Year 2

Newsletter

3^rd May 2024

Dear parents/carers,

Thank you for attending St Francis’ class Prayer and Liturgy. The children highlighted some important Catholic Social Teaching principles about recognising everyone is unique and special, wonderfully made and created by God and therefore we should respect the dignity of every single human being.

Please follow the link if you missed it on Wednesday and would like to watch it.

https://vimeo.com/942304902/bfee6567ce?share=copy

Below is a summary of some of the learning we have done this week and new learning for next week.

Religious Education

Topic: Spread the Word.

We have learnt about Pentecost day and the Holy Spirit descending on the Disciples. The children wrote some amazing ways of how the gifts of the Holy Spirit enables them to behave in the way that Jesus taught.

Please ask your children about these gifts and about choices and behaviour they make/do through the Holy Spirit in their lives.

We are in the month of May and May is devoted to Mary the mother of Jesus. Please take some time to pray together the Hail Mary.

Phonics

The grapheme we are focussing on is ‘y’

and the suffix ‘ily’.

For example, the suffix in the word happily is -ily. The suffix -ily means in the manner of/with lots of so if you do something happily, you do it in the manner of/with lots of happiness.

Home Learning: Practise these spellings and sentences for a test.

Literacy and Art:

We have been learning about the Sun as an introduction to learning about Space and the Solar System. Below is a link to look at for more information. https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zgwxfg8/articles/zy6fg2p#z8dyg2p

Home Learning Literacy and Topic:

A comprehension booklet to complete on ‘My Big Brother JJ and What is A Cowboy?’

to read for meaning. The children have been taught to underline the key words in the question and underline the same key words in the text to help them find the answer.

For your Diary:

Year 2 will be attending the Parish Mass at 10.00am. You are welcome to join us at the Church

St Martin: 13^th May

Class Assembly

St Martin 15^th May at 9.15am in the school hall

Have a good Bank Holiday weekend,

The Year 2 Team.

Maths

Measurement:

We will complete our learning in this topic and begin learning about Fractions of shapes. We will focus on Parts and Whole, Equal and unequal and recognise half’.

Home Learning:

Please complete the sheet by finding objects at home and recording the measurement. Remember the unit of measurement is ‘cm’ or ‘m’ and it is important that this is recorded in the answer. Remember to start at zero and not at the end of the ruler.