Year 2 have had a wonderful last week before half term. The children have been busy learning about money. They have been adding coins together to make different amounts. They have also been creating excellent writing in English about their trip to Waterlooville.

RE Home Learning

In RE we are learning abut the different Saints. For home learning can your child find out about a Saint and write down what they have one in their lives to become a Saint.

Your child can choose to make a poster, paint a picture, make a model or write a story about a Saint. These are just a few ideas for how your child can be creative with their home learning.

We wish you all a relaxing week off and we shall see you after half term.

Many thanks for your continued support with your children’s learning.

Year 2 team.

On Tuesday we had a lovely  time sharing our Creation Liturgy to all our families. Thank you to everyone that came and shared this special time with us. We really appreciate it.

We also had a wonderful time on our school trip to Waterlooville Library. We listened to some new stories that have come into the library and we enjoyed a treasure hunt to find different types of books. Many thanks to everyone who came to help as without you, our trips would not be possible. We greatly appreciate you giving up your time for the children.

Please could we ask you to check all your child’s school jumpers at home as we have had a few children who have lost their jumper’s which have names in. We appreciate children can sometimes pick up the wrong jumper without realising so we would be grateful if you could just double check your child has the right one. Many thanks.

Have a lovely weekend. See you all next week.

From the year 2 team.

We have had lots of fun this week estimating in maths which linked well with our competition to raise money for CAFOD by estimating how many cubes were in the jar. Thank you all for your donations towards this fantastic charity.

All the children have enjoyed writing their postcard for our new class book called Meerkat Mail 2. We are all excited to publish this.

We have also been getting ready for our Liturgy which will be on Tuesday 11th October at 10.20am in the hall. We look forward to welcoming as many of you as possible.

Have a wonderful weekend.

From the Year 2 team 🙂

This week we have been working hard in maths learning how to add and subtract numbers using a number line.

In English we have continued reading the book Meerkat Mail and learning how to write our own post cards to Sunny which has been an enjoyable task for all learning some fantastic literacy skills.

We have enjoyed learning all about where children come from when sharing our home learning. We have also learnt what foods are best to eat to keep our bodies fit and healthy and creating a plate with foods to show this.

We are excited to take part in our CAFOD fun raising day on Thursday so please don’t forget to wear something bright and bring in a donation. Thank you 🙂

Have a lovely weekend

From the year 2 team

We had a fantastic beginning to our week with a trip to Africa in an aeroplane. I expect your children have been telling you all about it. We saw some excellent writing from their experience describing what they saw along the way.

It has been an excellent way to get the children hooked into our topic which is linked with the book Meerkat Mail. Children have been excited to find out all about Sunny, reading all his post cards from the different places he has visited. We are looking forward to writing our own postcard.

The children have been working hard in their maths learning with adding a one digit number to a two-digit number. Commitment has been shown from all the children to do their best in their work.

If you log in to the website www.mymaths.co.uk , the children have now been allocated homework on this site and their log in is in their diaries.

All children have now been given their Active Learn log in where they can access bug club for reading homework and abacus for more maths learning. If you are still unsure how to access it please come and see Miss Allen or Mrs Layton who can help you with this.

It has been amazing to see so much home learning from the children. Well done to all 🙂

Hope you all have a wonderful weekend.

Miss Allen, Mrs Layton, Mrs Wickes, Mrs King, Mrs Spicer and Mrs Walls

We have had a brilliant first full week back getting stuck into our new learning.

In maths we have been learning all about greater than and less than and understanding place value of numbers. We had such fun playing the base ten game together that we would like to share some photos with you 🙂

We have created some beautiful writing in our English lessons. It has been lovely hearing all about the children’s summer holiday adventures in their recounts.

It has been a pleasure looking at all the children’s home learning this week and seeing so many children taking part in the reading challenge at the library. A big well done to all the children for showing excellent commitment to their learning outside of school.

From all the year 2 team.

Miss Allen, Mrs Layton, Mrs Wickes, Mrs Spicer, Mrs Walls and Mrs King.

Many thanks to all who attended our welcome meeting on Tuesday evening. We really appreciate your feedback and have taken it all on board and have added a few things to this blog to support your child’s learning at home. For those of you who were unable to make it, I have also added the power point to take notes from. Please feel welcome to ask any of the year 2 team any further questions you may have.

Here are two lists of the high frequency words which we would like the children to practice as much as possible with spelling and reading to help them with their writing. t-l-4541-100-high-frequency-words-word-mat

t-l-5089-common-exception-words-years-1-and-2-word-mat

Handwriting paper to practice at home.- handwriting-paper

Notes from the meeting. welcome-to-year-2

Thank you again for all your support.

Miss Allen, Mrs Layton, Mrs Wickes, Mrs Spicer, Mrs Walls and Mrs King.

Welcome back to the new year! Hope you all had a wonderful summer and enjoyed the glorious weather we were so lucky to have.
All the children have settled well into their new classrooms with their new teachers and have shown excellent commitment to their learning during their first week back.
We are excited for this upcoming year with lots of engaging topics being covered to hook the children into their learning.
Our first topic is ‘Where do I come from?’ This allows children to focus on where they live in the world in comparison to others.
We have sent the home learning home and we ask children to choose a few things to do to cover them over the term. We are not expecting children to complete all the tasks however it would be lovely for them to share a piece of home learning each week.
Please could you encourage reading at home as much as possible and record this in their home learning diaries.

From all the year two team
Miss Allen, Mrs Layton, Mrs Spicer, Mrs Wickes, Mrs King and Mrs Walls

So it is finally time for our goodbyes. This year has flown by. The children have worked amazingly hard to reach the new expectations set for year 2 children. It has not been an easy year. However, the children have taken it in their stride and we have had a lot of fun and laughs along the way. We are exceptionally proud of all 60 of our year 2 children!

We look forward to seeing the children settle in to their new classes in the Autumn term. I will be teaching RE to year 3 once a fortnight and so will look forward to catching up with them.

Most importantly though, we want to wish you all an amazing holiday. We hope that you all manage to catch up on some family time and have time to rest.

Finally we would just like to thank you all for your support this year and for the kind gifts that we have received. My fridge and wine rack are going to look very healthy – for a short time!

God bless you all, have a wonderful holiday.

The year 2 team AKA;

Mrs. Luter, Miss Allen, Mrs. Perason, Mrs. Chapman, Mrs. Wickes, Mrs. Graham

Yesterday Giraffe Class showed some mums and dads what they have been learning during their singing lessons. They sung beautifully, songs from around the world, that they have only been learning for a few weeks. The children thoroughly enjoyed the concert and I am sure mums and dads did too!

We thank Mrs. McKenzie once again for all her hard work and Elephant Class look forward to working with her next half term.

For the mums and dads who were unable to come to our concert here are some photos for you.