Sky
Sky (Year 2)
Summer Term 2
Eco Warriors!
This half term, our Topic is ‘Eco Warriors’. We will be looking at environmental issues and, of course, solutions! Below is a link to the Topic Web outlining what we will be covering this half term: activities include recycling hay from Mrs Road’s farm to make scarecrows for the ‘Haddenham Scarecrow Competition’ and entering a further competition run by Aylesbury Vale and BBOWT on biodiversity issues.
Learning Logs:
Below, you will find the learning log activities. If you would like to support your children at home, these activities have been provided for that purpose but there is certainly no pressure to complete them. The objectives are linked to the work covered in class during the half term. Your child’s Learning Log will be sent home during the first week back. Please keep it at home and return it in the last week before the May half term so we can quarantine, mark and send back home again. Here are the tasks for this half term.
WOW Day:
This term we shall be having our Wow Day on Monday 7th June. You don’t need to provide anything for this or dress up. We shall be doing lots of practical activities around our ‘Eco Warrior’ topic, including recycling hay from Mrs Road’s farm to make Scarecrows for the Haddenham Scarecrow Competition. Look out for our scarecrows in the village from June 8th until Midsummer’s Day on June 21st!
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.
There is also an R.E lesson or a Music lesson every other week and this term, owing to the unique circumstances, we will have two PSHE (Personal, Social and Health and Economic education) sessions, in order to allow time to focus on Wellbeing. 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.
This half term, Sky 1 will be having PE on a Tuesday afternoon and Sky 2 will be having their lesson on a Tuesday afternoon. Children will continue to come in to school dressed in their PE kits. Long hair should be tied up for P.E.
Outdoor Learning:
Although we won’t be running Forest School sessions this term, we will be outside as much as possible and will provide the children with a range of regular outdoor learning opportunities as part of our curriculum. Please make sure that your child has a pair of named wellies in school. They will be kept on our welly racks outside.
Reading
Owing to Coronavirus Health and Safety recommendations, we need to limit the frequency of items going in and out of school and will not be able to change books throughout the week. Therefore children will bring home reading books each Thursday and will need to return the finished books along with their Reading Record on a Tuesday.
We have sent home a login for your child to access a wider range of e-books on the Oxford Owl website (see below), along with details of the letters and sounds phase your child is working at so you can read more books online if you would like to.
Each child will also have a reading book in school kept in a separate folder to read regularly to an adult.
Spellings
We have now gone over all the Year 2 ‘Common Exception Words’. Please recap them all with your children. We will continue to practise these in school as well.
Year 2 ‘Common Exception Words’
Times Tables
The children are working really hard to pass levels of ‘Cracking Times Tables’
When the children return to school, we will carry out a weekly Times Tables test once a week. Certificates will be given out weekly.
Class rules and behaviour
In September, the children helped to create their class rules and we all work hard to follow these.
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.
Please do not hesitate to email us if you have any questions or any concerns.
With best wishes from the Sky Team,
Alice Gilbert Scott, Anna Allison and Emily Roads
sky1@haddenham-st-marys.bucks.sch.uk
sky2@haddenham-st-marys.bucks.sch.uk
