Miss Morgan Miss Williams Miss Zedler
Class Teacher LSA LSA
School ID is 17699
Twitter: @stDavidsCiWPrm
Google Classroom: glgwf6i
Email: year2@stdavidsprm.cardiff.sch.uk
Key Dates
6th June – Return to School (Summer Term 2)
8th July - End of Term Reports to Parents
18th July – Transition Week
22nd July – End of School Year
This half term, our topic is Around the World Africa with a key focus on Humanities.
Numeracy: Time, division, fractions all continued and revisiting sequencing and patterns in numbers, shapes; numbers up to 1000 in written form and number form.
Literacy: Spelling, handwriting, punctuation, phonics and informative report writing.
Humanities: Life and times of Nelson Mandela, comparing job opportunities in Africa and the UK, Continents, flags, oceans, locating places on a map, culture in Africa, opening our own culture café.
Science: Exploring different forms of energy, reaching and completing our class Eco Targets.
Expressive Arts: African style dancing and music with a focus on tempo/dynamics/rhythm and timbre. African style art with a particular focus on texture, colour and pattern.
RE: Value of Respect
RE focus: Multi faith and no faith festivals
Big Question: What do celebrations teach us about faith?
Daily Routines
Reading
Please bring your book bag to school every day containing your reading book, sound sheets or key words. All books must be returned each Wednesday in preparation for them to be changed each Friday.
Snack
Please bring a bottle of water to school daily, clearly labelled with your name.
Healthy snacks can be purchased from the snack trolly or brought in from home. Children will be offered toast and milk in the morning.
PE
Please wear your PE kit to school on Wednesday's. Children should wear black shorts, house colour or white t-shirt and trainers, labelled clearly with their name. They may also wear black jogging bottoms when completing activities outdoors.
Uniform
Please ensure that all items of clothing are clearly labelled with your child's name.
All homework will be assigned and completed through Google Classroom.
Homework will be handed out every Friday to be completed and returned by the following Wednesday.
Please see Dosbarth Ely's Homework Grid and Planner for Spring Term below.
P eople around the world
E nd all conflicts and wars
A ll equal, fair and happy
C reate a place for acceptance and friendship
E veryone living in love and harmony
The four purposes are that all children and young people will be:
In Dosbarth Ely, we will start to look at each aspect of teaching and learning and how it will support us in becoming Ambitious, Capable Learners; Enterprising, Creative Contributors; Ethical, informed citizens and Healthy, Confident Individuals.
Our starting point in the Autumn Term will be taking apart each of the Four Core Purposes and asking the learners what it means to them. What does it mean to be ambitious? What does creative mean? Am I a citizen? How can I be more confident?
At St David's we use a scheme called 'Read, Write, Inc' to teach children how to read and write. Below are the letter sounds we will use during our phonic sessions.
Please visit this link for parents, regarding the RWI scheme:-
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TkXcabDUg7Q
Oxford Owl is a great online resource to use at home. Oxford Owl offers many free e-books that you can read at with your child. Please see the link below:-
https://home.oxfordowl.co.uk/
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