Learning Parliament Representatives:
Caleb Avery
If you have any questions / queries, Please email me at:
class5@geo.srscmat.co.uk and I will respond as soon as possible.
Important dates for the Lent term:
Thursday 19th June 2025 – Class 5 and 6 Trip
Take a look at our Timetable for Class 5!
Ways to support your child at home
Supporting your Child with Reading
Supporting your Child with Spelling the Common Exception Words
Please ensure you read at least 4-5 times with your child .
Those children who read 5 times per week will be rewarded by moving up on our Reading Wall where there are lots of exciting prizes to be won.
Please ensure Homework is completed and handed in every Friday.
Take a look at Class 5’s behaviour expectation video showing you how amazing our behaviour and attitude is.
Please see Class 5’s Curriculum Map for this year below.
Reading (Read Write Inc)
Read Write Inc will be continuing now children are back in school. Children will have daily sound lessons which will support basic reading as well as comprehension. Please continue to read with your child at home at least 4-5 times per week.
If you are in ‘Comprehension’, here is your link to Accelerated Reader.
Accelerated Reader
https://global-zone61.renaissance-go.com/welcomeportal/6709149
Writing
In our Talk for Writing lessons this term, we will be focusing on spelling, punctuation, grammar and basic skills which will support children as we move into our next unit of work; The Door in the Mountain.
Please continue to support your child with handwriting, spelling and basic punctuation (Capital letters and full stops).
Below, you can see some examples of expectations in Writing. This is an expected piece of Writing for a Y2 child.
Maths
This half term in maths, we will be revisiting and developing our knowledge of place value as well as the four operations, (Addition, Subtraction, Multiplication and Division.)
Also, as part of maths homework, please ensure you engage with Numbots and TTRockstars on a regular basis. There will be certificates each week to celebrate our super mathematicians our Celebrations of the Word.
RE
In RE this half term, we will be looking at the topic ‘Galilee to Jerusalem’.
We will be using our artistic skills to design our own representations of Jesus’ Baptism as well as looking at different parables Jesus told. We will be rounding the unit off by delving into the Sacrament of Reconciliation.
RSE / PSHE
We will continue to be using the TenTen resources for RSE, and a programme called 1 Decision to teach PHSE and Caritas. We also use Equaliteach to incorporate more of our Fundamental British Values.
Science
In Science, we are developing our Scientific skills such as observing, predicting, investigating and proving through a range of areas of Science. Looking at our Learning Journey, we have learnt lots about plants and trees using good vocabulary such as deciduous and evergreen. Over the next term, we will be learning all about materials, light, animal groups and also how to make a basic electrical circuit. We will regularly revisit all of these areas to ensure we remember what we learn.
Please see Science Knowledge Organisers below and read through them to revisit learning.
History and Geography
Within History we have already looked at: Martin Luther King & Rosa Parks and their impact on the Civil Rights Movement. This term, we will be revisiting our learning on Neil Armstrong and discussing the space race. This will supplement our learning of Space during STEAM Week. Also during Lent, we will be working on Florence Nightingale, who has local links with Derby.
In Geography this term, we are focusing on each of the UK capitals and famous landmarks within each of the major cities. Below you can find knowledge organisers for these topics to discuss with children at home.
Please also spend time with your child revisiting previous topics; Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King, and the First Aeroplane Flight. World Maps, Continents and Oceans, London, Belfast, Edinburgh and Cardiff
Music
This term we will be looking at The Beatles, Yellow Submarine linking in with the genre of 20th Century/Popular. We will move onto Beethoven’ Symphony number 5 First movement when we begin to explore the Classical period / genres.
We continue to sing in our lessons as well as learn all about beat, tempo and rhythm, all of which will help as we begin to compose pieces of music.
