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Notices
The children have been wonderful doing their SATs booklets so far! They have all demonstrated our learning dispositions of independence, working hard, resilience and self motivation. We hope they are enjoying the mixed up mornings.
Long hair must be tied back for school.
Long hair can be a distraction in lessons. It can also be dangerous in PE lessons as it can prevent the children from being able to see clearly, and could also get caught on the apparatus/equipment.
Our uniform policy states that 'Children with long hair should wear it tied or clipped back for school. Hair accessories should be discreet and ideally in school colours'.
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!
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!
3. Weekly Home Learning - sent home every Friday
We are not sending any more weekly homework. Please focus on Creative Home Learning from now on.
Calendar/ Key dates
May 2018 (SATs - Y2 Assessments)
Monday 21st May - Friday 25th May is Walk to School Week
Half term (28th May- 1st June)
Mon 11th June - Friday 15th June KS1 Phonics Check
Wednesday 13th June - Sports Day
Tuesday 19th June - Day trip to Bournemouth
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:
We have now finished all the Y2 spelling patterns. Please recap the words from previous weeks and the common exception words. The Y3 and Y4 common exception words are attached below if you want to have a sneak preview.
Y1 & Y2 Common Exception Words
Y3 & Y4 Common Exception Words
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
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
Creative Home Learning Summer 2018
Learning this week:
English
Write a non-chronological report about different types of crab (hermit crab, lava crab, vampire crab etc.)
Maths
SATs Maths Paper 2
Learning next week:
English
The Diary of a Killer Cat by Anne Fine
Maths
Number & Statistics
