Jungle Giants!

Summer 1 Newsletter 

Dear Parents/Carers,

Welcome back! We hope you have had a lovely half term and enjoyed the glorious weather. For our final half term, we will continue our main topic of ‘Seasides’. As many of you like to know what we are learning about at school so that you can help your child, we are sending home a topic web for your information. If your child has any books or artefacts that support our topic and they would like to share them please let us know. Thank you to those of you have sent in photos of the geographical features of the seaside. We enjoyed looking through them all.

Reading & Spelling

Thank you to all of you that are reading regularly at home. Please remember that we will ask for photos of reading records to be uploaded onto Teams on the same day as we set reading homework. Spellings are uploaded onto Teams every Friday after school ready for a test the following Friday. Again, please try to support your child in learning these as it impacts on their reading & writing attainment.

Book bags should be sent into school on a Monday containing the reading book(s) your child needs to change along with their red spelling book ready for the test on Friday. Books bags will be sent home on Fridays with a new reading book. Please continue to use the books set on Reading Planet, the eBook library on https://home.oxfordowl.co.uk/reading/free-ebooks/ and books you have at home. The children read independently after lunch every day and we encourage you to read at home at least five times per week. Some children continue to receive phonic sessions in school. Phonics Play online is a useful website to support their learning at home and can be found at https://www.phonicsplay.co.uk/

Science

Each half term your child will be working on specific science targets that go with their current unit of work. Our science targets this half term are:

Homework

Homework will be set on a Friday via Microsoft Teams. Please return homework by the following Wednesday. Homework should be completed in pencil and should be of an acceptable standard.

Homework Timetable:

Occasionally some children may be asked to complete some extra work from the homework outlined above. This may be because they are working in an intervention group and need some extra practice at something or it may simply be that your child needs a little extra work on something they have not understood.

PE and Sports Day

Our P.E lessons will continue to be on Mondays and Thursdays. Please send your child to school in their PE kit.

As always, please ensure your child brings a water bottle into school every day. As the weather is getting warmer, please bring a cap into school if you have one at home.

Sports day will be held on the field at 2pm on Friday 25^th June. At the moment, we are hoping to be able to invite one parent per child. We will post more details on Class Dojo closer to the time.

Staff

Miss Edwards will continue to work on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday as normal. Mrs Furniss will be teaching in school on Thursday and Friday. Mrs Lodge who will be in school every day as normal and we continue to have Natalie Kay, a trainee teaching assistant who will be working in class on a Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday.

Thank you

Mrs Furniss, Miss Edwards and Mrs Lodge

The Y2 Team

Jungle Giants!

Summer 1 Newsletter 

Dear Parents/Carers,

 Welcome back! We hope you have had a lovely Easter break. This term our main topic is ‘Seasides’. As many of you like to know what we are learning about at school so that you can help your child, we are sending home a topic web for your information. If your child has any books or artefacts that support our topic and they would like to share them please let us know.

Reading & Spelling

Thank you to all of you that are reading regularly at home. Please remember that we will ask for photos of reading records to be uploaded onto Teams on the same day as we set reading homework. Spellings are uploaded onto Teams every Friday after school ready for a test the following Friday. Again, please try to support your child in learning these as it impacts on their reading & writing attainment.

Book bags should be sent into school on a Monday containing the reading book(s) your child needs to change along with their red spelling book ready for the test on Friday. Books bags will be sent home on Fridays with a new reading book. Please continue to use the books set on Reading Planet, the eBook library on https://home.oxfordowl.co.uk/reading/free-ebooks/ and books you have at home. The children read independently after lunch every day and we encourage you to read at home at least five times per week. Some children continue to receive phonic sessions in school. Phonics Play online is a useful website to support their learning at home and can be found at https://www.phonicsplay.co.uk/

Science

Each half term your child will be working on specific science targets that go with their current unit of work. Our science targets this half term are:

Homework

Homework will be set on a Friday via Microsoft Teams. Please return homework by the following Wednesday. Homework should be completed in pencil and should be of an acceptable standard.

