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Welcome to Sky Classes
Welcome to Sky Classes!
We hope you have had a wonderful and restful summer and you are ready for a busy Autumn Term. On here you will find some useful information about life in Year 2 but please don’t hesitate to ask anything else you need to know- our doors are always open.
Please find our learning log objectives and the spellings for the half term below.
This half term children will be having a PE session on a Monday and Tuesday afternoon. Please ensure they have named PE kits in school- we will send these home each half term.
As always, our doors are open for you to come and have a chat should you need to. We have tried to include the useful information you may need below, but if we have missed anything off please do not hesitate to come and ask us.
Best wishes
Mrs Allison, Mrs Bradshaw and Mrs Richardson
Please find our Meet the teacher evening powerpoint here:
Meet the teacher eve presentation_2019
P.E:
P.E in Year 2 comprises of a session on a Monday afternoon with Mrs Cook, and a second session on a Tuesday afternoon. Please make sure your child has a named P.E kit in school on a daily basis and suitable clothing and footwear for outdoor sports. Please make sure that children have jogging bottoms in school for winter months. Girls should have their hair tied up for P.E. or have a suitable hairband in school.
Topic:
Our first Topic of the year is “There’s no business like show business” where we will focus on Shakespeare and some of his plays. We will be spending a few weeks designing and making our own theatre.
Homework:
Our Learning Logs go home on a Thursday and are due back in the following Tuesday. All of these are used to reinforce or consolidate learning in school. There will be a maths or English worksheet on a weekly basis that will be sent home in bookbags.
Here are the activities for summer term 2:
Year-2-Learning-Log-Showbusiness-autumnterm1_2019
These are the spellings to practise at home for this half term as well as ones for future terms:
Autumn term 1 spellings sky classes
Autumn term 2 spellings sky classes
Spring term 1 spellings sky classes
Spring term 2 spellings sky classes
Here is the list of year 2 common exception words:
T-L-5469-Common-Exception-Words-Assessment-Year-2_ver_3
Here is the list of the levels and tables learnt for Cracking Times Tables:Cracking_Times_Tables_Pyramid
Here are some useful prompt questions that are worth asking about the reading book your child is reading: betterreaders
Also, here are some questions that we think are good:
Questionsforparents_readingevening
Here is some information about the structure of year 2:
Timetable:
Each day there is an English and maths lesson. Once a week the classes have an extended writing session called Big Write. They write for half an hour based on a writing stimulus. The children work hard to try to meet their personalised targets so that they can improve their writing.
On a Monday Y2 have a music lesson and they learn to play the recorder with Mrs Law. Once a week there is an R.E lesson or Circle Time session. Twice a week science lessons are taught and twice a week the classes have a topic lesson. We also have one computing lesson a week.
Outdoor Learning:
We provide the children with a range of regular outdoor learning opportunities as part of our curriculum. The children will also receive a Forest School session on a half termly rota basis with Mrs Roads our Forest Schools expert. Please make sure that your child has a pair of named wellies in school. They will be kept on our welly racks outside.
Class rules and behaviour:
In September the children will discuss and draw up our class rules so that they all agree on them.
Each Friday the class have Golden Time for half an hour and they choose from different activities each week. If they do not follow the Golden Rules during the course of the week then they might lose some Golden Time in 2 minute increments.
Monitors:
Each week the children take it in turns to be monitors around school and support the adults with jobs that need doing. They are register monitors, playground buddies, fruit monitors, assembly monitors, cloakroom monitors and a bell monitor. The children love doing the jobs and it supports their sense of responsibility and community.
