Weekly Review and Preview

Y2 Weekly Update: Term 3 Week 1

                                                                                                                

	This Week	Next Week
English	This week we completed some holiday recounts as well as looking at ‘tongue twisters’ and alliteration. The children enjoyed reading, exploring and creating their very own tongue twisters.	Next week we will continue by looking at Silly poems - always a favourite with the students.
Math	This week in Maths we’ve been locating, ordering and comparing numbers 101-200. We’ve also been adding and subtracting 2 digit numbers using the column method.	Use doubles and number bonds to add three 1-digit numbers; use number facts to 10 and 20 in number stories; find complements to multiples of 10; understand subtraction as difference and find this by counting up; find small differences either side of a multiple of 10
Inquiry	We began our topic of inquiry into how products are made. This falls under the topic of ‘Organisation’ and the students were asked to make questions about what they wanted to learn about how products are made, as well as to demonstrate what they already know.	Next week, we will be finding out more and looking at different ways to research how products are made. This will include looking and comparing products, how they are made, what processes are involved and what materials are used.
Art	This week we created some lovely water colour paintings of the students’ holidays.	We will begin a design and technology project looking at aeroplanes and we’ll work towards building our own model aeroplane.
Notices and Events

Art - holiday water colouring

This week we decided to mark the end of our exciting holiday adventures by creating some wonderful water colouring pictures displaying the favourite part of our adventures. The children were carefully mixing the water colours and ensuring that they were holding the brushes correctly and were careful with their brush strokes.

Welcome back!

Dear Parents and students,

I would like to wish you a belated welcome back to the new term. This will be the final term in Year 2 and after this term the students will begin their adventures in Key Stage 2 as part of the bigger children in Primary. After discussing this with the students I have asked them to demonstrate their maturity and readiness for joining KS2 by being organised, independent and sensible with respects to themselves, others and towards their learning. I hope that parents will join me in emphasizing this to the children as well as we look to finishing Year 2 with a bang and with Year 3 in mind for the future.

I would also like to extend a great congratulations to all the students who participated in last term's Ascot Idol. It was difficult for Kru B and myself to stay involved and to not get carried away cheering for our many students who entered, we were all very proud of their achievements and contributions. Well done!

As always please feel free to contact me with any questions or even just to say a friendly hello.

Many regards

Mr Linden

Maths - more than, less than

This week we began by recapping the symbols for 'more than' and 'less than' - < and >. The children were comfortable in their knowledge of what to do and how to use the symbols correctly.