Home Learning
Please open the attached home learning pyramid for ideas about queens and kings activities.
Bloom’s HL template THE ROYAL FAMILY 2016
Please open the attached common exception words that children must be able to read and spell to reach age related expectations in year 2.
T-L-5089-Common-Exception-Words-Years-1-and-2-Word-Mat
Visit to Crookhorn School
Last week eight children from year 2 visited Crookhorn School for the morning to visit Professor Cranium! Conundrums galore greeted them and a great time was had by all.
The children had to answer lots of general knowledge questions and complete various tasks. And…. they won!! We are very proud of the children who attended and have enjoyed listening to their stories and admiring their trophy!
If anyone would like to see the trophy it will be on display in the entrance at school soon.
Well done Matthew, Leon, Esther, Hannah, Amelie, Annie, AJ and Joe. Also thank you to Mrs. Wickes for taking the children to the event.
Other news in year 2….
We have been planning stories about Samson the mouse who has left his Titanic adventure behind for a new life in New York. We have been thinking of different and interesting ways to start sentences. We are beginning to look at paragraphs and the content that should be in each one.
Bug Club has been updated where appropriate. Please keep reading! The children really need to be reading every day to reach the age related expectations in year 2. Please visit the library and inspire your children to read. Every child should have a book from the school library. Please give a gentle nag if they are not coming home with one. If you were able to attend the spelling workshop at school you would have received some spelling lists with words that children must be able to read and spell by the end of year 2. Google ‘exception words year 2′ for a copy (this was also given out at parents’ evening). We are also testing the children on these words weekly – they are sent home on a Friday please practise them.
In maths we have been learning about fractions. We have been trying to use the language of fractions in our lessons to further develop our understanding. Many cakes have been shared and we now know which fraction of our favourite cake we would prefer …. 1/3 or 1/4?
On Friday we are going to South Downs College for a mini Olympics event. Please send children to school in their PE kit but it is not Spring yet please make sure children have jogging bottoms a school jumper / cardigan and a warm coat.
I will post some photos soon!
Mrs. Luter
Welcome back!
Welcome back!
We can barely believe we are into the second half of the Spring Term already. It won’t be long before Easter.
Today we had a beautiful liturgy with Father Vitalis and were joined by lots of parents. The theme of our liturgy was forgiveness. We have been thinking in class about how and why we forgive and how forgiving helps us to live more like Jesus.
The children were superbly behaved and were prayerful throughout. Well done children!
Tomorrow there is a meeting for parents about spelling in year 2. It will begin at 10 and there will be a short presentation in the hall by Mrs. Bowen. This will be followed by the opportunity to see what happens during a typical spelling session in the year 2 area. We set for spelling so you may find your child is in a different classroom to usual. Every week we will be sending high frequency spellings home. You can expect to see these stapled into your child’s home learning diary every Friday and we will test the children on the spellings during the following week.
We are continuing with our Titanic topic this half term but moving on to focus on Queens in the next couple of weeks. When appropriate we will send home some new ideas for home learning.
Please read daily with your child. As we are sure you are aware the expectations for children in all areas of the curriculum have increased and it is important that children develop a good degree of fluency in their reading.
Kind regards,
Mrs. Luter and Miss Allen
Bamboo Tamboo !
We have been learning to play this marvellous, fascinating instrument in Giraffe Class!
Today we showed some of our mums and dads what we have been learning. After half term it will be Elephant Class will get to learn how to play the Bamboo Tamboo!
We will be continuing with our Titanic topic after half term but will move onto learning about Kings and Queens. So please continue with Titanic home learning we have been amazed by the quality of work that the children have produced!
Have a wonderful, restful half term!
Mrs. Luter and Miss Allen
Home Learning
Hello all,
Please click below to open a copy of home learning for this half term. It is a long list! However the expectation is that your child completes one challenge. They can absolutely do more than this if they choose and we look forward to sharing every Friday. If your child wants to build a model they may add to it each week but bring it in at the end of the half term or even after half term. They could record through pictures what they do each week or take photos to share if they would like to.
