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.

This term we will be travelling back in time to 1666 and exploring what happened during the Great Fire of London. 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 maths we be moving on to multiplication where 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 Tennis skills alongside games skills with Mr Starkey.

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

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. 

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. 

In Literacy we will write poetry for remembrance, 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, including using the column method. 

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 why Christmas is important to Christians, Art will see the children design and create their own mono prints, History will be exploring Remembrance, PHSE focuses on health and wellbeing and of course PE twice a week focusing on balance and points of contact. 

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 in the morning and starting our next exciting term together. 

Thank you. 

Hello everyone and a warm welcome to the Beech Class webpage for 2024/25.

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 Mrs Gordon and Mrs Gale 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.

The other subjects covered in term 1 include RE (Who is Jewish and how do they live?), PE (Invasion games and footwork), Science (Living things and their habitats), 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 4^th 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 2^nd 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