Y2 - Visit from Grant Fielder - 25th May 2017

The children in Year Two had fun doing their "Super Schools" activities today. They all managed to do really well, completing the four challenging exercises that they had been practising.
We then saw a fantastic display of Mountain Bike Stunts performed by British champion, Grant Fielder.
Well done to those children who have managed to collect some sponsorship money.

Y2 - Jigsaw Information Session - 17th May for the 23rd May 2017

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 23rd May at 9am 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.

Y2 - Stan the Spider Crab - 17th May 2017

We had a visit from James and Stan the Spider Crab on Monday.  The children were amazed at how gentle and interesting Stan was.  We found out all about Spider Crabs from James and his visit has inspired our report writing this week.  Each of the children should have brought home a spider crab shell and a little treat!  Many thanks to James for giving up his time to bring Stan to see us!

Y2 Maths Learning - Week Beginning 8th May 2017

This week we have been revising our 3D shape, the children have really enjoyed using polydron to build 3D shapes from given 2D shapes and have played a game to support their learning.  This game is available on Children's Links, Year 2, Maths, Bottom Middle Icon. 

In addition to this we have been linking division and fractions.  When dividing it is useful to phrase the question as:  How many 5s in 20 for 20 divided by 5 for example.  This way the children can use their times tables to help find the answers. 
Why not try these at home...
30 divided by 5=
1/2 of 16=
How many 2s in 10?
James has 40 sweets to share between his 9 friends and himself.  How many do they get each?
What is 3/4 of 24?

Y2 Literacy Learning - Week Beginning 8th May 2017

This week we have generated our own silly traditional tales using a dice to generate a basic story.  The children have then improved their sentences by using noun phrases to describe characters and objects in the story.  They have then created their own cartoon strips to illustrate the story.  Great fun!  Why not have a go at home to see what story you come up with?

Y2 - Spellings - 12th May for 19th May

This week the spellings are as follows:
Red Phonics group:
word, work, worm, world, worth, war, warm, towards.  The challenge is to find more words that have an or or and ar after a w.
Orange and Yellow Phonics group:
word, work, worm, world, worth.  The challenge is to look for other words that have an or after a w.
Green and Blue groups have words related to the sounds that they are currently learning and revising.

Y2 - Spellings - Friday 5th May for Friday 12th May

This week the spellings are as follows:
Red phonics group: want, wanted, watch, watches, wash, washing, wander, wandered, quantity, quantities, squash, squashed.
Orange and yellow phonics group: want, wash, watch, wander, squash, quantity
Green phonics group will have indivdualised spellings to support learning of specific sounds.