The children are very excited about our topic and so I am sure they will would like to bring something each week to share.
Have fun,
Mrs. Luter and Miss Allen
Sea City Museum!
We had a fantastic time at the Sea City Museum on Friday! Thank you so much again to all the parents and grandparents who were able to offer their time to help us. We really do appreciate it, as without you our wonderful trips cannot take place and as you saw this one was so beneficial to the children’s learning around this topic.
We all learnt lots of amazing facts about the Titanic and found out what it would have been like to be on board back in 1912! Hope they have been sharing them with you over the weekend.
The children enjoyed dressing up as ship staff and passengers who would have been on the Titanic as well as learning about names of real people and whether or not they survived the tragedy! We explored different items that would have been on the ship as well as trying to match up different smells to areas of the ship. The children also had a go at discovering how many compartments needed to fill with water before the ship would sink. We found out that if Titanic only had four compartments filled with water then it would have survived!
We are excited to find out what is inside the topic box which we bought back to school with us from the museum. All shall be revealed next week when we begin lots more work around the Titanic!
Hope you all have a wonderful weekend.
Miss Allen, Mrs Luter, Mrs Wickes, Mrs Chapman and Mrs Hewett
Welcome back to the new term!
We hope you had a wonderful Christmas break! Well done to all the children for working so hard with completing their home learning over the holidays as well as taking part in the Bug Club Challenge with reading lots of books!
We have had a lovely first week back settling into our learning and we are very excited that we have now launched our new topic for the term which is Titanic where we have been learning lots of facts and acting out what it might have been like to be a passenger on the ship at the time of the disaster! We are all excited to find out more on Friday when we visit the Sea City Museum!
During numeracy we are continuing to practice our addition and subtraction skills. There is homework on Abacus to support this learning. Thank you so much for your continuous support with the home learning, it is showing great impact on the children’s learning.
Miss Allen, Mrs Luter, Mrs Wickes, Mrs Hewitt and Mrs Chapman
Happy Christmas!
The end of the term is here! The children have all worked so hard this term that they deserve a holiday and time to spend with their families. They are very excited at the prospect of Santa’s visit although some are a little worried that they are on the naughty list!
Don’t forget that any children who complete the reading challenge (reading 10 books) will receive special recognition in assembly in January. I have also sent some maths home learning – quick mental recall of number facts. Keep practising those number facts – bonds to 10, 20, 100, times tables, odd and even numbers, halving and doubling, add the red baubles to the green baubles etc etc…!
Most of all enjoy some special family time and we hope that you have an amazing and blessed holiday. Thank you all so much for the generous Christmas gifts. God bless you all,
Mrs. Luter, Miss Allen, Mrs. Chapman, Mrs Hewitt and Mrs Wickes.
Advent begins!
And so the countdown to Christmas has begun! We went to Church on Tuesday and took part in a beautiful Advent service. We told the whole congregation what ‘Immanuel’ means and then shared our own name banners. Isaiah lived 600 years before Jesus but he knew that He was going to be born!
In collective worship this week we have been talking about how to get ready for Christmas. We are very excited about Father Christmas and presents and decorations but as Henry said we need to ‘decorate our hearts for Jesus’. In RE lessons we have thought about how we can do this.
We hope that you too are managing to prepare your hearts for Jesus and are not feeling too busy to spend some time just being still.
Watch this video for ‘Advent in 2 minutes’!
Two weeks until holiday time!
Mrs. Luter and Miss Allen
Children visit Tracey Corderoy
Last week Mrs. D took some of our Year 2 children to visit Tracet Cordroy author of Shifty McGifty and The Grunch Grouch!
“The Hubble Bubble story was very funny” says Anne-Sophie. “She has inspired me to read even more!”
“She writes books and she wrote The Glorious Granny Bake Off – they were very good.” Toby enthusiastically told me. “I would like to be an author like her!”
Perhaps some of her books may appear in stockings this Christmas!
Have a lovely weekend. Advent begins on Sunday when we will be thinking about how we can prepare ourselves for Advent. Whilst opening those chocolate calendars try asking your children to make a special Advent promise!
Mrs. Luter