Home Learning

Reading:

Please read daily with your child and log on Boom Reader. We will be following up with children who are reading less than three times a week at home. If you would like a paper reading diary to record your reading at home, please let us know and we can provide one for you.

Handwriting:

Any opportunity to practise writing your letters using our cursive script at home would greatly help with developing and improving your child’s handwriting. We are focusing on ensuring our small letters are small, our tall letters are tall (and long) and that they are consistent in size.

Maths:

Please practise on Doodle Maths – ten minutes every day will help your child stay in the Green Zone! We will set an assignment for your child to do each Friday, to be completed by the following Friday.

Spellings:

We will be sending home a list of words for your child to practise at home each Tuesday – this week we are looking at apostrophes to show possession, for example: the lady’s hat, the boy’s football, the girl’s shoes.

Don’t forget to practise this week’s spelling rule over the weekend ready for our quiz on Monday morning!

This week!

Bertie has loved our Maths learning this week where we have been subtracting a one digit number from a 2 digit number, but we have had to exchange! It has been challenging but the children have been very determined and we’ve all been successful in our learning 😊.

Hugo has enjoyed writing some poetry this week – we used our senses and imagined we were birds flying through the sky. We thought about what we could see, hear, feel and then wrote some descriptive phrases. We worked hard to improve the presentation of our written work and have produced some lovely poems.

Sonny, Dougie and Martha have enjoyed our Art learning this week where we have learned about Nick Park – the creator of Wallace and Gromit – we looked at the characters and thought about what shapes we could see within the clay and the skills needed to achieve the effect. We even got to have a little sneak peak of the Wallace and Gromit Series, watching ‘The Wrong Trousers!’

Harry loved our Music lesson this week, as we think most of the children did, where we gave them each their own recorder. We looked at how to hold the recorder properly, and how to blow into it properly. The children listened well and understand the contract we made – when to blow and when to hold their recorder in a variety of different positions, including rollercoaster, Pinocchio, pirate and bow tie!

Have a lovely weekend.

The Year 2 Team

Home Learning

Reading:

Please read daily with your child and log on Boom Reader. We will be following up with children who are reading less than three times a week at home. If you would like a paper reading diary to record your reading at home, please let us know and we can provide one for you.

Handwriting:

Any opportunity to practise writing your letters using our cursive script at home would greatly help with developing and improving your child’s handwriting. We are focusing on ensuring our small letters are small, our tall letters are tall (and long) and that they are consistent in size.

Maths:

Please practise on Doodle Maths – ten minutes every day will help your child stay in the Green Zone! We will set an assignment for your child to do each Friday, to be completed by the following Friday.

Spellings:

We will be sending home a list of words for your child to practise at home each Tuesday – this week we are looking at apostrophes to show possession, for example: the lady’s hat, the boy’s football, the girl’s shoes.

Don’t forget to practise this week’s spelling rules over the weekend ready for our quiz on Monday morning!

This week!

Nigel has enjoyed Art where we used the sketching skills that we learned last half term to complete an observational drawing of a police badge. Some children remembered how to create different shades by pressing harder and softer using their pencils.

Sunny has enjoyed Maths this week, where we have been practising our addition and subtraction skills to add ones, tens and groups of tens to different numbers.

Sonny has been reading another Roald Dahl Classic at home, George’s Marvellous Medicine, and has loved reading Fantastic Mr Fox in class as it is our class reading book this half term!

Phoebe enjoyed our English lesson today, where we learned about the prefix -un, meaning the opposite of the word it is in front of. We hunted for ‘un’ words and had to find their opposite word!

Sophie has enjoyed History this week where we learned all about crime in London in the past, and how people took it upon themselves to police the areas in the 1700’s – we then realised that they were not very good at their jobs and it took Sir Robert Peel to create the Metropolitan Police Act in 1829, and introduce the Police Force, to keep the community of London much more safe.

Dougie has enjoyed our Power of Reading text, the Magic Finger, which has given us lots of mature discussions linking with our Sustainable Development Goal ‘Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions’ – we have talked about Fox Hunting and the reasons for and against it. The children had some really interesting thoughts and we turned our ideas into a discussion and a debate – the children argued their cases really well and were very grown up in their responses.

If your child would like to sign up to sing at the Buckden Light Switch On event, please do this through Arbor – it should be going live this weekend and Mrs Farmer will begin rehearsals next week in preparation for the occasion!

Have a lovely weekend.

The Year 2 Team

Home Learning

Reading:

Please read daily with your child and log on Boom Reader. We will be following up with children who are reading less than three times a week at parents evening, with the option to have a reading diary instead if Boom Reader is not working for you.

Handwriting:

Any opportunity to practise writing your letters using our cursive script at home would greatly help with developing and improving your child’s handwriting. We are focusing on ensuring our small letters are small, our tall letters are tall (and long) and that they are consistent in size and spacing.

Maths:

Please practise on Doodle Maths – ten minutes daily will help your child stay in the Green Zone! We will set an assignment for your child to do each Friday, to be completed by the following Friday.

Spellings:

We will be sending home a list of words for your child to practise at home each Tuesday.

There are no spellings this week – we feel that the children have worked so hard and deserve a break over the half term.

This week!

Ruby has enjoyed doing her spellings this week and particularly enjoyed writing her 500 word story! Your child will be coming home with their 500 word story today, if you would like to enter the competition, please follow the instructions on this weeks Newsletter. We hope that we have some winning entries!

