Welcome to Kittiwake Class!

On this page you will find weekly updates about what the children are learning in literacy, maths and phonics so you can support at home.  Our termly curriculum maps provide an outline of what the children will learn across all subjects.  More detailed information for a particular subject can be found in the curriculum area of the website.

Week beginning 5th June

Monday 5th June is and Inset Day. The children will be back in school on Tuesday 6th June.

**Swimming continues on Wednesday!** 

In Literacy we will be beginning to immerse ourselves in a new book - Rosie Revere's Big Project. We will also be writing a persuasive letter.

In Phonics we will be learning  ways of spelling the /c/ sound - c as in cat and k as in king. 

In Maths we will be learning about measures, measuring mass using scales with grams and kilograms and capacity with measuring jugs using millilitres and litres.

In our mental maths we will be practising a range of strategies to solve problems.

Week beginning 22nd May

**Swimming continues on Wednesday!** 

In Literacy we will be writing our own story based on an important person banning something.

In Phonics we will be learning  ways of spelling the /h/ sound - h as in hand and wh as in whole. 

In Maths we will be learning about measures, measuring length using a cm ruler and mass using scales with grams and kilograms.

In our mental maths we will be practising a range of strategies to solve problems.

Week beginning 15th May

**Swimming continues on Wednesday!** 

In Literacy we will be reading a story 'The Queen Who Banned Silence' and looking at the structure of the story with a view to writing our own story the following week.

In Phonics we will be learning  ways of spelling the /or/ sound - oar as in board, ore as in shore, our as in four, augh as in naughty and ough as in bought. 

In Maths we will be continuing to learn about time, focussing on quarter past and quarter to and then moving on to telling the time to five minutes.

In our mental maths we will be practising a range of strategies to solve problems.

Week beginning 8th May

**Swimming continues on Wednesday!** 

In Literacy we will be focussing on writing descriptive phrases and adding suffixes to words.

In Phonics we will be learning some more ways of spelling the /m/ sound - mm as in hammer and mn as in autumn. 

In Maths we will be beginning to learn about telling the time, starting with o'clock and half past, and then moving on to quarter past and quarter to.

In our mental maths we will be practising a range of strategies to solve problems.

Copy of information from Welcome Letter

In Year 2 we encourage independence. The children need to come in on their own and put reading books, notes, homework etc. into the classroom boxes / trays. Generally we will not be searching through book bags. In the morning please only speak to the teacher with quick messages, e.g. my child is going home with someone else tonight, my child is a bit upset this morning because…, my child might need their inhaler today. If you need to have a longer discussion please contact the teacher via the school office (using the phone or school email) and we will make an alternative convenient time to meet or speak on the phone, such as after school. It is important we do know when your child is being collected by someone else as we need to ring parents if we haven’t been told.

Reading

• Reading – school expectation is that children will read at least 5 times a week for approximately 15 minutes each session. This can include time spent discussing the story. Once your child is reading longer books we would not expect them to be reading a whole book in one session. Please write in the reading diary so we know your child has read, alongside any comments you might wish to make. Reading can be recorded in the morning and evening of the same day and several times over the weekend. This year we are continuing with re-read Thursday. It is important for children to re-read books to develop fluency and expression. Therefore we will not be changing books on Thursdays.
• We keep a record of reading to enable us to award certificates for reading 5 times during the week. The class in school with the highest percentage of readers will win Orlando Owl for the week. We will be continuing with the medals – bronze for reading for one complete term, silver for two and gold for all year.

Homework

• Each week we will also send home a piece of Literacy homework and a piece of Maths homework on a Friday. These will need to be returned by the following Friday. Children will miss some of their Golden Time if homework is not returned.
• Literacy homework will be spellings one week and reading comprehension the next. Spellings will come home on a sheet. Please keep this at home all week and do not return until Friday as your child should be practising the spellings little and often. Over the week please help your child practise the spellings using the look, cover, write, check method. Children will also look at the spellings in class. 
• The reading comprehensions should be completed independently if possible. However, if your child is finding it tricky to read the text you may read it to them and then discuss the possible answers with them. This will begin to develop their understanding of a story. Reading comprehension can be returned as soon as it is finished or on the Friday.

• Maths - Maths homework will give some ideas for practical activities you may want to do with your child following up on what we have been focusing on in our ‘number sense’ part of our Maths work. There are also some short written activities for your child to complete. These can be returned as soon as they are finished or on the Friday. 

Please make sure all uniform is named including drinks bottles and lunch boxes. Children bring items to school in a school book bag which also needs to be named and one small keyring attached if wanted. We do not have room for rucksacks in school.

Please send in a named PE bags to be kept in school, that also includes a set of jogging bottoms that can be used for Forest School. Please name all parts of PE kit including daps.

For lots of general resources visit the Espresso website. Parents have their own log in to use ...

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