Rugby World Cup Home Learning Project

As you may, or may not know the Rugby World Cup 2011 kicks off tomorrow morning in New Zealand. As a class we will be using the Rugby World Cup to support our work in Maths and other subjects across the curriculum. 

As with previous classes during the Football World Cup children in Year 2 have each been given a nation to follow/support during the tournament. Due to the smaller number of teams that take part in a Rugby World Cup compared to a Football World Cup each nation will have two pupils following/supporting them. While proving to be great fun, I also hope that this will encourage our pupil’s global awareness and geographical understanding. You should now have received a letter with this information in as well as details of your child's nation. If you haven't then please see me or Mrs. Webb. As well as following/supporting their nation, I have encouraged the class to complete some home learning on their nation during the next couple of weeks and will provide an opportunity for pupils to share their learning in a special session on Friday 30th September. In previous years, pupils engaged in similar projects have made posters, booklets or PowerPoint presentations about their country to share with the class. We look forward to seeing all the pupil's home learning projects. Mr. Spracklen on behalf of the Year 2 Team.

Year 2 Class Assembly

Friday 7th October, 2011 - 9.20am - will be the date and time for our first Year 2 class assembly. All are welcome to come along and hear what Year 2 have been learning in the first few weeks of the term. More information to follow soon.

Parent Information Session

Wednesday 14th September, 2011 - 9.00am - Year 2 Parent Information Session. Please come along and hear all about what lies ahead for Year 2 this year with particular emphasis on what is happening in the Autumn term.

First Day

We have had a wonderful first day back in Year 2! In Literacy we discussed our Rights and Responsibilities and each wrote our own Class Charter - a big copy of this will soon be shown on our 'Club Sandwich Class Charter', next to Mr. Spracklen's cupboard. After break, we had a PE session with Mrs. Hibberd and had our first taste of Mathletics. In the afternoon, we changed our reading books and all selected our first library book. We therefore should all have two reading books and one library book in our book bags to read at home. We ended our first day in Year 2 with another go on Mathletics in the ICT suite - we are all already big fans of Mathletics and can't wait for tomorrow!

Welcome to Year 2!

Mr. Spracklen and Mrs. Webb would like to say a big welcome to all our new pupils and their parents in Year 2. We have a very exciting year ahead and on this class blog you can keep up with all the latest news, events and activities in Year 2. You can access this blog every morning on the class interactive whiteboard, through our school website at: www.princeofwales.dorset.sch.uk, via our SWGfL Merlin pages or via our school's iPhone App which is available in iTunes. Alternatively, you can use our RSS feed with any compatible program or device which is: http://pow-year2.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default?alt=rss

Parent helpers always welcome!

We are always keen to have parent helpers in Year 2! If you are free and willing of a morning or afternoon to help in class you will always be welcome. If you cannot commit to a regular time but would still like to help then please see Mrs. Webb or myself who will try to arrange times that are convenient. All helpers must be CRB checked before working with pupils - please speak to the Office team if you need any further information about this process.

SUMMER HOLIDAY NEWS!

Well done to Mr. MacBean and Mrs. Howell who are the first to respond to our discussion on SWGfL Merlin asking what has been your highlight of the summer holidays. Log on to SWGfL Merlin now by clicking the logo on our school website (www.princeofwales.dorset.sch.uk).