Dear parents, This week in Literacy the children have been learning about alliteration and rhyme and have tried to write some lines of poetry of themselves. We have also been talking about the features of a non-fiction text, such as headings, photos, captions, labels, glossary, contents and index. Please make sure to discuss these with your child, when […]
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Thank you dear parents and families for your generosity with your Harvest Donations over the past few weeks. Victoria and Sonia, who are volunteers from Chipping Barnet Foodbank came to collect our offerings. Chipping Barnet Foodbank is part of The Trussell Trust’s network of 428 foodbanks, working to tackle food poverty and hunger in our […]
Read MoreYear 2 Weekly Update – 15/10/21
Dear parents, This week in Literacy the children have been introduced to some tongue twisters. They have been discussing what makes a poem a poem and have identified the features of a poem. We have been talking about how to learn a poem and how to perform one and the children have been trying to learn and perform […]
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Dear Parents, Please find attached information about the separate KS1 and KS2 reading challenges for this year. The children have been informed about them in their assemblies today. The past two challenges have been immensely popular, so we hope that this year’s challenge will have the same success. Many thanks for your ongoing support with […]
Read MoreYear 2 Weekly Update – 01/10/21
Dear parents, This week in Literacy the children have been learning to retell the story of the Lighthouse Keeper’s Lunch both orally and in writing. They have also been learning about our key reading skills – prediction, inference, retrieval, vocabulary and sequencing and trying to apply these skills when looking at the Lighthouse Keeper’s Lunch. In Maths the […]
Read MoreYear 2 Weekly Update – 24/09/21
Dear parents, This week in literacy we have been writing about our real-life experiences from our seaside trip and we have been learning about how a story is structured, by talking about story mountains. In Maths we have begun learning how to read numerals and words up to 100 and we have been trying to represent […]
Read MoreYear 2 Curriculum Meeting Slides 2021/22
Please find attached below the slides to the Curriculum meeting: Y2 Curriculum meeting – 2021-2022 Curriculum Meeting – 2021-22
Read MoreYear 2 Weekly Update – 17/09/21
Dear parents, This week in literacy we have been learning to use commas in lists and we have been learning new vocabulary related to the seaside, following our lovely seaside visit. In Maths we have begun looking at how many tens and ones there are in numbers up to 50. In RSHE we have been learning […]
Read MoreYear 2 Weekly Update – 10/09/21
Dear parents, It has been wonderful welcoming your children into Year 2. They are a fantastic group of children and we have really enjoyed teaching them for this first week back. In literacy we have begun our topic of ‘Beachcombers’ by introducing the children to the story ‘The Lighthouse Keeper’s Lunch’. The children have been […]
Read MoreYear 2 Weekly Update – 16/07/21
Dear Parents, The Year 2 teachers would like to thank you for all of your support this academic year. We have thoroughly enjoyed teaching your children and watching them flourish. This is our final weekly email where you will find your child’s home learning and learning for next week. Next week, the children will be […]
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