Any questions, email your teachers:

Mrs Leadbeater- tanyal3@churchvale.notts.sch.uk

Mrs Savage- dsavage@churchvale.notts.sch.uk

Information for Summer Term 2025 

Your teachers and teaching assistants are:

Mrs. Leadbeater (Mon-Wed)

Mrs. Savage (Thurs-Fri)

Mrs West (Mon-Fri)

Timings for the School Day:

Start- 8:45

Lunch- 12:00-12:45

Hometime- 3:15

PE

PE is on a Monday (swimming for half a class at a time)

and with Mrs Savage on a Friday.

Children will get changed into PE kit on Fridays.

No earrings on Mondays or Fridays please. Your child will be unable to participate if they are wearing earrings for health and safety reasons. 

Please leave PE kit in a small bag at school. 

Practise getting changed with your child to ensure they are confident with tricky things like buttons, zips and laces. 

PE kit must consist of a white t-shirt, dark shorts/joggers/leggings and trainers/pumps. 

Forest Schools

After the May half term break, Year 2 will be having Forest School sessions on Wednesday afternoons. Please ensure appropriate outdoor clothing is sent into school with your child.

Topics

This term’s topics are;

Writing- Coming to England, Performance Poetry, Lila and the Secret of the Rain & Anansi and the Golden Pot. 

Reading- The Tear Thief, Lola the Plant Hunter, Non-Fiction texts, The Clockwork Dragon. 

Maths- Fractions, Time, Position and Direction & Statistics.

History- Rosa Parks.

Geography- Africa

Science- Living Things and their Habitats and Plants

DT- Sandwiches

Art- Gillian Ayres

Computing- Making Music & Introduction to Quizzes

RE- Who is a Muslim and how do they live? What makes some places special to believers?

PSHRE- Emotions (Worry & Anger), Our World (Living in our world & Working in our world)

Online Safety- Managing Online Information, Health and Well-being and lifestyle, Privacy and Security, Copyright and Ownership. 

Homework:

Spelling task: We will send the words the children have been practising in class on a Monday. They need to look at the word, cover it, have a go at writing it and then check to see if they have spelt it correctly. We hope to see these words spelt correctly when the children use them in their writing.

Please also keep practicing the common exception words using the word mat we sent home in the Autumn term. 

Maths: Keep practising your number bonds, quick recall of addition and subtraction facts to 20. Look around your surroundings, which numbers can you see? Think about how numbers are made- how many tens and how many ones can you see in 2-digit numbers?

Addition and subtraction- We have learnt how to borrow and exchange tens and ones when working with larger numbers and crossing the tens boundary. Please keep practising this with your child. 

Multiplication and division- We have learnt our 2, 5 and 10 times tables and their division facts. Keep using TTRockstars to practice these.

Reading: Please read with your child at least three times a week and sign your child’s reading diary. Your child will bring home a book on their reading colour or phonics level to read themselves plus a book from the class library to share with a grown up. As always, there are prizes for reading milestones! Reading folders need to be brought to school every day. We will count the reads on a Thursday ready to give out the reading rewards on a Friday.