Welcome to Sapphire Class!

Welcome to the start of Year 2!

I will be with the class Monday - Thursday. Mrs Tomlinson will teach Year 2 on a Friday and will lead a 'curriculum day' for the children where they will be taught areas of the wider curriculum. This allows me to focus on the core subjects of Maths and English, as well as our enquiry theme.  

For this half term, the children will have Commando Joes on a Tuesday and PE on a Friday. Please make sure that as the weather becomes cooler, the children are dressed appropriately as we will try and be outside as much as possible!

You are welcome to  email me on jproctor@littleleighprimary.cheshire.sch.uk. If it is anything urgent regarding day to day problems, please contact Mrs Carthy in the school office who will be happy to help.  

Mrs P 

This half term we are answering the question...

Why do we celebrate Bonfire Night?

As historians...

To answer this question we will learn why Guy Fawkes wanted to blow up the houses of Parliament. We will hear and map the story of the Gunpowder Plot. We will learn about when and why the conspirators attempted to kill King James I and what happened to Guy Fawkes afterward. We will delve deeper into who Guy Fawkes was and why he was important in the conspiracy to blow up the houses of Parliament. We will learn about the meaning of the word 'conspiracy' and we'll find out about some of the other conspirators, too. We'll eventually find out whether the plan was successful and what happened to Guy Fawkes afterwards. Towards the end of the unit we will learn how some people celebrate Guy Fawkes Day and how it is celebrated in different ways. 

As writers...

Timothy Limpet feels out of place in the troll family - he likes things to be just so, and most trolls, frankly, don't. Tabitha Lumpit likes things to be loud, loopy and messy and she feels like a fish out of water in her very neat family.

Sometimes they wonder if their families really see them for who they are, so when Timothy and Tabitha meet on the bridge they each decide the other's family is a better fit and swap places . . . with hilarious and touching results.

Based around the time-honoured theme of 'home is where the heart is', this warm and witty story is a celebration of the individual and offers a valuable lesson on not judging others. We will be using this key text to write our own story with a focus on high quality chracter description. 

As readers...

We will be using these two key texts to focus on the following reading mastery keys:

* Discuss favourite words and phrases
* Answer and ask questions
* Explore non-fiction books that are structured in different ways
* Discuss the sequence of events in books and how items of information are related 
* Make inferences on the basis of what is being said and done

As scientists...

As mathematicians...

We will be using materials and a range of representations to practise counting, reading, writing and comparing numbers to at least 100 and solving a variety of related problems to develop fluency. 

As we become more confident with numbers up to 100, we will begin to introduce larger numbers to develop further the children's recognition of patterns within the number system and represent them in different ways.

Children will learn how to partition numbers in different ways (e.g. 23 = 20 + 3 and 23 = 10 + 13) to support subtraction. They will become fluent and apply their knowledge of numbers to reason with, discuss and solve problems that emphasise the value of each digit in two-digit numbers.