Yr2 Curriculum Update – 21/09/18
Working together to achieve success for every child
Greetings! – It’s our 3rd edition!
We write a regular newsletter keeping you up-to-date and informed about your child’s learning. This will provide you with a good understanding of happenings in Year 2 and how you can support these -learning experiences.
Let’s Inquire – How The World Works
This week, the students continued their learning journeys, inquiring into the central idea, ‘Forces affect the objects around us’
Transdisciplinary Learning – It’s all connected!
Year 2 provocation activities (e.g. water, magnets, etc) have provided students with a variety of exploration opportunities to observe how forces impact and connect to one another. The learning engagements have supported the development of students’ curiosity to question, explore and wonder, equipping them with the science skills and tools to collect evidence to support their investigations.
Within language, students are starting to write informally about their own ideas, experiences and feelings connected to forces, using simple repetitive sentence structures (e.g. I like, I can, etc) and topic-specific vocabulary to create meaning. Parallel to this, digital literacy (e.g. IPADs & interactive whiteboards) continues to support the develop of students’ phonological awareness and reading skills daily, through rhyme and song. Meanwhile in Maths, a diverse range of problem solving tasks centred around measurement continue to promote greater creativity, conceptual understanding and imaginative approaches to students learning. Subsequently, students are now estimating, compare, describing and measuring the lengths of different items using non-standards units such as blocks, paper clips and beads.
Chinese Year 2
In the “Who We Are” unit, the Year 2 children continue to inquire into how their actions can affect others and how to work together as a successful learning community. They learn through songs, rhymes, games and stories. In addition, the children also learned about the mid-autumn festival. Some enjoyed making lanterns while others enjoyed listening to the mid-autumn legends. Have a happy mid-autumn festival!
Year 2 Parent Helpers – Would you still like to volunteer?
This week, each Year 2 class opened their doors to parent volunteers seeking to support the students learning. Please contact your child’s class teacher if you would like to provide assistance.
Monday 24th September
Staff Continuous Professional Development Day (no school for students)
Tuesday 25th September
Mid-Autumn Festival (no school for students)
Monday 1st October
National Day (no school for students)
We hope that the pictures we add to our curriculum update each week will help you to make connections to the information shared above and to give you an insight into our week in Year 2
Please remember if you have questions or concerns, contact your child’s teacher. We welcome feedback and look forward to working with you all to achieve success for every child.
Kindest regards,
The Year 2 Team
