Year Two Notice Board
Books we are reading in class this term include:
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Thank you for the shoe boxes sent in so far for our DT. We are still happy to accept more if you have any others to send in.
06.12.23
- Please note that the spellings for next week have been added below.
- As we are now into Winter term can you please ensure that your child comes to school with a warm coat each day.
- 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.
- Head lice- A case of head lice was previously reported in Year 2. Please ensure to check your child's hair regularly to prevent any further incidences.
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.
Autumn Topic
Our topic this term is called 'I Love London' and we will be learning about some key historical events in London's history and we will be comparing London to another major city, New York.
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 - I Love London - Autumn 2023
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.
Handwriting sheets (to print off at home)
Handwriting cursive days of the week
Calendar/ Key dates
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. |
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Spellings |
The spellings for next week's test, on Monday 11th December, are more words containing the /ee/ sound but spelt with different graphemes.
The link below has the Common Exception Words for KS1 if you would like some extra spellings to practise at home. |
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Times-tables |
Times Table Challenges can be printed here. |
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CGP KS1 English - Grammar, Punctuation & Spelling Homework Book |
Please complete page 17 only (Question Marks and Exclamation Marks) in your CGP Grammar Book for this week's grammar homework. We will mark this in class on Wednesday 13th December.
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. |
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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. |
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Creative Home Learning Project |
See Google Classroom |
General Routine Information
Monday |
Spellings
Indoor PE (Damsons and Apricots) |
We complete our weekly spellings.
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. |
Thursday |
Library (Apricots) |
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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
Learning this week: | |
English |
Grammar and Comprehension |
Maths |
Shape |
Learning after half term: | |
English | Grammar and Comprehension |
Maths | Shape |
Class Reps
Our class reps are:
BHSA Apricots: Ester and Teresa
BHSA Damsons: Vaida