Welcome back to our super new Year 2!

We are very excited to welcome you all back to school this week. Mrs Carragher, Miss Slater and I, Mrs Hotchkiss, will be waiting for you on Tuesday morning. We look forward to a year full of wonderful learning and life long memories!

The children only need bring their water bottles, snacks (healthy) and smiles!

Other things to note:

Indoor PE days will be on a Monday. Outdoor PE on a Wednesday with Ms Lavelle. We recommend that no earrings are worn on PE days to save your child needing to take them out. Please come to school in your tracksuit. Make sure you wear your shorts underneath you tracksuit bottoms on Monday - for quick and modest changing. Shorts are essential for gymnastics.

Art is on Wednesday- please remember to bring in your art tops to stop your uniform from getting paint on- we will keep this in your new individual Year 2 tray.

Homework- will go out on Tuesday afternoons and will be due in the following Monday.

No pencil cases required - there is a lovely new one full of equipment waiting for you!

If you have any medication please send in and drop me an email.

l.hotchkiss@ourladystarofthesea.lancs.sch.uk

Please use this email at any time to share, messages any concerns and those special pictures celebrating achievements beyond school for our hall proud cloud.

Please make sure all belongings are labelled from coats to water bottles. If they have a name they almost always find their way back home.


Enjoy your final days of the holiday! See you soon.

Year 2 - Home Learning to be handed in on the final Monday of term (15th July)

As we reach the end of Year 2 I would like to take this opportunity to thank you for your support with home learning throughout the year. Thank you for working alongside your child: reading, playing numbots, spelling and using letter join to develop their cursive handwriting. It really has made the difference.

READING

Lots of super reading going on in class. It is clear that when they read with you and you chat about the story they are super confident when quizzing!

How many books can you read in this final week? Books will be handed back next week so we can take stock. Time now to turn to the library - members of St. Annes library have been to school to share the “Summer Reading Challenge”. Why not pop along this weekend and get cracking!

MATHS

There is so much excitement around Numbots. We have a group of children who are about to get through the final level- DIAMOND. Please keep going! Please don’t stop - we continue to use Numbots in Year 3. We want everyone to get to the end so that all our addition and subtraction facts and structures are secure. This is a target you can keep working towards during the break from school.

SPELLING

Final spelling list - words ending in al

animal

equal

magical

metal

royal

signal

HANDWRITING

We have been writing stories this week and I’ve had lovely creative conversations. We have also chatted about handwriting and which letters are tricky. I would like the children to go into letter join and click on “Hard letters” in the menu bar - watch/try and practice K F Z and X.

Thank you!

Year 2 home learning - to be completed for Monday 8th July

Firstly, I need to apologise. Last week I accidently placed the wrong spellings on the homework!!! The suffix “less” had not been covered in class yet.! We have quizzed on them - despite my mistake!! Sorry!

READING

Despite only having two weeks left of Year 2 we continue to read and enjoy books everyday. Please keep loving time with a cracking book. Mrs Naylor has been looking at where we are up to as we move to Year 3 - let’s get a few more quizzes done!

MATHS

Please continue with your numbot levels. We have two children at the very end now! What a fantastic feat!

SPELLING

The correct spellings this week! We have been looking at the spelling of words ending in le and el. This is a tricky one!!!

Middle

table

little

triangle

rectangle

vowel

level

angel

camel

Challenge - write them out and mix them up - can you sort and spell -

HANDWRITING

Please log into your letter join - click on fun and then word bank. Here you will find words ending in le. practice on your i-pad and then in your homework book with a pen or pen.