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Year 2 Newsletter
SUMMER Term – 1st half 2013

SATS
Try your best not to panic! We aren’t panicking and neither should you. Your child will be tested during this half term and a timetable will be available shortly for you all to see in the class window. Reading, Writing and Maths tests will be undertaken by all. The tests are not that frightening and the children get a shiny new pencil and a colourful booklet to use!
These tests are a simple measure of the progress your child has made since joining school, informing us of any steps we need to recover and also to celebrate what our children can do. The SATs are therefore not used to rank children.
We know that our class is a set of superstars. We know that they will do their best and that’s all we ask of them.

Spellings:
Spellings to continue to be learned each week. Children will receive their group’s spellings every Friday.

Homework:
Will continue to be on a Tuesday. This task should take no longer than 20 minutes. Remember that reading is to be shared with your child every night. All types of books can be recorded in your child’s reading book.

Curriculum:

Numeracy:


Our topics will include:
Ways to help your child:
o    Sort data by listing it in a table
o    Interpret simple tables
o    Find differences between 2 numbers by counting on.
o    Find small differences between two 2-digit numbers.
o    Order a set of 3-digit nos.
o    Recognise the concept of doubling using addition of two equal amounts.
o    Intro halving as the inverse of doubling.
o    Recognise lines of symmetry.
o    Solve ‘real life’ problems involving time and money, measures and mass.
o    Times Tables – 3s and 4s


o    Use varied vocabulary e.g. add, plus, more than, less than, take away, subtract.
o    Have a competition with your child! Who can find the difference between two numbers?
o    Try to make amounts of money using the fewest coins possible.
o    Ask children to add up simple amounts in the shops for you.
o    Please help your child to learn these new tables. Ask questions such as ‘What is 2 x 3?’ and ‘How many 4s in 20?’
o    Look at doubling and halving small amounts of money.
o    Discuss odd and even numbers – what number house do we live at? Is it odd or even?

Literacy:

o    Story Writing
o    Character and Plot Studies
o    Poetry - riddles
o    Different stories by the same author
o    Extended stories



·  Talk through a story – what happened? What problem needed solving? How did they solve it? What kind of ending was it?
·  Why not read a selection of poems with your child? Practice performing them, chanting, using expression and tongue twisting!
·  Silly sentence games- Can you make a boring sentence better? Can you join two sentences together to make a better one? The hairy cat sat on the fluffy mat because it wanted to play outside…(Try using these words because, so, and, while, then)
·  Talk about the characters in your stories. Do you like them? Why? What do they look like? What are they like as a person? Would you like to be their friend?
·  Try sharing a longer story with your child- The Twits, George’s Marvellous Medicine, Horrid Henry- you can share the reading too!!

Our Creative Topic this half term will be ART ATTACK

Your children will be looking at looks of different types of art by famous artists and will be producing work ‘in the style of’ those famous pieces.

Science:   Variation

o   We will be thinking about what makes us all the same yet different!


I.C.T:     Questions and Answers

o    This term we will be thinking about using simple databases and retrieving information from graphs, tallies and charts.

R.E:   Islam

o    Through this topic we explore the wonderful faith of Islam and the major ideas underpinning the religion.




P.E:   Fielding and Striking Games

o    The children will be thinking about Fielding and Striking game skills, particularly throwing and catching skills and keeping an eye on the ball!  P.E. will continue to be on Wednesdays – Please ensure your child’s kit is in school and all earrings are left at home. Could parents also check that their child’s kit still fits; some are growing very fast and complaining of small pumps!




We hope to have another great half term!


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