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Welcome to Maple Class

Important messages:
​Homework – The homework will continue as last term with new pieces coming home on a Friday and expected back by Wednesday at the latest. We would expect the children to complete one or two pages on each activity and encourage you to see this as something practical that you can do together eg. researching something together, asking questions, making something, taking photographs. Please ask if you have any questions.

Welcome back to Year 2!

It is a pleasure to welcome you to Maple Class. The children will be taught by Mrs Ambler and Miss Ellis and will be supported by Mrs Golder and Mrs Watts.
 
On this page you will find useful information including important dates, what we have been learning about, messages, reminders about homework tasks and some pictures of our best learning. If you have any questions or would like to talk to us, please speak to any of the team at the gate before or after school and we will be happy to help you. If you aren’t able to catch us then, please write a note in your child’s reading record book. Alternatively, you can make an appointment at the school office.
Our current value is:
Hope
We have another busy term ahead of us. Some of our learning will include :

Literacy – poems and stories about stars, non-fiction writing about music, stories by Anthony Brown, instruction writing

Numeracy – number, place value, addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, length, shape, money, capacity, position, fractions

Science – materials, plants

History – Amazing Women
 
Geography – The Weather

Music – Charanga – I Wanna Play in a Band

Art – Let’s Sculpt
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DT –Pirate lunchboxes

Computing – coding using Purple Mash, search engines and website navigation, branching databases, programming

PSHE – conflict resolution, change and loss, people who can help us, wellbeing and personal hygiene

PE – street dance, gymnastics, outdoor and adventurous activities

RE –Who is an inspiring person? What stories inspire Christian, Muslim and Jewish people? What can we learn from sacred books and stories?



Reading in Year Two

The children take on more responsibility for their own books as they move up a year group. They will be assigned to a specific colour band and will be able to choose from a selection of books from that band. We will encourage them to flick through the pages and read the blurb on the back to help them make their choice. As they read at home, you might like to ask them about what drew that to that particular book? Did it meet their expectation? Why? Why not?

PE

As in year one, the children come to school in their PE kit so that we can maximise the time that they are active. For Maple this is Thursday and Friday.

Library

Within year two we are very lucky to have two dedicated volunteers who help in many ways, including changing the children’s library books on a weekly basis. The children will have the opportunity to change their library books on a Thursday.

School Day

The Year 2 team will open the doors to our classrooms off the main playground at 8:45 to greet the children and the door closes at 8:55 for registration. If you have arrived after this time, you will need to enter the school through the school office. The children will have a morning break at 10:30. Fruit is provided for a snack at morning break, however the children can bring in their own fruit snack if they prefer. The children will have their lunch break at 12:30 and you can choose for your child to receive a free school meal, or you can send them in with a packed lunch. We would like to politely remind you that we are very careful to maintain the safety of the children in our school and are a nut free school, so therefore ask parents and carers to keep snacks and lunches nut free. The children will also have an afternoon break at 2:30.
The end of the day is at 3:30 and the children will be delivered back into your care through the same doors that you dropped them off at. May I politely remind you that if someone different is picking your child up, that you make a member of our team aware, through a written message that is sent with your child, or a message to the school office.
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Ways you can help

  • If you would like to be a parent helper, please contact the school office or a member of Maple Class.
  • Read with your child for 5 – 10 minutes every day.
  • Discuss and question your child on their understanding of their reading books.
  • Ask you child questions about what they have been learning about.
  • Encourage your child to tell you the time.
  • Practise the Year 2 Common Exception Words. 

​Show and Tell - We appreciate that that the children are often keen to bring things in to school to share with the staff and their friends. We have made a decision to do this in the last week of each half term. If the children wish (and with your permission) they may bring in something closely connected with a topic we have worked on recently, a medal or certificate that they have not previously shown or something homemade (a model, collage or similar - rather than simply a drawing). We will remind the children about this the week before.

Children might like to read

  • Books by Emily Gravett.
  • Books by Anne Fine
  • Books by Anthony Browne
  • Information books about their own interests.
  • Information books about nature and animals.
  • Books about our natural world.
  • Bible stories.

Year 2 Common Exception Words

Door, floor, poor, because, find, kind, mind, behind, climb, child, children, wild, most, only, both, old, cold, gold, hold, told, clothes, every, everybody, hour, even, any, many, great, break, steak, pretty, beautiful, after, fast, last, past, father, class, grass, pass, plant, path, bath, busy, move, prove, improve, sure, sugar, could, should, would, eye, people, water, who, whole, again, half, money, parents, Mr, Mrs, Christmas.

Useful Websites

 
You may also like to try some of the maths games found at http://www.ictgames.com/resources.html . Your children are used to using these programmes, however if you need further assistance accessing them online, please speak to a member of the Year 2 team. 
 
 
We look forward to working with you this year, and thank you for your continued support,
 
Mrs Ambler (Class Teacher)
Miss Ellis (Class Teacher)
Mrs Golder (HLTA)
​Mrs Watts (TA)
Have a peek at our learning so far!