Class Teachers: Mrs Brown and Mrs Poole

Teaching Assistant: Mrs Clark, Miss Boyle and Mrs Sewell

PTFA Class Representatives: Mrs Creeber and Mrs Whitehouse

Class Governor: Mrs Seymour

Important Information

Please make sure your child has a named PE kit, water bottle, reading book and message book in school every day. Year 2 have PE on a Monday and Thursday.

Homework will be set via class dojo every Friday and is due in the following Thursday by 9am.

Spellings will be stuck in your child's homework book and our spelling tests are on Friday mornings. Spelling books will come home on Fridays via your child's book bag, please ensure these are returned into school on the Monday morning.

Year 2 will go the library on Fridays, please ensure library books are in book bags every Friday to enable your child to choose a new one.

This half term our topic is...

How has life changed for children?

Click on the photo above to watch 10-year-old Martha compare her childhood now to that of a Victorian child.

Here is some vocabulary that we will be using this term...

Victorian

Queen Victoria

reign

workhouse

coal mine

orphan

education

Education Act

compulsory

Barnardo

1837 – 1901- The Victorian Era and Queen Victoria’s reign

1838 - Oliver Twist is published

1842 - Mine act ends child labour

1867 – Dr. Barnardo set up his own school where children could get a free basic education

1872 – The Education Act brought in compulsory education for all children between 5 and 13

In Science we are going to be learning about...

Everyday Materials

Click on the picture above to find out more!

Here is some of the vocabulary that we will be using...

elastic

fabric

flexible

glass

material

metal

object

plastic

property

rock

suitable

wood

Our class author is...

Oliver Jeffers!

Click on the picture of him to see his website. 

Did you know that Oliver Jeffers is also an illustrator?

Have you read any of his books?

What is your favourite book?