Weekly Update – Year 2
Tuesday 1st September
– 5pm – 6pm Cheese and Wine event for parents of new students
– 6.30pm Meet the Teacher evening begins in the school hall
– 6.45pm Meet the Teacher evening moves to your child’s class room (Parents who also have children in Y4-6 should join us at this point).
Thursday 3rd September – PUBLIC HOLIDAY
Wednesday 9th September – Year 2 L.E.A.P. visits
Friday 11th September – P.T.A. “Start of Year” event
Timetables
You should have received a copy of your child’s timetable in their Diary. Please note timetables can also be found on the school website.
P.E. kit
Your child should wear their P.E. kit twice each week. Please refer to the table below for further information.
| 2A | 2F | 2M |
|
Monday Tuesday |
Monday Thursday |
Tuesday Thursday |
Please note we will inform you if these arrangements change.
Library books
Children will borrow their first library books next week. Please ensure they have a book bag with them on their Learning Centre day in order to protect the library books.
| 2A | 2F | 2M |
|
Monday |
Wednesday |
Wednesday |
Spelling
Spelling will begin in September. This will be explained in detail at your child’s “Meet the Teacher” evening.
The students have made a fabulous start to the year. We have enjoyed getting to know each other and talking about the expectations of Year 2. We have been really impressed with their mature and positive attitude towards school life.
We look forward to a fantastic year ahead!
Next week we will be starting our first Unit of Inquiry of Year 2. This unit comes under the “Who We Are” transdisciplinary theme and you will be receiving more information about this very soon.
We will be provoking the children’s thinking next week and encouraging them to share their own wonderings with the class. We will also be finding out how much we already know, as well as unpacking the wording of our Central Idea.
Patterns can be represented using numbers and other symbols.
We will begin by investigating simple shape patterns in the world around us. We will also be creating our own repeating patterns using a wide range of mathematical resources. We will be applying our knowledge of shape patterns to begin thinking about simple number sequences (counting in 2s, 5s and 10s).
Over the coming weeks, we will be undertaking a range of activities to determine the children’s attainment in various areas of English;-
- unaided writing assessments
- PM benchmark Reading assessments
- PiPs assessments
- Reading Eggs (online reading programme) comprehension assessments
- revisiting and revising elements of the Year 1 Phonics programme
- handwriting
We will also be giving the children plenty of opportunities to record their written work for a range of purposes.
Our first Golden Book certificates of the year will be presented on Monday 24th August.
Please can you make sure that all your child’s belongings are all labelled with their name and new class.
Please can you make sure your child comes to school with a healthy snack and lunch, as well as a reusable water bottle.
Thank you.