Living and Learning: 8Rs for learning
This week our L&L statement was ‘I use the eight Rs to help me learn.’ We started off by recapping the 8Rs and then looked at each one in detail and discussed different statements that match the 8Rs.
The children then reflected on which of the 8Rs they felt most confident and least confident with.
‘I feel most confident with remembering because I can remember a lot from previous year groups. I would like to get better at reflecting’
‘I feel I am getting better at risk taking by putting hand up even if I don’t know the answer and if the answer is wrong, no one will laugh – it is not the end of the world!’
‘I would like to improve at being resilient. I want to keep trying my best and can ask for help, if I need it.’
‘I am the least confident at remembering as I forget to bring things into school like my reading record. However, I can start to write notes to remind myself.’
Help at home: Name all the 8Rs and discuss how they relate to learning at school.
How can you help with learning at home?
This week, your child will come home with their new e-book login and a reminder of their Numbots login (same login as Year 1). These can always be found inside their reading record book.
Reading
At the end of each week, your child will be set the book they have been reading in school. This can be accessed on the Collins e-book app. Please ensure this book is read at home and a comment is added to your child’s reading record book. Reading record books should be brought back to school by Thursday of the following week.
Numbots
The children do use Numbots in school but should spend regular short periods of time spent on this at home to support their addition and subtraction knowledge across the year.
Spellings
Each week, the children will be given eight spellings and these will be tested the following Friday. The spellings can always be found on the Year 2 spellings page. They’ll be a mixture of words from our phonics learning and also some tricky words. This spelling guide gives you some ideas for how to learn these spellings with your child. They’ll know their weekly score so please ask them how they’ve got on.
Handwriting
This year, the children will be practising their cursive handwriting daily following the letter sequence in our handwriting guide. This will support the children when we start to join our letters. Please use this at home to practise handwriting so the children can apply this in their writing at school.
Thank you for your support with your child’s learning at home and if you have any questions, please do come and ask!
Leeds Rhinos ticket offer
Here’s an offer for tickets for the final Leeds Rhinos home match of the season against Hull FC on Friday 11th September.
Junior tickets can be purchased for just £5 in all standing areas of the stadium. Up to two £5 junior tickets can be purchased per adult.
Class novel – How To Be A Lion
This is Year 1’s current class novel – How To Be A Lion by Ed Vere. We’ll be reading and using this book for our writing learning over the next couple of weeks.
Our first lesson is to predict what could the story be about. How did we get to that prediction? We used the title, pictures and the information in the blurb to help us.
Help at home: Ed Vere has written many other children’s books too. Can you predict what will happen next in one of the stories below?
Living and Learning – I follow the school rules.
The first week back to school brings lots of new routines and ways of doing things but there are somethings that haven’t changed!
Our three school rules:
1. We’re respectful.
2. We’re ready.
3. We’re safe.
We reminded ourselves of these rules in Year 1 and what these rules might look like across school. Here’s what we came up with:
How can we be respectful?
- We can listen to each other.
- We treat each other fairly.
- We look after the school and its belongings.
- We use kind words.
How can we show that we’re ready?
- We can have eyes on the speaker.
- We can have empty hands.
- We can have silent voices when someone is speaking.
How can we be safe in school?
- We can walk inside and outside when moving from one place to another.
- We can have kind hands and feet by keeping them to ourselves.
- We can stay where an adult can see us.
These three school rules are really important for everyone in school, not just the children. They make school a happy and healthy place to be.
Help at home: How can be safe and respectful at home? Discuss this at home.
Reception Baseline Assessment (RBA)
Living & Learning: rules
This week, we’ve been learning about the importance of rules at home, at school and in our community.
In particular, we’ve been thinking about our three school rules and how they might look when we’re in the classroom and around school.
We’re respectful:
- We use our manners.
- We let people join our games at break time.
- We listen when somebody else is talking.
We’re ready:
- We use positive body language.
- We focus on the speaker.
- We follow 3, 2, 1 stop.
We’re safe:
- We walk around school.
- We keep the four legs of our chairs on the floor at all times.
- We always use safe hands and feet.
Following our school rules will make our school a happy and healthy place to learn.
Help at home: think about our three school rules and talk with your child about what they might look like or sound like. Compare them with your rules at home. Are they similar? Are they different?
Living and Learning: Rules
This week, we have been learning about the importance of rules at home, at school and in our community.
In particular, we have been thinking about our three school rules and how they might look when we are in the classroom and around school.
We’re respectful.
We’re ready.
We’re safe.
In our weekly circle time, we focused on the importance of rules.
Rules keep us safe.
If there were no rules, it would be chaotic and people would get hurt.
Without rules, the world would be unbalanced.
With no rules, children would not learn and we wouldn’t be happy, healthy or safe.
There might be bullying if there were no rules.
Without rules, children might play games that are not appropriate.
Living and Learning: rules
Year 3 have made a magnificent start to the school year by being respectful, ready and safe. Everybody has done a great job at following the school rules.
You might notice some changes to what 3, 2, 1 stop means. It now stands for these three things:
- silent voices
- positive body language
- focus on the speaker
There’s also a Year-Three-specific GOLDEN RULE which the children have already been acing:
“I don’t know that yet. Can I pass it on?”
It’s ok not to know things or get things wrong – you either win or you learn.
This week’s poem – First Day
Each week, Year 2 will be exploring a poem. We’ll discuss some of the new vocabulary, practise reading it and maybe even add some actions. By the end of the week, we’ll perform our poem and post it on here for you to see!
This week our poem was called First Day and was all about starting a new year in school. We learnt the new word: awaits.