Term 4

Hello and welcome back to Term 4!

I am looking forward to a fantastic term filled with exciting learning, creativity and new experiences as we begin our journey towards Easter.

This term, our writing will be inspired by the beautiful story Grandad’s Island. The children will develop their storytelling skills while learning to use both familiar and new punctuation accurately, including apostrophes for possession. We will explore different sentence types — statements, questions, exclamations and commands — and practise using expanded noun phrases to add detail and description. Pupils will also build confidence using present and past tense correctly. Later in the term, we will apply these skills to writing an engaging animal information text all about jungle animals. To finish the term, we will follow and write our own instructions after the exciting real-life experience of making Easter cakes, using imperative verbs to guide the reader.

In maths, we will continue our multiplication and division learning, with a particular focus on division. We will then move on to geometry, where children will identify, sort and explore the features of 2D and 3D shapes and create repeating patterns. To end the term, we will develop our understanding of money through practical and problem-solving activities.

Our afternoons will be full of discovery across the wider curriculum. In geography, we will become world explorers, learning about continents, oceans and the Equator before travelling virtually to Kenya and comparing it with life in the United Kingdom.

In science, we will learn about animals, including humans, and investigate what living things need to survive and stay healthy. Linking with this learning in Design and Technology, children will design and create their own delicious fruit salad.

In PSHE, we will explore citizenship and what it means to be part of a community. Computing lessons will see us creating music using technology, while in RE we will be learning about why Easter is important to Christians. In PE, children will develop teamwork and coordination through invasion games, alongside practising their sending and receiving skills.

Enrichment this term will be with Mr Alfieri where the children will be going to the allotment.

Key information:

• PE days will now be on a Tuesday and a Thursday. Please wear PE kit on both those days.
• Enrichment/Allotment – as the children will be going to the allotment with Mr Alfieri on Fridays could children, please wear allotment clothing and appropriate footwear.
• Please bring in wellies for playtime and lunchtime if your child wishes to go on the field.
• Spellings and homework will be the same as last term and will be sent out on Fridays.
• Our Reading Heroes challenge will continue, if children read 4 times a week they get 1 sticker and if they read 7 times a week they will get 2 stickers. When they get 10 stickers they will receive a reading hero award in assembly and move onto the next colour challenge.
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I am excited for a busy and fun term ahead and look forward to sharing the children’s learning and achievements with you. As always, please do not hesitate to contact me via ClassDojo or via the school office if you have any questions.

Thank you.

Term 3

Happy New Year and welcome to Term 3. I hope you all had a brilliant Christmas; I look forward to hearing all about it and wish you all a warm welcome to 2026.

This term we will be travelling back in time to 1666 and exploring what happened during the Great Fire of London. This will be a theme across several of our subjects for the term. As part of our literacy, we will be writing our own newspaper reports about the key events during the Great Fire of London followed by a story based on the Great Fire of London. Our history lessons will support our writing by learning all about London in 1666, exploring housing, the timeline of events for the Great Fire of London, differing viewpoints, read some of Samuel Pepys diary entries and finally we will design and rebuild London. In our design technology lessons, we will be using wheels and axles to design and create our own fire engines that might have helped prevent the spread of the Great Fire of London. In art, we will explore colour mixing and use the skills learnt to create some wonderful Great Fire of London scenes.

In maths, we will complete our unit on time and then move on to multiplication where we will focus on equal groups, arrays and doubling. Finally, we will explore division looking at sharing, grouping and dividing by 2, 5 and 10.

As part of our wider curriculum, we will be exploring how to stay safe both online and in person as part of PHSE, What is the good news that Jesus brings in RE, expanding our French with Madam Honorez and in PE we will be developing our gymnastics skills with Mrs Hibbitt and learning yoga with Mr Starkey as part of this terms enrichment.

Enrichment this term will be our second PE session of the week with Mr Starkey. PE days will be Tuesdays and Fridays.

This term we will also have a termly project focusing on our topic of The Great Fire of London. I am going to be inviting the children to create something (a craft creation, lego, a written creation, baked goods, figures or anything else they fancy) that demonstrates something to do with the Great Fire of London. It can be as big or as little as you like, the main focus for the project is for the children to enjoy making something to share with the class.

Key information: 

• PE will be on Tuesdays and Fridays. Please wear PE kit on both those days. 

