Y2-Y3- Jodrell 2025 - 2026

Welcome to Jodrell Class!

This term, our topic is all about 'Celebrations' and we will be learning about lots of different celebrations from birthdays to halloween, to Christmas and Diwali. We will be doing lots of activities linked to celebrations and focusing our key vocabulary, symbol work and signing based on these specific celebrations. 

Our stories this term will be linked to our learning and every two to three weeks we will be introduced to a new book linked to a new topic. We will learn through our senses using a total communication approach and most importantly, we will have fun!

Our books this have term are:

It's my birthday

Harvest Days

It's Diwali

Funny Bones

Oliver's Fruit Salad

Mog's Christmas

Jesus' Christmas Party

Maths

In maths, our learning for this term is all number and place value. We will learn through songs, games and practical activities. 

Creativity

Our artwork will be focused on balloons this half term. We will be focusing on the texture of balloons and well as creating different pieces of art work using them. 

In music, we will be listening to lots of different songs to identify the different instruments and think about how this music makes us feel. We will learn all about syllables too!

Individuality

We will be continuing our learning using and our focus is on 'meeting the brain'. We will also be focusing on our emotions, exercise, hygeine, sleep and learning about our private body parts. 

In PE is usually in blocks of 3 weeks.

Block 1: Movement

Block 2: Invasion

Block 3: Multi-skills

Block 4: Dance

Community

In community, we will be looking at many different topics. We will start off by learning how we celebrate birthdays, we will look at Diwali, Halloween and Christmas. 

Challenge

In challenge, we will be learning all about different harvest fruits and vegetables. We will focus on learning about autumn and winter, we will design a Halloween costume and then continue to focus on fruits and vegetables (including making our own smoothies).

Please check Facebook for all of the pictures of our learning. This is usually updated at least twice a week.