Mrs Jones

Welcome to Year 2!

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Welcome back and a very warm welcome to Year 2!

We hope you have all had a wonderful summer and are feeling excited for the year ahead. We are looking forward to a busy and exciting first term filled with engaging learning experiences, new challenges and lots of opportunities for the children to develop their confidence, independence and curiosity.

Things to Remember:

 

Daily Essentials

 

A labelled water bottle, these will be washed each day and returned home each half term.

A healthy snack should be brought each day. This must be fruit or another healthy alternative.

PE

 

PE lessons will take place on Tuesdays and Thursdays.

PE kits will be kept on classroom pegs and returned home at half term.

Forest School

 

Forest School will take place on Wednesdays and will begin during the week commencing 14th September. Forest school clothes should be brought into school in the morning and will be returned at the end of the day.

Reading

 

Reading books should be brought into school every day.
Reading books will be changed on Wednesdays.

We encourage you to read with your child at least three times each week, as regular reading is one of the best ways to support progress.

Homework

 

Homework will be sent home on Fridays and should be returned by Wednesday.

Library Books

 

A new library book will be issued each Friday and should be returned on Wednesday.

What We Will Be Learning This Term

 

English

 

We will be developing our reading, writing, speaking and listening skills through a range of exciting texts and activities. The children will have opportunities to write for different purposes whilst continuing to improve their spelling, punctuation and grammar skills.

Mathematics

 

This term we will be focusing on securing and developing our number skills to 100. We will also be learning about:

  1. Addition and subtraction
  2. Money
  3. Multiplication and division


History

Our history focus this half term is our local area and its history. We will be exploring how our local community has changed over time and discovering interesting facts about the place where we live.

Geography

 

In geography, we will be studying Magical Maps, where we will learn different ways to find our way around and develop our map-reading skills.

Science

 

Our science learning will include:

  • Uses of materials
  • Healthy lifestyles, including feeding, exercise and keeping ourselves healthy

Art 

We will be exploring the work of local artists, learning how to observe, appraise and form our own opinions about their artwork.

Design Technology

 

We will become designers as we create and make their very own hats, developing their planning, designing and evaluation skills.

Computing

 

We will be developing their computing skills by exploring how information technology is used in everyday life, including in homes, shops, libraries, and hospitals. They will learn about using technology responsibly and making safe choices online. In digital photography, children will capture, edit, and improve photographs while developing an understanding that not all images they see are real.

PSHE (Jigsaw)

 

We will be learning about Being Me in My World and Celebrating Differences.

 

PE

 

We will take part in dance and invasion games, building teamwork, coordination, and confidence.

 

RE

 

We will explore the question Who is a Muslim and what do they believe?

 

Music

 

We will explore a range of styles and genres, including South African music, Christmas music, Big Band, Motown, Elvis Presley, and Freedom Songs.

We are looking forward to sharing a fantastic year of learning with your children and working closely with you to ensure they have a happy, successful and rewarding Year 2 experience. Thank you for your continued support, and please do not hesitate to contact us if you have any questions.

Mrs Jones, Miss Ashmore, Mrs Clegg and Mrs Hartigan.
Categories 2J

Welcome back.

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Firstly, Happy New Year. We hope you had a restful half term break and are as excited as we are to get back to having fun through learning.

Here you will find information about what your child has been learning in Reception and how you can help them at home. This page will be updated with information about current and future topics.

What does your child need for Reception?

  • A school uniform and shoes.
  • A water bottle.
  • A coat.
  • A pair of wellies.
  • A set of spare clothes in a soft bag to hang on their peg.
  • A smile!

Please label all of your child’s belongings with their name.

During this half term we will be extending the children’s social and emotional development, looking at dreams and goals and how to make healthy choices.

Kicking Off the New Year with Exciting Learning Adventures!

We’ll begin by exploring the fascinating careers of People Who Help Us, focusing on the vital roles of our emergency service workers. Next, we’ll dive into how these jobs have evolved over time before celebrating the vibrant traditions of Chinese New Year.

From there, our theme shifts to Our World Around Us—where we’ll journey to the coldest places on Earth, compare them to our own country, discover how polar animals survive extreme conditions, and tackle big questions about climate change.

