Category: Year 2 – St Teresa of Calcutta

It was lovely to meet with so many of you again this morning.  Below, you will find notes from the meeting, along with a curriculum overview for the term. 

As ever, please do come and speak with me if you have any queries at all.  Emma Hayes

We had fun on Wednesday making a shape for our tropical fruit as part of our St Lucia topic in geography. It involved getting very messy as we designed a papier mache shape of our fruit. We followed that on Thursday with a science experiment where we are testing the conditions needed for a seed to germinate. Good luck to everyone at Sports Day on Monday, don’t forget to come in your PE kit.

Well done to Year 2 for a great assembly. The children worked very hard in preparation and weren’t phased by having to split the rehearsals over 2 weeks. I was extremely proud of them and we hope all the parents, grandparents and carers who were able to come enjoyed it.

Well done to Year 2 for completing their SATs with a minimum of fuss and, dare we say, enthusiasm!  All the children have worked very hard and deserve their break. With this in mind we have not set any homework for the holidays but would still encourage the children to keep reading and if you want to practise maths then use the Sumdog website.

We would also like to say thank you to the PTA for delivering us ice lollies today 🙂

It hasn’t all been tests however, as this photo gallery demonstrates!

Have a great half-term 🙂

Have a lovely, relaxing holiday. Thanks again to Mrs McAndrew, Mr Pearman, Mrs Alexander,  Mrs Vazquez, Mrs Brennan and Mrs Cox for helping us make such amazing habitats to finish off our science topic.

Please note Wednesday will be the last day for changing reading  books for the holiday. The children can have up to 5 books but must bring in any current books with a signed reading record.

Further to the homework email earlier, we forgot to give out the homework folders today which of course have the MyMaths login details inside. I’m very sorry for this, the children will have to collect their folders on Monday. The homework is designed for the holidays so there is nothing that has to be completed for next week, we were just trying to get a head start on it but best laid plans…

The children have received their MyMaths instructions today, you should find a letter in their homework folder. I have set them up with a Year 2 booster pack, which includes over 40 different activities. You are not expected to do them all, but just to choose those ones where you feel you need to practise the most. In particular it would be good to look at 2D and 3D shape and fractions as we will be covering these after the holiday and it would give a head start.

I will also set a holiday reading task next week.

Next Wednesday will be the last time for changing books before the holiday, the children can choose up to 5 books and need to also have their reading record with them.

Finally, thank you to those parents who have volunteered to help with our ‘habitats’ day next Wednesday afternoon. We still need more helpers so if you can spare the afternoon please let the office know. It’s a fun afternoon where you can work closely with the children on a project they really enjoy doing.

Thanks to all those who attended the SATs meeting last night, I  hope you found it useful. Confirmation of the ‘maths methods’ evening will be sent out shortly.