Wishing everyone a very Happy Christmas and wonderful New Year.
Thank you all for our lovely gifts, it was extremely generous of you, we were very spoilt.
Over the Christmas period, I will send a brief outline of the topics we will be covering next year.
Please, if possible could the children complete the following in their workbooks:
English - The United Kingdom, Our solar system, Tiger troubles and sports.
Maths - Multiplying and dividing.
Merry Christmas and Happy 2023!
From the Year 2 team.
Wow, the children were absolutely amazing in their Christmas production on 'Prickly Hay'. They all thoroughly enjoyed singing the songs, well done everyone!
Please see below some photos taken of the children enjoying playing in the snow!
Have a great weekend making the most of the snow!
From the Year 2 team.
Christmas is definitely nearly here, lots of excited children and chilly days.
The children enjoyed their Christmas dinner and watching a film together.
Next week
English – to finish our winter
calligrams.
Maths – understanding the
difference when comparing numbers.
Science – discussing what
materials would be best if creating a rocket.
Geography – discussing our
local area.
Prickly Hay performance
Monday morning to the school.
Tuesday morning and Wednesday afternoon,
they will be performing for yourselves.
Wednesday after the show,
please come into the classroom and look at your child’s work books.
Thursday afternoon will be the
KS1 party; children can bring in party clothes.
I will give spellings out to
the children on Monday.
KS1 workbooks to be completed
and returned please by Thursday.
Maths – Subtracting page 10 and
multiplying page 11.
Comprehension – Making a bird
feeder page 11 and The phoenix and the carpet page 12.
Have a fun weekend
From the Year 2 team.
Hello everyone!
The children have had a fun week
practising their lines and songs for the Christmas performance.
In English, the children created
a calligram centred on winter and included exciting adjectives.
In maths, the children used
cuisenaire rods, cherry and bar models to solve missing numbers using the
inverse.
In science, the children
discovered what John Dunlop invented.
Next week
English - to write a Christmas
calligram.
Maths - problem solving using
money.
In the afternoons the children
will be rehearsing for their Christmas performance. On Tuesday you will be able
to order your tickets for the performance on ‘Prickly Hay’.
Home learning
KS1 workbooks the follow pages
to be completed and return to school by Thursday.
Maths - Adding page 8 and
subtracting page 9.
Comprehension - Vinay's diary
page 9 and Plum page 10.
Spellings for Friday are:
Group 1 – be, like, some, so.
Group 2 – one, won, hear, here,
sun, son, be, bee, see, sea.
Group 3 – bear, bare, new, knew.
On Wednesday
it is school Christmas Dinner, we are making this our Christmas Jumper Day as
well to help add to the atmosphere of the occasion. We make this into a bit of
an event by allowing the children to watch a film afterwards. Please do not
forget to make your contribution towards ‘Save the Children’ which is the
charity that Christmas Jumper Day supports.
Have a great
weekend.
From the Year 2
team.
Hello all!
We have had a fun week practising the lines for our Christmas show in our English lessons; the children are starting to build up pace and use expression.
In maths we completed numerous activities to find the nearest multiple to 10 and explain the difference.
In geography the children enjoyed learning about the features of the UK and they also research extra facts in ICT.
Next Week
English – We will be creating a poem calligram centred on seasons.
Maths – We will be identifying parts and whole numbers using Cuisenaire
rods and cherry models, along with using inverse to find the missing numbers.
During the afternoons, the children will be
practising for their Christmas show.
Spellings for next Friday are:
Group 1 – went, was, said, are
Group 2 – race, ice, once, settle, site, city
Group 3 – circle, celery, cycle, Cinderella, face
KS1 workbooks, the following pages to be completed
and books returned please by Thursday.
Maths – Adding – pages 6 and 7.
Comprehension – Pippa’s star page 7 and Amy Johnson on page 8.
Have a great weekend,
From the Year 2 team.
Happy Friday everyone!
The children have worked very hard this week, they have written an explanation on how a bicycle moves and in maths they have been problem solving using addition and subtracting and looking at number facts to 100.
The children were very creative with their colourful socks on odd sock day for anti-bullying week.
Next week
English – to practise for their Christmas performance
Maths – using doubles and near doubles, adding 1 and 2 digit
numbers to think 10
RE – Christmas story
PSHE – reinforce how we work together, the children will create
friendship tokens
D&T – evaluate their Christmas stockings
Geography – identify features and characteristics of the
countries of the Uk
ICT – research countries of the Uk
Spellings for next Friday are:
Group 1 – there, this, have, put
Group 2 – jar, jacket, village, huge, badge, edge
Group 3 – giant, giraffe, language, shortage
KS1 workbooks, the following pages to be completed and returned
by Thursday please.
Maths – Counting and ordering – page 5, Adding – page 6
Comprehension – Get well soon – page 5, The owl and the
pussy-cat – page 6
Have a lovely weekend,
From the Year 2 team.
Good afternoon to all,
This week in English the children
learnt how to write an explanation text. We looked at a variety of texts and
discussed the layout and present tense. The children created their own
explanation text on how to work a pencil sharpener.
Next week, the
children will write an explanation text showing the stages and process of
riding a bicycle along with a labelled diagram and flow chart on how bicycles
move.
In maths, the children carried
out various activities to develop a good understanding on place value and ordering
numbers using coins, bead strings, 100 square and base 10.
Next week, the children will be
rebalancing when subtracting 9 or 11 along with recapping number bonds using a variety
of resources and measuring water for learning capacity.
