Home Learning

Reading:

Please read daily with your child and log on Boom Reader or in your child’s reading diary. 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.

Handwriting will be a big focus after the Easter holidays, with a set session daily to develop fine motor skills and reteach the orientation of each letter, both capital and lowercase.

Maths:

Please practise on Doodle Maths – fifteen 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.

If you would like to practise other areas of Maths over the holidays, any addition, subtraction, multiplication and division (2, 5 and 10x tables) would benefit your child greatly.

Spellings:

Please continue to practise your spellings over the bank holiday weekend. You will have your test on Tuesday morning, and receive your new spellings on Tuesday to take home and practise.

This week!

Jonah has enjoyed English this week where we have tapped into ‘character’, looking in particular at Atir – the keeper of Zeraffa. The children decided he was a kind man, for caring for a baby giraffe, and a brave man, for travelling all the way from Egypt to France on a long, dangerous journey!

Charlie and lots of children have enjoyed our Maths this week, where we have finished looking at coins, and looked back at addition and subtraction using our place value grids to help us. We began looking at measurement on Friday, and the children were experts at using their rulers to measure lines in centimetres! We also thought about what else we can measure, and discussed things like weight, temperature and the amount of water that could fit in a bottle! We will delve into this more next week.

The children have particularly enjoyed our History this week, where we began learning about life in the Workhouse in the Victorian period – the children decided that life was not very fun back in those days, especially when you had to sleep in a dormitory with up to 20 other children, share a bed with a stranger and wee in a pale, as well as only see your family for 30 minutes on a Sunday! We look forward to turning our notes into a Fact File which we hope to share with you soon!

The children have continued to enjoy Music this week where we have practised our skills playing the recorder. We have begun to learn some notes and we will be working towards learning a song!

Don't forget! Next week is class photo day - Year 2 photographs will be taken on the Wednesday. 

Have a lovely long weekend.

The Year 2 Team

Home Learning

Reading:

Please read daily with your child and log on Boom Reader or in your child’s reading diary. 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.

Handwriting will be a big focus after the Easter holidays, with a set session daily to develop fine motor skills and reteach the orientation of each letter, both capital and lowercase.

Maths:

Please practise on Doodle Maths – fifteen 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.

If you would like to practise other areas of Maths over the holidays, any addition, subtraction, multiplication and division (2, 5 and 10x tables) would benefit your child greatly.

Spellings:

There will be no spellings over the half term – enjoy the break!

This week!

Nigel and lots of the children have enjoyed break the rules day today! We have had some crazy blue and green hair, ties around heads, lots of cuddles with our teddies and the girls have enjoyed having their hair down!

Dougie, Sunny, Sonny and Sophie have loved learning to tell the time to the nearest 5 minutes. We’ve done lots of chanting, counting in 5s up to 60 to tell the time to the minutes past, and then we’ve even challenged ourselves to stop at 30 and count back to 0 to tell the time to the nearest five minutes ‘to’ the hour! The children have worked so hard and been so resilient, we are so proud of their learning.

Phoebe and Bertie have enjoyed getting to know our new CLPE book, ‘Zeraffa Giraffa’! We began the week with a story bag and some items which the children had to predict or guess what they thought the story might be about. The children’s predictions were interesting and very close to the real story!

Seb and Abel loved Science this week where we discussed our prior knowledge of plants, what they need to survive and thrive, and we did some observational drawings of tomato slices, labelling them accurately using rulers.

Jonah and Hugo enjoyed our PE yesterday where we practised our throwing and catching skills, both with a partner and on our own.

Sophie has enjoyed the introduction to our Global Learning Goal ‘No Poverty’. We discussed what Poverty is and what it might look like. We will be delving deeper into this in our History and Geography learning as the term goes on!

Have a lovely weekend.

The Year 2 Team

Home Learning

Reading:

Please read daily with your child and log on Boom Reader or in your child’s reading diary. 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 – fifteen 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. Don’t forget to practise this week’s spellings – a selection of spellings from our recent PiXL assessment.

This week!

The children have enjoyed our English this week, we looked at a range of instruction texts and identified their features, we then planned different ways to catch the nasty Witch from our CLPE book 'Rapunzel' and Bertie and Harry loved designing their own trap to catch the Witch! Next week we will be finishing our instruction texts, focusing on the presentation of our written work.

