Mrs Bentzien
Autumn Term Information 2024
My name is Mrs Bentzien and I am the year 2 class teacher. I am also the school SENDco (Special Educational Needs and Disabilities Co-ordinator), Senior Mental Health Lead, Computing subject lead and KS1 lead.
Mrs Franklin teaches Art, PE and Religious Education on Monday and Tuesday afternoon (during my allocated SENDco time and SLT time).
Here is our class timetable for AUTUMN 2024
Homework
Homework is handed out every Friday and needs to be returned by the following Wednesday.
Mobberley Reading Journey – Our Favourite Five
Shared Reading
Autumn 1 – The Owl Who Was Afraid of the Dark, by Jill Tomlinson
This half term we will be reading The Owl Who Was Afraid of the Dark, by Jill Tomlinson. The children will take part in daily shared reading activities to develop their comprehension, prediction and inference skills.
English
Autumn Stimulus Text 1: The Little Green Dinosaur, by Pie Corbett
The children will be learning the story of The Little Green Dinosaur using Talk4Writing. We will focus on using adjectives and similes before writing our own version of the story.
Autumn Stimulus Text 2: Look Up! by Nathan Byron.
Our writing focus will be information texts and fictional recounts. The children will learn the features of information texts before researching Mae Jemmison and producing an information report about her life and achievements. The children will also learn how to write in role as the character Rocket. They will produce a fictional recount of her day using the story as a guide.
SPaG – The children will be focusing on using different word classes including nouns, adjectives, verbs, adverbs, prepositions and time connectives in their creative writing.
Reading at Home – Please see information regarding Book Bands. Once your child has completed the Little Wandle Reading spine, they will be moved onto Book Bands. Book Bands for Parents
Maths
Our focus this half term will be Place Value and then Addition and Subtraction. We will consolidate prior learning by revisiting place value at the start of the term. The children will use tens and ones frames, Base 10 equipment, part whole models and tens frames to make, order and compare different 2 digit numbers. The children will use < > and = to compare different numbers. We will then work on different strategies for addition and subtraction.
History – The Gunpowder Plot
This half term our focus will be history. The children will learn about Guy Fawkes and the Gunpowder Plot. They will create a timeline of events, take part in drama activities and write letters in role.
Geography – Amazing Africa
The children will learn about the continents of the world. We will then focus on Kenya, the children will use maps and atlases to locate and label the capital city and key locations in Kenya. We will compare the human and physical features of a rural town in Kenya and our local area of Mobberley.
Science – Materials
This half term we will be learning about materials and their properties. The children will sort and classify materials by their properties, they will describe different materials and sort man-made and natural materials. The children will take part in a comparative experiment to find out which materials would work best for a rain coat.
Scientist Study: The children will find out about Charles Macintosh and John McAdam.
Scientist Study: David Attenborough
PSHE (Jigsaw) – Being Me in My World
This year we are continuing to use Jigsaw for a whole school approach to PSHE (Physical, Social, Health and Emotional learning). Each class has their own Jigsaw mascot – Year 2’s mascot is called Jo.
Our first school unit is called Being Me in My World. In this unit, the children will discuss ways to make our class and school environment a better place.
Computing
Programming – Scratch Jr.
This half term the children will be learning what the blocks on Scratch Jr do and will be using them to write code to create different short animations. The first will be an animation of an animal moving, the second will be two characters retelling a joke and the final project will be creating a short animation of a familiar fairy tale.
PE
The children will need to come to school wearing their full Mobberley PE kit on a Thursday and Friday this term.
Art
Art is taught on a Tuesday afternoon by Mrs Franklin.
Religious Education
RE is taught on a Monday afternoon by Mrs Franklin. The children will be learning about the Christian Church with a focus on Christian values and our own school ethos.
My Happy Mind
We will continue to use My Happy Mind to help children develop their awareness of their own strengths and wellbeing.
My Happy Mind is taught across five modules and each introduces a new set of content and habits to help children build resilience, self-esteem and confidence.
Meet Your Brain
Understanding how your brain works and how to ensure we look after it so that we can manage our emotions and be at our best. Growth mindset is a key part of this too.
Celebrate
Understanding your unique character strengths and learning to celebrate them. This is a fantastic module for building self esteem.
Appreciate
Understanding why gratitude matters and how you can develop gratitude as a habit. Gratitude is key to well-being and resilience and we’re all about making it a habit!
Relate
Understanding why positive relationships matter and how to build them. We’re focussed on the building blocks of good relationships and friendships.
Engage
Understanding how to set meaningful goals that matter and how to keep resilient in times of challenge. This module is all about building self esteem and resilience too.
Maths Game Links
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