Geography - the children will
identify features of the UK.
RE – to continue learning about
Hanukah.
D&T – throughout Tuesday morning
the children will sew together their Christmas stocking, decorate and then evaluate their creation.
On Monday it is
the start of Anti-Bullying Week and for the first day we are asking the
children to come to school wearing odd schools to help celebrate how we are all
different (the children must wear normal uniform apart from their socks).
On Friday it is
‘Children in Need’ day and to celebrate it being the ‘Great Spotacular’ the
children are allowed to come to school in non-uniform as long as one of the
items is spotty. We are asking for all the children to make a donation of at
least £1 and you can do this by sending in cash with your children or by making
a donation online to ‘Just Giving’ (the link was on the newsletter).
Spellings for next Friday are:
Group 1 – my, her, what, out.
Group 2 – wing, sting, thing, mother, climb, crumb.
Group 3 – mostly, motion, mirror.
KS1 workbooks, the following pages to be completed
and returned by Thursday.
Maths – Counting and ordering – pages 3 and 4
Comprehension – Seasons and No teacher – pages 3
and 4
Have a lovely weekend,
From the Year 2 team
Hello to all!
This week in English the children
learnt how to write a recount on when they had lost their favourite toy using
adverbs of time.
Next week, we will research
explanation text. We will look at a variety of texts and discuss the layout and
present tense. The children will create their own explanation text on, how to
work a pencil sharpener.
In maths the children carried out
various activities to develop a good understanding on place value and ordering
numbers using coins, bead strings, 100 square and base 10.
Next week, the children will place
numbers on a number line in the correct position along with estimating. We will
also solve sums adding more than 2 single digit numbers using reordering.
Next week
Geography - the children will learn
the counties and capital cities of the United Kingdom.
Science – we will be looking at
absorbent materials.
RE – to learn about how Hanukah is
celebrated.
D&T – start to create a
Christmas stocking puppet.
The children have in their book bags KS1 maths and comprehension books.
Please could the children complete the following pages only and return the books by Thursday so we can mark the questions together. (If your child finds this difficult please do not worry as we will go through the pages together to consolidate their learning).
Maths - number and place value pages 1
and 2.
Comprehension – How to grow a seed
and Making lemonade.
Spellings for next Friday are:
Group 1 – can, are, up, had
Group 2 – level, little, bottle,
liquid, dial, detail.
Group 3 – impossible, rational, dental,
pencil.
Have a lovely weekend and I look
forward to seeing you at the fireworks display tomorrow.
From the year 2 team.
We made it – half term is here!
It was lovely to meet you all this week and discuss your child’s progress and how well the children have settled into Year 2.
Home learning
Following on the topic of puppets. I would like the children to create a
moving puppet of their choice. We have looked at lots of different ideas. The
children will discuss the materials they have used to the
class.
Date for the puppets to be in by is 24th November 2022.
Next term, an insight of what we will be focusing on.
Maths – Handling data, calculating measuring and understanding shape along with knowing and using number facts.
English – Explanations, recount and calligrams.
Science – Materials.
Geography – Life in the city.
R.E. – Muslim prayer and action and festivals including Christmas.
D&T/Art – Creating Christmas stockings.
PSHE – Celebrating difference.
ICT – Communicating and collaborating online.
With the cold weather potentially coming soon, could you please make sure that any extra clothing that comes in (gloves, scarfs, hats, etc.) is clearly labelled.
Have a fantastic half term,
From the Year 2 team.
Hello everyone, we have had a very busy but fun week.
The children have worked extremely hard on their story
centred on Rapunzel and created fantastic stories using their imagination and
exciting adjectives.
In maths the children enjoyed using lots of different
resources to solve their sums and they especially liked using the real coins.
Next week
English – to create their own version of Handa’s Surprise.
Maths – the children will be regrouping along with counting
on and back.
Art – using charcoal to create an observational drawing on
fruit.
RE – to finish our topic on the meanings of religious symbols.
PSHE – it is Equalities week and the children will complete
numerous activities.
Spellings for next Friday are:
Group 1 – for, at, his, but
Group 2 – climb, cane, kite, chick, choose, chalk
Group 3 – Christmas, queue, ache, question
Reminder on Friday we are celebrating the anti-racism
movement. It is non-uniform day but the children must wear at least one item
that is red in exchange for doing
this we would like the children to bring a donation of at least a pound for the
charity. The children can either make the donation in cash and bring it into
school or you can make the donation on your child’s Arbor portal.
Have a great
weekend
From the Year 2
team.
Good afternoon,
Lovely to see you so many of you at the
Harvest Coffee morning, the children sang their songs beautifully.
On Tuesday, we had a wonderful time at the British
Museum in Hitchin.
The children were extremely well behaved and
enjoyed the role play acting as Victorian children.
Please see photos taken below.
English – The children will continue
to plan and create their own traditional tale, including adjectives,
exclamation marks and a repeated sentence.
Maths – To identify place value.
Science – Testing materials for use
of a coat.
History – To produce a recount on our
class trip.
ICT – To develop familiarity with the
computer and keyboard.
PSHE – To be a good listener and care
about other people’s feelings.
RE – To research why light is
important in the Jewish, Hindu and Christian religion.
Art – To use a variety of shading
pencils to create different tones, patterns and textures.
Spellings for next week are:
Group 1 – they, on, she, is.
Group 2 – bridge, sledge, budge,
nudge, strange, change
Group 3 – porridge, footbridge,
drawbridge.
Have a great weekend
From the Year 2 team.