Welcome to Sapphire Class!

Welcome Autumn Term 2 - the busiest but most exciting time of the year!

I will be with the class Monday - Thursday. Mrs Tomlinson will teach Year 2 on a Friday and will lead a 'curriculum day' for the children where they will be taught areas of the wider curriculum. This allows me to focus on the core subjects of Maths and English, as well as our enquiry theme.  

For this half term, the children will have PE on a Tuesday and Friday. Please make sure that as the weather becomes cooler, the children are dressed appropriately as we will try and be outside as much as possible!

You are welcome to  email me on jproctor@littleleighprimary.cheshire.sch.uk. If it is anything urgent regarding day to day problems, please contact Mrs Carthy in the school office who will be happy to help.  

Mrs P 

This half term we are answering the question...

How did the Great Fire of London change our capital city?

As historians...

Children will learn about how and when the Great Fire started. They will be able to recognise and order the events of the Great Fire during the 5-day period in which it ravaged London by looking at Samuel Pepys’ recount of the time. The children will identify the methods and equipment used to try to stop the fire and the conditions which meant the fire spread quicker than necessary. Time will be spent looking at how London has changed since the fire. The children will understand the job of an architect and how Christopher Wren helped to rebuild the city under King Charles’ instructions. They will identify the new regulations put in place to keep the city safe in the future such as house materials and firefighting equipment. Children will also locate the relevant key parts of London such as Pudding Lane, St. Pauls’ Cathedral, River Thames etc to understand how the city has changed over time.   

As writers...

This is a superb book to teach the history of the Great Fire of London. The richly detailed illustrations and text work effectively together to portray 17th century London and the changes it went through during this turbulent time. James Weston Lewis’ illustrations are colourful, vivid and bring this period of history to life, including city maps and drawings of London before, during and after the fire. The book highlights how people helped each other through the fire as well as how London and the fire service evolved afterwards. The children will use this text to create their own information report based on the Great Fire of London. 

As readers...         

We will be using a bespoke information book to focus on the following reading mastery keys:

* Discuss favourite words and phrases
* Answer and ask questions
* Explore non-fiction books that are structured in different ways
* Discuss the sequence of events in books and how items of information are related 
* Make inferences on the basis of what is being said and done

As scientists...

As mathematicians..

Children will be taught to:

 solve problems with addition and subtraction:
 use concrete objects and pictorial representations, including those involving numbers, quantities and measures
 apply their increasing knowledge of mental and written methods
 recall and use addition and subtraction facts to 20 fluently, and derive and use related facts up to 100
 add and subtract numbers using concrete objects, pictorial representations, and mentally, including; a two-digit number and ones, a two-digit number and tens, two two-digit numbers, three one-digit numbers
 show that addition of two numbers can be done in any order (commutative) and subtraction of one number from another cannot
 recognise and use the inverse relationship between addition and subtraction and use this to check calculations and solve missing number problems.