending.
• PLEASE NOTE: PE KITS will also be needed this Thursday for a one-off extra PE session.

Please send your child to school in their PE kit on these days.  Their coloured 'house' t-shirt, school or plain jogging/tracksuit bottoms or shorts (shorts are best for gym days), trainers or pumps and a Rode Heath hoodie or plain hoodie / zip-up jacket.  You may wish to send an extra water bottle on these days.  

Homework:

Please listen to your child read and help them to fill in their reading diaries.

Phonics & maths were both sent home this week as Maths was our week 1 cycle so activities have been set in your child's orange book.

Every Friday we will send phonics homework which will consolidate the learning from that week.  Maths will be on a two week cycle.

Week 1 maths will be written maths sent in the orange maths books and Week 2 activities will be set on Education City.

Log in details for Education City & Numbots are stuck inside your child's reading diary and they can use these at home anytime they wish.

Weekly Reminders:

• Please sign all of the relevant pages in your child's reading diary
• Please ensure book bags, books and reading diaries are in school daily.
• Please send your child with a snack for morning break.  Please no sweets, lollies or nuts including nutella based products.
• Please ensure your child has a water bottle in school everyday but please avoid putting this in bags as we've had some soggy books lately.
• Please read our class curriculum map in our files below to find out about our learning over the year.
• Please help your child to use our new maths program Numbots - log ins are stuck in your child's reading diary. 
• If your child has a Nessy login and letter, please help them to use this program at home. 

In order to find year group expectations for maths, please click here,scroll down and click on the overview. 

For year group expectations for English, please click here,scroll down and click on the overview. 

The expectations for science and the foundation subjects can be found by selecting the relevant heading from here.

Key Dates: 

Friday 7th February - NSPCC Number Day

Friday 14th February - Break for half term

Friday 28th February - School Disco

Thursday 6th March - World Book Day

Monday 10th March - Friday 14th March - Science Week

Wednesday 12th & 19th March - Parent Consultation Evenings

Please email our admin staff for urgent messages or pass these to a member of the KS1 team on the door.

Alternatively, you can write a note in your child's reading diary but please remember these will be checked on a weekly basis and therefore more important messages should be sent to our admin team who will forward these on.  

Thank you for your continued support.

Kind regards,

Miss Moss

Engineering

Don't forget to visit our Think Like an Engineer website regularly to see what we're all busy doing: 

https://thinklikeanengineerproject.com