WELCOME TO YEAR 2

Year 2 staff

2H

Teacher

Mrs Harvey

Teaching Assistant

Miss Price (Monday, Tuesday and Friday)

Miss Pontone (Wednesday and Thursday)

2S

Teacher

Mr Seymour

Teaching Assistant

Miss Alderson (Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday)

Miss Griffiths (Thursday and Friday)

Important dates

We shall add to this section as and when it is appropriate. 

Please keep an eye out on ParentMail throughout the year for various reminders of key events and dates.

Thank you.

Current situation

Children will be at home.

Each day we will provide home learning activities on J2e.

1 Literacy based activity and 1 Maths activity.

There will also be a daily video introducing the challenges.

Feedback will be provided via the speech bubble function on J2e.

Return to school date - To be confirmed

We will of course inform you via ParentMail if any of this information changes.

Year 2 Fun Run for Shelter Cymru

Congratulations to everyone! You raised an amazing £433.89 for Shelter Cymru to help homeless people in Wales. What a brilliant effort from all of the children who planned and organised this themselves!

Some helpful websites

Hwb

Children can access their home learning and homework on this website.

Once you have logged in please click on J2e to access your work.

Don't forget children can use J2Blast to help learn their spellings too!

Please email your class teacher if you need your log in details.

https://hwb.gov.wales/

Purple Mash

We won't set any home learning on this website but the children can explore this website at their leisure. 

Please email your class teacher if you need your log in details.

https://www.purplemash.com/sch/ton-yr-ywen

Bug Club E-books

Just before October half term, our school purchased a new home reading tool called 'Bug Club'. This is a fun and interactive tool to support your child's reading. Recently, your child should have brought home a letter with their login details. Each week your child will be allocated some e-books to read at home as and when they can.  Allocated books will match the book band level your child is currently working on and reading in school. When your child is reading a book on Bug Club, please encourage them to look out for the bug icon throughout the book. Each time they click on this icon they will be asked a question about the book. This is an important part of reading. Sometimes a book will have numerous bug icons to click on so keep an eye out for as many as you can! Please email your class teacher if you need your log in details.

https://www.activelearnprimary.co.uk/login?c=0 

Oxford Owls E-books

If you are looking for even more e-books then why not visit the Oxford Owls website.

Lots of you signed up to this website during Year 1.

You may wish to continue using this as it is a wonderful resource.

It shouldn't take you too long to create an account if you haven't already done so.

Please note there are only a limited selection of books for free now however they are still great fun to read!

If you are not sure what book band is appropriate for your child then please email your class teacher.

https://www.oxfordowl.co.uk/for-home/find-a-book/library-page/

Topmarks Maths games

Topmarks is a great website which helps reinforce different areas of Maths. 

We will keep adding to this list as and when it is appropriate.

100 square

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/learning-to-count/paint-the-squares

Doubling numbers

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/hit-the-button

Addition and Subtraction Fact Families

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/number-facts/number-fact-families

Place Value Charts

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/place-value/place-value-charts

Place Value Basketball

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/learning-to-count/place-value-basketball

Halving numbers

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/hit-the-button

Money - Finding totals

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/money/toy-shop-money

Symmetry

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/symmetry/symmetry-sorting

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/symmetry/symmetry-matching

Money - Ordering prices

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/ordering-and-sequencing/coconut-ordering

Drop off and Pick up arrangements

School starts at 8:45am

School finishes at 3:20pm

Please drop off AND pick up from the Infant playground.

Please remember to socially distance on the playground.

Snack

This year we are asking all children in Years 2 to 6 to bring in their own healthy snack each day.

Please make sure their are no nuts or nut based products in your child's lunchbox or snack.

If your child has grapes, we would be very grateful if your could chop them in half.

Many thanks for all your cooperation.

:-)

Topic

Our current topic is

'Making Waves'

We will be learning about sea creatures, pirates, the seaside and many many more areas.

Pupil voice will play a big part in what direction this topic goes!

We will provide more information about this topic throughout.

We will explore this topic for most of the Autumn term.

:-)

Outdoor clothing

If possible, we would be very grateful if your child has access to weather appropriate shoes and clothing in school throughout the year.

E.g. Wellies, waterproof trousers and a warm raincoat.

We do not expect anyone to go and buy waterproof clothing specifically for this though!

Any clothing can stay on your child’s peg or on the wellie stand.

Many thanks! 

:-)

PE

Year 2 will have PE on a FRIDAY.

This year we are asking all children to come to school wearing their PE kit.

Therefore, please can your child wear their PE to school every Friday.

Children can wear a school jumper or cardigan over their PE kit if they are cold.

Any changes, we will inform you via ParentMail.

For more information about Year 2, please see the PowerPoint below.