Green Dragon Primary School

Every year group at Green Dragon starts the year with a project called Brainwave. It helps children remember the routines and expectations necessary to be effective learners.

Year 2 will combine this project with learning about heroes from the past and present. They will develop an understanding that resilience, respect, communication, adaptability (and all of our personal goals) help people to be successful in the wider world, as well as our school.

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!

Science

We will know:

• that animals, including humans, have offspring which grow into adults

We will be able to:

• find out about and describe the basic needs of animals, including humans, for survival (water, food, air)
• describe the importance for humans of exercise, eating the right amounts of different food, and hygiene

History

We will be able to:

• create a timeline of our own life / heroes
• ask questions about the past and look for answers using a variety of sources

We will know:

• about changes in living memory e.g. births, deaths, starting school, achievements
• about the lives of heroes of the past

Geography

We will develop a greater understanding of:

• the United Kingdom (locate countries, capital cities and surrounding seas)

We will know:

• the names and locations of the seven continents
• the names and locations of the five oceans

We will be able to:

• identify and describe key human features, e.g. city, town, hospital
• use the four compass points
• draw and label a map of the United Kingdom (at my own ‘level’)
• draw and label a map of the World (at my own ‘level’)

Art

We will know:

• about Pablo Picasso and his self-portraits.

We will be able to:

• draw experiences and feelings
• improve our knowledge of colours – mixing secondary to make tertiary

Computing – Computing Systems and Networks

We will know about:

• the uses and features of information technology
• the uses of information technology in school, and beyond school
• how information technology helps us
• how to use information technology safely

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!

School day:

School Day:

Please make sure that Year 2 children are in the Key Stage One playground by 8.45am for an 8.50am start. The school day ends at 3.10pm.

There is free breakfast available in the Studio (in the Key Stage Two playground) from 8am – Year 1 and  Year 2 children must be accompanied by a parent/carer.

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 Thursdays.

Communication With Teachers:

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

Year 2 Home Learning

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

Thank you!

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.