Homework Timetable:

Occasionally some children may be asked to complete some extra work from the homework outlined above. This may be because they are working in an intervention group and need some extra practice at something or it may simply be that your child needs a little extra work on something they have not understood.

PE

Our P.E lessons will continue to be on Mondays and Thursdays. Please send your child to school in their PE kit.

As always, please ensure your child brings a water bottle into school every day.

Staff

Miss Edwards will continue to work on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday as normal. Mrs Furniss will be teaching in school on Tuesday and Wednesday mornings along with all day on Thursday and Friday. Mrs Webster will be working with us on Thursday and Friday alongside Mrs Lodge who will be in school every day as normal. We also welcome Natalie Kay, a trainee teaching assistant who will be working in class on a Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday.

Thank you

Mrs Furniss, Miss Edwards, Mrs Lodge and Mrs Webster

The Y2 Team

 Dear Parents/Carers,

 As we enter the last half term of 2020 we would like to thank all of you for your continued support in these strange times, it has been really appreciated. Both myself and Mrs Furniss will continue to work in school daily up until Christmas in order to support the children. Mrs Lodge will continue to be in the classroom full time too.

This half term our main topic is ‘Light Explosions’. This will focus on The Great Fire of London. We will look at historical evidence and the reasons for the Gunpowder Plot. As many of you like to know what we are learning about at school so that you can help your child, we are sending home a topic web for your information. It really is beneficial to the children if you can support and reinforce their learning at home. If your child has any books or artefacts that support our topic and they would like to bring them into school then that would be wonderful.

 Reading & Spelling

Reading & spelling is a crucial part of children’s learning at this age and your child should be reading for at least 10 minutes a day at home. Thank you to all of you that are reading regularly at home. Please remember that we will ask for photos of reading records to be uploaded on the same day as we set reading homework. Spellings are given out every Friday ready for a test the following Friday. Again, please try to support your child in learning these as it impacts on their reading & writing attainment.

 Reading books need to be returned to school on a Monday so they can be quarantined. New books will be given out on a Friday to those children who have returned their books. Children will continue to keep different books in their trays so that they can read in school.

 Science

Each half term your child will be working on specific science targets that go with their current unit of work. Our science targets this half term are:

Homework

Homework will always be set on a Friday and must be uploaded by the following Wednesday. Homework should be completed in pencil and should be of an acceptable standard. Maths homework will be a relevant page in the CGP Workout Year 2 booklet which all children have at home. Reading homework will be a page from the GCP KS1 Comprehension booklet. There may be times when we set an alternative homework but we will let you know via Dojo as usual anyway.

Homework Timetable:

 Occasionally some children may bring home some extra work from the homework outlined above. This may be because they are working in an intervention group and need some extra practice at something or it may simply be that your child needs a little extra work on something they have not understood.

 Passport statements

This term we will be working on:

• Looking after our belongings
• Persevering when things get difficult
• Following the school rules

Further information:

Our P.E lessons will continue to be on Mondays and Thursdays. As usual, please send your child into school in their outdoor PE on these days. Children should also not be wearing any jewellery on PE days. If your child is not able to take out their earrings you must send them to school with earrings taped up on these days or provide tape that they can put on themselves.

We appreciate that with all the handwashing and cold weather that hands are becoming sore. Please feel free to send in small tubes of hand cream which can be kept in your child’s tray. These need to be clearly labelled with your child’s name and are your child’s responsibility. They need to be able to manage this themselves and behave sensibly with it as we are unable to touch it. However, hand sanitizer is still not permitted unless you have direct permission from Mrs Towndrow-Birds

 Please remember to send in a water bottle each day.

We hope you have found this letter informative. If you have any questions about any of the above or any other queries please do not hesitate in coming and speaking to us.

 Thank you

 Miss Edwards and Mrs Furniss

Y2 Class Teachers