Snowdrops - Year 2

Mrs Milner 

PE Days

Our class PE days will be Wednesday and Friday. Children will need to come wearing a suitable PE kit with any earrings removed. Thank you. 

About the Class

Snowdrops are located near the KS2 playground just off the KS2 assembly hall. This year we have 26 children with us. Working in Snowdrops this year we have two teaching assistants. Mrs Spencer, who works with us every Wednesday, Thursday and Friday and Mrs Griffiths, who works with us all week. Miss Roberts covers Mrs Milner's leadership and PPA time. 

Topic
We have lots of exciting activities planned for the first half of the autumn term! Our new topic is geography based and we will learn about aerial maps, how to make a classroom map and the geographical features that make up our school.  The children will explore and experiment with different ways to make lines in our art lessons and our science work will be on the seasons and how they change during the year.  Our music lessons will be about finding the pulse and in RE we will learn about different beliefs in our community.  In our English lessons we will be writing our own story based on Lost and Found by Oliver Jeffers. 

As well as our topics we will be working on maths lessons daily along with phonics, spelling, Computing, PE and PSHE.  Where possible we will try and link our topic to all our sessions. All the children will have access to continuous provision to enhance their learning experience and build on from their learning journey in Year 1.

Our garden area outside our room has been fenced off and an artificial grass laid. This area is used by the children to enhance their learning environment. 

Class Dojo

Please make sure you have signed up to class dojo so you can see any messages or information we post about the class on there. 

Homework
Maths tasks will be sent home when appropriate. Spellings will be sent weekly and follow the Little Wandle phonics scheme. All children will also have a logon for Timetables Rockstars, which they can access at home for extra maths activities. Each child has a username that is placed in their planner. There is also the White Rose Maths App which they can use for free too. We would like all children to learn their 2, 5 and 10 times table off by heart.

The children will all continue to bring home a reading book and we ask that you sign their planners to let us know if they have finished the book or what page they have read up to. We are keen to develop fluency so we like to encourage children to re-read their books before changing them. We ask that children read at home at least three times a week. All children will be heard 3 times a week in school as part of our reading offer.  

Clubs

Extra curricular activities will be sent out to parents in due course. 

Snack Time

If your child has milk through the ‘Cool Milk’ scheme then they will have this at playtime. Children can bring a water bottle to school and we kindly ask that it only contains water. In KS1 we have fruit for the children daily but they may bring a fruit snack from home should they wish. 

Mrs Milner

Snowdrops Class Teacher and Assistant Head / KS1 Phase Leader.