Year 2 - Cedar and Lime
Welcome back Lime and Cedar Class!
Happy New Year to everyone! Hope you have all enjoyed a lovely Christmas holiday.
Please note changes to Year 2 PE days for the Spring Term 2023
Wednesday- Lime and Cedar Class- outdoor PE
Thursday - Lime and Cedar Class- indoor PE
New Spellings
All children will receive a paper copy of their new spellings for this term on Friday 7th January. They will also be on available to download on the website. Spellings will be closely linked to Little Wandle Phonics or our spelling scheme 'No Nonsense Spelling'.
Homework Expectations In Year 2 
- Regular reading (x3 times a week)
- Spelling practise for a weekly test (Friday)
- Times tables for a weekly test (Friday)
(The times table test will include 5 mixed questions from either the x2 table, x10 or x5 table.)
This test will be completed in the back of red spelling books.
Below are some useful times tables websites.
This half term's spellings. All should children also have their own paper copy of these spellings.
Welcome
Welcome to Year Two
Lime Class
Teacher-Miss Maw
Teaching assistant- Mrs Standage
Cedar Class
Teachers Miss Leach/Mrs Rodriguez (Monday)
Teaching assistant- Mrs Howlett
Reminders
- Please ensure that all school uniform and PE kit are fully named
This Term's Learning
Our next topic is...
Stomp In The Swamp!
This week in Year 2 (Week beginning 23rd January 2023)
English
Now we have created our own characters we are ready to plan, write and edit our own Somethingosaur stories.
Maths
This week in Maths we will be learning about how multiplication and division are good friends and work closely together. We will be learning to draw arrays to help solve division and multiplication equations.
Topic
Over the course of the Spring term the children will be learning about the fascinating world of dinosaurs drawing in all the different areas of the national curriculum.
Science- The children will learn about different life processes, living and non- living, animal habitats. The children will create their own habitats and think about how do animals survive in their habitats?
Art- Famous architect Gaudi
-The artist and work of Andy Warhol
ICT- Programming A- Robot Algorithms
Design and Technology- To design and create a Jurassic moving vehicle
History- Why did dinosaurs become extinct? To create fact files and newspaper reports about Mary Anning.
PSHE- Working Together- Financial Capability
RE- Books and stories
Music- It's Zoo Time!
PE- Indoors- Gymnastics
Outdoors- Fundamental skills
PE
- Cedar and Lime indoor PE is on Thursday
- Cedar and Lime outdoor PE is on Wednesday
Children are expected to arrive in school PE uniform on the above PE days. Please click here for details