Welcome to a new term! The year 2’s have hit the ground running and made a great start to the school year.

We look forward to seeing you all at the Curriculum Sharing session, which will take place on Tuesday (10th) at 6pm. A link will be sent to you so you can access the online session.

On Wednesday, Miss Jones’ class will be swimming. Please make sure children are prepared with their swim kit.

This term, Miss Jones’ class will have forest camp every Thursday afternoon. This week it will be the Owls. Please make sure children are prepared with their forest camp kit and wellies. After half-term, Mrs Skidmore and Miss Keski’s class will have their turn.

This week the children will be settling down to the new routines in Year 2. There will be short phonics groups and longer literacy sessions where the children will be learning about adjectives, similes and poetic language from a story called The Colour Monster. If you would like to share the story with them, here is a link BBC iPlayer – CBeebies Bedtime Stories – 856. Amy Dowden – The Colour Monster

Maths will be some revision and practical work on place value with numbers up 100. The key vocabulary that we will be using is tens, units, hundreds, smallest, biggest, numeral, total, multiple, more than, less than. If your child fancies recapping this at home (and earning a few team points along the way!), have a look at this link. Place value – Year 2 Maths – BBC Bitesize There are explanations and activities to try. Do let us know if your child had a go at home and we will be sure to award them some team points.

We will be starting a new history topic all about The Great Fire of London and learning about different seeds and how they grow in Science.

Please make sure children have their reading books in their book bags each day so that we can hear them read their books at any point during the week.

Thank you,

The Year 2 Team