Year 2

Welcome to Year Two.

Adults in Year Two

Class Teacher- Miss Dance

Teaching assistant -Mrs Forouzandeh.

Welcome back, I hope you all had a wonderful Easter holiday and you are all ready for the exciting term ahead.

Our new topic for Summer Term is Africa.  We have lots of exciting and engaging cross curricular activities planned, we also have an exciting trip planned to Marwell Zoo where the children can see some beautiful animals up close. 

Our PE day this term will be on a Thursday but please make sure that children bring their PE kits in everyday.

Our value this half term is 'Respect'. We will be exploring this value through our daily Collective Worships.

Up and coming events

11th July- Knowl Hill/Bisham School Production of The Lion King

12th July- Class Parties

12th July- Reports home

15th July-19th July- Transition Week

19th July- End of term @1.00pm

Week Beginning 8th July 2019

Core Subject Information

English/ D & T

This week,  we will recapping all of what we have learnt in Year Two. Everyday we will have pictures that link to our puppets and we will be doing something called short burst writing. We will be using a range of suffixes, subordination, co-ordination and making sure we consistently use capital letters, full stops, commas and question marks.

Maths - This week, we will be focusing on learning how to read scales in divisions of 2,5,10s and using this to read temperature,

 Star of the week

This week our star of the week is Alexa

Dojo Winner

 Our Dojo Winner's this week are Kayla and Declan

This page will be updated weekly to keep you informed about our learning. Homework and spellings can also be found here.

If you have any questions please speak to us on the playground at the end of the day, or drop into the school office to make an appointment. 

 Reading Certificates

 A reminder to read 4 times per week for 10 weeks and you can earn a certificate . (Parents please remember to sign the partnership book).

Outdoor Learning

Please note we will be using the outdoor areas regularly this year to enhance our learning. Please can you send old shoes or wellies in with your children along with a suitable coat. This way regardless of the weather we can all get outside.

                       Homework

Spellings and Maths: 

  WB 24th June 2019- No spellings this week due to Jungle Fever day on Friday

This weeks spelling list is on a sticker in your child's homework book. There are 11 words to learn for a test on Friday.  Check out the Spelling Frame website to learn the rules for spellings.

Spelling website to show spelling rules and games to help children learn weekly spellings:

www.spellingframe.co.uk 

To support your child's learning try:

•  Copying them out, covering the word to copy again.
• Write simple sentences using the word 
• Spelling the word out loud.

Spelling website to show spelling rules and games to help children learn weekly spellings:

www.spellingframe.co.uk

Useful websites

www.phonicsplay.co.uk

http://resources.hwb.wales.gov.uk/VTC/ngfl/english/caerphilly/adjectives/index.htm - a game for practising adjectives.

www.coolmath-games.com

http://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/hit-the-button - quick-fire practise for all the different times tables.

http://www.mad4maths.com/5_x_multiplication_table_math_game/ - a funny game that's good for practising your 5 and 3 times tables

http://www.bbc.co.uk/skillswise/game/ma13tabl-game-tables-grid-find - a times tables game that gets you thinking about the relationship between the two numbers that are multiplied together

http://www.primarygames.co.uk/pg2/splat/splatsq100.html - a hundred square that lets you splat numbers with different colours to help you see patterns. Really useful for number work.

www.theschoolrun.com/primary