Mrs. Johnson - Teacher
Miss Amos - Teacher
Mrs Addison - Teaching Assistant (1:1)
Mr. Hodgson - Teaching assistant (1:1)
Hello everyone. We hope you have all had a wonderful and restful Easter break. We are looking forward to welcoming the children back and fingers crossed we may see some warmer weather too! It will be lovely to see the children in their summer uniforms.
Just a few points to draw your attention to if we may.
Firstly, PE days have changed to a MONDAY and THURSDAY.
With the weather (hopefully) getting warmer, please ensure that your child has a water bottle in school. It really is essential that they can drink throughout the day, when they need to. Also, please can they still bring a light waterproof coat to school every day.
This half term we have some exciting texts to read in literacy. We will spend the first 2 weeks completing our work on the book “Tadpole’s Promise”
We will use Tadpole’s promise as a stimulus for writing some descriptive settings of a pond using expanded noun phrases. We will write about the life cycle of a frog and link to science. Finally, we will retell parts of the story- so developing our story writing technique.
Following this, our next book is called “Bear and the piano”. This is a wonderful book that we know the children will just love! In our unit on the “Bear and the piano” we will develop our technique in writing letters: from the bear to his family and friends back home.
Some of our children will have daily phonics lessons, in order to develop fluency in reading and writing. But for those children who have passed the fluency test in reading, they will begin to read longer texts and practice important comprehension skills and techniques!
In our class reader, we will complete our Non-fiction text “FANATICAL ABOUT FROGS!”
In maths, we will begin a new unit on multiplication and division.
As a school we alternate the teaching of history and geography. This half term our focus will be geography.
In geography we will learn about the city of Sydney (Australia). Which country is it in? Which continent? We will learn about some of the human and physical features of this fabulous city! We will have fun learning about the rather unique climate and then discuss why some tourists may go and visit there!
In Science we will learn about materials.
In our music sessions we will continue to work with Liverpool Cathedral to learn some new songs and learn important terms such as dynamics and tempo.
Please refer to our half termly curriculum map for information on other curriculum areas!
Homework will be sent home weekly.
Spellings will go home on Mondays. The children will have a spelling test on a Friday. We encourage the children to regularly practice at home. Look at the word, cover it up, then try to spell. Regular practice really helps!
Maths/English will be sent home or set online on a Friday to be completed and returned to school for Monday.
Reading books will be sent home on a WEDNESDAY. Please return on MONDAY the following week. Again, practice at home really is essential. We appreciate and welcome comments by parents/ carers in the reading record book.
All children now have their Reading Eggs login and they will be able to access this at home too.
As you know, we have a class dojo system. We will use class dojo to communicate regarding homework and other matters. We may also want to send you a message to let you know how well your child is doing and recognise particular efforts and achievements. Please ensure you are signed up to class dojo. If you need further information, please contact the school office by email or telephone.
Points to note: Your children will need to bring a clearly labelled water bottle as it is vital that your child feels hydrated each day. Your child will need their coat each day during these cold winter days!
All children should come to school wearing their PE kits on the days when they have their PE lesson. In Year 2, this is each Monday and Thursday.
Please feel free to contact us at any time.
Thank you. The YEAR 2 team!
Sylvester Primary Academy
St Johns Road
Huyton
Knowsley
L36 0UX
Tel: 0151 477 8320
Email: sylvester@knowsley.gov.uk