Next Week in Year 2

Happy New Year!

Week beginning: 20th January 2025

Monday - Wear normal school uniform

Tuesday - Wear PE kit for gymnastics

Wednesday - Wear normal school uniform

Thursday - Wear normal school uniform

Friday - Wear PE kit suitable for outside games

Curriculum

English -  We will read a new story, The Tunnel by Anthony Browne. The children will generate and choose appropriate adjectives to describe the forest in the story, they will write expanded noun phrases and then write a setting description.

Please return reading practice books on Tuesday, new books will be sent home on Wednesday.

Spelling - Adding the suffix -ed to words ending in y, the y changes to an i if it makes /ee/ or /igh/, if the y is part of a digraph (e.g. ay) just add -ed. 

Maths - The children will learn that multiplication equations are made of 2 factors which multiply to gve the product (factor x factor = product), we will help the children to understad this by using the analogy that the factory makes the product, they will use their knowledge of factors to identfy the product and solve multiplication problems.  Click here for a fun place value game to play: Shark Numbers https://ictgames.com/sharkNumbers/mobile/index.html

Science - The children will identify the materials used to build a house and explain (using Scientific vocabuary linked to the materials properties) why the material has been used.

History - The children will answer the question - What would Bernard Lovell and his family have seen in Holmes Chapel when Jodrell Bank was being built? by sorting photos of Holmes Chapel into groups showing what was in Holmes Chapel in the 1950s and what was not in Holmes Chapel in the 1950s.

Computing – The children will create a Piet Mondrian inspired masterpiece.

RE - The children will continue to learn about Islam by answering the question - Does praying at regular intervals help a Muslim in his/ her everyday life?