Health and Safety week - 8th May 2016

This week we will be focusing on how to stay safe and be healthy.  Each day this week we will be looking at a different aspect of this theme.  On Monday we will be concentrating on Road Safety and raising the children's awareness of roads, traffic, crossing roads and how we can use them safely.  On Tuesday we will be focusing on maintaining a healthy mind and attitude.  Wednesday will be our e-safety day and Thursday we will be concentrating on Beach Safety.  We are looking forward to visiting the Life Education Van on Tuesday afternoon, the children always love this and learn so much!

Health and safety week 9th - 13th May

The children will be exploring aspects of staying safe and being healthy over the next week in class. We will be welcoming visitors to the school; RNLI will be visiting to run a Beach safety assembly with tips and key messages about being safe. We also are welcoming the Safer School Team who will be running sessions with each class about staying safe when online at age appropriate level. We also have the Life Education van in school on Tues and Weds (10th and 11th) and each class will access a session based upon the PSHE curriculum for their class. In class, the children will be talking about road safety as well as being healthy and linking this to their science topics.

Lastly, on Friday 20th May each class will be accessing children appropriate levels of first aid training kindly offered by St John's ambulance. Yr 4 will be running through the programme and hopefully completing the course for a certificate!

If you do have questions or some skills or time to offer do speak with the year team.

Thank you, Mrs Mewett

Jigsaw Parent's Information Session - 5th May 2016

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As part of our PSHE (Personal, Social and Health education) we follow a programme called JIGSAW. The sessions from September build upon children’s emotional literacy, self-esteem and knowledge of who they are, how they relate to one another and the world in a positive and healthy way. You may have heard of the class’s JIGSAW friend? The summer term units are about ‘Relationships’ and ‘Changing me’. Within the ‘Changing me’ puzzle in every year group there are two or three lessons which help children understand the changes that occur to our bodies.

We invite you to attend a session on Tuesday 24^th May in the school hall. in which we will give you more of an insight into what your child will be learning about and discussing at age appropriate levels.

 We hope you are in agreement that materials of Jigsaw are important for children’s development. If you do have concerns please do talk with the class teacher at a convenient time.

 

Home Learning - 5th May 2016

Year 2 Home Learning – 6^th May 2016

The Big Write III

This week we would like to set the scene for out third big write in year 2.  On Wednesday afternoon we would like to light our candles, put on our relaxing music and get carried away with our writing.  This time the children have been planning how to use a well known story and take it just a little bit further.

Our story is Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, but it turns out that Mr Willy Wonka didn’t just hide five golden tickets but six!

I have asked the children to create a character that would find the sixth golden ticket, they have drawn them, written words to describe them as well as thought about where their character would find their ticket.  The children have also started to plan the story that I would like them to write about their character.

Over the weekend I would like you to take time to discuss your child’s ideas for the story, especially about how they can describe different parts of their story.  Try to draw out the details that the children could then use in their writing.  We are looking for amazing adjectives!  Please fill in the sheet on the back of this sheet with describing words (adjectives) that the children have come up with and return to school by Wednesday 11^th May.

Choose words to describe the following:

Your character’s feelings:	Your character’s looks:
Where your character lives:	The place your character finds his ticket:
Outside Mr Wonka’s factory:	Inside Mr Wonka’s Factory:
Chocolate and Sweets that they see:	Any others…

Literacy Learning - Week beginning 3rd May 2016

This week we have been reading more of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.  The children have been looking at how Roald Dahl describes his characters, inventing their own character and planning their own stories.  Look out for the home learning this weekend in preparation for our Big Write next Wednesday afternoon.

Maths Learning - Week Beginning 3rd May

This week we have been revising our multiplication and division facts, we have particularly looked at how we can show and deepen our understanding of problem solving through drawing pictures to explain and demonstrate our maths.  For example for 3x5=15.  You could draw 5 plates with 3 apples on each plate or 3 pencil pots with 5 pencils in each.  Have a go at home, draw a picture of a multiplication or division fact.

This week's spellings - 29th April for 6th May

This week's spellings are as follows:
Comma and Apostrophe groups:
witness, sickness, happiness, enjoyment, pavement, entertainment.
Exclamation mark and Question Mark groups:
fitness, illness, sickness, enjoyment, basement, improvement.
Full Stop group:
air, fair, stair, sure, pure, future