Years 1 and 2 make up Key Stage 1 of your child’s education.
LITERACY / ENGLISH
Spelling
In J2, children learn between 5 and 14 spellings a week. We encourage the LOOK/COVER/WRITE/CHECK method.
Spelling Test – Friday morning
Reading
Most children are reading in J2 and our emphasis is on the understanding and enjoyment of a story. If you are listening to reading, to help develop understanding, please ask questions about: -
What your child has read.
The meaning of words.
What your child thinks will happen next.
Writing
Continue to encourage your child to write independently e.g. birthday cards, diary, stories.
Practise joined-up handwriting.
Library
J2L Library lesson is on Wednesday afternoon. J2P Library lesson is on Monday afternoon. Please ensure that your child’s library book is returned on that day.
NUMERACY / MATHEMATICS
In J2, the more practice with numbers that takes place at home the better.
Please practise:
telling the time, using both digital and analogue clocks. It would be helpful if your child could wear an inexpensive watch to school.
During Year 2, your child should know: -
O’clock, half past, quarter past, quarter to the hour;
The calendar, days, months, seasons.
Handling money:
Help with shopping
Work out change to £1
Play number games e.g. snakes and ladders, snap, ludo. This helps with sequencing, ordering and counting on.
Help with cooking: estimating and weighing.
Hearing the names of shapes, both flat and solid e.g. square, rectangle, circle, triangle, cube, cuboid, cylinder, cone, sphere, triangular prism,
Children need to practise using their knowledge skills in order to extend their understanding and begin thinking in mathematical terms.
GENERAL INFORMATION
Pupils may bring in a drink of water and a piece of fruit for playtime in containers which should be clearly named.
SCIENCE
In J2 we cover the topics of: -
Keeping healthy
Electricity
Life Cycles
Classification
Materials
Plant Growth
GEOGRAPHY
During the school year we study: -
Underground and overground
Rocks and soils
Water
Food
Where we live
Living in other countries
HISTORY
Topics will be: -
Guy Fawkes
A Wartime Christmas
Highwaymen and Transport
Mary Seacole
History of Ewell
Queen Victoria
RELIGIOUS EDUCATION
Topics will be: -
Special times
Special people
Special places
P.E. / GAMES / SWIMMING
J2L have P.E. on Thursday mornings and Games on Tuesday morning. On both of these days children should come to school in their P.E. kits and bring their uniform in a bag to change into.
J2P have P.E. on Thursday afternoon and Games on Friday morning. On Thursdays, children should come into school in their uniform and bring their P.E. kit to change into. On Fridays, they wear their PE kit to school and bring in their uniform.
Please remember indoor trainers for indoor lessons and outdoor trainers for outdoor lessons. Both should be worn with white socks.
Both classes will swim first thing on a Monday. Children should come into school with their swimming costume underneath their school uniform. Please remember underwear and a towel.
The lesson is from 9.00 – 9.30 a.m. The mini bus leaves Chessington Lodge at
8.30 a.m. All pupils will be required to wear a hat. Swimming costumes and hats are available to purchase from the Junior School office.
HOMEWORK
Reading - Your child should spend 5 – 10 minutes reading every night.
Spellings - Spellings will come home once a week for a weekly test on a Thursday.
A piece of work for English or Maths, which should take no longer than 15 minutes, will be set three times a week to be returned the following day. If your child has an outside activity, do not worry. Please write a message for me in your child’s Reading Record book. It would be helpful, but not essential, if this piece of work could be done at a later date.
Multiplication Tables – initially 2 times table, then later 5 and 10 times tables will be sent home to be learnt. Later in the year, 3 and 4 times tables may also be sent home.
VISITS/ SPECIAL OCCASIONS
We are aiming to have a visit each term.
The Christmas Parties will take place on Thursday 14th December.
We will give you more information nearer the time.
ASSEMBLIES
Assemblies take place everyday. Once each half term we meet as a whole Junior School at Chessington Lodge. We hold an assembly in the Church for J1-J6 twice a term.
The Chessington Lodge Christmas Celebration will take place on Thursday,
7th December at 2.00 p.m.at St. Mary’s Church.
We hope as many of you as possible will join us for these events in the Church.
If you have any concerns or problems during the year, please do not hesitate to come and see Miss Puddicombe,
Miss Leadbeater or Mrs Crossley.
