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Naburn Road
Whinmoor, Leeds, LS14 2BL
United Kingdom

0113 2930280

White Laith Primary School is situated within Whinmoor in Leeds. Children and adults work together in an atmosphere of trust, respect and belonging. We aim to treat everyone with equal dignity and worth valuing their particular characteristics. The Staff and Governors are determined to make our school a place of excellence and the children
share that desire.

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Yangtze - Year Two

This term we will be continuing our topic is ‘Leeds and Beijing.’ We will be finding out about Beijing in China and will be comparing it to Leeds. We will be finding out about landmarks in Beijing and will be making maps.

In English we will be reading ‘The Magic Paintbrush’ and will be writing character descriptions of the main characters. We will be reading ‘Katie goes to London’ and ‘Katie goes to Scotland’ and will be writing our own versions- ‘Katie goes to Leeds and Beijing.’ We will continue to work hard to learn our spellings each week on Spelling Shed.

In Art we will be creating cityscapes in the style of Paul Klee and will be painting blossom trees and dragons.

In Maths we will be learning to multiply and divide by 2, 5 and 10. Please practise counting on and back in 2s, 5s and 10s. We are enjoying our maths tests on Fridays and are working hard to beat our scores each week. Each week I will also set lessons to complete on Mathseeds. 

Our Science topic is ‘Animals, including humans.’ We will find out about different animal groups and we will be writing explanation texts to describe animal life cycles. For Science Week we will be completing investigations about time and will be building marble runs.

Our MindMate topic is Strong Emotions and our PSHE topic is Friendship.

In PE we will be continuing to practise our skipping skills and will be developing our creative skills, balancing skills and ball skills. We will also be continuing our African drumming lessons.

 

Books we will be reading in YEAR TWO: