Y2 - Incredible India Day - 26th October 2016

Thank you for coming along to our Pop Up Indian Restaurant last week.  We had a lovely time and all of the food and dancing went down a treat.  What a great ending to our first topic!  Pictures to follow on the school website.

Y2 Big Write Success - 26th October 2016

All of the children did wonderfully well in their big write last week.  We had some lovely jungle stories, lots of great description and use of characters and setting.  The children also showed understanding of creating a story with a beginning, middle and end.  Thank you very much for supporting them at home with this, it does make all the difference.  The children have since gone back to their stories, shared them with their friends and peer assessed them. 

Y2 - Half Term Spellings - 26th October 2016

Sorry for the late posting of the half term spellings!  Your child should have brought home a sheet that contains common exception words for year 1 and year 2.  Initially the challenge for the children is to read these words.  When your child can read all of these tricky words they then need to see if they can spell them.  Maybe take a couple of the words a week, as we will in class, pop them on the fridge and each time you come across them ask your child to spell them, find fun ways of remembering them, make them with magnetic letters, put them into a sentence, etc.  On Friday 4th November we will be checking how far the children have got with the reading and spelling of some of these words, we will then check near the end of term to see how much progress we have made.  Hope you are all enjoying the holidays - and don't forget the royal visit tomorrow!

Royal visit - arrangments 27/10/16

We have received slight changes to Thursday for the Royal visit. All children and parents from The Prince of Wales School now need to meet at the security tent which will be located at the top of Peverell Avenue East. Please be there for 10 -10.15am latest.  Mr Scott (Lexi’s dad) is going to be a representative for the school so please make yourself familiar to him when you arrive.

Mr Scott has kindly suggested that anyone wishing to park may do so at his business. This is Deane Computer Solutions, unit 6A middle Farm Way, Dorchester. DT1 3AR.

Many thanks to Mr Scott for helping with this organisation.

Bling Your Bike - Friday 21st October

“Bling Your Bike Morning”

Yes that is “Bling”, although we would like you to “Bring” your bikes too!

This Friday 21st October we will be holding another “Bling Your Bike” event. This is to promote “Being Safe by Being Seen” when out on your bikes and scooters. We are having a competition to see who can make their bike or scooter extra colourful and bright ,- so that it really stands out!

The children may score extra marks for having bright, colourful clothing that they can put on when parading their “blinged”-bike.

Children who would like to take part in the competition should bring their bikes to school on the morning of Friday 21^st October. Winners will be decided during the day and we have some nice prizes, kindly donated by Sustrans

It is important that any materials added to your bike or scooter should not be in the way of moving parts.

DM

Y2 India Day Film - 18th October 2016

As part of our India day and as a reward for the hard work that the children have put in over this half term I would like to show them the new Jungle Book film.  This film is a PG and as such I need to ask your permission.  If you have any objections, please let the year 2 team know.

Yr 2 Praise assembly for week ending 14th October

The Book fayre has impacted reading this week, so many children choosing to read books when they can, even at play time!

The class have been working really hard this week, lots of children attained Super Hero certificates and a fair amount of whole class praises have been placed into our marble jar too!

So, this week, the following children were praised:

Music - Tom, Josie, Ziva and Mai - super efforts in listening and moving to rhythms as well as playing rhythms they created on xylophones!

RE - Sophie and Reece, asking lots of questions when learning about the festival of Divali.

Alfie B - wow, amazing reading aloud!

Nell, Flynn and Clark - presenting super maths effort and results this week through sessions

Sunny and George - focussing on their handwriting, presenting joined cursive writing.

Inzi - making the right choices when faced with a tricky situation!

Louis - super effort in writing the beginnings a of his Jungle book based story!
 

Y2 - Maths Learning - Week Beginning 10th October

This week we have continued to look at addition, applying our knowledge of place value to help us to add quickly and efficiently.  We have investigated how you can add numbers in any order and that if you know one fact such as 4+3=7 you also know facts such as 40+30=70 and 400+300=700.  One of the key skills for addition is knowing which strategy is going to be the best to use.  If you are adding a small number you could count on or use your number bonds, whereas if you are adding two two-digit numbers you may want to use 10s and 1s or a vertical method.  Children tend to favour one method even if it isn't the most efficient, as your child becomes more confident the greater the range of strategies they will use. 
Challenge:  Can you fill in the missing numbers on the hundred square?  Write all digits the correct way around and bring it in for a superhero point.

Y2 - Literacy Learning - Week Beginning 10th October

This week we have been writing thank you letters to our recent visitors and looking at how to plan a story.  We joined in with a BBC live lesson on Tuesday where the children were shown how to plan a three part story and describe the characters and settings.  If you would like to see the lesson it is still available at:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/2vFlVBFPCdFGXkbMQg5BwZJ/cbeebies-stories-by-the-sea-live-lesson
We have since used what we have learned to plan our own Jungle story which the children will be writing next week as a Big Write activity - please see home learning activity.

Y2 - Off to the farm - 13th October 2016

Next Thursday 20th October year 2 will be visiting Maiden Castle Farm.  The children will need to wear old play trousers and suitable footwear along with their uniform top, jumper and a coat.  The children will be walking from school during the morning, if you are available to help on the trip please see a member of the year 2 team.

Y2 - The Big Write Home Learning - 12th October 2016

The Big Write 1 – Year 2 – October 18^th 2016

This week the children will be taking part in the first Big Write of the year.  We have been working on developing story writing and planning over the last week.  The children have enjoyed a BBC live lesson which taught them about writing the beginning, middle and end of a story and how we can add description of places and characters to bring our stories to life.  Since then the children have started to plan their own story using characters from Rudyard Kipling’s The Jungle Book.  They have either started writing a story or filled in a planning sheet.  To prepare them for their Big Write next Tuesday I would like them to discuss their stories with you at home over the weekend.  By doing this you will help your child feel more confident about their writing, give them new ideas and encourage them to try their best.  Please return the planning sheet to school next Monday or Tuesday so that they can be used when writing the actual story.

Y2 Spelling - 7th October 2016

Spellings for this week are as follows:
Red group: dishes, matches, crashes, babies, loaves, leaves
Orange group: enjoy, loyal, royal, annoy, noise, choice
Yellow and Green group: boil, boy, soil, toy, join, joy
Red group are looking at plurals and how some nouns change when you have more than one of them!  We are also all looking at the oy / oi sound and which one to use for different words.

Whole School Monday 10th October 2016

Whole school Monday 10th October 2016

Yippee! The Book Fair arrives this week - perfect timing for some christmas shopping!!!!!!The children will all be visiting the book fair with their class, and I am sure they will come home full of excitement about books they have seen, so do pop along and buy a book or two!!!

We really appreciate the support you show us each year at the book fair, not only encouraging your child's love of reading but, every time you buy a book, we earn commission in vouchers to buy new books for the school library and the guided reading library. Great isn't it?

We rely heavily on this source to maintain a high quality, up to date library full of the latest reads and best sellers! This ensures that ALL children in the school have access to a well stocked library to explore and foster a love for books!


Thank you in advance for your support and generosity!

Mrs. Johnson 

Harvest celebrations 7th October

Thank you to everyone who took part in The Prince of Wales Harvest celebrations yesterday. The children did a great job in presenting their songs, poems and art work to parents. Also the children have been busily cooking this week using our produce from the orchard, the goodies were sold in the café during the afternoon and they all went down a storm!

The harvest art work will be up next week so do please pop by the school hall to look at your child’s work if you were unable to come along.

The local food bank received two boxes of food from the school and it is looking like a good amount of money has been raised for the Kingfisher ward, who has asked the school to purchase some electrical equipment for children’s bedrooms.

We will keep you updated.

Y2 - India Day - 4th October 2016

We have planned to celebrate the end of our India topic by having an India Day on Wednesday 19th October.  For this day we would like the children to dress up in Indian costume.  For girls this might be an Indian style tunic and trousers, or a sari or long skirt with a colourful top.  For boys this might be a cotton shirt and trousers, pajama style trousers and a loose baggy top.  We do have some costumes in school if you are stuck, please see a member of the year 2 team. 
In the afternoon we also like to invite the parents into to the class from 3pm on this day to sample the Indian food that we have made and to watch the entertainment!  Please come along if you can as the children love sharing their learning with you.

Y2 Harvest Assembly and Cafe - 4th October 2016

Please come along and join us to celebrate our Harvest festival on Friday 7th October at 9:15am.  There will be an opportunity for you to buy produce, any money raised will be donated to charities chosen by our student voice members. 
Our harvest cafe will be in action from 1:30pm-2:30pm for the children only.  Please send your child with 30p to spend in the cafe.  From 2:30 the doors are also open to you, so if you wish to collect your child to visit the cafe please ensure you have notified Y2 staff so that they can keep a record of who has been collected.

Y2 Ukulele - 3rd October 2016

Has your child ever fancied playing the Ukulele?  A year 2 beginners class is underway and they are looking for more recruits!  The lessons take place in school time with a professional music teacher.  There is a small lesson fee of £1.  Please ask at the office if you are interested.

Y2 - Literacy Learning - Week Beginning 26th September

This week we have been using descriptive phrases to describe Indian Jungle animals.  We have written short descriptions and used them to help us make our own set of Indian Jungle Top trumps.   The children improved their work during the week by taking their time with handwriting, adding more adjectives and by remembering Dr Punctuation who will help remember those capital letters and full stops.

Y2- Maths Learning - Week beginning 26th September

This week we have been continuing to consolidate our learning about place value, so if you still have those place value cards it is worth continuing to make and compare two digit numbers.  How about taking it in turns to pick a tens and a ones card and seeing who has the highest?  We have also begun to look at adding two digit numbers where the ones add up to more than 10.  We have done this in a very practical way.  Use straws bunched in 10s and 1s to represent the 10s and 1s in order to add them.  Or draw pictures of 10s and 1s to show the sum that you are calculating.
Write the sum with one number under the other, but make sure you line up the tens and the ones first!

Y2 Spellings - 30th September 2016

The spellings this week to learn for Friday 7th October are:
Red Group: peace, memory, piece, trapeze, delete, believe
Orange Group: angry, sorry, screen, queen, these, people
Yellow and Green Group: three, green, happy, baby, these, eve
We are looking at and revising the ea/ee/e_e/y/ey/ie sound.  The trick is remembering which ee sound is used in each word.