Welcome back Penguins. I hope that you had an enjoyable half-term break with your families. 

The theme for this half term is 'The Great Fire of London' The information below will let you and your parents know all about the learning that will take place.

English: The children will be learning through the wonderful story of Toby and the Great Fire of London. They will have opportunities to write character descriptions of pirates including questions to the pirates, write descriptions of imaginary treasure islands using noun phrases and expanded noun phrases, write a mini recount (diary write) about a day in the life of a pirate and write the complaints from the residents write messages to go in bottles to the pirates from the residents/Matilda to say thank-you/sorry.  By the end of the unit the children will have begun to master the use of 

• writing subordinate sentences using because, when, if, that
• writing statements, questions, exclamations and commands appropriately. 
• past and present tense consistently in longer pieces of writing

Reading will take place daily. The majority of the children have finished the RWI phonics programme and will now be working on comprehension activities. 

Maths: The unit this half-term will be Fractions. By the end of the unit the children will have learned to

• Find and recognise half, quarter, a third and three quarters 
• Recognise unit and non-unit fractions
• Count in fractions
• Understand equivalence in fractions

Science: The children will be finding out about Living things and their habitats.

History: The children will be finding out about the events, causes and consequences of the Great Fire of London

DT: The children will be developing their skills in the unit Cooking & Nutrition: A balanced diet     

Religion and Worldviews: The focus will be on Christianity: Stories of Jesus

Computing: This half term the children will be looking at Block Coding using ScratchJr

Music: The children will learn to sing and play tuned and untuned musical instruments linked to 'Space'

PE will take place on Monday and Friday

Rugby Tots and Invasion Games 

Homework will continue to be set every Friday. It will be set on Google Classroom and should be returned by the following Friday. MyMaths is an online site that is used for some maths based activities from Year 2 to 6.

Reading books will be changed every Friday. Please ask your child lots of questions to develop their comprehension as this is very important at Year 2. 

Any questions please let me know either at the door, make an appointment or via email at penguins@parkgate.cheshire.sch.uk

Mr Simon