Thank you all! - 20th July 2016

A massive thank you for all of the lovely cards and gifts you have given us this week.  We were completely overwhelmed with your thoughtful and imaginative

presents.  It has been a pleasure teaching you all, you have been such an enthusiastic and inspired bunch! We were particularly impressed at how conscientious and resilient many of you have become over the year as well as how much you have all grown up!  Have a fun filled holiday and come back safe in September ready to Wow Mr Macbean with your winning attitudes!
Have a fab summer and long may the sun shine.
Kind Regards
The Year 2 Team

Rio - Let's Samba!

This week, as well as preparing for our assembly, going on trips and having a bump up afternoon to meet our new teachers we have been enjoying a themed week all about Rio, Brazil and the forthcoming Olympic games.  On Friday from 2pm all parents are invited into the school grounds to watch the school parade their items they have made for Rio week and also for you to listen to the Samba tunes that Mrs Mewett has taught them. You will be able to take your child home after the carnival, please don't forget to pick up your child's annual report as well.  It is the POWSA school disco after school on Friday . If you haven't got your child a ticket please purchase these from the office.

Important Dates This Week - 3rd July 2016

This week:

We are off to Kimmeridge on Monday.  Please ensure your child has sun cream, a back pack, a hat, a coat for showers and suitable footwear for climbing over rocks on the beach.
On Friday it is our Class Assembly, please come along to watch from 9:20am in the hall.
On Wednesday we will be covering the important Jigsaw lesson relating to parts of the body for boys and girls, your child may wish to discuss their learning with you.

Spellings 1st July 2016 to be checked 8th July 2016

This week we have two spelling challenges in year 2.  Usual spellings are coming home, but as spellings they are not really challenging, however as they are homophones (sound the same as another word) it is really important that you know what each word means.  In addition we are going to be learning words that are common to our writing in year 2 but don't necessarily follow a spelling pattern.  Please see attached list.
Apostrophe and Comma: piece, peace, their, there, they're, quite, quiet
Question Mark and Exclamation Mark Group: to, two, too, blew, blue, wear, where
Full stop group: there, their, hear, here, one, won.

Literacy Learning - Week Beginning 27th June

For the last two weeks we have been concentrating on our Non-Fiction writing.  We have done our 4th Big Write over several of our literacy lessons.  The children have been writing their own reports about fossils in the shape of a fossil book.  Using their learning from our topic work, and after having a couple of research sessions the children have thoroughly enjoyed putting their books together using their neatest handwriting of course.  How about testing their knowledge at home.  Can they tell you who Mary Anning was?  Can they tell you about an belemnite?  Or what was special about an ichthyosaur's eyes?

Maths Learning - Week Beginning 27th June 2016

This week we have been revising our time telling skills, particularly the function of the long hand and how to count the minutes from the 12 around the clock.  We have also been looking at how to move forwards and back an hour.  At home why not tell the time together, try to concentrate on minutes past the hour and digital representation.  For example half past 1 should be written as 1:30.