Year 2 Weekly Note 4.5.18

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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

Weekly note- 27.4.18

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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

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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

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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

Weekly note for 26.3.18

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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

Weekly Note – week commencing 19.3.18

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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

 

Weekly Note 9.3.18

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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

Weekly note 5.3.18

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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

Snow Ideas 28.2.18

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Dear parents/carers,

Following the decision to close schools today and with the forecast of more snow tomorrow here are some ideas you might like to do at home to keep your children busy and learning through fun!

Snowball throwing addition

Make a target by creating a bright circle in the snow with coloured water in a squirt bottle (just add a few drops of food colouring), make the target worth an amount e.g. 5 points.  Then aim at the target and throw, count up all your points.  You could use different coloured rings for different amounts on the target.

Frosty Toss

Create a bird feeder for our feathered friends using an orange or a pine cone filled with peanut butter/fat  and pieces of seeds, nuts or fruit…

orange bird feeder    Image result for orange cup bird feeder    Image result for pine cone bird feeders

 

Ice sculpture

Look at this enormous caterpillar and rocket!

Snow caterpillar        Image result for rocket ice sculpture

Play noughts and crosses using sticks and cones.

Tic-Tac-Snow

Write a snow poem

Follow this link for examples:

https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/snow-and-ice-2/

Great Big Snowman

I’m a great big snowman,

Tall and fat

Here’s my tummy

Here’s my hat

Coal for my eyes

And a carrot nose

I’m all snow from

Head to toes
Snowflakes

Snowflakes, snowflakes

Twirl around

Snowflakes, snowflakes

Touch the ground

Snowflakes, snowflakes

Land on my nose

Snowflakes, snowflakes

Freeze my toes

Snowflakes, snowflakes

In the air

Snowflakes, snowflakes

Everywhere!

 

More Fun Ideas

* Create a maze – Put on your hiking boots and stamp out a path for your chidlren to follow.
* Plan a scavenger hunt – Hide an apple in a mound of snow so that a little bit peeks out. Give the children silly directions to follow as they search for it.
* Play freeze tag – Can you think of a more appropriate game for a chilly day? Once someone’s tagged by the person who’s “It,” he/she has to stay frozen until another player tags him again.
* Make faces – Use handfuls of packed snow to create funny characters on a tree trunk.

* Walk this way – Have your children follow your lead as you move like different animals: Waddle like a penguin, stomp like a bear, and wiggle like a fish

* Have a snowball fight – Divide your family into teams, then start throwing. Save this one for last so you can go inside, dry off, and have some hot chocolate.

 

Have fun!

We hope to see you soon

The Year 2 Team