Diary dates

Tuesday 9th June - Year 2 Mosque trip
Wednesday 17th June - HIS Sports morning
Monday 22nd June - Year 2 Music event in collaboration with CST (at Trinity Academy)
Monday 22nd June - Year 2 to Year 3 transition parents information evening at HJS at 3:30
Thursday 25th June - Year 2 will visit their new Year 3 teachers
Monday 29th June - Inset day - school closed to children
Thursday 9th July - Open classrooms event after school (opportunity to visit current and new classrooms with your child to familiarise them and you with their new environments.
Thursday 16th July - Year 2 performance to parents
Monday 20th July - Year 2 leavers assembly at
Wednesday 22nd July - Last day of school

English

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: /or/ sound spelt ‘al’ 
Walk
Ball
Small
Tall
talk
Lesson 2: Using the /ar/ sound to spell words
harder
start
marked
arms
Lesson 3: When to use ‘are’ at the end of words
Spare
Squar
Dar
bare

​Writing
We will write our recounts of our mosque trip. We will aim to use first person, amazing adjectives and noun phrases, adverbs and time connectives.

Reading
We will not have any whole class reading sessions this week. Teachers will prioritise individual and guided reading tailored to each child’s needs. We will also carry out some reading comprehension assessments.

Maths

This week each class will be starting a different unit (this will allow us to not need to share the clocks we have between classes).
Maple class are learning Statistics:
-To read and interpret pictograms where each picture represents one item.
-To read and interpret pictograms where each picture represents 2, 5 or 10 items (using our knowledge of counting in 2s, 5s and 10s).
-Assessment of unit

Sycamore class are learning Time:
-To tell the time past the hour to 5 minute intervals on an analogue clock.

-To tell the time to the hour to 5 minute intervals on an analogue clock.

Supporting at home
Both classes would benefit from having an analogue clock around the home. For Maple Class practising telling o’clock and half past times ahead of our unit to ensure they are secure before we move on would help. For Sycamore reinforcing the times we are learning in class would be helpful.

The language of past (not to be confused with ‘past’ in history!) and to can be confusing for children so please reinforce that they mean…

Wider Curriculum

R+WV: Visiting the mosque
PE: Shine PE and ‘Striking and Fielding Games’
Science: Plants. What can happen if plants don’t get the things they need?
Geography: Map keys: how can we show what a place is like?
Music: Starting to learn songs for our Year 2 performance and for our Year 2 music event with the trust