Mrs Lowe
Teacher
I have so many favourite books and I read at least one new book a week! I love going to the library and discovering a new world each time I start a story. My absolute favourites are the Harry Potter books and I re-read them every year. I have such fond memories of each book coming out and getting excited to see what was going to happen next. I loved the idea of receiving a letter when you turned 11 to find out you had magical powers! My favourite book in the series is Harry Potter and Prisoner of Azkaban because I love the part where Harry and Hermione travel back in time to save Sirius. I wouldn't be able to pick a favourite character because there are so many I love but my favourite professor is Professor McGonagall!
Mrs Slade
Support Staff
There is something so special about getting lost in the pages of a good book. I love reading. My favourite thing to do is to curl up under a blanket with a good book and a hot chocolate. When I was young, I used to love reading 'The Secret Seven' and 'The Famous Five' books by Enid Blyton. Now I'm older I still enjoy reading mystery novels. My favourite grown up book is 'The Night Circus' by Erin Morgenstern.
Mr Trigell
Support staff
My favourite children's book is The Gruffalo by Julia Donaldson because I love to read it to the children in my class. It is always one of their favourites and they love to listen to the story and look at the illustrations.
Welcome back! We hope you have had a lovely May break. The title for Summer 2 is ‘Under the Sea’.
In Science, we will be looking at living things and their habitats. We will be learning about different species of animals and plants, where they live and why. We will also be focussing on food chains and what animals eat. The children will be using the vocabulary; herbivore, carnivore and omnivore.
In Art we will be looking at the work of Suzie Marsh and using her techniques to create our own sculptures. Then we will be learning about mixed media and abstract art, where the children will be creating their own ‘sea themed’ art using mixed media.
Phonics and spelling will continue to be taught daily alongside our English lessons. In English, we will be looking at the text ‘Grandad’s secret giant’ by David Litchfield. During the unit, we will be focusing on using the past and present tense correctly, using subordination and co-ordination to join sentences, using expanded nouns phrases to describe and using suffixes such as -ment and -ful. At the end of the unit, we will be writing our own version of the story with a focus on morals and acceptance of others.
In maths, we will follow the White Rose scheme of work. Our focus in Year 2 will be finishing fractions and then starting statistics and position and direction. We will be continually reviewing our arithmetic methods throughout the half term through our ‘fluency in five’ sessions.
In R.E. we will be exploring the question: ‘What makes some people and places in Cornwall sacred?’ We will focus on the celebrations of St Piran’s Day, other Cornish Saints and places in Cornwall that are sacred.
In music we will be completing the ‘Let’s perform together’ in which we will listen to, and appraise different pieces of music, find the pulse to pieces of music, learn about pitch, tempo and rhythm. Children will also play notes on the glockenspiel and learn how to compose pieces of music, we will then perform the songs that we have learned.
In P.E, we will be focusing on attacking and defending; we will think about how to use space within a game, how to effectively mark another player, how to defend the space between two players, how to pass the ball to another player and get it past a defender. We will then use all of these skills within a game.
In computing, we will be completing a Purple Mash unit called ‘Animated Story Books’ in which we will use ‘2create a story’ to plan, draw and write our own story eBooks.
In PSHE, we will be completing the ‘changing me’ unit in which children will think about the life cycle of a human, how their life has changed so far and what things have stayed the same. They will look at how their body has changed since they were babies and the differences in the anatomy of boys’ and girls’ bodies.