Dear Parents/Carers,

Bringing home books

We shall be sending books home from the beginning of the week. To ensure that these arrive home in good condition please can your child bring a few plastic carrier bags which they can leave in their tray until needed. The only books that will not be coming home this term are your child’s last literacy book, sketch book and special book as these move with them into Year 3.

Reports

Your child will be bringing home their report on Monday 16th July.  Please can you sign and return the receipt slip by Wednesday 18th July. Attached to the report you will find a summary sheet with your child’s levels of attainment  for the end of Key Stage 1. Unlike the other subjects, science is levelled either 1,2 or 3; there are no A/B/C sub levels.

Mr Shack’s class

At some point next week Mr Shack will be in school so the children in his class will have the opportunity to meet him.

End of Term reminders

• Please could all banded and library books be returned to school by Monday 16th July.
• School finishes at 1pm on Thursday 19th July. The children will not need lunch but may  bring an additional snack (alongside their break time fruit) if they wish to do so.

We have thoroughly enjoyed our time with your children and look forward to following their progress as they move into Year 3.

Thank you for all your support over the year. We wish you an enjoyable summer holiday.

Mrs Ash, Mrs Ashworth, Mrs Arklie/Page

 

6.7.18

 

Dear Parents/Carers,

Class Transition

The children will be working with their new Year 3 classes on Monday morning.  Mr Shack is not yet in Guernsey unfortunately but he has sent a presentation all about himself as a way of introduction that the children will see on Monday.  They will also be having lunch in their new classroom next Friday.

 

End of term arrangements

Your child will bring home their end of year report on Monday 16th July.

Please could children bring a named plastic bag to school on Tuesday 17th July to take home their books and work, the children’s last literacy books will be sent to Year 3 to be continued in September.

Term will end of Thursday 19th July at 1pm – the children will not eat lunch at school on this day but will need a large snack for playtime to keep them going.

 

Many thanks for your continued support

The Year 2 Team

Dear Parents/Carers,

Class Transition

We hope the children enjoyed their time with their new teacher today. They will be having their second transition session with their new class teacher and in their new classroom during the morning of Monday 9th July. This will be another opportunity to familiarise the children with their new Year 3 setting.

Sponsored Swim

We were very proud of the effort the Year 2 children put in during their Sponsored swims this week. If there are any Sponsored Swim forms or money to come back please could they be returned to the school office or your child’s class teacher as soon as possible. Thank you.

Spellings

Phonic lessons have been a little disrupted today due to visits to the new Year 3 classes. As a result spelling lists will not come home until next Tuesday.

Mrs Page’s Last Day

We will be sorry to say goodbye to Mrs Page next Friday but wish her well as she begins her maternity leave. For the last 2 weeks of term her class will be taught by Mrs Arklie.

Many thanks for your continued support

The Year 2 Team

 

22.6.18

Dear Parents/Carers,

Thank you very much for coming along to Sports Day on Monday – the children were fantastic and we had a great afternoon.

Next week in mathematics the children will be using many skills they have learnt this year to help them work through Logic Problems; they will need to reason and explain how they arrived at the answer.  In literacy the children will be continuing their pirate writing, thinking about living conditions and writing a letter to their family as if they were a pirate on board a ship.

Sponsored Swim

Please do come along or invite another relative to support your child doing their sponsored swim next week if you can. Please can all sponsored swim forms be returned to school by Wednesday of next week.

Mrs Ash’s Class (taught by Ms Lovell) – Friday 29th June from 1.50 pm

Mrs Page’s Class (taught by Ms Lovell) – Friday 29th June from 1.00pm

Mrs Ashworth’s Class (taught by Mrs Mauger)  – Thursday 28th June 11 – 12

Class Transition Day

Our first class transition day will be on Friday 29th June.

The children will spend the first half of the morning with their new Year 3 classmates and new teacher.  Your child will bring home a letter on this day confirming their new class teacher.

Sunhats

Please can all children bring a sunhat to school every day, or if easier have one that they can leave in their tray.

Mrs Page’s Last Day

Please note that Mrs Page will be leaving Year 2 to start her maternity leave on Friday 6th July.  We will all miss Mrs Page very much.

Many thanks for your continued support

The Year 2 Team

Dear Parents/Carers,

Pirate Day

We are looking forward to some pirate fun on Thursday 14th June. If possible please come along at 1.30 pm and take part in some pirate related activities with your child. Children may come to school dressed as pirates on this day.

Swimming

Mrs Ashworth’s class will not swim next Thursday.

Sport your Trainers Day/Race for Life event

Next Friday 15th June, the school Council are organising a joint event to raise money for two charities.

As a school we get a huge amount of support from the Sports Commission who organise various sporting events throughout the school. The school council would like to support their charity and have arranged for everyone to come to school next Friday, wearing PE kit instead of uniform. All donations for this event will go to this charity.

