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.

weekly review and preview

Y2 Weekly Update: Week 11 2016

                                                                                                                

	This Week	Next Week
English	We continued with our non-chronological reports in literacy this week. They’re almost finished, we just have to add the finishing touches such as adding pictures.	End of term reading and writing assessments.
Math	This week we revisited multiplication and arrays. We also introduced the 3 and 4 times tables and used arrays to solve them. We found out that multiplication and division are inverse operations and began to write division sums.	End of term maths assessments.
Humanities	This week we looked at Victorian clothes. We identified ways in which they are different from how we dress now and discussed the differences between clothes for the rich and poor.	To understand differences between school in 19th century and now.
Science	Last week we were investigating what a fair test is and investigating ice cubes and how they vary when melting in different locations.	End of unit review
Art	This week’s art lesson was used to design the front cover of our non-chronological report books from literacy.	Songkran art.
Notices and Events

Weekly review and preview

Y2 Weekly Update: Week 10 2016

                                                                                                                

	This Week	Next Week
English	This week we began our work on non-chronological reports. The children were tasked with identifying the features and to plan their own non-chronological report which they will begin next week.	Continue working on non-chronological reports.
Math	This week in maths we recapped quarter hours on the clock and then moved on to units of time. We learnt about the 12 months in the year and practiced an easy way to remember how many days each month. We also related units of time such as saying 24 hours in a day, 7 days in a week.	Revise 2, 5 and 10 times-tables; revise arrays and hops on the number line; multiply by 2, 3, 4, 5 and 10; arrange objects into arrays and write the corresponding multiplications; make links between grouping and multiplication to begin to show division; write divisions as multiplications with holes in and use the ÷ sign
Humanities	This week we looked at pictures of toys from the 19th and early 20th centuries and thought about how they might be similar or different to toys nowadays.	To understand differences between clothing for the rich and poor in 19th century and now.
Science	We continued our exploration of materials and this week involved looking at materials and what happens when they are exposed to heat. This involved melting cheese, chocolate and other fun items.	to explore melting ice using appropriate senses to use their knowledge about what makes ice melt to plan what to do
Art	We made thaumatropes, toys with pictures on each side which merge together when spun between the hands.	To design the front cover of our non-chronological report.
PSHE
Notices and Events

Humanities - looking at toys from a long time ago

We continued our inquiry into life a long time ago by having an in depth look at toys. This children had to look at photos of old toys and comment on certain aspects of the toys - for example, how was it used? What can we say about the materials required to build it? and so on.

Literacy - features of non chronological reports

This week we began looking at non-chronological reports and their features. The children had to sort through three jumbled up reports and to sort them according to what a report should look like.

Literacy - grouped work on constellations

Following on from our poetry work about stars - the students had a chance to create their own constellation and make a collaborative story.