Year 2 Update Week 1
- Wednesday 29th August – Meet the Teacher 6:30pm (school hall). See information below.
- Tuesday 4th September – LEAP Centre visit (please sign e-notice).
- Friday 14th September – PTA Bowling evening.
- Monday 24th September – CPD Day – BHS closed.
- Tuesday 25th September – Public Holiday – BHS closed.
- Thursday 27th September – Year 2 trip to Penfold Park. To be confirmed – more information to follow.
- Monday 1st October – Public Holiday – BHS closed.
- Tuesday 9th October & Thursday 11th October – Parent Consultation evenings.
- Friday 12th October – Dress Casual Day (Community Chest). Last day of half term. School finishes 3pm.
- Monday 22nd October – School resumes.
| All new BHS parents | 5:30pm Wine and Cheese Party in the Staffroom | ||
| Introduction in the hall | Meet the teacher in the classroom | Finish | |
| Year 4, 5 & 6 Parents | 6:00pm | 6:15pm | 6:45pm |
| Year 1, 2 & 3 Parents | 6:30pm | 6:45pm | 7:15pm |
2K – Room 204
2D – Room 205
2F – Room 206
Please note this evening is for you to find out more about the expectations for Year 2 and the year ahead. Parents Consultation evenings will be in October where you can discuss your child.
| PE Kit | Library Bags | |
| 2D | Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday | Thursday |
| 2F | Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday | Thursday |
| 2K | Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday | Wednesday |
The children collaborated in groups to create Essential Agreements about how they are expected to behave in school.
In Maths, the children have been exploring Place Value using dice, arrow cards and Diennes equipment.
Our Unit of Inquiry is about health and well-being. We have started to look at hygiene, relaxation, relationships, fitness and nutrition. The children have been creating Zen Doodles to help them to relax.
In English, the children have been discussing how a character’s feeling change throughout a story. We have also been exploring the structure of instructions in preparation for our writing.
Central idea:
Lifestyle choices can affect human health and well-being
Lines of inquiry:
- What it means to have a balanced lifestyle (causation)
- The choices we make that affect our health and well-being (reflection)
- Lifestyle changes (change)
Next week the children will be drawing and painting activities which they do to help them maintain a healthy lifestyle. They will discuss what helps them to relax and support their well-being.
Place Value
Central Idea: We represent numbers and number relationships using the place value system
An inquiry into:
- Ways to represent numbers
- How we count numbers
- The Base Ten place value system
- Odd and even numbers (pattern and function)
The children will be working towards the following outcomes:
- Count by naming numbers in sequences, to and back from 999, moving from any starting point
- Recognise, model, read, write and order three digit numbers
- Apply place value to partition and rename, numbers to three digit numbers
- Skip count by 2s, 5s and 10s starting from zero
- Round numbers to the nearest 10
- Estimate up to 20 objects
- Identify and describe patterns in odd and even numbers
The children have their Mathletics usernames and password in the front of their school diary. Please spend some time on it each week.
Writing focus: Writing to instruct
Text Type:
Writers choose words, punctuation and words for a purpose.
Related Language Concepts: imperative verbs, tense, capital letters and full stops.
The children will be discussing the language of instructional writing. They will listen to and give verbal instructions to one another. The children will also have the opportunity to ‘give instructions’ to a Micro:bit by learning some basic coding.
