Year 2 Update Week 3
- 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.
| PE Kit | Library Bags | |
| 2D | Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday | Thursday |
| 2F | Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday | Thursday |
| 2K | Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday | Wednesday |
The children visited the LEAP Centre and participated in a range of activities exploring healthy choices.
The children have enjoyed starting their FMS sessions. Thank you to all the parents who have volunteered to help this term.
The children have explored different ways to keep fit and have started to create their own fitness sequence.
In Maths, the children have been practising skip counting, ordering and comparing numbers.
In English, the children have continued learning how to write procedures and have discussed appropriate bossy verbs to start each step.
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 begin to design and create a holder for a tracker that records the amount of movement they do during their fitness sequence. The children will explore what makes a balanced diet.
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 will be continuing to take part in problem solving challenges to develop their understanding of place value in the real world. They will also learn the symbols for greater than and less than (><).
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 continue to discuss the language of instructional writing. They will be writing instructions for various daily procedures such as brushing their teeth. They will listen to and give verbal instructions to one another. They will focus on using capital letters and full stops when writing sentences.
In reading, the focus is self-monitoring and summarising. The children will be showing that they understand it is their job to make sense of the texts they are reading and learning more about the strategies to use if they get stuck. They will be using SCOOP to help them retell the stories they have read.
