Dear Visitors,

We'd like to warmly welcome you to our Class 2 Page.

On this page, you will find information and photographs about lots of different activities we will be doing this school year and, you will see us flourish as learners and individuals during our time at St Helen's School.

Our Autumn 1 Term History topic is…

Henry VIII

Our Autumn 2 Term Geography topic is…

Understanding the wider world – physical features of the world (Continents, oceans, seas) and the UK

Our Spring 1 Term History topic is…

Queen Victoria

Our Spring 2 Term Geography topic is…

Comparing the UK to China - From London to Beijing

Our Summer 1 Term History topic is…

Queen Elizabeth II

Our Summer 2 Term Geography topic is…

Local Area Study and Fieldwork

History Enquiry Questions:

What gives someone the right to rule?

What are good values for a ruler to have?

Geography Enquiry Question: 

Do we have a duty to care for our planet? How can we do this?

Scroll down to see Class 2 reminders and take a look at the appropriate star (First term – Autumn 1) below to see our recent classwork.

We have lots to learn and enjoy this term and we will look forward to updating you on our school work very soon!

From

Miss Garratt (Class Teacher), Mrs Newell (HLTA) and Miss Wright (TA)

Class 2 Reminders

Please make sure you bring your school bag everyday with your reading books, reading journal and spelling journal. Also, please bring a water bottle to stay hydrated!

Please make sure you write your child’s name in all of their school clothes as it is very hard to find lost items when they have no name on.

Reading in Class 2

In Class 2, we complete much reading in our Read Write Inc (RWInc) groups and we also complete a class guided reading session.

We aim to develop our children’s love of reading in class.

In RWInc, we are in different groups based on our knowledge of sounds. In these groups, we learn a new sound, complete sentence work and read a book daily which is phonetically decodable (the children can sound words out). The book we have read in class will be sent home after many reads until we know it off by heart and love reading the text with confidence and expression. Class 2 will also be sent home with a RWInc Book Bag book at the level they have been assessed which has not been read in school.

The children will also get the opportunity to take a book of their choice from the library. This could be read by the child or could be the opportunity to experience a higher-level text read by an adult.

In class, we will work as a whole class in additional guided reading sessions to solve VIPERS (vocabulary, inference, prediction, explanation, retrieval, and sequencing questions) on our class text.

Reading books will be changed every week when the children have read a further RWInc text and it is ready to be taken home alongside their RWInc Book Bag book.

Please make sure you read daily at home!

If you read three times a week and it is written in your reading journal, you will get 10 credits on our reward chart.

Our PE Lessons 

PE sessions will be on Monday AM with Active Fusion and Wednesday PM with Miss Garratt.

Please make sure your PE kit is in school on Monday and please leave in school until Friday.