Good afternoon everyone,

This week in our worship we focused upon the thankful leper from the Gospel of Luke. We learned that when amazing things happen to us, we can often be so excited that we forget to say thank you to Jesus and God. We spent some time focusing upon being present and thankful for the wonderful things we have received. 

English - This week we have continued A River. We have done lots and lots of work on vocabulary and the sentence structures seen in descriptive writing. We then planned and wrote our own setting description for a jungle.

Maths - In Maths we have begun our addition and subtraction unit. We have focused on recalling number bonds, finding related facts and identifying fact families, as well as developing our mental methods for calculating.

Science - In Science we completed an assessment to check all of our learning in our animal growth unit.

RE - We learned about the symbols of baptism and described these. We also explored different artistics depictions of God and discussed these.

Geography - We learned about climate zones and how they relate to the equator and north and south poles.

PE - In our outdoor PE we practised passing and moving with speed. In indoor PE, we continued our dance unit.

Regular Tasks

Please continue to practise counting in 2s, 3s, 5s and 10s and reading the Year 1 and Year 2 common exception words every week. This is so important for our learning!

Times Table Rockstars - You should have all received a login and password for Times Table Rockstars to use at home. Please play this as regularly as possible to improve and develop multiplication speed.

Other Tasks

Spelling Test

Next set of year 2 common exception words, plus revision of previously learned words.

There is also handwriting practise for these words.

There are two groups doing slightly different spellings.

Maths

Fact families worksheet.

Reading

Harvest festival reading comprehension.

 

You do not need to return completed homework to school. It is set so you can see what your child is learning about during the week. However, I am happy to look at any completed work if you want it be checked.

We are all taking our reading quiz and this has given us a book level (known as ZPD). This allows us to give the children reading books which are at the best level for them in regards to both word reading but also their ability to remember and explain what they have read. We will do these reading quizzes at the beginning and end of every half term.

Please read as often as possible at home. It is the most important piece of work you can do with your child to support their learning.

Please ensure that you sign your child’s reading records as they can have a sticker on their book mark for each day that they read to an adult at home. Once the book mark is full the children will receive a certificate. Also Mrs Bowdell will give out a Golden Ticket every third time your child’s record is signed. These will be added to a draw done at the end of the half term with the chance to find a book themed prize. The more tickets you have in the draw, the more chance you have of winning a prize!!

Golden Award -

Writing Award -

Maths Award -

 

Please Remember….

Water bottles - This will come home each night to be cleaned and re-filled. Please ensure your child brings their’s each day especially now it is hotter as we do not have any spares in class.

Earrings - please ensure these are only small gold/silver studs as stated in the uniform policy. Please also make sure earrings are removed at home before PE on Tuesday and Friday. Children wearing them will not be able to take part in PE.

Jewelery - Please do not send your child into school in any jewelery, such as necklaces, bracelets or rings. These can cause upset if they become lost but can also be dangerous on the playground.

Nail Varnish - please ensure any nail varnish is removed for the pupils come into class. It should not be worn at school.

Key Rings - please do not put key rings onto your child’s school bag, it create fuss in class and then upset if they are lost.

School bag - please continue to use the red book bag that your child was given in Reception where possible, we do not have the room to store large bags. Many thanks for your help with this matter.

Tuesday 21.10.25 - Year 2 Parents Meetings - 1.00 - 5.30pm - I will be doing my meetings early due to parental leave. You should receive a link to book a time slot soon.

FRIDAY 24.10.25 - school closes for half term. Children return Tuesday 4.11.25

Please take a look at what the PTFA have planned this term….

Family bingo night: 14th November

Christmas movie nights: KS1 - 28th November, KS2 - 5th December

Christmas Fair: 12th December (after school)

Please click the links below to discover resources for the Catholic life of our school.

 

 

Thank you to all who were able to come and share in our class liturgy on Wednesday. Thank you so much!

Please remember that our last Friday before half term is a TT Rockstars celebration and competition day. Year 2 will be challenging Year 3. 

Please try to have logged on to TT Rockstars before this date to enable your child to take part.

This day is a dress up day so please come to school as either your favourite rockstar or something mathematical!

Have a lovely weekend,

Mr Whetnall, Mrs Bowdell and Mrs Gilheaney