We hope that you are enjoying your last day of the Summer holiday!

We are busy making the school ready for your return.

Hopefully we will see you all at our welcome meeting tomorrow at 4.30.

Attached is your learning for this half term – all linked to our new learning context ‘We Are Learning Heroes’. Click below to open.

Learning Heroes – Aut1 PDF

See you tomorrow! Mrs. Luter and Miss Allen

Home Learning 6.7.15

Literacy

This week we are writing letters to our new teachers. What do you want to find out about them? What do you think they should know about you? Practise writing facts about yourself, in a formal letter style.

Maths

This week we are thinking about the skills we will need in Year Three. Practice your times tables and number bonds. Can you log on to Abacus and play some of your online games?

RE

This week we are thinking about the Sacrament of Marriage! Can you find out about Marriage? Maybe you can look at some family wedding photos. Are there photos of grandparents or great grandparents you can compare to now? Perhaps you could act out a wedding at home. What sort of promises do people make when they get married?

Phonics

Carry on practising spelling the 100 high frequency words. How many have you learnt so far? Perhaps you could test yourself!

Remember, practice makes perfect!

Home Learning 26.6.15

Literacy

Next week we are going to be writing fantasy stories. What is your favourite fantasy or adventure story? Have a read through it and make a list of the main characters and setting. What makes it so thrilling to read?

Maths

We have been learning about giving change. Can you make a shop at home and practise paying and working out the change? Remember you can use a number line to SUBTRACT E.g. 50p-25p=___

RE

Next week is Saint Peter and Saint Paul week. Can you find out about on of these Saints so you can teach the class about them on Monday? You could even make a power point!

Phonics

Carry on practising spelling the 100 high frequency words. How many have you learnt so far? Perhaps you could test yourself!

Remember, practice makes perfect!

Literacy

Have you heard The Twits want to come and teach at our school?! Can you write a character description of the sort of teacher you would like in Year 3?

Maths

We have been learning about money. How many 5ps are there in a £1.00? How many 2ps are in 34p? How many 10ps are there in £1.50? Use your time tables to solve problems like these.

RE

Find out more about Baptism. Were you baptised? What did you wear? What do people wear when they are baptised or christened? Why do they wear special clothes? Are they given gifts?

Phonics

How many of the first 100 high frequency words can you spell correctly? Put this sheet up on your fridge and challenge yourself to learn to spell a new one every day.

If you can spell all of them, practise other spellings you find challenging like where, were, wear, their, they’re and there.

Home Learning 8.6.15

Literacy

Not all schools use the 5Cs. Can you write a letter to Mrs Phillip’s new school persuading them to also use the 5Cs? What are all of the 5Cs? Why are they important? What do they help us to do?

Maths

Can you think of all the coins we use in England? Can you count how much money is in your piggy bank? If you had to buy an apple for 72p, what coins could you use?

RE

What is communion? Could you ask a family member? Could you Google it? Could you find a book from the library to look at?

Phonics

Miss Smillie’s Group– Practise changing base words to plurals e.g. tree – trees, baby – babies, half – halves. What different suffixes can you find?

Miss Hele/ Mrs Wickes’ Group– Use the Ikea website or catalogue. Can you read the alien names of some of the furniture? Can you make up your own alien words? Test yourself and your family on the words you have made!

Miss Stinton’s Group– Continue to make your own alien words using the phase 5 sounds which you find trickiest to remember. Test yourself and your family on the words you have made! Could you use the sound /oo/ from this week?

Literacy

Can you write a diary, pretending to be someone else? You could write as one of your favourite story characters. Remember to practise using time connectives, adverbs and adverbial phrases.

Maths

Can you tell the time to the nearest o’clock, half-past, quarter-past and quarter-to?

RE

Perhaps you could write your diary as one of the disciples during the story of Pentecost? Remember to include the key skills above from our literacy lessons this week!

Phonics

Miss Smillie’s Group- Practise the homophones: there/their, sea/see, our/are, where/were.

Miss Hele/ Mrs Wickes’ Group- Make your own alien words using the ue, ir and er digraphs. Which you find trickiest to remember? Test yourself and your family on the words you have made!

Miss Stinton’s Group- Make your own alien words using the phase 5 sounds which you find trickiest to remember. Test yourself and your family on the words you have made!

Finally, this week we have started our new topic ‘Exploring Science’. Please take a look at the new home learning pyramid in your learning adventure book and plan what you would like to do over the next few weeks.

Yesterday we had a very exciting visitor!

Jackie Greenhowe, a local artist, came in to Year Two to share some of her pictures and teach us how to draw a duckling.

We listened really well and were so in awe of her talent!

Below are some pictures of what we did.

Home Learning – Half Term

Next half term we will be starting our new and exciting topic ‘Exploring Science’! Through this topic we will be learning all about plants, flying machines, everyday materials, famous inventors and fair testing.

Over half term, you have the opportunity to invent and design something that will help an object to fall more slowly e.g. parachute.

After half term you will have the opportunity to pitch your invention, Dragon’s Den style!

Good luck!

Home Learning

Literacy

Write your own magic key story where a glowing key can take you on an adventure. Make sure you use lots of description, connectives and exciting sentence starters!

Maths

Practice these skills:

–      Telling the time to the nearest hour, half hour and quarter of an hour.

–      Can you find any 3D shapes around your house and name them? You also should be able to describe their properties (e.g. 12 edges and 8 vertices [points])

–      Use a ruler to measure things in your kitchen. Can you read a set of weighing scales in grams and kilograms?

RE

Write a character description about doubting Thomas. Describe what you think he looked like. What was he like? Write about how you know, using his behaviour.

Phonics

Please carry on practising the next 200 high frequency words and practice any words you find tricky to spell. Remember, you should be able to spell correctly all the words you can read by sight.