More news itemsYear Two Notice Board
Notices
- Our Y2 planters are looking good - thank you for your bulb/seed/soil donations last term.
- Please remember to send in your child's PE kit. A PE kit should be available in school at all times. If your child wears a PE kit for an after school club, then please make sure it is sent back to school.
- Later in the term we will be doing a sewing project. It would be great if you could start practising at home using lacing activities or threading beads. You might also like to YouTube blanket and running stitch and begin to have a go yourself!
- Snacks - the children would appreciate contributions of rice cakes and breadsticks as we have run out.
1. Information for the 2018 KS1 assessments is now available
Information for Y2 Parents 2018
Please view the information video below. It provides details about the tests that pupils take at key stage 1.
More information can be found on the Oxford Owl website.
2. Summer term
We are very lucky to have Mrs Rogers doing her final teaching practice with Apricots this term. She will be with us until the end of June. Our new topic for the summer term is Water, Water Everywhere. The children will be learning water facts, and finding out about the Galapagos Islands and different sea creatures. They will get to make their own hand puppet and we will be off to Bournemouth in June!
3. Handwriting
Here is a copy of our handwriting guidelines. Belmont follows an adapted version of the Nelson scheme. In Year 2, once individual letter formation is accurate, the children are encouraged to start using cursive/joined up writing during lessons.
Belmont Handwriting Guidelines
4. Weekly Home Learning - sent home every Friday
In order to give the children a little extra practise before their assessments in May, we have decided to begin sending home some optional home learning every Friday.
20.4.18 In class we have been looking at subtraction - using both mental strategies and informal written stategies.
Can you work these out in your head?
Mild Hot Spicy
20-14= 24-11= 54-26=
18-10= 36-12= 51-38=
17-11= 58-23= 72-43=
20-13= 45-21= 63-27=
Calendar/ Key dates
Summer term starts Monday 16th April
Letters
Home Learning
Recent and extensive educational research has found that homework for primary aged children has minimal impact unless it reinforces learning and regularly allows children to rehearse and practise skills and facts e.g. times tables and spellings.
Reading
Children are expected to read at home regularly (at least 10 - 15 minutes daily) and to discuss their reading with an adult at home to develop language and comprehension. Reading Record books must be brought into school every Monday to be checked. It may be that the Reading Record is checked more than once during the week. Children are able to change their reading book whenever they need to. Children may also borrow books from the Infant Library. We encourage the children to share their library book with an adult at home as well.
Helping your child with reading 2017-18
Reading with your child in Key Stage 1
Year 2 book recommendation list
Key words/ Spelling
Please practise reading and writing your spellings. Make sure that you know the meaning of each word. There is a Look, Say, Cover, Write, Check sheet below that you can use to help you. Spellings will be tested through a dictation each week. Spelling words will be added below on a Monday and the dictation will take place the following Monday.
This week’s spellings:
This week we are revising suffix words.
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enjoyment |
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movement |
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treatment |
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punishment |
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statement |
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kindness |
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illness |
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greatness |
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sadness |
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happiness |
Number Facts and Times Tables
You can print your child's times tables challenge to practise at home. All children are starting on Level 1. Year 2 will do the times table challenge every Friday and the children will bring home their challenge sheet to share with you.
Creative Home Learning
Learning this week:
English
Reading comprehension mock papers (in preparation for SATs)
Allan Ahlberg - Cops and Robbers (write character descriptions)
Maths
Fractions - create a fraction wall to show equivalent fractions
Find fractions of numbers (1/2, 1/4, 2/4, 3/4, 1/3) and compare fractions (e.g. 1/2 of 12 is greater than 1/4 of 20)
Learning next week:
English
Punctuation and grammar revision (commas for a list, apostrophes for contractions and possession, identifying nouns, identifying verbs and use of subordination to join clauses e.g. when, if & because)
Maths
Revision of place value (tens and ones), addition & subtraction with 2-digit numbers and times tables (x2, x3, x5 and x10)
Year 2 Learning Tree - Autumn
