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Books we are reading in class this term include: 

 

       A Bear Called Paddington  

 

   

      

Notices 2.12.24

 

Notice for Damsons parents/carers

We would like to apologise for not being able to give out Little Wandle reading books/eBooks over the past week or so. Assigning these to the correct children takes a lot of time and in the absence of the class teacher this has not been an easy task to coordinate due to log in rights, etc. Beginning next week the children will be allocated books and, for the time being, we will only be sending these as eBooks to all children.

Please return your shared 'Reading for Pleasure' books and Reading Record books on Mondays as usual and these will be changed.

In the absence of Miss Breen during the coming weeks, Mr Guy will be working in Damsons class alongside the TAs and we hope that having a familiar face will help the children have a settled end to this term.

Thank you for your understanding,

Mr Powell

KS1 Phase Leader

 

It is consistently chilly now so please remember to send your child in with a coat! We will still be going out for Gardening lessons even if it is cold. 

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

Home School Partnership Evening -  Please see a link below for the slides used at this year's Home School Partnership on Wednesday (25th September).

Year 2 - Home School Partnership Evening

Glue sticks - Please send a non-coloured glue stick in for your child to use if you have not already done so.  Thank you.

Water Bottles - Please ensure that your child brings a named water bottle to school with them each day so that they can hydrate regularly throughout the day.
Playtime Snacks - If your child is bringing a snack in for playtime, please ensure that it is a healthy snack. No food containing nuts or traces of nuts should be brought in.
Teachers:
Apricots - Mr McDonnell
Damsons - Miss Breen 
Support Staff
Apricots - Mrs Donnelly and Miss Porter
Damsons - Mrs Shrayev, Ms. Aroldoss-Murugan and Mrs Smith

 

Reading for Pleasure

As part of our continued focus on reading in school, we would like to continue 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 the book list that has 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 2 List which can be found below.

Year 2 Recommended Book List

 

Apricots class list for books already bought below: Updated 18.10.24

 

Reading Records - once they have been given out, 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 allocated or 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. Please note that some children will be bringing home a physical copy of the book, wherever possible and others will be issued an ebook. 

Autumn Topic 

Our topic this term is called 'I Love London' and we will be learning about The Great Fire of London and also looking at famous landmarks in the city. We will then use the city of New York to compare.

Year 2 Autumn 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 - I Love London - Autumn 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

Please practise the below spellings for Monday 9th December. They are words containing the /ay/ sound but spelt using different graphemes - 'ai', 'ay' and 'a_e'

 

claim
drain
train
clay
spray
astray
name
shake
plate
space

  

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

 

 

Times-tables 

Times Table Challenges can be printed here.

CGP KS1 English - Grammar, Punctuation & Spelling Homework Book

Please complete Page 11 (Using 'when', 'if', 'that' and 'because') for next week. Please ensure that no other pages are completed, other than the ones we set each week for homework. This homework is due in next week, on Wednesday 11th December. 

 

Please note that we will be marking Page 10 this Wednesday (4th December).

 

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

 

Maths

Maths homework - see Google Classroom.

 

Please check Google Classroom every Monday 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 for Autumn Creative Home Learning

 

General Routine Information

Monday

Spellings

 

 

We complete our weekly spellings.

 

Please return reading records and Reading for Pleasure books. 

 

Tuesday

Damsons Gardening Lesson

 

Outdoor PE (Damsons & Apricots)

Apricots & Damsons need to come to school in a full Belmont PE kit that is labelled.
Wednesday

Apricots Gardening Lesson

 

Indoor PE (Damsons and Apricots)

Apricots & Damsons need to come to school in a full Belmont PE kit that is labelled.

 

 

Both classes to bring in CGP grammar books for marking homework.

 

Thursday

Library (Apricots and Damsons)

Apricots and Damsons should bring in their library books. 

Friday

Times-Table Challenge

 

 

We will begin to complete our weekly times tables challenge after October half term

 

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

Spelling, Punctuation and Grammar (SPaG)

Maths

Shape

Learning next week:
English SPaG and Reading Comprehension
Maths Shape

 

Class Reps

Our class reps are:

BHSA Apricots: Michelle & Joe

BHSA Damsons: Luciana, Ariane, Despoina & Marija