Belmont Primary School

Year Two Notice Board

Books we are reading in class this term include:

We`re Sailing to Galapagos (Paperback) The Magic Finger

24.04.24

Please can you send your child in with a non-coloured glue stick if they do not already have one in school. Thank you.

PSHE and Relationships learning

This term we are teaching PSHE and Relationships learning. Below is an outline of the areas covered in the Year 2 curriculum for the Relationships module.

Relationships and Sex Education (RSE)

Summer 1: Relationships

Taught Knowledge:

Know that there are lots of forms of physical contact within a family
Know how to stay stop if someone is hurting them
Know there are good secrets and worry secrets and why it is important to share worry secrets
Know what trust is
Know that everyone’s family is different
Know that families function well when there is trust, respect, care, love and co-operation
Know some reasons why friends have conflicts
Know that friendships have ups and downs and sometimes change with time
Know how to use the Mending Friendships or Solve it together problem-solving methods

If you have any questions, please contact your child’s class teacher.

Reading Records - Just a reminder that reading records should be returned to school every Monday with a comment about how your child has read in the past week. This is so the reading records can be checked and a new reading book can be given. We also give out the reading for pleasure/sharing books on Mondays, so these books also need to be brought to school along with the reading records.

Notices

This noticeboard will be updated on Wednesday afternoons to keep you updated with life in Year 2 and with homework.

The Year 2 team are:

Apricots - Mr McDonnell, Mrs Abu Zohra and Mrs Skinner (Fridays only)

Damsons - Miss Breen, Mrs Donnelly and Miss Porter.

Reading

Reading for Pleasure - Sharing books for class
As part of our focus on reading in school, we would like to develop the lending library of books within each class. This will enable the children to foster a passion and love of reading at Belmont and ensure that they have access to high quality texts.
Please find links to two book lists that have a variety of books that we would love to have in class. Once a book has been donated to the class we will add a tick to show we now have it. Please check the list to ensure that the book that you would like to donate is one that we don't already have.
These books will be stamped to show who has generously donated them and shared with all the class.

The books come from the Recommended Books for Year Two List which can be found here

Apricots list (updated 17.11.23)

Thank you for the books donated so far.

Damsons list

Water and Snacks

Please ensure that your child has a named water bottle in school every day. Fruit will be offered to the children every morning at playtime (10.15am). Your child is allowed to bring in their own healthy snack to eat at playtime. Please remember we are a nut-free school.

Summer Topic

Our topic this term is called 'Water Water Everywhere' and we will be learning about water, oceans and the creatures that live there. We will be looking in particular at the Galapagos Islands.

Year 2 Summer Learning Tree

The below list is part of an initiative called Word Aware that we are using in school. We thought it would be helpful to share this list with you so that you can use some of these words at home when discussing the topic. If your child speaks a different language at home, it would be helpful to discuss and translate these words using your home language. We may add to this list during the topic as new words are introduced.

Word Aware - Water, Water Everywhere - Summer 2024

Home Learning

Each Year 2 child will bring home a CGP KS1 English - Grammar, Punctuation & Spelling Homework Book. Details on which task to complete will appear below and these books need to be returned each Wednesday to be marked in class. Do not let your child complete all of the tasks in these books, we will set work linked to what we teach in class where possible and we will be assigning tasks each week therefore the book will not be completed in page order.

Maths home learning for each week will be set on Google Classroom and the grammar home learning details will be listed in the Home Learning table below.

Books for Year 2

Here is a list of 50 books that are recommended reads for Year 2.

50 Reads for Year 2

Handwriting sheets (to print off at home)

Handwriting cursive alphabet

Handwriting cursive days of the week

Handwriting cursive Y2 words

Calendar/ Key dates

School Diary

Home Learning timetable

Please see the table below for details of the home learning tasks.

Reading

15 minutes daily.

Please return reading records every Monday to let us see how your child is getting on and to let the children get new reading books. Make sure that the adult records a comment to say how the reading has gone.

Children will take a school library book to read at home for pleasure. Please return these on your child's class library day so that they can choose a new book.

Spellings

This week's spellings are words which follow the rule of adding 'es' to the singular word spelling for words ending in ch/sh/s/zz/x. We will test these in school on Monday 29th April.

bus

buses

fox

foxes

buzz

buzzes

wish

wishes

pitch

pitches

march

marches

The link below has the Common Exception Words for KS1 if you would like some extra spellings to practise at home.

Common Exception Words Y1 & Y2

Times-tables

Times Table Challenges can be printed here.

CGP KS1 English - Grammar, Punctuation & Spelling Homework Book

Please complete pages 18 and 19 only (Commas in Lists) for Wednesday 1st May.

Grammar books must be brought to school every Wednesday for marking.

Please ensure that no other pages are completed, other than the ones we set each week for homework.

Maths

Maths homework has been set this week. Please refer to Google Classroom.

Please check Google Classroom every Wednesday afternoon for details of the maths task that has been set. No homework is set during holidays.

Here is a link to our calculation policy. Please refer to this when you are working with your child at home.

Creative Home Learning Project

See Google Classroom

General Routine Information

Monday	Spellings Indoor PE (Damsons and Apricots)	We complete our weekly spellings. Please return reading records and Reading for Pleasure books. Apricots & Damsons need to come to school in a full Belmont PE kit that is labelled.
Tuesday
Wednesday	Library (Damsons)	Both classes to bring in CGP grammar books for marking homework. Damsons should bring in their library books.
Thursday	Library (Apricots)	Apricots should bring in their library books.
Friday	Times-Table Challenge Outdoor PE (Damsons & Apricots)	We will begin to complete our weekly times tables challenge after October half term . Apricots & Damsons need to come to school in a full Belmont PE kit that is labelled.

For further information about Home Learning and ideas on how to support your child please click here.

Common Exception Words - these are the words to read and spell by the end of Y2

CEW Y1 List & Y2 List

Learning this week:
English	The Magic Finger
Maths	Fractions
Learning next week:
English	The Magic Finger
Maths	Fractions

Class Reps

Our class reps are:

BHSA Apricots: Ester and Teresa

BHSA Damsons: Vaida