Lively Laurels and Helpful Hollies 2023-24

Welcome to Year 2!

Attendance

Helpful Hollies

Lively Laurels

Our teachers are:

Lively Laurels – Miss Sheldon and Miss Torrance

Helpful Hollies – Miss Goodhead, Mrs Tunnicliffe and Mrs McGrath

Helpful Hollies

Look at our classrooms!

Our classrooms are well organised and provide a calm environment to promote the children’s independence. The children can find their own resources to support their learning

Lively Laurels

See who our Dojo Masters and School Council members are

Our Dojo Maters are:

Lively Laurels – Erika and Dylan

Helpful Hollies – Pranvi and Tami

Our School Councillors are:

Lively Laurels – Olamiposi

Helpful Hollies – Zane

Throughout our Muck, Mess and Mixtures topic we will be learning all about Florence Nightingale and Mary Seacole. In design and technology we will be making pizza’s and understanding where our food comes from. In science we will be looking at the human body and our senses. Finally, in art and design, we will be looking at multiple artists and creating observational drawings of fruit and vegetables.

Medium Term Plan

Home Learning Grid

Key text:

This term we will be completing the unit of : The place value of punctuation and grammar.

This unit will teach the student common, proper nouns and verbs. It will define single-clause sentences are and the children should be able to punctuate single-clause sentences, which now include ‘leftovers’. Finally they will learn what co-ordinating conjunctions are and by the end of this objective, they should be able to identify co-ordinating conjunctions at both a fluency and reasoning level.

Hook:

Pictures coming soon!

Spring 1

During this topic we will be learning about our local environment. We will go for a walk and discover what is in out local area. We will also be looking at maps and investigating how they are read.

Medium Term Plan

Home Learning Grid

Our key text this half term is ‘The Tear Thief’.

The Tear Thief is a dreamy, fairy like character, almost a shadow. With waxen but childish features and clothes, she isn’t at all frightening but mystical and gentle. She climbs into homes collecting the tears of all children who are crying.

Hook

Coming soon!

Memorable Experience

This term we are going on an exciting walk around the local area to look and different signs and learn about the local history of the area. We will be going on the walk on the Tuesday 21st January.

Parental Engagement

TBC: Parental engagement

Careers

Policeman will be visiting us to tell us all about their job.

Spring 2

Throughout this topic, we are going to be looking at the seasons of the year and how the environment changes accordingly. We are going to be looking at the importance of bees on the environment and how they help the seasonal changes of plants in science. In art we are going to be looking at two artist, Georgia O’Keefe and Claude using coloured pencils Monet. We will be focusing on our pencil skills and using oil pastels to recreate a piece of art.

Topic Booklet

Home Learning Grid

The key text for this half term is ‘Jack and the Beanstalk’.

Jack and the Beanstalk is a story about a boy who swaps his cow for some magic beans. The beans grow into an enormous beanstalk that disappears into the clouds. Brave Jack climbs up to the very top of the beanstalk and finds himself in the home of a very grumpy giant, who he now has to outsmart!

Hook

Coming soon!

Memorable Experiences

We will be going to the Attenborough Nature Reserve. We will get to walk around the reserve looking at the woodlands, meadows, riverside and lakes.

Parental Engagement

We are inviting parents in to come and plant a bean to link with our book this term and to recap our knowledge of plants from Year 1. We will also write a prediction of what they think is at the top of the beanstalk.