Maths

In Maths, in addition to following their own interests the children will be exploring:

  • Numbers to 10
  • Counting 9 and 10
  • Comparing numbers within 10
  • Measure – Length, Height and Distance
  • Measure – Weight
  • Number bonds to 10

Click the links below to sing along to our core Maths songs:

10 Green Bottles, One Big Hippo Balancing, Number Pairs to 10.

Literacy

As part of our Topics this half term, we will be exploring a variety of texts;

Our Core Nursery Rhymes and Songs shared will be:

  • Five Little Firemen
  • Miss Polly had a Dolly
  • Finger Family: People who Help Us
  • I’m a Superhero (To the tune of I’m a Little Teapot)
  • Paper Lanterns
  • Mix a Pancake

Phonics

In Phonics, the children will be continuing to enhance their Phase 1 and Phase 2 knowledge and continue working on the Phase 2 key words. These will be sent as homework for the children to practise at home. The children will begin to learn the Phase 3 sounds and will begin to implement this to their writing.

We use the Story Time Phonics scheme to teach phonics. It supports the Phonics Planning of Letters and Sounds by learning the actions to the song for each new letter sound and the actions.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies/grownups/the-alphablocks-guide-to-phonics

Outdoor Learning

The children have access to the outdoor area where we develop children’s creative ideas through different role-play areas enhanced with quality play equipment. The outdoor learning gives children the platform to learn and explore through all the areas of the Early Years Foundation stage curriculum.

Learning at Home

Your child will continue to bring home a library book and a reading book to share with you.

Their library, home reading book and homework book is handed in every Wednesday.

Their home reading book is changed on a Wednesday.

Your child’s library book will be changed every Friday.

Every Friday, your child will bring their homework book home to complete an activity that supports their learning that has taken place that week, which you can choose with your child from the menu inside their homework book. These can be completed in any order. They can be completed in their homework book or presented and shared in any way that they choose. For example, photographs and videos taken can be shared by email at reception@corrie.tameside.sch.uk Their homework is due the following Wednesday every week.

Happy Learning from the Reception class team.

Mrs Macdonald, Mrs Jones, Miss Battersby, Mrs Baguley and Miss Sowter

Welcome!

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Welcome back to the second half term of the year.

We hope you had a restful half term break and are as excited as we are to get started.

Here you will find information about what your child has been learning in Reception and how you can help them at home. This page will be updated with information about current and future topics.

What does your child need for Reception?

  • A school uniform and shoes.
  • A water bottle.
  • A coat.
  • A pair of wellies.
  • A set of spare clothes in a soft bag to hang on their peg.
  • A smile!

Please label all of your child’s belongings with their name.

During this half term we will be extending the children’s social and emotional development, looking at celebrating differences, continuing our understanding of different celebrations and the changing seasons.

This half term, our learning themes are Autumn and Winter!
We’ll dive into the beauty of autumn—how the seasons change and the celebrations that make it special. Then, we’ll explore winter’s impact on our world, discover festive traditions, and bring the magic of Christmas to life with our nativity performance.

Maths

In Maths, in addition to following their own interests the children will be exploring:

  • Change within 5
  • Numbers bonds to 5
  • Spatial Awareness
  • Numbers to 10

Click the links below to sing along to our core Maths songs:

5 Currant buns ; Five little fingers in and out ; Number pairs to 5 ; 10 little elves

Literacy

As part of our Topics this half term, we will be exploring a variety of texts;

    

Our Core Nursery Rhymes and Songs shared will be:

  • Five Currant Buns
  • Five Little Fingers In and Out
  • Jack and Jill
  • Hickory Dickory Dock
  • Heads Shoulders Knees and Toes
  • The Wheels on the Bus
  • Five Little Elves

Phonics

In Phonics, the children will be continuing to enhance their Phase 1 knowledge and begin to build their Phase 2 Phonics sounds and the Phase 2 key words. These will be sent as homework for the children to practise at home.

We use the Story Time Phonics scheme to teach phonics. It supports the Phonics Planning of Letters and Sounds by learning the actions to the song for each new letter sound and the actions.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies/grownups/the-alphablocks-guide-to-phonics

Outdoor Learning

The children have access to the outdoor area where we develop children’s creative ideas through different role-play areas enhanced with quality play equipment. The outdoor learning gives children the platform to learn and explore through all the areas of the Early Years Foundation stage curriculum.

