Author: Mrs Taylor

Some of our after-school clubs will be restarting next week and they will run until week commencing 05 December. Please note some clubs begin after half term when building work at school has been completed.

Places can be booked via Gateway.

Our physical activity clubs continue to be heavily subsidised through the investment of our PE and Sport Premium.

Each club has a limit on the maximum number of children who can attend. As numbers are limited we ask that you limit your child to one club initially. If there are clubs with remaining places, we will then offer these as a second club.

Please contact the office if you have any queries about the clubs or the booking system.

At the start of the new school year, the children have been reminded about rules and the importance of rules in our daily life.

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.

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.

We concluded that 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.

Finally, we considered our rules about online safety at school. Your child has brought home their Being online – acceptable use agreement for pupils and parents/carers which should be read through, signed and returned to class.

The children have been reading this as this weeks’ fluency text (a weekly text that we read daily).

Any questions, please do ask.

The children have settled really well in their first few days in Year 2 with lots of new routines to learn!

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

Adults

Mrs Taylor – Monday and Tuesday

Mrs Lake – Wednesday, Thursday and Friday

Teaching assistant – Mrs Roth

Important days and dates

PE – Tuesday and Thursday

Spelling test – Friday

Homework – to be completed by the following Thursday

Class assembly – Wednesday 19th October at 2:40pm

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

Whole school homework is set every Friday (along with new spellings). This week your child will bring home a homework book and guide. This should be kept at home and it can be used for practising spellings. Homework and spellings can also be accessed from the website.

Reading

Your child will be bringing home a letter explaining about their reading.

Lexia

In Year 2, the children can access a reading/phonics online learning resource called Lexia. The children brought their login information home this week and it is great to see so many children have been accessing the resource already! Lexia certificates will be awarded every Tuesday if your child completes a level (by the end of Year 2, the children are aiming for achieving Level 9).

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 earn the most coins and who complete the different stages.

For reading, Lexia 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!

Welcome to Year 2!

We hope you’ve had a happy and healthy summer break and we can’t wait to see everyone back at school on Tuesday.

Mrs Taylor, Mrs Lake, Mrs Burgess and Miss Gilliland would like to wish you all a happy and healthy summer holiday.

Thank you for all the kind and generous gifts we’ve received.

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

It was back in the kitchen for Year 2 again yesterday. This time, we made fruit bars (a healthy snack option). After using fresh and frozen fruits in our fruit salad on Monday, this time we used dried fruits.

We used measuring, mixing, snipping and mashing skills.

Hopefully the children enjoyed the finished product as a snack after school!

Today, Year 2 have been learning some food preparation skills while making a fruit salad. This learning also included a reminder about the 5-a-day message and that a fruit can be fresh, dried, tinned or frozen.

There are two main techniques we use for cutting – bridge hold and claw grip and the children learnt to use these techniques safely today.  We also used peeling, segmenting and mixing skills. Ask your child to demonstrate these techniques at home.

We talked a lot about safety and food preparation especially around using sharp knives, that are kept in a locked drawer, and getting ready to cook (washing hands, cleaning down surfaces, tying hair back).

Then, it was time for the tasting!

I enjoyed eating the melon.

I didn’t like strawberries before but now I like them.

Now I like blueberries.

I liked the juicy melon and strawberries.

I learnt how to make a fruit salad and I want to make one at home.

I liked the melon because it was nice and juicy.

I learnt how to do the bridge and claw skill.

I learnt how to cut safely.

I learnt how to do the bridge skill for cutting the grapes.

I learnt how to use the claw skill for cutting the stalk off the strawberry.

The frozen fruit made the fruit salad moist.

I liked that when the frozen fruit defrosted, it was all juicy.

I enjoyed learning how to do the bridge hold and I liked eating the fruit.

This half term, Year 2 have enjoyed learning all about animals (including humans) in our science topic.

This week, as the science learning comes to an end, the children will be self assessing their understanding of the vocabulary as shown below.

Our visit to Yorkshire Wildlife Park allowed the children to use their knowledge learnt at school to describe the animals we saw.

We saw a wallaby which is a mammal because it has live babies but we didn’t see any fish.

We saw a lion and a lion is a mammal because it has fur. We didn’t see any amphibians.

The BBC website is great to support science learning and these videos are a good recap of our learning.

To share their knowledge, ask your child to have a go at these true or false statements about carnivores, herbivores and omnivores.