Hello and welcome to our term 3 blog post. Primary 2 have been very busy over the previous two terms and it ended on a high with the most fantastic Nativity production. We hope all our children had a fantastic Christmas and are ready to continue with their new learning in term 3.
Literacy
Our focus in reading will be to develop the skills to read to self and to others in small group or in paired reading tasks. Children will use word attack strategies and knowledge of phonemes covered to date, to decode unfamiliar words. We will also learn to scan and find particular words in texts and complete read to write tasks linked to our reading book. We will begin to look at the effect punctuation has within texts and be able to identify this in our books as well as using some punctuation within our own writing.
In writing, our focus will continue to build on letter formation, the use of capital letters and full stops and building confidence to write a few sentences independently, using our knowledge of common words and spelling strategies. Using our skills from descriptive writing, we will expand our sentences and add more detail when writing larger pieces of work.
Our spelling activities will continue to help children retain knowledge of previously taught phonemes and to build confidence in tackling trickier joined phonemes as we progress through term 3.
Homework will be sent out week beginning Monday 15th January. Please check your child’s homework bag, weekly, for the homework to be completed that week. Reading books will be attached to pupils’ accounts through our online Bug Club reading programme. These will be issued on a Monday and should be returned to school on a Friday.
Numeracy
Our focus in number work will continue to build on knowledge of place value, with children working on 2-digit numbers to 99. Children will be able to partition these numbers and discuss this in terms of tens (T) and units (u), whilst building on their understanding of number and number patterns. Subtraction within 10 or 20 will also be a focus as well as word problems to consolidate our strategies within this operation of number. Children will also consolidate learning in money and begin to look at fractions, halves and quarters of shape and whole number as we progress through term 3.
Health & Wellbeing
Our Paths Pupil of the Day will continue in term 3, with our Pupil of the Day receiving lots of compliments. Children will also tackle uncomfortable emotions and develop strategies for managing situations in the playground or classroom when we experience these emotions. This links to our whole school Paths strategies which help children to recognise when they need help to manage emotions or social situations.
In P.E, our sessions will take place on a Tuesday and a Wednesday and our focus in term 3 will be on fitness, racquet skills and gymnastics. Children will have the opportunity to partake in some fun activities which support teamwork whilst focusing on developing general fitness, endurance, balancing and jumping safely whilst using apparatus.
R.E
Our focus during R.E sessions will be on the life of Jesus as we build up to our preparations for Lent and Easter. We will also look at Baptism and associated symbols and their meaning. As always, we will also spend some time reading and discussing bible stories relating to friendship and family.
Topic (IDL)
Our class topic this term will be Living Things and Minibeasts. We will look at how we know something is living or non-living, looking at the characteristics of these groups and we will take this knowledge forward to find out what minibeast are, where they live and how we categorise them into different subgroups.
French
In French, we will continue to build our knowledge of greetings and numbers to 10. We will also discuss colours, days of the week and basic classroom commands.
We hope this is the start of another successful term and that the pupils are enjoying their return to school following the Christmas break.
Take care,
Mrs Travers
