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A diverse week of fun!

Dear Parents and Carers

This week has been school diversity week and we marked it in several ways. The children continued their learning on historically significant women by learning more about Rosa Parks and Catherine Duleep Singh. The children wrote a non-chronological report on Rosa Parks and her impact on racial equality, and we acted as historical detectives when looking at photos of Catherine Singh’s life. Singh was a courageous British Indian woman born in Victorian England. She went on to help Jewish families escape Germany prior to World War 2 with her partner Lina Schafer. On Tuesday, the children also learnt about and celebrated Windrush Day though music, poetry and art.

Amongst our topic learning we have also continued our revising our Year 2 learning and the children are ready to complete their practise SATs next week. One revision tool we have used is the interactive games on BBC bitesize. The children have enjoyed continuing their learning on a different platform. Two good games are:

English grammar, punctuation and spelling:  https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zd63xyc/articles/zncgvk7

Maths revision:  https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zjkphbk/articles/zf4sscw

General revision:  https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/levels/z3g4d2p

The children have worked very hard since half term to practise and prepare for these tests (we have called them quizzes), and I know everyone will do their best.

Have a lovely weekend everyone!

Mr Stocking and Mrs Killy

 

 

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A Dip for Mr Grinling

This week we have written our set of instructions to teach Mr Grinling how to make the dip tzatziki.

We then followed our set of instructions and made the dip in class.

We enjoyed eating it!

In maths we have been partitioning and comparing numbers. Next week we will be continuing place value and finding one more and one less of a number within 100.

This week the children performed their first ever class assembly to Year Two, Mrs Warner and Mr Quinn. The children spoke with great clarity and performed their songs beautifully. Mr Quinn was so impressed with all of the facts they shared. We will be sharing a recording of the assembly with you next week.

In phonics we have been reviewing the following sounds:

er (better letter)

u-e (huge brute)

ure (sure it’s pure)

There are words containing these sounds for the children to practise available on the Spelling Shed website: https://play.spellingshed.com/#/login

 

We hope you have a lovely weekend,

Miss Luetchford and Mrs Sharon 🙂

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Meeting Mr Grinling

This week we started our new class text ‘The Lighthouse Keeper’s Lunch’.

In the story we met an industrious lighthouse keeper called ‘Mr Grinling’ whose lunch kept being stolen by some pesky seagulls. We learnt about the jobs Mr Grinling had to do and wrote an explanation text explaining how to be a lighthouse keeper.

In maths we have been  learning how to order and partition numbers within 100. We used dienes to show how many tens and ones were in a 2 digit number.

In science we have started our new topic ‘Materials’. We sorted materials into a Venn diagram.

In R.E we have started our new unit’ What Responsibility has God Given us to Look after the Earth?’. In class we read the Creation Story and wrote down parts of the story we found puzzling. We then walked to St Matthew’s Church where Mother Helen and Father Alistair showed us the parts of the church and answered our questions.

This week in phonics we have been reviewing the following sounds:

ea (cup of tea)

ee (what can you see?)

ir (whirl and twirl)

There are words containing these sounds for the children to practise available on the Spelling Shed website: https://play.spellingshed.com/#/login

We hope you had a lovely (hopefully dry)  weekend watching the England match,

Miss Luetchford and Mrs Sharon 🙂

 

 

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First Week Back

This week we took part in our Victorian Seaside workshop. During the workshop we met a lady called Victoria who taught us lots of information about the Victorian era. We learnt that the beaches used to be separated for men and women. This was because women used to wear longer bathing costumes as it was seen rude to show anything other than your hands, feet and face.

In phonics we have been reviewing the following sounds:

ar (start the car)

ir (whirl and twirl)

ay (may I play?)

ai (snail in the rain)

a-e (make a cake)

There are words containing these sounds for the children to practise available on the Spelling Shed website: https://play.spellingshed.com/#/login

We hope you had a lovely weekend,

Miss Luetchford and Mrs Sharon

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A busy start to our last half term!

Dear Parents/Carers

Welcome back to all of the children for our final half term in Year 2. It sounds like everyone had a very restful half term and all of the children have continued their hard work from the last half term.

Today, you should be receiving an email about our end of year assessments. We have been preparing the children for these over a long period of time, and are now ramping up our test practise and preparation. The children have responded brilliantly to this and have listened carefully to the advice and guidance we have been giving them in class. Whilst there are no published SATs in Year 2 this year (due to covid), it is great practise for the children and we have encouraged them to see it as a celebration of everything they have learnt this year. If you have any questions after reading the letter from Mr Quinn, please feel free to ask.

In Maths, the children have been learning about time, looking at o’clock, half past, quarter past and quarter to times and learning how to read these times on an analogue clock. We also have been looking through different arithmetic papers so the children are secure in how to work through them. In English, we have been focusing on punctuation and grammar, and in guided reading we have been refining our comprehension skills with some reading practise papers.

Next week, we will  be delivering our Year 2 class assembly in our Key Stage 1 assembly. We are hoping to film this on the day to be able to send out to all of you. If it is not possible to get a good recording on the day (due to outside noise etc.) then we will film it later in the term in a more suitable filming environment.

The children have worked really hard this week and I am so proud of their resilience and determination to do well. I have full faith that they will all do their very best this half term.

I hope you all have a lovely weekend,

Mr Stocking and Mrs Killy