Learning at Home

Your child will continue to bring home a library book and a reading book to share with you.

Their library, home reading book and homework book is handed in every Wednesday.

Their home reading book is changed on a Wednesday.

Your child’s library book will be changed every Friday.

Every Friday, your child will bring their homework book home to complete an activity that supports their learning that has taken place that week, which you can choose with your child from the menu inside their homework book. These can be completed in any order. They can be completed in their homework book or presented and shared in any way that they choose. For example, photographs and videos taken can be shared by email at reception@corrie.tameside.sch.uk Their homework is due the following Wednesday every week.

Happy Learning from the Reception class team.

Mrs Macdonald, Mrs Jones, Mrs Baguley and Miss Sowter

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Welcome to Corrie!

Everyone in the Reception Team are incredibly excited for our final Summer term!

The Reception team would like to welcome you to our year group page.

Here you will find information about what your child has been learning in Reception and how you can help them at home. This page will be updated with information about current and future topics.

What does your child need for Reception?

  • A school uniform and shoes
  • A water bottle
  • A coat
  • A pair of wellies
  • A set of spare clothes in a soft bag to hang on their peg.
  • Sun cream
  • Forest school clothes every Tuesday.
  • A smile!

Please label all of your child’s belongings with their name.

Our new theme for learning is Amazing Living Things!

During this half term we will be exploring the life cycles of different living things, including: frogs, butterflies and plants. As part of this learning we will be investigating the animals in our forest school and watching real caterpillars grow and change through metamorphosis into butterflies. We will also be going on our first school trip to Eureka! to learn about the amazing things our bodies can do using our senses.

Maths

In Maths, in addition to following their own interests the children will be exploring:

  • Number patterns : odds and evens
  • Shape and decomposition of shapes
  • Volume and Capacity
  • Sharing into two groups
  • Time

Click the links below to sing along to our core Maths songs:

Literacy

As part of our Topics we will be exploring a variety of texts;

Click the book covers to read them online

  

 

Our Core Nursery Rhymes and Songs shared will be,

  • One Finger, One Thumb Keep Moving
  • Incy Wincy Spider
  • Here is the Beehive, where are all the bees?
  • Wiggly Woo
  • Brush Your Teeth
  • These Bones, These Bones, These Dancing Bones
  • Five Little Sea Shells

Phonics

In Phonics, the children will be recapping Phase 3 sounds and developing their letter formation moving into phase 4. These will be sent as homework for the children to practise at home.

We use the Story Time Phonics scheme to teach phonics. It supports the Phonics Planning of Letters and Sounds by learning the actions to the song for each new letter sound and the actions.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies/grownups/the-alphablocks-guide-to-phonics

 

Outdoor Learning

The children have access to the outdoor area where we develop children’s creative ideas through different role-play areas enhanced with quality play equipment. The outdoor learning gives children the platform to learn and explore through all the areas of the Early Years Foundation stage curriculum.

Forest School

The children will be visiting our forest school area every Tuesday. Here they will have safe access to explore the natural world and take part in tree climbing, balancing and will be able to explore the pond where we have tadpoles currently growing. This outdoor learning gives children the platform to learn and explore through all the areas of the Early Years Foundation stage curriculum. Forest school clothes will need to be in school every Tuesday, the children will bring them home each week.

Learning at Home

Your child will bring home a library book and a reading book to share with you.

Their library, home reading book and homework book is handed in every Wednesday.

Their home reading book is changed on a Wednesday.

Your child’s library book will be changed every Friday.

Every Friday, your child will bring their homework book home to complete an activity that supports their learning that has taken place that week, which you can choose with your child from the menu below. These can be completed in any order. They can be completed in their homework book or presented and shared in any way that they choose. For example, photographs and videos taken can be shared by email at reception@corrie.tameside.sch.uk Their homework is due the following Wednesday every week.

 

Happy Learning from the Reception class team.

Mrs Macdonald, Mrs Jones,  Mrs Baguley, Mrs Hartigan, Miss Wrigley, Miss Groves, Miss Hernon and Miss Trimble.