Happy Friday!

We have had a fun and busy week; the children have worked extremely hard.

Please see below photos taken of the children enjoying programming and debugging with the Bee-Bots.

Please find below a brief outline of the topics the children will be covering over the next term.

 English

We will be continuing our topic on The Minpins by Roald Dhal creating information reports and postcards. Our next book will be The Owl and the Pussy-cat by Edward Lear and the children will create letters, lists and instructions.

 Maths

Continuing our topic on multiplication and division then we will at start a new topic on length, height, capacity and temperature.

 Science

Animals including humans continued.

 Geography

Life in the city.

 PSHE

Healthy me.

 RE

The Easter Story, Shabbat and Passover.

 ICT

Data and information - Pictograms

D&T

Design and create a balanced healthy pizza.

Home Learning – to continue to practise the 2, 5 and 10 times tables.

Spellings for the first week back.

Group 1 – with, what, when.

Group 2 – other, mother, brother, nothing, Monday, money, cover, honey, discover, wonder.

Wishing everyone one a fun and restful half term.

From the Year 2 team.

Good afternoon everyone,

In English, the children have completed their detailed non-chronological reports on Bears, which are now displayed in the classroom.

Next week, the children will be creating danger posters and character descriptions based on our class text, The Minpins.

In Maths, the children have been learning to group objects and were introduced to division. Next week, they will continue this learning by making equal groups, grouping and sharing, and learning to divide by 2.

In Computing next week, the children will create and debug a program that they have written themselves.

In Science next week, the children will describe the importance of eating the right amounts of food by exploring different food groups.

Next week is Mental Health and Wellbeing Week. We will be taking part in a variety of activities, including lessons linked to Safer Internet Day.

Unfortunately, due to unforeseen circumstances, we were unable to attend the workshop at Christ Church. This will be rearranged for later in the year.

Spellings for Friday:

Group 1: all, ball, small, wall

Group 2: patting, patted, humming, hummed, dropping, dropped, sadder, saddest, runner, runny.

From
The Year 2 Team