Sky
Sky (Year 2)
Autumn Term 1
“There’s no business like show business!”
Parent Information Video:
This half term, our Topic is “There’s no business like show business”! It is a fantastic topic to kick off all the fun we will have in Year 2! Below is a link to the ‘Topic Web’:
Learning Logs:
Below is a list of the ‘Learning Log’ (homework) tasks for this half term. Your child’s ‘Learning Log’ will be sent home on a Thursday, (commencing Thurs 2 September), and should be returned for marking each Monday if you and your child choose to do a task.
Worksheets – Maths and English
There is a Maths or English worksheet based on what the children have learnt during the week available should you (and / or!) your child wish to do this: just click on the links below. These links will be updated with new worksheets every Tuesday. If your child completes the worksheet – as with the Learning Logs and Reading Books – please ask him/her to take responsibility for handing it in, although we will obviously remind the children from time to time. We would like the children to take on more responsibility this year than in previous years in preparation for their move to KS2. Thank you!
W/C 13/09/21
W/C 20/09/21
This week in maths we have been revising counting in 2s, 5s, 10s and applying them in our maths. There are two activities to choose from: either practising counting up in 2s, 5s and 10s and problem solving with them.
Count in 2s, 5s and 10s – Activity Cards
W/C 27/09/21
Last week Sky classes have been learning about ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ in English and wrote some a character profile. Please can they select a different character, select appropriate adjectives from the word bank (or select their own) and write a character profile.
W/C 04/10/21
Sky classes have been learning how to use different strategies to add this week. This week’s homework allows them to practise their addition fluency by adding single digit to two digit numbers.
Adding 1 digit to 2 digit numbers
WOW Day:
Our ‘Wow Day’ is on Friday 3rd September: this is a day in which we introduce our topic for the half term and generate your child’s enthusiasm and see what interests the class about it. You don’t need to provide anything for this day or to dress up this half term. Among other activities, we will be: making a pop up theatre; performing in front of the class; discussing the effects of Covid on theatres; going on virtual tours of theatres around the world and thinking various plays and playwrights, including Shakespeare.
Timetable:
There is an English, Phonics and Maths lesson each day. Once a week the classes have an extended writing session called ‘Big Write’ where they will write independently. The children are set personalised writing targets to achieve.
Each week, we also study an aspect of Geography or History in ‘Topic’, as well as Science, Music, R.E, I.T. and PSHE (Personal, Social and Health and Economic education): the well being and development every individual child is always foremost in our minds.
Forest School:
As you have hopefully seen first hand, we have fantastic outdoor learning facilties at HSM and this academic year, Sky classes will be doing ‘Forest School’ during the Autumn Term. These FS sessions will be on Tuesdays for both Sky 1 and Sky 2 and children should come into school wearing appropriate clothing.
We also incorporate 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.
PE:
This year, Sky will have PE twice a week and children should come into school wearing their PE kit, (or clothing suitable for PE).
Sky 1 will have PE on Tuesdays and Fridays and Sky 2 on Tuesdays and Thursdays. Please note that in Sky, children will have both PE and Forest School on Tuesdays, so they will need to come into school wearing clothes appropriate for both activities – no changing will take place in school.
Reading
We are keen for the children to love reading and to practise at home on a daily basis if possible. Your child will be provided with a ‘Reading Record’ and some lovely books to read on Monday 6th September. Please make sure the children bring both their ‘Reading Record’ and reading books in with their book bags_every day_to enable an adult to hear your child read if an opportunity arises. Each child will be heard to read at least once a week by an adult in the classroom. The children will change their own reading books and can do this whenever a new book(s) are required. They are welcome to take more than one book.
Spellings
Below is a list of the spellings we will be looking at this half term: please practise these at home if you are able to.
Class rules and behaviour
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, Natasha Talbot and Max Williams
