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Immanuel and St.

Andrew CE Primary School


Year 2 Class Bulletin
Term 1 September 2010

Dear Parents / Carers,


I hope you all had a fun and relaxing summer break! We have had a
very good first week back. The class have got off to a great start and
are learning the new routines. I have been really impressed with
excellent behaviour from everyone!
Thank you for your feedback about the homework I have decided to
try and have a flexible system with two options and see how it works
and whether it is manageable! Please see the details below.
As I mentioned last week, if you have any questions, queries or
concerns, please do contact me.
Jaynean Parks jparks@immanuelschoollambeth.org.uk.

Homework
Please choose the
Reading Books
option that suits you
I would ask that children continue to bring their
book bags to school on a daily basis. Option 1 – Handed out on Monday,
returned on Friday
Books from the school reading scheme will be
Option 2 – Handed out on Monday,
changed weekly on Tuesdays.
returned on the following Monday.
Please continue to listen to your child read on a (If many parents choose this option
daily basis, question them about the book and sign I will need to hand out the new
the reading journal. homework on Tuesday to allow time
Talking about the book and reading to your child, for marking. If there are only a few
as well as them reading to you, really helps of you who would like the weekend
children to understand the structure of stories then I will be able to mark it on
and is a great help with developing their writing Monday hand the new homework out
style. We will also be doing this as part of many on the same day)
literacy units as a lot of their writing will be based Please bear with me if we need to
on particular story books. tweak the system!
Class Novel The class novel that we will be
starting this term is The Magic Faraway Tree. P.E. Information

Important Dates
Indoor PE will be on Monday
afternoons. Kit required: plimsolls,
navy shorts and pale blue t-shirt.

Outdoor PE will be on Friday


afternoons. Kit required: trainers or
23rd September Year 2 Assembly –
plimsolls, navy shorts and pale blue
t-shirt.
10:40 am

30th September International evening


Immanuel and St. Andrew CE Primary School
Year 2 Class Bulletin
Term 1 September 2010

Phonics and Spellings Literacy In literacy we have begun work on


This year children across KS1 have been a narrative writing unit. We have read the
split up into phonics groups to best suit story of Beegu and are beginning to learn
their current phonics understanding. This the story so that the children can write
means that some children will go to their own versions of the story. We will be
another class every morning for the focusing on writing sentences using
phonics lesson and their spellings will be punctuation correctly. We will also be
set by their phonics teacher. working on adding descriptive detail to
writing in this unit and throughout the year.
Spelling tests across KS1 will be on
This term we will also be do a unit on
Fridays during the phonics lesson. The
instructions which will be linked to our topic
children’s spelling results will be noted in
work.
their homework books.
Numeracy By the end of Year 2 children
are expected to be able to recall all addition
PSHCE – New Beginnings and subtraction facts for each number to at
Children will learn to see themselves as least 10, all pairs with totals to 20 and all
valued individuals within a community. pairs of multiples of 10 with totals up to
They will share ideas about how to create 100. Many children in the class are at
a welcoming, safe and fair learning different stages of knowing these facts so
environment. if they are already secure with these then I
will be challenging them with larger
R.E. – Amazing People from the
calculations.
Bible
I would be very grateful if you could
R.E. will be taught by Mrs Atkinson who regularly support your child with learning
will be teaching the class on Thursdays all number facts with the total of 10 or
during my PPA time. Children will primarily less e.g. 2 + 5, 6 +3, 8 + 2 etc. This is
be learning about the story of David and so important as it provides them with an
will also explore a few other people from excellent and necessary grounding. Their
the Bible who they think are amazing. confidence with these facts will allow
P.E. them to make links with larger mental
Outdoor - Children will learn a variety of calculations such as 20 + 50 or 60 + 30
skills to help them with ball games. They when they are ready for this.
will learn how to send a range of objects This term we will be covering the topics of
using a pulling, slinging and pushing action. place value, addition, subtraction, shape and
They will play competitively in a small tag money
game and select different ways of finding Topic – Movers and Shakers!
space & avoiding the ball. This topic will explore amazing people. We
Indoor – Dance. The children will begin to will look at significant people from long ago
learn to perform body actions with control and nowadays, how our bodies are amazing
and co-ordination. They will learn how to (health and growth), and how artists through
choose movements with different qualities the ages have drawn people and portraits.
to express mood and feelings and repeat We will be using ICT throughout this topic
and perform short dances. to do research and present work.

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