Phase One

Dear Parents and Carers,

Welcome to Elder Class. The children have settled in beautifully and we have enjoyed our first week back. The children enjoyed hearing the story ‘Watch Out Wilf!’ during story time.

Next week we will be starting our topic ‘Wish You Were Here’ where we learn about the Isle of Wight and compare it to Australia.

On Tuesday 14th September we will hold our ‘Meet the Teacher’ session where we will share with you the routines and learning in year two. Please see the email from Mrs Saunders for further information.

We hope you have a lovely weekend,

Mrs Bibby, Miss Bennett, Mrs Killy and Mrs Glanville 🙂

Dear Parents/Carers

The children have had a an excellent week of learning and finishing up work after our busy test filled week the week before.

The children started our last maths topic on mass and capacity, learning how to weigh objects in grams and kilograms.  We thought of questions to ask Florence Nightingale in Topic and wrote a diary as if we were Florence in English. In Art, the children practised printing different shapes using various colours.

Next week we have an activity filled week for our final full week in Year 2. On Monday, we are going to the Florence Nightingale Museum. A quick reminder that the children need a packed lunch, and will be wearing their normal school uniform with their school hat. On Thursday, the children will be meeting farm animals and on Friday we are having our sports day.  Amongst these exciting days, we will be finishing our maths and topic for Year 2 and we will be starting to prepare the children for the transition to key stage 2!

Have a lovely weekend, (It’s coming home!)

Mr Stocking and Mrs Killy

Dear Parents/Carers

This week the children have sat their end of year assessments. We delivered them as mock SATs, with the children answering a previous years paper. We have spent a lot of time preparing the children for this and they worked incredibly hard, and everyone is very proud of them. The children showed fantastic resilience and determination to work through several tough tests. The children sat 2 maths tests (arithmetic and reasoning), 2 reading tests, a spelling test, and a punctuation and grammar test. The results of which will be in their school report at the end of the year. 

Today the children spent the day doing different fun activities. We had a rock-based music lesson, a drama lesson in which the children become news anchors and earlier in the week we practised team building using the parachute. Outside of our assessments, the children completed our last RSE lesson, in which we learnt the correct names for most body parts. The children completed their Windrush Day kites in art and we learnt about food chains in science.

Next week, we will be returning to a semblance of normality,. We will be finishing our time learning and beginning our final maths topic of Year 2 – capacity and volume. In English we will be looking at several famous women from the book Little Leaders: Bold Women in Black History. In guided reading we will be reflecting on our favourite books and talking about what we like and dislike about them. In R.E. we will be finishing our look at Buddhism and in Science we will be ending our habitats topic.

Have a lovely and restful weekend, the children have certainly earned it!

Mr Stocking and Mrs KIlly

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