Green Dragon Primary School

Science

We will recap from Year 1:

• To be able to identify and name a variety of common wild and garden plants, including deciduous and evergreen trees
• To be able to identify and describe the basic structure of a variety of common flowering plants, including trees

From Year 2, we will know:

• The parts of a plant and what they need to stay healthy
• How to identify and and name a variety of plants
• Observe and describe how seeds and bulbs grow into mature plants

We will be able to:

• Investigate and describe how plants need water, light and a suitable temperature to grow and stay healthy
• Make observations and describe how seeds and bulbs grow into mature plants.

Geography

We will know:

• The location of the North Pole and South Pole, and the equator

We will be able to:

• Make comparisons between hot and cold places around the world (relating to plants)
• Describe the impact of weather and seasons on plants
• Recognise and talk about key physical features, especially in Canada and Wales: forests, mountains, valleys, soil

Computing

We will be able to:

• create music using a computer

Technology

• Preparing fruits and vegetables to make a smoothie

Art

• To know about the works of Marianne North  - botanical art
• To be able to use mediums such as pencil, crayon and water colours creatively
• To be able to share ideas and experiences using a range of techniques

Multiplication and Division; to be able to make equal groups, share equal groups, double, halve, count in twos, count in fives and count in tens

Money; to be able to recognise notes and coins, add amounts and find change.

We will be enjoying lots of books including The Tiny Seed and The Extraordinary Gardener. Some areas of grammar and punctuation we’ll be learning include:

• using commas in lists
• maintaining a present tense when writing (trying to write instructions)
• distinguishing between, and writing our own, stetements, questons, commands and exclamations
• distinguish between singular and plural nouns

We use a knowledge organiser for every project in every year group. It is a helpful way for children and families to see the key knowledge that children will learn. This key knowledge helps the children ask more questions and then find out more information.

It would be helpful to talk with your child about this knowledge organiser. As the project develops, they will be able to share more knowledge. Thank you!

PE Kits:

School PE uniform is black shorts (or tracksuit bottoms) with a white t-shirt and trainers. All children will come to school wearing PE kit on their PE days.

Year 2 PE days are: Tuesdays and Fridays.  

Year 2 Home Learning

• Daily reading – new books will be sent home weekly and should be brought into school every day.
• A weekly activity based on the classroom learning - sent out via email
• Half-termly project activities - sent out via email or paper copy

Open Evening

Friday 10^th January Exit Point of previous project - families invited in to class 2:30pm

Monday 13^th January Plant Day Entry Point

Please send your child to school with plants – more details will be emailed out.

Friday 24^th January: School Disco

3.15-4.20 Year 1, 2, 3 and 4.30-5.45 Year 4, 5, 6

Wednesday 12^th February: Kew Gardens

more information will be sent nearer the time but we need lots of parent/carer helpers, please!

Wednesday 26th and Thursday 27th March: Open Evenings for all children– more information will be sent to you nearer the time.

Can you help?!

If you have any information (stories, photos, experiences, artefacts etc) from the regions on our knowledge organiser, then please contact your class teacher: sphinx@greendragon.hounslow.sch.uk

PHONICS (READING AND SPELLING)

CLICK HERE TO VIEW OUR PHONICS AND READING WEBPAGE

At Green Dragon Primary School, we believe that all our children can become fluent readers and writers. This is why we teach reading through Little Wandle Letters and Sounds Revised, which is a systematic and synthetic phonics (SSP) programme. We start teaching phonics in Reception and follow the Little Wandle Letters and Sounds Revised progression, which ensures children build on their growing knowledge of the alphabetic code, mastering phonics to read and spell as they move through school.

As a result, all our children are able to tackle any unfamiliar words as they read. At Green Dragon Primary School we also model the application of the alphabetic code through phonics in shared reading and writing, both inside and outside of the phonics lesson and across the curriculum. We have a strong focus on language development for our children because we know that speaking and listening are crucial skills for reading and writing in all subjects.

Here is the link to the 'For Parents' section of the Little Wandle website. https://www.littlewandlelettersandsounds.org.uk/resources/for-parents/

The resources on this page will help you support your child with saying their phonemes (sounds) and writing their graphemes (letters). There are also useful videos so you can see how your child is taught at school, to be able to confidently support their reading at home. 

There are two main ways to talk with your child’s teacher.

You can talk at the start or end of the day – remember that teachers have more time at the end of the day!

Alternatively, teachers check the year group email every day so you can contact them here:  sphinx@greendragon.hounslow.sch.uk

Teachers will respond between the hours of 8:00 and 4:00pm.