• Please bring in spare outdoor footwear, such as wellies or boots, for playtime and lunchtime if your child wishes to go on the field. 

• Spellings and homework will be the same as last term and will be sent out on Fridays. 

• Our Reading Heroes challenge will continue, if children read 4 times a week they get 1 sticker/spot and if they read 7 times a week they will get 2 stickers/spots. When they get 10 stickers/spots they will receive a prize in assembly and move onto the next colour challenge. 

As always if you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact me on ClassDojo or via the office.

Thank you.

Term 2 

Hello and welcome back to Term 2. I can’t believe we’re already in term 2 but I hope you have all had a lovely half term break and the children are looking forward to returning to school.

We have a busy but very exciting term ahead of us in the build up to Christmas, one of my favourite times of the year. 

We will start the term with a focus on Remembrance Day, writing our own poems, learning more about the history of Remembrance and creating our own mono prints of poppies. As we progress through the term, we will start to focus on Christmas taking part in the whole school Christmas story writing and of course taking centre stage in the nativity performance.  

In Literacy we will write poetry for remembrance, followed by a setting description based on The Night Gardener and finally we will team up with the whole school to write part of a Christmas themed story. In maths we will continue to deepen our understanding of addition and subtraction and look at exploring time.

Our afternoons will be spent exploring the wider curriculum. In science we will be building on the children’s previous learning of everyday materials, RE explores whether Christmas is a festival of light or love. Art will see the children design and create their own mono prints with a Remembrance theme. History will be exploring Remembrance in more detail. PHSE focuses on health and wellbeing and of course PE twice a week focusing on dance and working towards our Nativity performance with the Acorn and Cherry Tree teams. Enrichment will be with Mr Platt where the children will be exploring computing. 

Key information: 

• PE will be on Tuesdays and Thursdays. Please wear PE kit on both those days. 

• Please bring in spare outdoor footwear, such as wellies or boots, for playtime and lunchtime if your child wishes to go on the field. 

• Spellings and homework will be the same as last term and will be sent out on Fridays. 

• Our Reading Heroes challenge will continue, if children read 4 times a week they get 1 sticker/spot and if they read 7 times a week they will get 2 stickers/spots. When they get 10 stickers/spots they will receive a prize in assembly and move onto the next colour challenge. 

As always, please do not hesitate to contact me via ClassDojo or via the school office if you have any questions. 

I look forward to seeing everyone on Monday and starting our next exciting term together. 

Thank you. 

Hello everyone and a warm welcome to the Beech Class webpage for 2025/26.

I hope you all had an enjoyable summer. We have a fabulous year ahead of us in year 2. I am really excited to be teaching your fantastic children. We will be joined in the classroom by Miss Harper who the children know already from previous years.

I will update the website with information termly but for more up to date information, photographs and notices please see ClassDojo.  I look forward to getting to know you all.

Mrs Jones

Term 1

During the first term, our main topic is ‘What makes Leicester a special city?’ During this geography unit, we will explore and identify different geographical features, including the continents and oceans. We will also be making comparisons between different areas of the UK.

In maths, we will focus on developing our knowledge of place value before moving onto addition activities. In literacy, we will recap the objectives covered in year 1 through the story A River by Marc Martin. The children will then learn how to write a non-chronological report.

We will be taking part in the whole school art project where we will explore the work of Giuseppe Arcimboldo and then create our own self portrait in the style of his work.

The other subjects covered in term 1 include RE (Who is Jewish and how do they live?), Science (Living things and their habitats), Design and Technology, PE, PSHE and French.

Other important information:

• Please remember to bring a water bottle and a healthy named snack. No nuts please.
• Once provided please bring reading books, reading record and learning journal to school on Mondays and Fridays (Reading records and books will be given out w/c 1st September).
• Please remember to bring a pair of outdoor shoes/wellies when the weather gets wetter.
• Our PE days are Mondays and Tuesdays, and the children are to come to school wearing their kit that day.
• Homework: Daily reading, maths and Spelling will be given each week (Homework will start from w/c 1st September and will be given out on a Friday).
• Please ensure you order your child’s school meals every week via www.lovefoodltd.com unless you are supplying your child with a home packed lunch.

If you have any questions please do not hesitate to get in touch via ClassDojo or the school office.

Many thanks,

Mrs Jones