Christ the King Catholic Primary SchoolYear 2 2020 - 2021
Miss Lloyd
Year 2 Teacher
Mrs Dobson
Year 3 Teacher
Hello and welcome Year 2! 
This term we will be learning lots of exciting things in school, don't worry if like last year you have to stay away from school for a while to isolate so that everyone is kept safe.
Mrs Hughes, Mrs Skelton and Miss Lloyd will be updating the website with lots of information and activities so that you can follow what we are doing in class.
Please check the Home Learning tab, our class SeeSaw page and Twitter for updates as well as some sneak peaks into the fabulous work which the children are completing in school.
Christ the King has a main Twitter that sends general messages, you can follow this by searching for:
@CTK_Bromborough
We also have a Year 2 page, you can follow this by searching for:
@Y2_CTK
General Information
2HS
Class teachers- Mrs Hughes (Mon. Tue, Wed) Mrs Skelton (Thur, Fri)
Teaching Assistant -Mrs Somers
2RL
Class Teacher - Miss Lloyd
Teaching Assistant - Mrs McCartney
Miss Onanga will be helping between both classes.
Welcome to our Year 2 page where you will find regular updates and information about your child’s learning.
Homework
Homework is set every week. Your child will receive one piece of either Maths or English every Friday which is to be returned by the following Wednesday.
In addition, spellings are sent home weekly and will be tested every Friday.
We encourage weekly access to Mathletics and Spelling Shed.
Autumn Term
Maths
This term we will be learning about place value. We will be starting off the year recapping our learning from year one by looking at numbers 1-20 then we will move on to look at numbers to 100. We will represent our numbers in different ways using concrete aparatus, pictorial forms and abstract digits.
To follow learning if you are at home you can engage with White Rose Hub:
https://whiterosemaths.com/homelearning/year-2/week-1/
English
This term, we will be looking at Traditional tales. We will be learning about different versions of traditional tales. We will be focusing on creating sentences using full stops and capital letters and we will think about adding detail and descriptions using commas.
One story we will be looking at in detail will be Little Red Ridinghood.
Watch the short animation here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LDMWJCrDVMI
History
Our theme is the Great Fire of London. We will be learning how the Great Fire of London started, we are also going to investigate why it spread so fast and caused so much destruction.
RE
'The Chosen People' is our RE focus for this halfterm. We will be learning about: Abraham, Moses' early life and David.