Then after school they have organised our very own Race for Life community event to raise money for Cancer Research. It would be great if your child and any other members of the family are able to take part. Your child should have brought home a sign up form which also gives more details regarding timings of the event.

Children taking part will need to be collected as normal  at the end of the day and taken to the event which will be taking place on the Infant field.

Spellings

As next week is going to be very busy with pirate activities and also a visit to watch the whole school performance of the Pied Piper, our phonic lessons will be little disrupted. Therefore there will be no spelling set again until Friday 22nd June.

Advance notice

Infant Sports Day will take place on the afternoon of Monday 18th June.
Many thanks for your continued support.

Mrs Ash   Mrs Ashworth  Mrs Page

4.5.18

 

Dear Parents/Carers,

 

Pirate Topic

As next week is a two day school week with a visit to the beach, our work will mainly focus on our pirate topic.  This week we received a ‘letter’ from a pirate called Seagull Sid who is coming to Guernsey in search of shipwrecks and great treasures hidden at the bottom of the sea!  He has asked the children to help by sending him a map of Guernsey on which they need to mark a safe place for him to anchor the Rum Runner – well away from the view of any passing Navy ships!

Having looked at the Guernsey coastline we have decided that a sheltered cove on the South Coast might be best. Our trip to Moulin Huet is therefore to investigate whether it would be a safe anchorage and to collect other information that will help them describe the bay and surrounding area – things he might use as landmarks or need to be wary of!

The children will not have phonics lessons next week and will therefore not receive spellings on Friday  

 

Moulin Huet Visit

For our visit  to the beach next week (Mrs Ash’s Class and half of Mrs Page’s class  – Thursday 10th May and Mrs Ashworth’s Class along with the other half of Mrs Page’s Class (Mrs Page will notify you as to which day your child is going)  – Friday 11th May) your child will need to come to school in comfortable clothing (non-uniform) and shoes. We will be walking from school to the beach and the children will be clambering over rocks so trainer-type shoes are essential.  If it is very wet we will postpone the trip but your child may need a light waterproof in case of showers.

We will be returning to school for lunch but please ensure your child has a large snack and extra drink for the beach.  They will need a small rucksack with them on this day so they can carry their things with them and be hands-free.

 

Year 2 Open Afternoon – Pirate Day

Just an advance notice that we will be inviting you in to work/play with your child from 1.30pm on  Thursday June 14th for our pirate day.  The children can come to school dressed as a pirate on this day and will be having lots of pirate fun and activities in the morning as well.

 

School closure days- week beginning 7th May  – Just a reminder that school is closed Monday 7th, Tuesday 8th and Wednesday 9th May. We will be back to normal on Thursday 10th May.

 

Many thanks for your continued support

 

Mrs Ash   Mrs Ashworth  Mrs Page

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

 

Welcome back to the summer term!

Swimming will start this week so please can children remember to bring their kits to school for the following lessons;

Mrs Ashworth’s class – Thursday 12th

Mrs Ash’s/Mrs Page’s class – Friday 13th

Thank you

9.3.18

Dear Parents/Carers,

Maths

Next week we shall be focusing on division and learning the term ‘remainder’.  To help with this work you may find some of the following ideas helpful:

• Take a handful of pasta or similar and put it into groups of 5 – how many groups of 5 can you make? How many altogether? How many left over? Can you make groups of different amounts using the same amount of pasta?
• Share different sets of objects between 2, 5, 10, 3. Counting accurately the starting number and then sorting into a specific number of groups is something the children often find quite difficult.
• How many 2s in 8, 5s in 25 etc
• Quick fire number halving facts
• Ongoing practise of multiplication facts

 

We will also be revising how to find the unknown number in a number calculation e.g.

20 =  ?  + 12.

 

Literacy

The children will be learning about the main features of instructions: headings, bullet points, bossy instructions words (First, Next, Then , After that, Finally ) and then writing their own instructions for looking after an alien!

 

Home Sharing

We have started using a website called j2e for the children to save a few examples of their work.  This may be a photograph (work selfie) of a piece of work that they are proud of or a photograph or video of something that they have made in the Discovery Zone.  The children will have come home today with a QR code which is their log-in for their personal j2e account. They will be able use this QR code at home to log on and share their learning with you.

The children will be able to choose for themselves when they save something to j2e so please don’t expect to find something everyday and some children will save things more than others. We will ensure that children save something at least each half term.

As part of our e-safety lessons we have explained to children the importance of not sharing their password/QR code or letting anyone else use it, so please could you let your child log-on using their QR code rather than doing it for them. Your child will then be able to find their work on their account to share with you.

We hope that you and your child enjoy this experience of being able to share your child’s learning together.

Please access j2e using this link: https://www.j2e.com/dashboard/#manage   then click on the QR code symbol which will bring up the camera for you to scan the QR code.  Please note that you will only be able to access j2e if you have a device with a camera.

Thank you for your continued support

The Year 2 Team