Summer Term Overview (To be updated April 2025)
Dear Parents,
Here is an overview of the work planned for the Summer Term.
R.E.
R.E.
n R.E. we will be following our new school scheme called ‘The Vine and The Branches.’ The themes for this term are ‘Ends of the Earth’ and ‘Dialogue and Encounter'. Children will begin to prepare their own liturgies as well as saying the more formal prayers such as ‘The Sign of the Cross’, the ‘Hail Mary’ and the ‘Our Father’. We will be saying grace before and after meals. Please help your child to learn these important parts of our faith
ENGLISH
Our English work will continue to form a very major part of the school day. We will be concentrating on writin We will also continue to develop our comprehension; comparing different texts and using inference and deduction to answer questions. The children will be encouraged to express their opinions of texts read. Your child will be reading every day, but not always from their individual ‘Reading’ book. Please make a note of any reading you do with your child in their reading record so that I can praise them for their efforts. We will be linking spelling and handwriting activities to develop a good cursive handwriting style. During this term we will be continuing with our prepared ‘Talks’ which should be your child’s own work. |
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g, grammar and punctuation. We will be giving high priority to accurate spelling of words with particular emphasis on the Year 2 Common Exception Words. Using the text The Diary of a Wombat, we will be writing diary entries as well as looking at animal facts to help us. We will also be looking at using a well know story the Tiger who Came to Tea for developing description in our writing both fiction and non-fiction. For the second half of the term our English work will be Pirate themed. We will be using fiction and non-fiction Pirate texts as a stimulus for our writing.MATHS
In Maths our number work, both mental and written, will include addition, subtraction, multiplication and division, particularly focusing on word problems with more than one step. Children will be expected to recall and use 2, 5 & 10 times tables in practical activities with confidence and work towards other tables when they are ready, as well as recognising and ordering numbers to 100 and beyond. Our work will include Position and Direction, Statistics, Fractions, Money and Measurement. We will work on telling the time to five minute intervals using an analogue clock. Please practise telling the time with your child at home. High priority will be given to problem solving and investigations in order to allow the children to develop mathematical thinking skills.
SCIENCE
Our work in Science will involve observing and describing how seeds and bulbs grow into mature plants. We will learn how plants need water, light and a suitable temperature to grow and stay healthy. We will also be looking at animals and their habitats.
GEOGRAPHY
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In Geography we will be looking
History
In History we will be studying Sacagawea a Native American woman who was captured by another tribe as a child and Michael Collins who became an Air Force test pilot
ART
In Art we will be learning how to use watercolour paints and expand our understanding of colour theory. We will look at the work of three artists (Katsushika Hokusai ,David Hockney and Claude Monet) who have been inspired by water and use their work as inspiration for our own experiments in water colour
painting.
Design Technology
In Design Technology we will be investigating puppets.
Developing sewing skills and designing and making a
hand puppet.
PHYSICAL EDUCATION
Work planned for P.E.
Games will involve a variety of Athletics activities.
Dance will involve developing a combination of moves to create a flowing, freestyle, seaside dance.
MUSIC
In Music we continue to use Charanga, our online resource. We will be playing tuned and untuned instruments. We will also be composing a simple piece of music, using pictorial representations to record what we have composed.
Computing
In computing we are looking at coding. This will involve creating a computer program using an algorithm.
PSHE
The children will continue their learning in Relationships and Health Education following the scheme, ‘Life to the Full’.
Please have a look at the parent portal for more details -
www.tentenresources.co.uk/parent-portal
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