Mrs Bryceland
Primary 2
 

I can’t believe how quickly the time has gone and that we are heading towards Christmas. The children have enjoyed working on the centenary and getting the chance to see the exhibition. They also enjoyed their visit to the Science Centre, we had a super time and the planetarium was amazing. The children had a great day and loved being able to find out lots of Scientific information from the exhibits.

Literacy 

In term 2 we will be revising the double phonemes previously learnt and we will be covering the following sounds oi, au, aw, ue, ew, ow, ou and igh. We will then spend time consolidating them before moving onto the next block. We will be learning new common words to go alongside the reading books. The children will be revising these every day so that they can read them easily and spell the words independently. We will be revising the letter formation of the curly caterpillar letters and one armed robot letters. We are working on information reports in our writing. We are also working on nouns, verbs and adjectives and being able to recognise them in texts. We will be reading the reading books from the Rigby Star reading scheme and we are enjoying reading our own books aloud to the class.
 
Numeracy 
 
We are working on subtraction within 20 and missing number sums. P2 have also been challenging themselves by subtracting numbers greater than 20. We are also working on o’clock and half past in time with Miss Eaton. We will also be developing our mental maths skills through the “Numbertalks” programme. We will also be working on symmetry, angles and directions using maps. We will be working on problem solving activities to develop the children’s problem solving skills and to challenge their thinking. 
 
HWB 

We will have our P E days on a Tuesday afternoon and a Friday morning. In P S D the children will be learning about friendships and being a good friend. They are also working on the green and orange emotion cogs in our “Emotion works" and it allows the children to identify different feelings and what causes these. In P E Mrs Fox will be working on ball skills and I am working on simple hockey skills.

Social Subjects 

In social subjects the children are learning about “People who help us in school" and in the local community. We have been turning our classroom into a school office and a police station. The children are enjoying learning about different jobs and being given a chance to carry out some tasks linked to the different roles.

C Bryceland (15/11/24)