Year 2 Update Wk 2
Tuesday 29th August – Meet The Teacher Evening 6pm School Hall
Friday 1st September – Colours Day (more information to follow)
Friday 8th September – School closed CPD Day
Friday 15th September – PTA Bowling Night
Tuesday 26th and Thursday 28th September – Parent Consultations after school (more information to follow)
Friday 29th September – Colours Day (more information to follow)
Friday 29th September – End of half term
Please complete the e-notice you have received on Gateway about our visit to the LEAP Centre on 7th September.
All children need a school hat and water bottle every day. Please ensure they are clearly labelled with your child’s name.
The children enjoyed engaging in inquiry activities concerning the 5 elements of a healthy lifestyle. Such activities included art work, group discussion and sorting.
In Maths, the children’s knowledge of place value has been developing. They have constructed 3 digit numbers using the Diennes equipment. Please complete the home learning Mathletic activities which have been set.
The focus in our explicit writing lessons has been to use capital letters and full stops correctly.
Thank you for reading with your child everyday, enabling them to change their reading books on a daily basis. In class we have been looking at story settings and characters.
All children need to wear their PE kit on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday.
Your child will need to bring their red book bag to school on Tuesday when they will visit the library. Children without a book bag will not be allowed to take books home.
Central idea: Lifestyle choices can affect human health and well-being
Lines of inquiry:
- What it means to have a balanced lifestyle
- The choices we make affect our health
- Lifestyle changes
The children will be exploring different ways to relax, including partaking in cosmic yoga and completing Zen Doodles.
The children will also discuss a balanced diet and how to make healthy food choices. The will design a healthy meal.
CENTRAL IDEA: We represent numbers and number relationships using the place value system
LINES OF INQUIRY:
- Ways to present numbers
- How we count numbers
- The Base ten place value system
- Odd and even numbers (pattern and function)
The children will use a variety of equipment to apply place value to partition and rename three digit numbers. They will practise skip counting in 2s, 5s and 10s starting from zero.
Please give your child the opportunity to explore Reading Eggs (username/password in diary).
