Diary dates

Wednesday 1st April: Year 2 trip to Bristol Zoo Project.
Thursday 2nd April: Last day of school. Non-uniform
Monday 20th April: Back to school

In Term 5, we are hoping that we will be able to do PE outside. Please make sure your child has appropriate footwear in their PE bag at the beginning of Term 5. We will be sending PE kits home during the Easter holiday to be washed. 

Trip Details

With our trip to Bristol Zoo Project coming up next week we are just emailing with details of things your child will need to bring.

Please be aware that children will be carrying their own things during the day so pack light and please ensure they have helped to pack their bag so that they know where everything is.

They will need:

1. A rucksack with straps (that everything fits inside - please ensure space for if they remove layers of clothing or their coat)

2. A waterproof coat - preferably lightweight 

3. A packed lunch (no nut products, including no hummus and checking seeded bread to ensure no sesame seeds)

4. A water bottle

5. Applying sun cream before school and sending a sun hat dependent on weather that day.

6. School uniform is to be worn on the top half, but children can wear comfortable joggers (or similar) on the bottom half.

7. Comfortable shoes (no open toed shoes)

8. No toys and no money to be brought please.

Please ensure everything is named as we will endeavour to keep an eye out for things that might have been put down as we are moving around.

Any parent helpers should have been informed - please make sure you have the items above for yourself too!

English

Phonics: Revisiting as needed in each class
Spelling
Spelling is a real focus at this point in the year in Year 2. Please support your child at home by helping them to practise the spelling rules listed below.
Lesson 1: Teach -el and -le at the end of words
-le is more common but -el does come at the end of some multisyllabic words

Lesson 2: Teach -al at the end of words
natural
comical
magical
metal

Lesson 3: Teach -il at the end of words. This ending is less common.
pupil
pencil 
council
gerbil
nostril

Writing
We will write up our non-chronological report about Mae Jemison using everything we have learnt over the last few weeks. 

Reading
We will continue our reading of the Sun & the Wind from Aesop’s fables. 

Maths

In maths, we are finishing off our learning about capacity and volume.
We will also look at how to read temperature in degrees celsius and using vocabulary hot, warm, cold, hottest, coldest.
We will also be carrying out assessment of our maths in this unit.

Supporting at home - please look at weather forecasts and notice the temperatures. Discuss how each temperature feels each day.

Wider Curriculum

R+WV: What can prayer mean?
PE: Shine PE and class PE gymnastics
DT: Making our chairs for baby bear and evaluating them.
Science: Our school trip to reinforce our learning about animals and their habitats.
Computing: Photo editing - we will be taking a photo and editing it using the illustrations of Anthony Browne (one of his illustrations below) as inspiration. We will change the photo to black and white and use pens to add a ‘pop’ of colour.