Willow Class

Class Teachers: Mrs Ellis (Monday and Tuesday) and Miss Rushton (Wednesday to Friday)

Teaching Assistants: Mrs Whiteside and Mrs McGrath

Welcome to Willow Class. This Class contains Year 2 children only and is part of Key Stage 1.

Please check this page regularly to see updates of what we are learning.

Daily Routine

Drop off time: 8.30am
Drop off/collection point: Gates to KS1 yard
Morning playtime: 10.45am
Lunchtime: 11.30-12.30pm
Afternoon playtime: 2.15pm
Collection time: 3.00pm

Important Information

Welcome Letter - Willow Class

Curriculum Map - Autumn 1

Curriculum Map - Autumn 2

Phonics for EYFS and KS1

Homework and Home Learning

Oxford reading Owl: Letter to Parents

Useful Links

Phonics and Spelling

Phonics Play

Family Learning Phonics

Times Tables

Top Marks - Times Tables

BBC Bitesize - TimesTables

Year 2 SATS Information

For information on how you can support your child during their year 2 SATs tests please click the link below.

SATS Talk PowerPoint

National Assessment Practice Materials

Important Information – Reading

We strongly believe that all children should experience high quality books that enhance literacy skills and inspire them to read. We aim for children to develop a love of reading and this will help motivate them to write.

To help with this we are sharing a fabulous and highly recommended list of ‘100 Books to Read…’

100 Books to Read

Reading Spine takes place daily in every classroom where the children are read to. Each of the books help to develop the imagination of our children and equips them with language. We want our school to be a place where children are read to, enjoy, discuss and work with high quality books. We use the Pie Corbett Reading Spine so that children have access to high quality texts and develop a love for reading!

Reading Spine - Year 2

Reading Prompt Booklet - KS1

Supporting Reading at Home

Reading with your Child

Effect on Reader Prompts

Tell Me Cards

KS1 Home Reading Questions

Important Information – Spelling

Year 2 Spellings - Autumn 1

Year 2 Spellings - Autumn 2

Year 2 Spellings - Spring 1

Year 2 Spellings - Spring 2

Year 2 Spellings - Summer 1

Year 2 Spellings - Summer 2

English

Autumn 1

We will teach the skills of reading, writing and spelling throughout our topic. We will also be beginning to learn spelling rules through our spelling programme and continue to practise our phonics.

We will be focusing on the story ‘The Way Home for Wolf’. During this topic we will be writing character descriptions, creating information pages, and re-telling an innovated story based on the book.

Autumn 2

We will teach the skills of reading, writing and spelling throughout our topic. We will also be beginning to learn spelling rules through our spelling programme and continue to practise our phonics.

We will be focusing on the story ‘The Jolly Postman’. We will be reading and writing letters, and developing our own version of a story set in a familiar place.

Physical Education

The PE Days for Willow are Wednesday and Thursday. On these days, Willow Class pupils need to come to school in their outdoor PE kit. This includes a white top, navy tracksuit bottoms, navy jacket/waterproof coat and a pair of trainers.

S.T.E.M

Science

Autumn 1

Why would a dinosaur not make a good pet?

This half term we are going to be exploring the topic of living things and their habitats, thinking about different types and groups of animals, where these animals live and what they eat.

Autumn 2

Why would a dinosaur not make a good pet?

This term we are going to be continuing to explore the topic of living things and their habitats thinking about different types and groups of animals, where these animals live, and what they eat.

Art/Design Technology

Autumn 1

What is a still life drawing anyway? I wonder if you can work it out…

We have been exploring artists and their still life drawings.

We are going to focus on the work of Roy Lichtenstein. Here is Still Life, 1972:

What is in the drawing?

Autumn 2

Why might our dinosaurs bite you?
This topic sounds interesting! We will be exploring, designing and making our own dinosaurs that move. Have a think about which dinosaur you would like to create.

Computing

Autumn 1

Online Safety is so important. We need to learn how to keep ourselves safe online when we are searching, sharing and emailing. We will also find out what a digital footprint is. Can you guess?

Autumn 2

Do you know what a spreadsheet is and what it does? Spreadsheets can help us to do many things. We will learn how to use them for money calculations and also collecting data so that we can create graphs.

Mathematics

Autumn 1

This half term we will be working on the following topics:

Number and Place Value – Numbers to 100
Calculations – Addition and Subtraction
Calculations – Multiplication and Division of 2, 5 and 10
Measurement – Money

Autumn 2

This half term we will be working on the following topics:

Calculations – Addition and Subtraction
Calculations – Multiplication and Division of 2, 5 and 10
Measurement – Money

Religious Education

Autumn 1

This half term, as well as focusing on a very special book, the Bible. We will be discussing why the Bible is so special to Christians, exploring the stories within the Bible, and re-telling these stories in a variety of different ways.

Autumn 2

This half term, we will be learning about the journey to Bethlehem that Mary and Joseph, the shepherds, and the wise men made for the birth of Jesus within the Christmas story.

Curriculum Enhancement

On Tuesday, we found an egg in our classroom!!!! It had appeared during lunchtime and was in our enchanted forest reading corner. We don’t know how it got there, but there were some instructions with it. It told us to put it into water! We made some predictions about what might be inside the egg e.g. dinosaur, unicorn, T-Rex, dragon, chocolate and gold! We have put it into water and now we are waiting for it to hatch! Watch this space for more updates!

In Geography, we had a virtual visit from Dora the Explorer which we were all very excited about! We couldn’t believe that she actually mentioned Willow class! She has asked us if we can learn all about our local area, Burnley, and find out the most exciting things to see and do. We have a feeling she wants to visit Burnley – how exciting!

Remembrance Day

Take a look below at our contribution to the Remembrance Day display.