Hedgehogs
Hello and welcome to the class page for Hedgehogs class, formerly known as Year 2.
Meet the Staff
Miss C Jephson - Year Two class teacher (Monday and Tuesday) and KS1 co-ordinator.
Mrs M Deverill - Year Two class teacher (Wednesday, Thursday and Friday)
Mrs J Parker - Teaching Assistant
Miss N Goates-Foulds - Teaching Assistant
Miss Jephson and Mrs Deverill are the class teachers in Hedgehogs class. We also have a dedicated team of teaching assistants working with children in our class at different times during the day. Mrs Parker will be working in class on Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday. Miss Goates-Foulds will work in Hedgehogs class every morning and all day on a Wednesday.
In a morning the gates will be open between 8.35am and 8.40am. Please say goodbye to your children on the playground and they will walk around to enter the classroom via the cloakroom. Parents are not allowed to accompany them from the playground.
This term’s topic;
Welcome Aboard!
Autumn 1 homework
Sticky Knowledge Organiser Welcome Aboard Autumn 1 timetable
PE this term is on a Monday and a Tuesday. Please wear your PE uniform on these days and ensure that earrings are removed.
Week 1
What is Titanic? How do boats float?
We will watch a Blue Peter video to find out about Titanic. We will then test the children's boats that they built for their holiday challenge to see if they float. We will investigate a range of materials in a floating and sinking investigation too - making predictions before observing what actually happens.
Week 2
What countries make up the UK? Which of these countries did Titanic visit?
Week 3
What are the seven continents of the world? Which continents did Titanic sail to?
We will learn another song but this time to help us remember the names and locations of the seven continents of the world. Again we will use atlases to label our own maps and we will learn where Titanic sailed from and to.
Week 4
What are the names of the oceans and seas in the world?
This week we will locate the five oceans of the world on a map and learn a song to help us remember the names of the ocean. We will locate where Titanic struck the iceberg and sank.
Week 5
How did the captain know which way to go? What is a compass?
This week is about compass directions, we will look at a compass and learn North, South, East and West. We will use compass directions to follow a route around a map.
Week 6
What route did Titanic follow? Which seas, oceans, continents and countries did this include?
To bring all of our learning together, we will make our own paper plate world maps and mark on Titanic's journey.
Week 7
Who sailed on the Titanic?
We will use a range of evidence sources to establish what it was like to travel on Titanic as a first class and third class passenger.
Art/DT
This half term we will be doing weaving. We will firstly learn what weaving is, we will practise weaving with paper and create our own looms. We will then design and weave our own 'under the sea' inspired art work.
Science
Our Science work for this half term focusses on animals including humans. We will learn what humans need in order to survive and will learn about animals offspring - matching adults and their babies. We will learn about the human life cycle and how animals change as they grow. We will investigate the effect of exercise on our bodies and learn why it is important to exercise.
PSHE
This half term we will be exploring what makes us unique and how we are different from others but that it is good to be different. We will explore all the different ways in which we are unique and what makes us, us.
Sticky Knowledge Organiser being meICT
We will use Purple Mash and our unit of work will be the internet where children will be introduced to the purpose of the internet, how to access it and how to use it safely and effectively. We will then move on to route explorers.
RE
This half term we will be learning about who is a Muslim and what do they believe.
PE
This term we will do karate on a Monday and Hockey on a Tuesday.
Don't forget to come to school in your PE uniform on these days!
Literacy
We will be reading Samson's Titanic Journey and Polar the Titanic Bear. We will be focussing much of our written work on learning punctuation and grammar skills - learning about nouns and verbs and how to punctuate sentences.
We will teach phonics to the whole class together. Some children will work in a separate small group to receive precision teaching and catch up teaching. We will deliver same day intervention catch up sessions for children who require this.
We will begin with a recap of level 5 phonics, focussing on gaps identified through assessments at the end of year 1. We will then move onto level 6 phonics.
Below we will attach parent information sheets which will explain the learning for each week in phonics so you can support your child at home.
In school we will listen to your child read their reading book at least once every week, please make sure that it is in school every day. Please support your child with reading by listening to them read regularly at home. Just a couple of pages every day makes a huge difference to their confidence. Remember to record on the Go read app or Boom reader website every time you hear your child read as these signatures will move your child around our 'Readopoly' board. Reading is the most important piece of homework you can do with your child at this age as reading is the key that unlocks all other areas of learning. To be successful writers, children first have to be confident and successful readers so your support is invaluable.
Click here to read our literacy 'Always skills' for Year 2. These are what we expect in every piece of writing from children working within year 2 expectations.
Help at Home
You can help your child at home by:
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Practising common exception words - reading and spelling.
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Talk about what they are learning in class that week.
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Encourage your child to read out any writing they complete at home to check it makes sense.
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Read with your child at least 3 times a week.
Mathematics
In Maths the objectives we will looking at this half term are:
* Recognise the place value of each digit in a two-digit number (tens, ones).
* Count in steps of 2,3 and 5 from 0, and in tens from any number, forward and backward.
* Compare and order numbers from 0 to 100; use <,> and = signs.
* Read and write numbers to at least 100 in numerals and words.
* Using concrete objects and pictorial representations, including those involving numbers, quantities and measures.
* Add and subtract numbers using concrete objects, pictorial representations and mentally, including:
- a two digit number and ones
- a two digit number and tens
* Compare and order lengths
*Choose and use appropriate standard units to estimate and measure length/height in any direction (m/cm).
* Recognise and use symbols for pounds (£) and pence (p); combine amounts to make a particular value.
* Find different combinations of coins that equal the same amounts of money.
* Identify and describe the properties of 2d shapes, including the number of sides.
* Compare and sort common 2D shapes.
Help at Home
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Talking about the learning they have done in class.
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Practising counting in 2's, 5's and 10's and learn them as times tables
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Practise recalling addition and number facts to 20.
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Encouraging your child to count - add money, count out objects, calculate how many will be left, estimate how many there are etc...
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Practise telling the time.
Click here to read our maths non-negotiables for year 2
Homework
Learning Log Challenges will be given out at the beginning of term and the children can select which activities they would like to do to make a given total of points! These activities need to be returned to school by the end of the term!
Year 2 expectations
Coppice Values
Each week we have a new value – 12 in total. The children will have an assembly Monday morning about how to show and give respect to others both in school and at home! We will be expecting this to be demonstrated to all members of our Coppice community, it is important that even when we move onto a new value, the old one isn’t lost.
Diary Dates
Friday 4th September- INSET Day School closed.
Monday 7th September- INSET Day. School closed.
Tuesday 8th September- Start of the Autumn Term. School Open