RuislipGardensPrimary School

Telephone No: 01895 632895

Year 2 Curriculum Statement for the Summer Term 2018

The following information is to give you an outline of some of the work your child will be covering during this term. We hope you will actively encourage your child in the work being undertaken so that learning can be both pleasurable and rewarding.

Please note that Sex and Relationship lessons will be taught in the second half of the SummerTerm during the week of 4thJune 2018. Any parents requiring more details about the content and materials in the lessons should speak to their child’s class teacher.

The Sex and Relationships Education (SRE) policy and practice was agreed by Governors’ in October 2011 following extensive input, guidance and support from a parent’s working party, Parent Forum and the local authority. SRE is an important part of our curriculum, and the lessons that we teach are from a commercially based scheme of work which is taught in many other primary schools. Parents who feel unhappy about their child participating in SRE may exercise their right to withdraw their child from these lessons by putting their wishes in writing to Mr Titeux by Friday 25th May 2018.

The skills and concepts on which we will be concentrating are:

English:

/ We will continue to learnabout traditional tales before reading The Dark by Lemony Snicket and Jon Klassen and The Magic Fingerby Roald Dahl. Fiction, non-fiction and poetry will also be taught through these books. Please try to avoid reading these books at home, as part of the children’s learning is making inferences and predictions about a book they haven’t read. Thank you.
Handwriting:
We will continue to follow our Nelson handwriting policy introducing children to cursive formation and joins. We will focus on joining to ascenders e.g h,t and the break letters (letters that don’t join).
Grammar:
Sentence level work - sentence construction, punctuation including apostrophes and question marks and grammar including subordinate conjunctions such as when/if/that/because.
Spelling patterns:
Contractions: can’t, don’t. Possessive apostrophe: Megan’s, child’s. Words ending in –tion: station, motion. Homophones and near homophones: there, were, where. The‘s’ sound spelt ‘c’ before e,i, and y.Silent k,g and w at the beginning of words, wrap, gnaw, knew. ‘Le’ at the end of words, middle. ‘El’ at the end of words, squirrel, feel. ‘Al’ at the end of words, animal, capital. Words ending in
‘-il’, pupil, council. The ‘i’ sound spelt –y at the end of words, reply, July. Adding –es to nouns and verbs ending in –y, babies, copies. And continuation of the common exception words e.g. could, sugar, whole.
Phonics:
Children will be in differentiated groups according to their sound knowledge and will learn new sound patterns each week.

Maths:

/ Arithmetic
Mental addition and subtraction
x2, x3 x5, x10 times tables and division facts (Including Times Tables Rock stars )
Number and place value
Problem solving, reasoning and algebra
2D and 3D shapes
Measurement, including time to the nearest quarter of an hour and 5 minutes on digital and
analogue clocks

Science:

/ Plants
Living Things and Habitats

Computing:

/ E-Safety
Word typing

Coding

History:

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Castles

Great Fire of London

Geography:

/ Seasonal weather in the UK
The Local Area

Art:

/ Fire collages (linking to the Great Fire of London)
Nature Sculptures

D.T.:

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Making Sandwiches

R.E.:

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Islam

P.S.H.E.:

/ Life bus
Dealing with change
Similarities and differences
Relationships / SRE
Differences between males and females
Naming body parts

Music:

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Medieval Music

P.E.:

/ Team Games

P.E. Days:

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Tuesday and Thursday

Please make sure that all items of your child’s clothing are clearly labelled. This includes school uniform and P.E. kit and Forest School kit. (Unlabelled clothing causes considerable problems when getting dressed after P.E.)
P.E. Uniform: White T ShirtForest School Kit: Wellies
Black shorts Tracksuit bottoms
Black tracksuit bottoms (plain) Waterproof coat
Black plimsolls and white socks Socks
May we remind you that children should not wear earrings or any other jewellery on P.E. days.

P.E. kit should remain in school from Monday to Friday and be taken home for washing at the weekend.

Homework:

  • Maths and English Homework will be given out on a Friday to be returned the following Wednesday.
  • Please read with your child for at least 10 minutes every evening and sign their home school book each week.
  • Topic homework will also be set occasionally.

Visits

Location / Date / Cost
Kew Gardens / June 2018 / Approx £11