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Welcome to Sky Classes
We hope you have all had a wonderful half term break and are ready and raring to go! This half term is a busy and exciting one in the lead up to Christmas.
This half term our topic is called ‘A Spark in the Dark.’ This is a light based topic with lots of art opportunities. Below you will find the topic web for this half term. Our topic will kick off with an exciting day of art and DT activities.
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 as last half term. Please ensure that children have jogging bottoms in school for these colder months.
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
Here is the link to the recent Meet the teacher evening and the presentation that we gave: Meet the teacher eve presentation_2018
P.E:
P.E in Year 2 comprises of a session on a Monday afternoon with Sports Factor, 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:
Here is the topic web for you to look at based on our ‘Spark in the dark’ topic. This shows how cross curricular links are made as far as possible:
autumn2_topicweb_sparkindark2018
It is useful to look at to get a flavour of what the children are doing in school.
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.
Year 2 Learning log 2018 sparkinthedar
These are the spellings to practise at home for this half term and the previosu o:
Autumn term 1 spellings sky classes
Autumn 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.
