Welcome back after Easter, this is our final term of this academic year. The children have worked very hard and I am proud of what they have achieved. Let’s hope for some sunshine and lots of fun.
Oak Class have 2 themes running over the Summer Term: Enormous Turnip and Castles and Dragons.
Newsletters:
Trip: 3rd July – Chirk Castle
wc 20th May – Year 2 SATs
wc 10th June – Phonic Screening Check
Summer 2 – Castles and Dragons
| Literacy | Description writing based on castles and dragons. Writing a letter inviting someone to come and visit a castle. Labelling. Suffixes: ed, ing, er, est. Adverbs and expanded noun phrases. |
| Maths | Addition and Subtraction. Multiplication and Division including fractions of amounts. Number and Place Value. Bar graphs. |
| Science | Find facts about the Sun; explore & investigate shadows and how they change during the day. Identify seasons & months of the year. |
| Geography and History (Topic) | History – Castles – Chirk Castle visit.
Geography – Find a route to Chirk castle from West Felton. Follow a map around the grounds of Chirk Castle. Devise a simple map and use and construct basic symbols in a key. |
| Art and DT | Junk modelling. Using graphite and charcoal to sketch a castle. |
| Computing/ ICT | Internet safety. Copying pictures and learning to save. Creating PowerPoint presentations. |
| Music | Musical instruments. Rhythm and Pulse. Drumming. |
| PE | Cool Kids/ Wake up Shake up
PE with Johnny Hughes and Superstars. |
| RE | Explore: Why are some places special?
Thinking about what places are special to us. Looking at Ceremonies, Symbols, Worship & religious leaders in places of worship. The story of King David (David & Goliath) |
| PSHE | SEAL: Changes
People who help us: historians, archaeologists Danger awareness: sun stroke/ sunburn/ looking directly at the sun Life skills: protecting yourself from the sun (slip, slap, slop) |
Summer 1 – Enormous Turnip
Forest School will run for 3 weeks during the Summer Term 1.
| Literacy | Instructional writing and a story: Using bullet points and commas to create lists. Features of writing. Imperative verbs (bossy words), time connectives and adverbs. Traditional language, sentence types, adjectives and word types, story mapping/ walk and speech bubbles. |
| Maths | 2D and 3D shapes, Time, Addition and Subtraction, Multiplication and Division (halving Year 1), Measuring length, days of the week, months of the year, fractions, sequence events of time and number value. |
| Science | Naming and identifying parts of the plant, what a plant needs to survive and investigating a plant’s growth. |
| Geography and History (Topic) | Charles Darwin
Identifying the 7 continents and 5 oceans. |
| Art and DT | Sketching a seed from observation. Printing with vegetables. |
| Computing/ ICT | Internet safety. Building independence using computers. Drawing and writing using keyboard and mouse on 2paint. |
| Music | Musical instruments. |
| PE | Cool Kids/ Wake up Shake up
PE with Johnny Hughes and Forest School. |
| RE | Explore: Is there a God? Why do we think God is important to some people? What do we know about God? Why is a church a holy place? Why do religious people think that God cares for all his people? Who are we important to and who is important to us? |
| PSHE | SEAL: Relationships : Say no to bullying
People who help us: botanists Danger awareness: eating/ handling poisonous/ prickly plants Life skills: washing hands after handling plants /growing & cooking food/ flower arranging |
| Worship | Service |