Phoebe loved winning our Mammoth Mathematician this week as Dahl Class won the Top Doodler Award this week! We hope to continue our streak after half term so please keep Doodling!

Charlie has enjoyed writing his 500 word story and really liked practising our tricky Year 2 Common Exception Words. If you would like a list of these for home, please let us know!

Grace has enjoyed Science this week. We played a game where we had to guess which animal did not belong in a selection of habitats. The children then went and designed their own habitats and played their own games of ‘Odd one out!’.

School Play – The Wind in the Willows

You will receive an email later today with details of our school play, as well as costume ideas for the children to bring in next half term. If you have any questions, please contact the Year 2 on year2@bpa.act-academytrust.org.

The Eco-team have two exciting missions, and your superpowers are needed—starting with our first challenge: Cut the Carbon!  and with our Bin-tastic Challenge!

Cut the Carbon! 

This November, we’re on a mission to shrink our carbon footprints and make a real impact. Each week, our Eco-Warriors will be tracking progress and cheering you on.  There are six suggestions to help us cut carbon:

• Eat a plant-based meal
• Leave the car at home and walk or cycle instead
• Meal plan to reduce food waste 
• Lower your washing machine temperature to 30°C or lower
• Have a device-free day
• Turn down the heating by 1° for a week

There is more information on this video   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQPsAAHPj78

Bin-tastic Challenge!

Our playground bins are ready for a makeover—and we want YOUR brilliant ideas! The Eco Team is calling on all creative minds to design a brand-new bin that’s fun, functional, and fabulous.

🎨 Your Mission:  Grab an A4 sheet of paper and sketch your dream bin design. Think bold colours, cool shapes, and eco-friendly features. Could it talk? Could it sort recycling? Could it look like a robot or a tree? 

🌱 The Eco Team will review all the designs and choose the most awesome one to inspire our new playground bins!  Deadline Friday 7^th November. 

 

Thank you for all of your hard work and support over the first half term, we look forward to meeting lots of you properly after half term during our Autumn Parents Evening.

Have a lovely half term and a restful break!

Best wishes,
The Year 2 Team

Home Learning

Reading:

Please read daily with your child and log on Boom Reader. We will be following up with children who are reading less than three times a week.

Handwriting:

Any opportunity to practise writing your letters using our cursive script at home would greatly help with developing and improving your child’s handwriting. We are focusing on ensuring our small letters are small, our tall letters are tall (and long) and that they are consistent in size.

Maths:

Please practise on Doodle Maths – ten minutes daily will help your child stay in the Green Zone! We will set an assignment for your child to do each Friday, to be completed by the following Friday.

Spellings:

We will be sending home a list of words for your child to practise at home each Tuesday.

Don’t forget to practise this week’s spelling rules over the weekend ready for our quiz on Monday morning!

This week!

In English the children have enjoyed asking the Last Wolf some questions about his life. Some excellent examples included: What was life like in the good old days? What happened to your family? What is it like to live in a cosy tree cave?

The children loved learning more about David Attenborough today, and had another opportunity to practise taking notes. We are excited to turn our notes into sentences and complete a Fact File about the famous naturalist, writer and broadcaster who has produced over 100 documentaries!

Science saw the children learn the difference between a habitat and a microhabitat. We will be exploring a range of microhabitats around the school grounds next week, seeing which plants and Minibeasts we can identify within them!

In Online safety this week, the children learned about online identity. We created avatars based on our likes, hobbies and interests – we then talked about how people’s real identity can be different from their online identity, and the need to be aware of this.

Have a lovely weekend.

The Year 2 Team

Home Learning

Reading:

Please read daily with your child and log on Boom Reader. We will be following up with children who are reading less than three times a week.

Handwriting:

Any opportunity to practise writing your letters using our cursive script at home would greatly help with developing and improving your child’s handwriting. We are focusing on ensuring our small letters are small, our tall letters are tall (and long) and that they are consistent in size.

Maths:

Please practise on Doodle Maths – ten minutes daily will help your child stay in the Green Zone! We will set an assignment for your child to do each Friday, to be completed by the following Friday.

Spellings:

We will be sending home a list of words for your child to practise at home each Tuesday.

Don’t forget to practise this week’s spelling rules over the weekend ready for our quiz on Monday morning!

This week!

The children had a brilliant time on our locality walk this morning where we identified a range of human and physical features around the village. The children were so well-behaved and represented our school so well to the many villagers we greeted along the way!

In Science this week we enjoyed sorting and classifying different objects, we recapped the features of living things (using MRS GREN to remind us) and then decided if different things around the school and the grounds were living, dead or whether they had never lived. We had an interesting discussion about sticks and branches and which category they should be sorted into!

In Maths this week, we have been representing numbers from 10-100 using place value grids, part-whole models and bar models to show the place value of each digit. We ended the week looking at number lines and estimating where these numbers would go based on which ‘decade’ they belonged in by looking at the tens digit.

We’ve been learning all about wolves in our English learning this week, and developing the skill of taking notes whilst watching some really interesting videos! The children then had a go at turning some of their notes into sentences ready to start creating a fact file next week.

Please don’t forget to bring your non-perishable items to school on Monday ready to take to the Church with us as we celebrate Harvest Festival. If you are joining us on the walk to/from the Church, please meet us outside the Office at 9:05am where we will be leaving promptly to start the service at 9:30am.

Have a lovely weekend.

The Year 2 Team