Tuesday 10th November 2026
Dear Parents and Carers of Willow Class 2,
RE: Willow Class 2 Autumn 2 Curriculum Letter
Welcome back to Autumn 2!
We hope you and your families enjoyed the half-term break. It has been lovely to welcome the children back to Willow Class, and we look forward to building on their learning and progress during the first half of the autumn term. We have lots of exciting activities planned for the weeks ahead.
Our Learning Journey: ‘My Special Interests’
This term, our learning journey centres on ‘My Special Interests’. By using what each child loves most—from transport and LEGO to superheroes, sensory play, and music—we create tailored, motivating activities that build confidence and essential life skills.
Our core focus areas include:
Communication & Interaction: Expressing likes, choices, and ideas in personally meaningful ways.
Attention & Social Skills: Building concentration, shared attention, and positive peer relationships through favourite activities.
Independence & Confidence: Making choices, exploring new experiences, and developing daily routines.
Sensory & Creative Exploration: Investigating different textures, sounds, materials, and imaginative play.
Maths
In Maths, children will learn through practical resources, visuals, and hands-on games tailored to their individual needs:
Part-Whole Models & Number Bonds: Exploring how whole numbers split into parts and learning number pairs up to 10.
Addition & Subtraction: Practising combining amounts, taking away, finding missing parts, and using mathematical symbols (+, -, =).
Fact Families: Understanding the link between addition and subtraction.
Shapes & Patterns: Identifying, naming, and sorting common 2D and 3D shapes, and building repeating patterns.
Reading
We would really appreciate your continued support with reading at home. Reading with your child every day will help them make as much progress as possible before the end of the school year.
Please ensure that your child brings their book bag to school every day. Reading books will be collected on Wednesday, and new books will be handed out on Friday.
Please look after your child’s reading book and return it to their teacher each week so that we can provide a new one.
PE – Every Thursday
Please send your child to school wearing their PE kit every Thursday. This term PE will be outside (inside if it is raining). School PE kit consists of trainers or plimsoles (Velcro trainers are ideal), plain black or grey shorts/jogging bottoms, a white T-shirt and their red school jumper. Please do not send your child into school wearing football shirts or other non-uniform clothing. Please also remember no jewellery or hooped earrings.
Important Reminder: Uniform
Please ensure your child has a warm coat and that all jumpers, hats, scarves and gloves are clearly named.
Working Together
We would love you to be part of our learning journey! If your child has a particular interest, favourite toy, character, song, story or activity that they enjoy at home, please share this with us. These insights are incredibly valuable and help us make learning as personal, meaningful and enjoyable as possible.
A separate letter will be sent out in the next couple of weeks with all dates for festive events later this term.
Thank you, as always, for your continued support and partnership. We look forward to an exciting term filled with exploration, discovery, creativity and lots of wonderful learning moments in Willow Class.
Warm regards,
Mrs Grande
Willow Class 2 Team