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Project Overview

This term our REAL Project has a Science, History and Art/DT focus. In science the children will be learning about different materials and their uses. In history they will be focusing on The Great Fire of London and Samuel Pepys. In Art/DT they will be model making and creating silhouette pictures. We launched our project with a trip to the fire station which the children thoroughly enjoyed.

Project Timeline

Project launch- trip to the fire station Mini-outcome 1 – History: research and produce an article about The Great Fire of London Mini-outcome 2 – PSHE/RE: Create a class rules charter Mini-outcome 3 – Art/DT: Recreate ‘Pudding Lane’ through building models and silhouette pictures Final outcome – Write whole-school playground rules

Curriculum Links

English – Information Text – simple sentences – Great Fire of London Instructions – how to make a junk model house Poetry – fire and fireworks Narrative – Samuel Pepys Letter – Fr. Christmas Description – child during the Great Fire

Maths – numbers within 100; addition and subtraction within 100; measure and graphs Science Identify and compare the suitability of a variety of everyday materials To recognise how we can change the shape of materials

History  – Events beyond living memory that are significant nationally

Geography – Name, locate and identify the four countries and capital cities of the United Kingdom

Art and Design – To use a range of materials creatively to design and make products To use drawing, painting and sculpture to develop and share their ideas, experiences and imagination To develop a wide range of art and design techniques in using colour, pattern, texture, line, shape, form and space

Important Dates

10.9.19 &12.9.19 – Trip to the fire station

4.11.19  -Return to school Week commencing

9.12.19  -Visit nursing home – children to perform songs

20.12.19 – Break up for the end of term

25.10.19  =Break up for Half Term

Reading

All the children have now read in school and have books to take home. Each week your child will be given a reading book to share at home. Please help us by writing in the blue homeschool reading record when you read with your child. This helps a lot because we can then move the children on to new books more quickly. Please encourage your child to bring their reading book bag into school every day – we never know when we will be able to squeeze an extra read in.

Spellings

Spellings will be sent home on Fridays and the children will be tested on them the following Friday. There are lots of ways to help your child to learn their spellings; some ideas are: use the ‘look, cover, write, check’ method (where you look at the word and say the letters, the word is then covered up and your child tries to remember the word and writes it down then you check whether the word was spelt correctly); when more confident that your child can spell the words, see how many times they can write the word in 30 seconds (the children love this one!); chant the letters of the word whilst marching, clapping, stamping etc.

Computing Coding Online safety Spreadsheets

Design and Technology – select from and use a range of tools and equipment to perform practical tasks – generate, develop, model and communicate their ideas through talking, drawing, templates, mock-ups and, where appropriate, information and communication technology

PE

Our PE lesson is on Thursday. This year we are asking that the children leave their PE kits in school for the half term. The Daily Mile will take place at some point in the week. Please make sure that all your child’s clothing and footwear is clearly named (not just PE kits). Getting 30 children changed for PE is so much easier if we can find everyone’s clothes at the end of the day!

Birthdays

We love celebrating special days with the children. We would really appreciate it if, when you send cakes into school to share, that they are already cut into pieces. Keeping up-to-date with us!

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Thank you for your continued support!

Year 2 Teachers: Mrs Roche (Y2 Fir) Miss Donaghy (Y2 Cedar) Year 2 Teaching Assistants: Mrs Doyle & Miss Ashcroft.

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