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Parent/carers coffee morning

During our themed week next week, there will be the chance to come along to an informal coffee morning and meet other members of our school community –  representatives from our governing body and PTA.  This will take place in the Space on Wednesday 20 May 9-10am.

A whole school community Wake up Shake up will follow at 10am in the main playground.

Everyone is welcome.

Who do you think you are?

Our next whole school themed week, based around identity, diversity and community, will be taking place next week, from Monday 18 May 2015.

A variety of events and visitors are planned to help us deliver this key aspect of education.

Events during the week will include looking at our own identity including belonging and body image, diversity of people around us – this might include race, age, religion, disability, sexual orientation and gender. There will be various visitors to support this. Classes will also be getting out into the community working with local organisations such as our local charity, St Gemma’s Hospice; local care homes; Moortown Community Group; and taking pride in the local community by litter-picking.

Identity day

Following a suggestion from one of our school councillors, Friday 22 May will be a non-uniform identity day. Children are invited to dress in clothing that represents part of their identity, for example uniform from a club they attend; a team they are part of or support; or traditional dress to represent their heritage. We invite a £1 voluntary donation and proceeds will be shared between St Gemma’s Hospice and the Nepal earthquake appeal.

Who do you think we are?

Do you think you’d recognise some of our staff in their early years? This photo competition will run throughout the week with details to follow separately. Again, proceeds will be shared between St Gemma’s Hospice and the Nepal earthquake appeal.

We’ll keep you up to date about events during the week through Twitter and the class news pages on our website. It’s going to be a busy week!

Our website and Twitter continue to keep you up to date with key community events. Upcoming events include the Roundhay Park Fun Run on 20 June and the PTA Summer Fair on 04 July. We hope you can support these.

11 May 2015

THE ROBOTS ARE COMING!

Boxes, kitchen rolls, packaging and other junk material is urgently needed! 

We are making robots on Thursday 14 May and urgently need materials for their body parts.  Please send any suitable junk material in before and on Thursday.

Thank you.

Hedgehog habitats

On Friday, we looked at what would make a good habitat for a hedgehog. We decided it would need to be warm, dry and sturdy so, with the materials we could find, we worked in teams to make our own.

We were pretty proud of our final hedgehog houses and Mossy the hedgehog seemed to like them, too!

Mrs Burke was so impressed that she’s put them in Reception’s nature garden to see if any hedgehogs decide to move in. It also gives Year 2 the chance to be the teacher, passing on all of their knowledge about nocturnal animals to Reception. Stay tuned to see if we have any visitors.

08 May 2015

This week’s homework is talk time. 

Why do we need instructions?

Please make sure your child is ready to talk about this on Wednesday 13 May.

08 May 2015

Here are this week’s spellings. There will be a spelling test on Friday 15 May.

08 May 2015

This is the second spelling week about verbs. This time, all the verbs contain a long vowel sound and end in e. This e is dropped when it’s changed to the continuous form. As before, the verbs are listed in their infinitive, present tense, past tense and continuous (this form could be either past or present tense).

• Infinitive – I like to shop.
• Present – She shops very often.
• Past – She shopped all day long.
• Continuous – She was shopping.   She is shopping.          

Group 1 

Group 2 

08 May 2015

The homeworks this week are Talk Time and Practice Makes Perfect.

The Talk Time homework is:

Is it ever ok to lie? 

This homework will link with next week’s SEAL focus about telling the truth and saying sorry. Children should discuss the homework and make notes in their homework books ready for the class discussion on Wednesday.

The Practice Makes Perfect homework are two Mathletics activities about fractions, decimals and percentages. These activities follow the learning in maths lesson on this from the previous week.

What’s going on? 11.05.15

For the week beginning 11 May, our topic continues to focus on night time but we’re really exploring the animal world. Bats, foxes, badger, owls and hedgehogs will be the topic of conversation as we think about describing what they look like as well as thinking about how they behave. Lots of us have wondered why they come out at night so we shall focus on how these animals are adapted to night time.

Maths

Everyone will revisit multiplication and division this week. It’s great to look at them together so that we can understand them as opposites. Practise times tables at home (particularly 5s as this will be our test on Friday), thinking about how we can use this to know division facts too eg 4 x 5 = 20, so 20 / 5 = 4. When do you use division and multiplication at home? Maybe when you’re sharing sweets or making a recipe bigger to feed the whole family.

English

Unfortunately, we’ll be delving into Mr Twit’s revolting beard! I wonder how many synonyms for disgusting we can learn and if we can remember all of the food that gets stuck in his bristly hair. Ask your child what they think about Mr Twit and why they think that using events from the book.

If you have any questions, pop in and see us.

Creative homework – If I ran the country…

As we’ve all had election fever this week, Year 2 imagined what they would do if they won the election and became Prime Minister. Here are some of their ideas.

Ismail even recorded his speech for us to watch and he was very convincing. Quite the aspiring leaders!