Welcome to Year 2!

What have we been learning about?

In English this week, we edited our writing inspired by 'The Jolly Postman'! We responded to marking by correcting our spelling, checking our capital letters and making sure we had included punctuation at the end of our sentences. 

In maths, we continued our unit on addition and subtraction. This week, we learnt to subtract a 1-digit number from a 2-digit number. To begin with, we learnt to do this without exchanging (carrying) a ten but we quickly moved on to calculations with exchanges. Miss Hollands was very impressed with how quickly we adapted to this new challenge and how we applied our knowledge of exchanging tens that we learnt with addition to these new subtraction problems. 

In topic, we began our History unit on The Great Fire of London. We learnt lots of information about how the fire started, what caused it to spread so quickly, why it was difficult to stop and how it was eventually put out. We have had lots of brilliant conversations about this significant event and we are excited to learn even more about it during our exciting workshop on Monday 24th November.

In PE, we have been developing our gymnastics skills. We are focusing on making shapes with our bodies and will be linking these shapes with jumps, leaps and rolls.

Times Tables Rockstars:

Children have now been given their individual logins for their TTR account, which they they are very excited about! These have now been stuck into most children's reading records for children to access at home. At the moment, their accounts are set to only practice the 10 times tables and the questions can be changed to include only multiplication rather than division (which we have not covered). This can be adjusted as children learn and become more confident in their times tables. If your child does not have their login stuck into their reading record, please ask them to hand it in tomorrow and I will make sure it is stuck in. Let me know if you have any questions!

Morning Snacks:

During the morning, children are welcome to have a snack. We always have fresh fruit/ vegetables available for children but if you would rather send your child in with their own snack from home this is absolutely fine. However, may I please request that this is a healthy morning snack as opposed to crisps, chocolate biscuits etc. Thank you for your support!