Dear Parents/Carers
Spelling Shed continues to have high engagement and this is reflected in good results in our weekly spelling test. This week there are two spellings lists. The children will only be able to access their lists on Spelling Shed and will take home the appropriate paper resource. The children can freely access all of the resources on Maths shed this week.
In maths this week, we have been learning how to add and subtract 1 and 2 digit numbers to and from a 2 digit number. We have been focusing on how to exchange and when it is needed in addition and subtraction. The children are now adept at using the column method to solve harder mathematical equations. In English, the children have been starting to look at information pages. We will be writing an information page about the Isle of Wight for the Lonely beast. The children are excited about telling the Lonely beast about dinosaur fossils, attractions and different features of the Isle of Wight.
In R.E. this week we learnt about the Jewish festival of Sukkot. Next week we will be making our own Sukkahs. If you have any spare empty cereal boxes, could you please send them in with your child.
This Wednesday we had our key stage 1 trip to the Primary Proms at the Royal Albert Hall. It was a great success and the children had a lovely time listening to some fantastic music. All of the performers were of ages between 9 and 19, and after the performances I had several children say how they would love to do something like that when they are older!
Looking to next week, we will be finishing our topic of addition and subtraction by consolidating our knowledge of written methods, especially column subtraction, as well as writing our information pages.
The winner of our star of the week this week is Lucy, congratulations!
If you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to ask.
Mr. Stocking and the Year 2 team.