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