Spring Term – Inventors
Throughout this term, the children will be looking at inventors and inventions. They will discover some famous inventions and some less famous by looking at a range of inventors including Thomas Edison, Jeanne Villepreux-Power and Garrett Morgan. In addition, in Science, the children will learn about light and will know that Thomas Edison invented the light bulb. We hope to visit Science Oxford to reinforce the children’s learning and as they move into the second part of our term, they will learn about Leonardo da Vinci’s incredible ideas and how he is still, to this day, a significant individual. We will document our research chronologically, comparing inventions and many other inventors.
In English, we will be reading The Building Boy by Ross Montgomery; the children will be writing their own narrative based on their learning before moving onto the beautiful book about how we all shine in different ways – Stardust by Jeanne Willis.
In Design and Technology, the children will be exploring, tasting and designing their own healthy snack food and learning to follow instructions in order to make biscuits. While in art, the children will be introduced to the idea that artists can be collectors and inventors: they will go out into the world, look at things in new ways and use them to inspire their art.
This term, Year 2 will start their swimming lessons. Please ensure that your child brings a plain swimming costume (not a bikini) /swimming trunks (not shorts) swimming hat and a towel in a named bag each Wednesday of the term. The children’s second PE lesson will be on a Friday afternoon – please ensure your child has indoor and outdoor PE kit including a blue sweatshirt, which should not have a hood for health and safety reasons.
Homework will continue to be set on a Friday due each following Thursday. Each week, there will be spellings on Spelling Shed and Maths – this will either be on Maths Shed or as a sheet in Learning Logs. The children should also be reading regularly at home as fluent reading underpins everything they learn at school and will help them to flourish. We will continue to change reading books on a Thursday and library books on a Friday.
Thank you for your continued support,
Mrs Bowman
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