(Year 2) Cygnus

Welcome to Cygnus

Year 2

Staffing:

Mondays: Miss Oddy

Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays & Friday: Mrs Goddard

All week: Ms Fallon

Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays & Fridays: Mrs Stephenson

Tuesday afternoon: Mrs Meah

Curriculum

English~ Our topic this term is SPACE.

We will be covering a variety of fictional and non-fictional texts in our reading and writing.

Poetry ~ Enjoyment and choice.

Punctuation/ spellings ~ Capital letters, full stops, commas, question marks.

Grammar ~ Nouns and noun phrases, verbs, adjectives.

Maths~ We will be consolidating our work on subtraction and addition, before moving onto multiplication, and division. Maths topic work will begin with ‘time.’

Science ~ Materials. Living things and their habitats.

Geography ~ Maps and simple map reading. There will be a local walk later this term.

Our place in the UK.

Art and design ~  Designing alien glove puppets.

IT  ~Word processing. Online safety.

Physical Education ~ PE is currently on Mondays and Fridays. Please bring PE kits into school on Mondays and leave in school for the rest of the week.

Music ~ Perform simple accompaniments/ singing

Please ensure PE kits, pumps and trainers are in school every week and also that the children’s uniform is named.

                                                       Homework

Homework will be generally be set on Monday and needs to be handed in by the following Wednesday.

Please continue to practice reading with the bugclub books and using Numbots.                                 

Sport and Physical Education

In Key Stage One we expect all the children to be in the correct P.E kit.

This consists of:

OUTDOOR ~ Tracksuit (blue), team polo shirt and trainers (essential).

INDOOR ~ shorts (blue), team polo shirt and trainers for this term as the children need to be in these for skipping.

 Water bottles

All the children need a water bottle, as they need regular drinks during P.E lessons and in class too. Please could you make sure your child’s bottle is labelled. The children need to take their bottles home every day.               

We hope you have found all this information helpful. Please feel free to come and see a member of Cygnus staff if you have any questions or worries.

We are looking forward to continuing to work with you this term.

Year 2 staff

Spelling

Just to keep you updated, the way we teach spellings has changed. We will now teach the children a new spelling rule each week and send these home with the children. This is a whole school approach as we have recently purchased a new spelling scheme. Therefore we won’t be having a traditional spelling test each week as we want to encourage the children to use the spellings in their writing as much as possible. Thank you for your ongoing support.

Kind Regards,

Cygnus Staff