Author: Mrs Taylor

Manners are words and actions that we can do to help us be kind and respectful to others. Good manners help us to get on well with others.

We thought about examples of good manners and we did some role play to model these good manners.

We linked our daily poem and our reading fluency text to manners to reinforce this important aspect of Living and Learning.

Help at home: reinforce this message about using good manners at home as well as at school. Encourage your child to greet the adults on the gate as they arrive at school.

Also, have a go at this manners quiz to check your child’s understanding.

In Year 2, in preparation for joining their letters, we are beginning to teach the children cursive handwriting.

This handwriting guide, which the children have brought home this week, shows the order in which we will be practising these letters.

Well done to Seerat who has already had a go at writing the alphabet using cursive handwriting at home.

Also, in addition to the weekly spellings, we have been checking the children’s spelling of the tricky words from Year 1. These are words that are commonly used in writing but you can’t always your phonics knowledge to help to spell them.

The children will be bringing this learning home so you can see which of these words they need to work on. Putting these words in sentences would be great practice to do at home.

Any questions, please do come and ask us.

Help at home: use these prompts to ask your child what we have been learning so far in Year 2.

At the start of the new school year, in our Living and Learning lesson, the children have been reminded about rules and the importance of rules in our daily life. This also links to the British Value of rule of law.

Before focussing on our school rules, we started by thinking about…

Why do we have rules?

What rules can you think of?

What places have rules?

Who makes the rules?

Rules tells us what to do.

We need rules so we don’t hurt each other.

Rules help us to know what is right and what is wrong.

Rules help us to be happy and healthy.

Our reading fluency text for this week was all about rules too.

In our school we have three school rules.

Three, two, one, stop is one of the most important instructions the children will hear at school.

Following our school rules will make our school a happy, healthy and SAFE place to learn.

We also agreed our Living and Learning ground rules.

Next week, we will be thinking about our rules about online safety at school. Your child will bring home their Being online – acceptable use agreement for pupils and parents/carers which should be read through, signed and returned to class.

Any questions, please do ask.

Help at home – think about our three school rules and talk with your child about what that might look like or sound like in the classroom, the playground or at lunchtime. Here are some examples the children thought of. Being ready would mean looking at the speaker, being respectful would mean laughing with not laughing at someone and being safe would mean washing our hands before lunch to stop spreading germs.

Welcome back and we hope you have had a happy and healthy summer break.

We look forward to meeting you over the next few weeks but for now, here is some key information about Year 2.

Mrs Taylor – Monday and Tuesday

Mrs Lake – Wednesday, Thursday and Friday

Mrs Maqbool and Mrs Roth also assist in the class.

PE – Tuesday and Thursday

Spelling test – Friday

Library – Friday

Water bottles

These should be brought to school daily and they will be brought home every day for refreshing and cleaning.

Milk

Please contact the office if your child would like to have milk in Year 2.

Homework/Spellings

Whole school homework is set every Friday (along with new spellings). Homework and spellings can also be accessed from the website.

Reading

Daily reading, whether this is their e-book, a book from home or the library, is key to making progress in reading and to develop fluency.

Numbots

We continue to use Numbots in Year 2 (using the same login as Year 1) and certificates will be awarded every Tuesday for children who complete the different stages and make the most improvement over the week.

For spelling practice, reading and Numbots, little and often (10/15 minutes a day) is recommended.

Uniform

Please do check the uniform policy to ensure your child is wearing the correct items including for PE days. Earrings must be removed on PE days.

Finally, please do ask if there are any queries and keep checking back on class news to find out more about your child’s learning!

We would like to say a big thank you for all our kind and generous gifts and cards that we’ve received this week and thank you for all of the support you’ve given this year.

It’s been a great year and it has been a pleasure to teach all the children and see how much they have progressed and matured over the year. We shall miss them!

We hope you all have a happy, healthy and safe summer holiday.

This week, Year 2 have been using their food preparation skills to create their latest product, wraps.

This forms part of our Design and Technology food learning which involves following a recipe to create a product each term.

The recipe was our reading fluency text of the week so we had chance to read and understand the instructions before we made our wraps.

First, we got ready to cook by washing our hands, putting on our aprons and tying long hair back.

We used lots of different food preparation skills including draining, spreading, bridge hold (for chopping), claw grip (for chopping), grating, snipping, arranging toppings and rolling the wraps.

Finally, the children got to enjoy their wraps.

I LOVED my wrap because it was so tasty and healthy.

Mine was delicious!

The peppers and cucumber made it really crunchy.

Next time, I wouldn’t change anything.

I didn’t like the peppers but I tried them.

We always evaluate our product afterwards to see how it could be changed next time.

Well done to all the children who worked safely and sensibly with Mrs Maqbool and Mrs Roth.

Help at home: your child has taken this recipe home. Can they demonstrate some of their food preparation skills by making this again at home.

As we enter the final week of Year 2, we would be grateful for the the return of any school reading or library books you may come across at home.

Please send these into school with your child over the next week.

We are also missing a few of the red Moortown PE t-shirts from the recent skipping festival if you could return them to school too.

Thank you for your support with this.

It’s been a busy staying safe week so far in Year 2.

What’s a digital footprint with Mr McGriffiths.

The importance of wearing a helmet when riding a bike or scooter.

Did you know if you are taller than 135cm, then you don’t need to have a car seat or booster seat because you are now tall enough for your seatbelt to fit correctly on your shoulder and hips.

Dave, from d:side, spoke to us about online safety including age limits on apps and not sharing personal information online.

We recapped the NSPCC Speak out Stay safe message  and in our circle time, the children discussed how and who they would ask for help if they needed to.

Please could I talk to you…

I’m worried about something…

Could you help me with a problem…

There’s lots more staying safe learning coming up.

Help at home: talk to your child about this important learning and ask them to share the key safety messages.