Literacy

What other nocturnal animals can you find out about? This will help you write facts in literacy and topic work.

Maths

Start with a 2 digit number e.g. 23. What happens if you add 10? What about if you take away 10? Could you add 20 to the number? What happens if you add another multiple of 10? Can you experiment with other 2 digit numbers?

RE

How did other people remember the Easter story? Can you find more than one recount of the Easter story in the Bible? What is similar? What is different? Could you record the similarities and differences in your home learning book? Can you be creative in how you do this?

Phonics

Please look at the next 200 high frequency words and practice any words you find tricky to spell. How could you remember how to spell them? Could you make up a song? Could you write the word down several times? What else could you do?

Year Two were so excited about the owl visit on Tuesday.

We were so impressed with the owl trainer, Jason, who knew so much about the owls.

We would definitely recommend a visit to Ringwood, where the owls live. They came from the Liberty’s Owl, Raptor and Reptile Centre.

Year Two did some incredible writing about owls following on from meeting the owls. I’m sure they have told you all about it!

Below are some photos of our special experience:

We had a lovely day at Staunton Country Park. We were so lucky to have such beautiful weather. Thank you to all the parent helpers who gave up their day to help, we couldn’t have done it without you!

I’m sure the children will tell you all about their day as they seemed to really enjoy it. They were very well behaved and mature; we were really proud of them.

Below are some photos from the day.

We hope you all had a lovely Easter break. The children were very excited this morning and wrote wonderful recounts about their Easter adventures.

We can tell alot of you have been working hard to practise our key skills and would like to say a big thank you for your continued support. It really does make a huge difference.

Staunton Reminder

This Wednesday is our school trip to Staunton Country Park.

The weather forecast is set to be sunny and hot so please ensure children have the following:

* Sun cream (applied in the morning before school)

* Sun hat (if they are particularly sensitive to the sun)

* NO sunglasses please (they are very likely to get lost or broken)

* Trainers may be worn with school uniform

* If you have not requested a school lunch to be provided, please bring your lunch in a disposable bag

* All children need to bring a bottle of water (prefereably also disposable)

* NO fizzy or sugary drinks

* NO money is needed on the day as we will not be feeding the animals or visiting the shop

Thank you to everyone that was able to attend our tuned percussion concert. We thoroughly enjoyed showing off our new skills and teaching family and friends some songs.

We know not all parents could make it due to work commitments so below are some photos for you to see what we got up to.

Next term the focus of our music lessons will be singing. We are looking forward to a large year group performance at the end of the summer term.

Happy Easter!

Easter Holidays

Please work on your targets from Parent’s Evening.

This may include:

• Times tables (2x, 5x, 10x, 3x, 4x)
• Number bonds, number doubles, number halves
• The four operations (+ – x ÷) on a numberline
• Telling the time
• 3D shape names and properties

• Noun phrases (dangerous, scary predator)
• Spelling the first 200 high frequency words

http://www.highfrequencywords.org/first-100-high-frequency-word-lists.html

http://www.highfrequencywords.org/next-200-high-frequency-word-list-precursive.html

• Using different connectives (but, so, because, if, while, when, however, although)
• Practise handwriting and joining letters

• Make sure you read something every day.

Thank you for everyone who came to our class assembly today.

Year Two are very sad to be saying goodbye to Miss Heaton today.

She has been a real asset to Year Two this term,

teaching us and helping as a lot.

We will definitely be keeping touch with her.

Good luck Miss Heaton!

We can’t wait to hear all about your first class.

Year Two

Please carry on learning about nocturnal animals. Can you look for different animals around your house and neighbourhood this weekend? Can you look in the garden at night time and see if you can spot any hedgehogs, foxes, owls or other nocturnal animals?

Phonics

Miss Smillie’s Phonics Group – Use the ‘ful’ suffix to change base nouns like ‘care’, ‘play’, ‘rest’, ‘mouth’ into words like ‘playful’, ‘painful’.

How does it change the meaning of the word? Look at words with the ‘ly’ suffix. Can you sort them by how the base word has been changed?

Miss Hele’s/ Mrs Wickes’ Phonics Group– Practice writing sentences using the ‘n’/’ng’ sound e.g. ‘sing’, ‘thing’, ‘thin’, shin’. Practice spelling tricky words from my home learning diary.

Miss Stinton’s Phonics Group– Find words with different spellings of the /ee/ sound – ‘e_e, ‘ey’, ‘y’, ‘ea’, ‘ei’, ‘e’, ‘eo’, and ‘ie’.Which is the most common? Can you find which spelling is usually found in the middle or at the end of words?

Bug Club is still out of action from the upgrade until next week. We will send out a Parent Mail when we know it’s ready for you to use again.

You can still use Abacus this week for your online learning.