Hello,

I hope you’re all looking forward to Sponsored Swim on Friday! A reminder that our class slot is between 1pm and 1.45pm. If there is anyone who would be willing to be a lane counter for the children please could you let me know? We would arrange it so that your child will be swimming in the lane you are counting.

Thank you in advance,

Mrs Page

18.6.18

Dear Parents/Carers,

Pirate Day

Thank you so much for attending our Year 2 Pirate Day- the children all had a fabulous time and it was lovely to see you all joining in the activities with the children.

Sponsored Swim

Your child should have come home with a sponsored swim form for our Sponsored Swim which will be taking place in your child’s usual swimming lesson during the week beginning 25th June. You are more than welcome to come and support your child and watch them swim.

Sports Day

Our Infant Sports Day is taking place this Monday (18th June) at 1.15pm. Please feel free to come and cheer on your child in their sports activities. Please be reminded that children must come in to school with sun cream already applied and with a sunhat and a named water bottle. The children come to school on Monday wearing their sports clothes and each class has been asked to wear a different colour top:

Mrs Page’s Class- Yellow

Mrs Ashworth’s Class- Blue

Mrs Ash’s Class- White

Fingers crossed for nice weather!

Maths

This week we will be looking at finding quarters, halves and three quarters of simple shapes and doubling and halving numbers which will also involve using this knowledge to problem solve.

Sunhats

As the weather is improving we are now able to eat outside at lunchtime. The children must have a hat in school, particularly if they stay for lunch. If you have any hats at home that are not being used we would be very pleased to add them to our collection of spare hats.

Many thanks for your continued support.

Mrs Ash Mrs Ashworth Mrs Page

Our sports day will take place on Monday 18^th June.  The children will be taking part in a variety of fun activities which start at 1.15 pm with the final races at approximately 2.15 pm. You are very welcome to come along and support your child.

On the day please can the children bring trainers, a sunhat, water bottle and have sun cream applied at home. To establish a team spirit we ask that the children in each class wear shorts or a T shirt of a particular colour. The children may come to school wearing their PE kit. This year the class colours are as follows;

Mrs Ash – white

Mrs Page – yellow

Mrs Ashworth – blue

Thank you for your ongoing support

Year 2 Weekly Note – 21.5.18

Dear Parents/Carers,

Maths
Next week the children will be having an assessment week in Maths where we will be covering lots of different mathematical areas covered over the course of the year.

Walk to School Week- A reminder
Next week we are taking part in ‘Walk to School Week’ and we are encouraging children to walk to school. This is to help promote a healthy mind and body and hopefully encourage walking/cycling to school on a regular basis. The children will be bringing home a healthy walking activity diary and can collect stickers for each day that they walk. Please note that if walking the whole way to school is not possible, children can still collect stickers for walking a part of the way.

EPIC Week
Next week is Epic week! Your children should have by now, all come home with a letter explaining what their activity for the week will be. Please read this carefully as it may be necessary for you to provide something extra for the week eg extra clothes, swimming kit, apron etc depending on their assigned activity.Thank you. These activities will be taking place every afternoon, culminating in a whole school celebration on the field with a parade and an ice-cream on Friday.

Swimming
Please vote that Mrs Ash and Mrs Page’s classes will not be swimming next Friday due to Epic Week.

Half Term
A reminder that this half term finishes on Friday 25th May at the usual time. We wish you all a lovely week’s holiday and we look forward to seeing the children again on the 4th June.

Many thanks for your continued support.

Mrs Ash Mrs Ashworth Mrs Page

Dear Parents/Carers,

Maths

Next week the children will be learning to describe position and direction using the vocabulary of right, left, clockwise and anti clockwise. We will then be moving onto coordinates which will be  linked to our Pirate topic.

Literacy

During literacy lessons the children will be researching what life was like as a pirate, the jobs they had to do and what life was like on board the ships.

Spelling Books

Please could all spelling books be returned to school on Thursdays so that the new spelling lists can be stuck in ready for your child to take home on Friday. If your child does not have their book in school we will give them the list which will hopefully make its way home! If you could stick it into the book that would be really helpful.

Walk to School Week

During the week beginning 21st May, we are taking part in ‘Walk to School Week’ and are encouraging children to walk to school (even if it is just some of the way). This is to help promote a healthy mind and body and hopefully encourage walking/cycling to school on a regular basis. The children will be bringing home a healthy walking activity diary and can collect stickers for each day that they walk.

