Doves Year 2

Hello, my name is Mrs Palfrey and I am the Dove class teacher!

Our teaching assistant is Mrs Harris.  

This half term we plan to be exploring the following elements and subjects:

Science: Animals including Humans - we will think carefully about what we were like as a baby and how our body has changed since then. We will compare foot and hand sizes to make a class display and consider how to investigate what we can hear in the playground.  Finally, we will investigate fruit and vegetables and plan a balanced picnic for guests.

R.E.: Who do Christians say made the World? (Creation)Unit 1.2 

P.E.: Invasion games (children will need their P.E. kit in school on a Wednesday and Thursday)

Art & Design: Drawing – Light Form (Giuseppi Arcromboldo) 

Geography: Our country: the UK

Computing: Programming: Bee-bots 

Music: Pulse and rhythm (Theme: All about me)

PSHE (Jigsaw): Being Me in My World

MFL:  Spanish greetings

In English, we are starting with a poetry unit linked to a collection called 'Being You - Poems of Positivity' by Daniel Thompson.  We will also become familiar with key stories, fairy stories and traditional tales, retelling them and considering their particular characteristics. We will read  'Little Red Riding Hood '- traditional tale,

'Little Red Writing' by  Joan Holub and Melissa Sweet, 'The Wolf's Story'  by Toby Forward and Izhar Cohen.

In maths, we begin looking at place value.

At home,  children can benefit greatly from the following activities to support their learning in school:

• reading to and with an adult. Again we plan for the children to have a reading for pleasure daily session in school but the children need to also be reading at home as much as possible.
• practising spellings [weekly spellings to learn will be sent out each week].  

If you have any questions or queries please do not hesitate to contact me.

                    Kind regards,

                    Mrs Palfrey

Welcome to our Dove Class weekly briefing section. I will communicate information that relates to all the exciting activities in Doves for the week ahead each week.  If you have any questions, please catch me at the start or the end of each day; leave a message via our school office or email me directly (bpalfrey@pensilva.cornwall.sch.uk)

• Please refer to the last newsletter (emailed to parents) regarding the new school day timings.
• Logins are being updated and will be sent home in the back of the reading record books, over the coming days/weeks.
• Children all need an individual water bottle to keep themselves hydrated
• We will be having P.E. each Wednesday and Thursday. Please ensure that PE kits are in school and are clearly named. 

• We are aiming to give all children their reading record and the opportunity to chose two books to read for pleasure, during the first couple of days. One will be a book they have chosen within their ZPD range or RWI group (for your reference this is recorded in the front of their reading record) and the second will be a book they have chosen from the library. They may have selected a book within their range to read themselves, a simpler book perhaps to read to a younger sibling  or a challenging book that they would like you to read to them or share read with you. 

  Please secure times that you can read with your child - this has a massive impact on their learning. There are suggestions of prompt questions/comments for you to support  your children or for you to record a brief comment in the reading record.