Sapphire Class – Year 2

Mrs Cox, Mrs Archer and Mrs Parsons

About Sapphire Class – Year 2

Spring Term 2024

The theme for our learning for the first half of this term is Homes Long Ago and after half term it changes to Prehistoric World.

We will start the term looking at maps in our classroom in an immersive and exciting way!

We will learn how one house ends up being a city by modelling it in the classroom. We will also look at the development of money from simple bartering to a common currency.

We will also be studying Isaac Newton and his contributions to science.

After half term we will study how fossils are made and what they can tell us as well as the development of man, from cave men to the Iron Age. We will also be looking at the formation and names of continents and seas.

In science we will be investigating materials and their properties, including looking at how they change through bending, twisting and squashing and then with the better weather we will move outside to look at plants and how they grow.

In R.E. we will start by looking at inspirational Christians and stories from the New Testament in the Bible following onto how Christians celebrate a birth after half term.

In DT the children will look at structures and how to make a stable strong one. After half term we will look at how we can use different types of links to create a moving monster.

In music we will look at British songs and sounds as well as how we can make music using our bodies.

 

P.E. is with Carre’s this term on a Wednesday and is gymnastics, so your child will need indoor PE kit of shorts and t-shirt, not leggings or tracksuits please.

In PSHE we will be looking at economic wellbeing including the value of money, how to save and how banks can help us to do this.

Times tables are still set on the same day Tuesday, but spellings will now be assessed over a whole week in class, not in test format but more in repetition and peer assessments. Spelling homework will be set on EdShed and will be matched to the spellings rules we are learning in class. Your child should have brought home a EdShed login card. If they have lost it please contact us for a replacement.

Homework will be in the form of topic-based work which is designed to encourage the children to want to further their knowledge independently. If your child needs their reading book changing they need to put it into the reading tray at the start of the day and it will be changed. It is often quite hectic at the end of the day and we are usually unable to change books then.

All in all, it should be a very exciting term which I hope the children are looking forward to telling you all about. If you need to contact us please do so at our e-mail addresses which are fiona.cox@winchelsea.lincs.sch.uk and Alison.Archer@winchelsea.lincs.sch.uk. Please remember to email the correct person on the correct day or if in doubt email both of us!

Mrs Cox works Monday to Wednesday and Mrs Archer Wednesday to Friday.

Don’t forget to follow us on X at @fionamcox and @WinchelseaMrsP

Thanks

Mrs Cox, Mrs Archer and Mrs Parsons

 

@fionamcox

Thank you Sam from Lincolnshire Fire Service for coming in to teach us all about fire safety. Sapphire class have learnt lots and had great fun! @winchelsea1 @WinchelseaMrsP

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