We need your help!

Eco week – Week commencing 29^th February

We need your help!

Monday 29^th February – We are having a whole school eco activity day.  The children will have chosen three activities they wish to do; they will visit other classrooms and work with children across the school.  If you are able to come on in and lend a hand, then please let your class’s team know. The more helpers the more successful these activities can be!

Also, events and learning through eco week are going on throughout this week. Again, if you have a small amount of time spare, please do let us know, we would really appreciate any extra offers of help. Again, please talk to your child’s teacher/ team.

Finally, thank you to all of you who have been bringing in wanted items by staff for eco week, we very much appreciate all of the items, these will help in ensuring the children’s learning and activities can be as exciting and fun as planned!

One more recycling request! - 22nd February 2016

My goodness me - a chance to clear out those cupboards.  We are asking for a few more things to make our Eco week go with a swing.  Our shopping list is as follows:
1.  Clean Plastic Bottle tops (thanks for the ones you've collected so far).
2.  Old pairs of wellies, we've only got a few of these...
3. Colourful oddments or balls of wool - for Mrs Mewett.
4.  Clean and Washed 4 pint or 6 pint plastic milk bottles for Miss Johnson and Miss Andrews.
5.  1 litre and 2 litre fizzy drinks bottles for making rain gauges and worm homes!
Citizenship stickers and Superhero points are on offer for those who recycle with us!!

Many thanks in advance.
If anyone is available to come and help out with our learning next week, please let the team know.

An Amazing Tudor Effort! - 22nd February 2016

Well done to everyone who has bought in their holiday home learning!  The houses created are absolutely amazing, I was completely astounded when I walked into the classroom to see them this morning! What an absolutely brilliant effort.  I hope you all had as much fun making them!  Please come along and take a look in the morning, I've taken some photos and will post them very soon!

a request

WANTED! If you have any colourful unwanted balls of wool, please can you send in for Eco Week?

Many thanks!

Mrs Mewett

Reading Targets - 8th February 2016

This week I have stuck a reading target in the children's diaries. These are taken from the Year 2 curriculum. For example- I can read words with two or three syllables. So when your child is reading with you at home please encourage them to work towards their target and praise any efforts that they are making to improve. If you have any concerns on your child's reading at home or would like to discuss these targets please feel free to catch me in the morning or after school.

Maths Learning - Week Beginning 1st February 2016

This week we have turned our attention to geometry!  We have been looking at the properties of 2D and 3D shapes.  This involves the children using the proper mathematical language for describing shapes.  You could help at home by recognising and naming shapes around you:  How many rectangles can you spot?  Give the child a dice or a box and ask them what shape they are (cube / cuboid).  You could also encourage your child to count edges on 2D shapes and faces on 3D shapes.  Did you know that the proper term for corners on 2D and 3D shapes is vertices !

Literacy Learning - Week Beginning 1st February

This week the children have been back in time using the magic key!  They experienced what it would be like to work with Florence Nightingale at her hospital in the Crimea, they planned their stories as well as reading other examples of similar stories.  The children ended the week by writing their whole story.  They are brilliant, entertaining, exciting and well worth a read.  Well done year 2.