We have all had such a wonderful Term 1 getting to know our new classes. Thank you for all of your support and hard work at home to ensure the children settled into Year 2 quickly. We have really enjoyed seeing the children become more confident this term learning new rules and routines. We are looking forward to Term 2 with our classes and continuing our topic of Knights and Castles. 

Notices

• Reminder: INSET day on Monday 2nd November. We will see you again after half term on Tuesday 3rd November for the start of Term 2. 
• Children who were due to change their reading books on Monday 2nd November will be changing them on Tuesday 3rd November instead. 
• Learning share times – We are inviting you to share your child’s learning with them ahead of parents evenings. This will be outside on the class patio on your allocated day. Class 7 – Tuesday 3rd. Class 8 – Wednesday 4th. Class 9 – Thursday 5th.You should have received an email stating whether you are invited to the morning or afternoon session to ensure social distancing.
• Another huge thank you to the families who have been buying things from our Amazon Wishlist. We really appreciate it. 
• FHIS Amazon Wishlist –As a year group we were asked to include items to the wish list. If you are shopping over the next week or so and are able to contribute that would be amazing. Thank you in advance. Click here to go to the Amazon Wishlist.

Week 1 Learning

English

Our focus for this week is to learn about the past and present tense and to use these tense consistently in our writing.

We will have two focused grammar lessons where we will learn to recognise the tenses and how to change verbs when we write in different tenses.

On Thursday the 5th we will be doing some cross curricular work with History, learning about the Gunpowder plot and writing about it in the past tense. We will also have a session writing about Bonfire Night in the present tense.

Maths

After half term we are going to be starting a 2 week block learning about money. Over the half term holiday, it would be great if you could support your child to identify coins and notes and use them to pay for items in real life situations. At school we are going to be looking at recognising coins/notes and knowing the value of different denominations. The children will be adding the value of coins/notes together to work out the total amount. We will be using the ‘p’ and ‘£’ signs. 

There are two games you can play at home to help your child learn about money. Click here to play Coin Game. Click here to play Toy Shop Money.

Topic

Geography – This week we are going to be looking at the world map and labeling continents. The children will be locating and naming continents and oceans using atlases.

PSHE – We are starting a new topic of work in PSHE focusing on celebrating differences. This week we are going to be talking about gender stereotypes and looking at how boys and girls are similar and celebrating this. 

RE – In RE this week, we are going to be talking about promises and learning about the Christian story where Jesus attended a wedding and what happened. We will learn some of the features of weddings.

Click here to access learning for children who are self isolating.