Green Dragon Primary School

History

We will know:

• what London looked like in 1666, and explore similarities and differences to life now
• about the 1666 Fire of London
• about the life of Samuel Pepys

We will be able to:

• sequence events on a timeline
• retell the 1666 fire of London
• ask relevant questions
• use a variety of sources, and compare them – which gives us the ‘best’ information?

Geography

We will be able to:

• recognise and talk about key physical features of London: the River Thames
• recognise and talk about key human features of London: Pudding Lane, St Paul’s Cathedral, London Bridge, Tower of London, Tower Bridge
• identify physical and human features from aerial images of London
• plan and draw simple maps and journeys

D.T

We will be able to:

• explore and use wheels when building cardboard fire engines

Computing

We will be able to:

• create music using computers

PSHE

• Our new puzzle piece is ‘Relationships’

• To be able to recognise, find and count in fractions (halves, quarters, thirds)

• To be able to tell the time to the nearest half hour or 5 minute interval

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We will be enjoying lots of books including Vlad and the Great Fire of London.

Some areas of grammar and punctuation we’ll be learning include:

•  Identify and write apostrophes for contraction and singular possession
• idenitfying coordinating conjunctions and writing them in our own sentences: and, or, but
• idenitfying subordinating conjunctions and writing them in our own sentences: when, if, that, because
• identifying and writing prepositions of time, place and movement
• identify and write adjectives before nouns (expanded noun phrases)

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 or paper copy
• Half-termly project activities - sent out via email or paper copy

Trips and assemblies

• Wednesday 23^rd April: Class Photo Day
• Monday 5^th May: May Day (no school)
• Friday 16^th May 9am: Sphinx One class assembly – please come!
• Thursday 22^nd May – Kew National Archives trip for GFOL workshop
• Monday 26^th May – Friday 30^th May: half term holiday
• Tuesday 3^rd June:  school starts again
• (Friday 11^th July 9am: Sphinx Two class assembly – please come!

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.