Weekly note- 27.4.18

Year 2 Weekly Note
27.4.18

Dear Parents/Carers,

Literacy and Maths
Next week the children will be using their knowledge of the traditional tale ‘The Three Little Pigs’ to invent their own version of the story including choosing their own animals to feature in the story, a new ‘baddie’ and new materials for the houses to be made of. In maths, we will be beginning a week’s unit on problem solving.

Visiting author- Ann Bryant
On Tuesday afternoon we are very lucky to be welcoming the author Ann Bryant to St. Martin’s Primary School. She will be sharing her experiences of being an author and the session will involve music, drama and reading some of the stories she has written.

School trip to Moulin Huet
We are still desperate for volunteers to accompany us on our beach visits to Moulin Huet. Unfortunately due to health and safety requirements we are unable to go without a certain number of adult helpers.
Please could you let your child’s class teacher know as soon as possible if you are able to help. Thank you in advance!
Mrs Ashworth’s Class (and half of Mrs Page’s class) – Friday 11th May am
Mrs Ash’s Class (and half of Mrs Page’s Class) – Thursday 10th May am

School closure days- week beginning 7th May
Please note that school will be closed on Monday 7th, Tuesday 8th and Wednesday 9th May due to Bank Holiday Monday, our annual staff training day and Liberation Day. We will be back to normal on Thursday 10th May.

Many thanks for your continued support

Mrs Ash Mrs Ashworth Mrs Page

Weekly Note – week commencing 23.4.18

Dear Parents/Carers,

Math

Next week we will  be building on the children’s understanding of how to partition 2 digit numbers into tens and ones by looking at different ways to partition these numbers. For example, 48 could be 40+8; 20 + 28; 30+18; 20/20/8 etc. Being able to break larger numbers into smaller components will help the children with both mental and written calculations.

Swimming

Just a reminder that children must have a swimming cap to go into pool. These can be purchased from the school office at a cost of £2.50.

Weather

In wishful anticipation that this wonderful weather will continue please can you send a sun hat to school for your child. We are very happy for them to keep a spare hat in their trays to save trying to remember one each day.

Spelling Books

Please can all spelling books be returned to class on Thursday, or earlier, each week.

Many thanks for your continued support

Mrs Ash   Mrs Ashworth  Mrs Page

 

Weekly Note 13.4.18

13.4.18

Dear Parents/Carers,

It‘s great to see the children at school again, they have settled back in well and we are looking forward to some great learning in their final term of Year 2.

 

Next week the children will be starting their work on traditional tales in literacy by looking in depth at the character traits of the three pigs and the wolf.  

In maths the children will be focusing on missing number sums.   20 – __ = 15,  ___ – 5 = 15,   20 – 5 = ____ , 20 ___ 5 = 15

 

Rainbow Maths Targets

As last term was so short we will continue with the doubling and halving targets for a few weeks and then send new targets later in the term; these will focus on addition and subtraction.  Please continue to help your child to practise their mental recall of doubles and halves.

Swimming

Just a reminder that swimming lessons have now started (Mrs Ash’s and Mrs Page’s class- Friday pm, and Mrs Ashworth’s class – Thursdays am). Please ensure your child brings their swim suit, towel and named swimming cap on these days.  The children will not need their PE kit on these days now.

Topic

We will soon be starting our new topic of Pirates which involves lots of art and geography with co-ordinates and treasure hunting map work!

As part of this topic the children will be exploring the beach at Moulin Huet and we’d be very grateful for volunteers to accompany the children on these visits.  Please let your child’s class teacher know as soon as possible if you are able to help…

Mrs Ashworth’s Class  (and half of Miss Geall’s class) – Friday 11th May am

Mrs Ash’s Class (and half of Miss Geall’s Class) – Thursday 10th May am

If you have any small plastic bottles at home please do send them in – children will be using them to write a secret message-in-a-bottle code in the discovery zone.

 

Many thanks for your continued support

The Year 2 team