Welcome to Sapphire Class!

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  PE on a Wednesday and Friday. Please make sure that as the weather becomes warmer, 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...

How has plastic pollution changed our seas and oceans?

As geographers...

Children will know that the United Kingdom is an island surrounded by water. The children will be able to name the surrounding oceans and seas. They will learn about the term coastline, and identify the nearest coastline to Cheshire (Wirral Peninsula). After learning about human features in the previous theme, children will learn what a physical feature is and what physical features are at the coast. The children will read the book ‘Somebody Swallowed Stanley’ and will learn about plastic pollution being the biggest problem in our oceans and seas. Plastic pollution affects the marine environment by altering the food chains and sea life in our coastal environments. Single use plastics are the biggest problem and reusable plastics are best for the environment.  

As writers...

Pete the badger likes everything to be neat and tidy at all times, but what starts as the collecting of one fallen leaf escalates and ends with the complete destruction of the forest! I wonder if Pete will realise the error of his ways and set things right?

We will be using this text to write a letter from the character’s point of view. In addition to this, we will be looking at the following feature keys:

• Include detail and description to inform the reader
• Use a range of sentence forms to address the reader
• Write in 1st person
• Include personal comments and own viewpoint
• Use openings and closings e.g. dear, opening statement to state why we are writing, from

As readers...         

Fantastic Mr Fox is the legendary tale of the most cunning fox in the world by Roald Dahl. Every time Mr Fox steals a chicken from the farm, Farmers Boggis, Bunce and Bean grow wild with rage! They're the nastiest crooks in the valley, and they've concocted a cunning plan to dig him out of his hole once and for all.

During shared reading we will:
- Predict what might happen on the basis of what has been read so far
- Clarify and discuss the meaning of words, linking new meanings to known vocabulary
- Model fluency at an appropriate speed with accuracy, automaticity and prosody
- Retrieve by answering and asking questions
- Explain mastery focus

- Summarise reading from previous sessions
- Strategy check to explicitly teach reading strategies
- Independent reading mastery focus*
- Group discussion to explore answers to key question

As scientists...

As mathematicians..

Children will be taught to:

• recognise, find, name and write fractions  ,  ,  and  of a length, shape, set of objects or quantity
• write simple fractions, for example  of 6 = 3 and recognise the equivalence of  and