EPIC Week

We are busy planning an ‘Epic week’ for the children which will take place during the week commencing 21st May. During these afternoons, staff will be offering a range of exciting activities such as musical theatre, outdoor activities, epic experiments, fun with clay, sewing, ball skills, or trips to the GSPCA to look at animal welfare. The children will be working with peers from Y3 (and occasionally other year groups) and we hope that they will have lots of fun alongside learning a range of new skills.On the final Friday of Epic week, we will have a whole school parade around the field, celebrate successes and enjoy an ice cream.

Decider Skills

We are introducing these skills to the children in class and finding them really valuable in helping them recognise and deal with emotions and situations which may result in negative feelings or actions.

There was a very successful parent and carers information evening explaining this programme which you may have already attended. If you missed this evening, there will be an opportunity to attend  on 22nd May at 3.15-4.30pm in the music drama room. There will be a crèche for children in the main hall. Please let the school know if you would like to come and if you need a space in the crèche. For more information visit: http://www.thedecider.org.uk/

Many thanks for your continued support

Mrs Ash   Mrs Ashworth  Mrs Page

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

26.3.18
Dear Parents/Carers

Spring Fayre
The Spring Fayre is on Tuesday 27th March from 2.00 – 3.30pm and all money raised will go towards Year 6 camp. Children can be collected from classes at 2pm to attend with parents.

End of Term
Just a reminder that school finishes at 1pm on Wednesday 28th March. Children do not need to bring lunch but they can bring an additional snack.

We hope you have a good Easter holiday and we look forward to seeing the children again on Thursday 12th April.

Many thanks,
Mrs Ashworth, Mrs Page, Mrs Ash

19.3.18

Dear Parents/Carers,

Maths

Next week we shall be continuing to work on the concept of division. We shall then be learning how to find ½, ¼ and ¾ of numbers.

Reading information evening

On Monday 21st March  at 7 pm, Mrs Child and Miss Simpson are running an information evening designed to offer guidance and practical advice as to how you can best support your child’s reading development. If you would like to attend this really useful evening please can you let the school office know: office@stmartins.sch.gg  or tel: 756060

Whole School and class photographs

On Tuesday 20th we shall be having a whole school photograph followed by class photographs on Thursday 22nd.

Swimming

Swimming lessons will begin again after half term with classes swimming on the following days;

Thursday 11 – 12 – Mrs Ashworth

Friday 1.00 – 1.45 – Mrs Page

Friday 1.45 – 2.30 – Mrs Ash

Please note that for Mrs Ashworth’s class this will be the first day back after the Easter holidays.

If you are able to help with these lessons please can you let us know. We are always very grateful for extra pairs of hands during these sessions!

Many thanks,

Mrs Ashworth, Mrs Ash, Mrs Page

5.3.18

Dear Parents/Carers,

We hope you all enjoyed the ‘Snow Days’ and we’re very much looking forward to things getting back to normal this week!

Maths
Next week we will be continuing our work on sequencing and ordering numbers, finding missing numbers in a sequence e.g. 2, 4, 6, __ , __ , 12 or 50, 45, 40, __, __, 25.
We will also be recognising and working with odd and even numbers.

Parents Appointment Week
The week beginning the 12th March is Parents’ Appointment Week. If you have still not yet signed up for an appointment via the online booking system, please could you do so as soon as possible. Thank you. We look forward to meeting with you all and discussing your child’s progress. Mrs Ash and Mrs Page have appointments available before school that are not on the booking schedule. Please email us directly if you would like a morning appointment.

Spellings
Please note that there will be no spellings sent home today (Friday 2nd March) as due to the snow we have not covered enough content. Spellings will resume next week.

How to be Safe and Secure Online- Information Evening

Come along to a free presentation of Safe and Secure Online on Wednesday 7th March at 7pm in the school hall, presented by Matthew Parker, an Information Security professional. Safe and Secure Online is a global initiative to help educate parents and carers of some of the risks our children face whilst online.

Matthew will present for about an hour including the following topics:

·　　　　　　　　　The risks of Online Gaming

·　　　　　　　　　Social Networks

·　　　　　　　　　Sexting and mobile phones

·　　　　　　　　　Cyberbullying

·　　　　　　　　　General Cyber Security

Please note that due to some of the content the session is not suitable for children to attend; it is solely aimed at adults.

Many thanks,
Mrs Ashworth, Mrs Ash, Mrs Page