Good afternoon everyone,
This week’s gospel was quite an unusual one. Jesus explained to his disciples that all things will come to an end eventually. People will die, plants with wither and even buildings will crumble. However, he reassured his disciples that just needed to ‘stand firm and they will win life’. Jesus was reminding them that even though bad things happen and scary things occur that we cannot predict or control, if we follow Him and live by His light then there will be a place for us in heaven to have eternal life with Him. We have thought about this and how it important it is to try and follow Jesus. We will all try our best to be kind, polite, selfless and thoughtful.
English - This week we wrote our Great Fire of London setting descriptions. We thought carefully about our content and experimented with sentence openings, expanded noun phrases and similes. We also used our purple pens to edit and improve our work before writing our final drafts. We then began our work on our Great Fire of London stories based upon ‘Vlad and the Great Fire’ by exploring conjunctions and the use of -ed suffix for the past tense. Next week we will be planning and writing these stories.
Maths - We have been making links between known facts and larger facts this week. We learnt that our number bonds to 10 can help us to solve larger facts when adding tens to 100. E.g, if we know that 4 + 3 = 7 then we know that 40 + 30 = 70. We then used our knowledge of number facts and practical equipment to solve missing number problems with number bonds to 100. Finally, we practised adding and subtracting ones using base ten and drawings to aid us.
Science - This week we learned about the difference between wants and needs. We also learned to separate a human’s basic needs (air, water, food, shelter) from their additional needs (love, kindness, entertainment, exercise, hygiene, friends, family, treats, money, education, time alone, etc). We wrote about the difference between these different needs and considered which extra needs we thought were most important.
RE - On Monday we used clay to build our Holy Trinity models that we designed last week. Then on Friday, we painted these carefully and thought about the meaning and symbolism of each.
Geography - We consolidated our research on continents to create mini lift-the-flap fact cards to use on our display in the corridor.
PE - In dance, we continued to practise our seaside dance routines and performed them to half of the class with our partners. In our outdoor sessions we practised dribbling a ball whilst bouncing it.
Art - We explored paint and developed our painting skills.
Nativity - We began to practise our nativity songs and read our lines out.
Please continue to practise the Year 1 and 2 Common Exception Words - both reading and spelling!
Please also continue to practise counting in 2s, 3s, 5s and 10s.
We have sent home the words your child will be saying in our Nativity. We ask that the children practise these at home until they can recite them without reading their sheet. Please continue to leave them in their school bags so we can take opportunities to practise at school.
We have also sent home song lyrics for our Nativity songs. You can access the tracks to play at home by going to the homework page of the Year 2 site.
Other Tasks
Spelling
Mr Whetnall’s group - practise the -ed suffix words.
Mrs Bowdell’s group - practise the /ay/ and /a_e/ words.
English
Conjunctions worksheet - choose a conjunction to complete the sentences.
Commas for a list worksheet - Use the shopping lists to create sentences using commas to make a list. Don’t forget to use ‘and’ instead of a comma before the last item.
For example: I went to the shop and I bought potatoes, bread, meat, peas and ice cream.
Maths
Adding and subtracting 1s worksheet
or…
Missing number problems worksheet. Remember If the missing number is after the sign (+ or -) , use subtraction and you’ll be fine and If before the symbol the number is gone, use the inverse and you’ve won.
As always, the MOST important way that you can support your child is by reading regularly! Please do this as regularly as possible over the break!
Golden Award - Annie - for being a kind, polite and thoughtful learner.
Writing Award - Albie - for a wonderful setting description and working hard on his handwriting.
Maths Award - Austin - for his hard work in using drawings to solve addition and subtraction problems.
Discipleship Award -
The Wednesday Word is now available online, rather than the paper copies we used to send home pre-covid. Please click this link to access this week’s gospel.
We would like to invite the children in Reception and KS1 back in to school on Friday 2nd December for a Christmas movie night! The children can wear Christmas pyjamas or clothing and for a cost of £2, they will be able to enjoy some festive treats as they watch the film. We are going to come back to school at 4.30pm until 5.30pm. If your child would like to attend, please pay the requested £2 via parentpay.
After our Nativity performances (date to be confirmed), the PTA will providing refreshments (non-alcoholic [sorry!] mulled wine and mince pies) in the dining hall for a small fee. The PTA will also be selling raffle tickets at each performance - there will be some fantastic prizes on offer and all funds raised will go towards PTA funds.
Have a lovely weekend,
Mr Whetnall, Mrs Bowdell and Mrs Gibbons