A standout subject this week was Maths where we have recapped telling the time to o’clock, half past, quarter past and lots of us have mastered quarter to the hour!

Grace and lots of the children loved our Art lesson this week, in which we put our sketching skills to practice by creating our final self-portrait. The children begun to create some wonderful portraits, with real focus on the shape of each of our facial features. We can’t wait to finish them next week and hope that some will go up in Church!

The children spent this afternoon on our school field for our Science learning. The children could remember what a habitat and a microhabitat are, could identify a range of animals, minibeasts and plants/flowers that we might find in our local habitat and then we went out on a minibeast hunt, using our observational skills to identify and count the number of each type of minibeasts we could find. We used the mathematical skill of tallying to help quickly count the number of minibeasts we found and used our counting in 5s to total up!

In French this week, we have remembered all 10 musical instruments in French, and began to look at the determiners le, la and les used with each instrument.

Unfortunately we will no longer be going to Church on Monday - we apologise but we will no longer need the parent volunteers who had offered to walk alongside us - thank you for offering, we always appreciate it.

Have a lovely weekend.

The Year 2 Team

Home Learning

Reading:

Please read daily with your child and log on Boom Reader or in your child’s reading diary. 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 – fifteen 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. Don’t forget to practise this week’s spellings – irregular pluralised nouns i.e. sheep, children, mice.

This week!

Phoebe and Ollie have enjoyed learning about the life cycle of different animals including a butterfly and a frog. Hugo loved making the life cycle out of playdough and adding the correct vocabulary to each stage in the life cycle.

Sophie and lots of the children in the class enjoyed World Book Day this week – the children loved dressing up as a word and loved sharing their favourite stories!

Sonny and Amelia enjoyed being Historians this week and looking at a range of different sources of information which were stuck up around the classroom, these included pictures, newspaper reports, tickets and even a mayday telegram. The children had to put all of the sources of information together to try and work out what disaster took place in April 1912. We also learned that not all sources of information are reliable and can be very misleading so we need to consider where the sources have come from.

The children enjoyed passing and moving in our rugby lesson on Monday and showed their skills in passing backwards.

Have a lovely weekend.

The Year 2 Team

Home Learning

Reading:

Please read daily with your child and log on Boom Reader or in your child’s reading diary. 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 – fifteen 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. Don’t forget to practise this week’s spellings – a selection of Year 2 Common Exception Words.

This week!

Amelia, Martha and Hugo have enjoyed History this week where we learned all about the history of the toilet! We learned that toilets have changed lots over time, they now have flush and people don’t have to go outside at night!

Ollie has enjoyed Maths this week where we have recapped telling the time to the hour and to the half hour, and begun to explore a range of 3D shapes, looking at their names and their properties.

Sunny has enjoyed reading this week, lots of the children have been inspired by the Roald Dahl books we have been looking at and are taking the time to read them at home!

Jonah has enjoyed our three-minute talks this week – Seb gave a fabulous talk on his hobby playing football, and Sunny told us all about his trip to see Hercules at the Theatre in London, Drury Lane!

Phoebe and Dougie have enjoyed writing our newspaper reports in our English learning. The children could summarise the main event from the book, ‘The Lonely Beast’, they could write an interesting headline and talk about the key events from the story. Some of the children even managed to include a quote in speech marks!

Have a lovely half term and a well deserved break.

The Year 2 Team

Home Learning

Reading:

Please read daily with your child and log on Boom Reader or in your child’s reading diary. 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 – fifteen 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. Don’t forget to practise this week’s spelling rule, adding suffixes to words ending in the –y sound (cry, fly, shy) where we drop the y and add an i when adding s, ed, but not when adding er, est and ing.

This week!

Ruby has enjoyed our RE learning this week, where we have learned about Ramadan, a time of year where Muslims fast during the day and consider those who are less fortunate than us.

Sonny has enjoyed

Charlie and Hugo have enjoyed Maths this week, where we have learning about division by grouping. We know that the biggest number has to be divided into groups of an amount, and we count the number of groups to find the answer.

Sophie enjoyed Art this week, where the children learned all about Max Ernst, a German artist who created ‘frottage’ which means rubbing. The children used pastels to create different rubbings by laying paper onto different textures and then create a collage using their rubbings.

Have a lovely weekend.

The Year 2 Team