Year 2

Newsletter

20.9. 2024

Dear Parents/Carers,

Our stars of the week are Lula in St Francis and Michela in St Martin.

Our Living in the St Mary’s Way certificate goes to the whole of St Francis class and Naomi in St Martin.

Thank you for attending the Curriculum meeting and if you did not receive the Year 2 handout, please inform us. We are happy to answer any other questions that you may have thought of so please feel free to ask.

Religious Education:

Topic: Beginnings

The children have written beautiful Litanies and also their own Psalms giving thanks and praise to God for the wonder of His Creation,, themselves and life. As we draw our topic of ‘Beginnings’ to a close, the children will be reflecting on prayer and what we have learned from the Psalms about God’s loving care for us. Based on Psalm 139. The children have considered what it means to be a child of God who created us, knows us and loves us.

Phonics:

We will be revisiting Phase 5 sounds building on the children’s phonemic awareness and decoding skills.

English: What we’ll build by Oliver Jeffers

We will continue writing next week about their friend and build in commas in lists as well as using more adjectives.

This is the book we are using as a stimulus. If you click on the link, you can hear and listen to the story.

Enjoy it!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ursuv_z2CmM

Maths:

We will continue learning about Place Value. We will be using Number lines to help them with ordering lists of numbers so that when they are positioned on a number line the numbers will be in an ascending order.

Here is a QR code for the Topmarks website and a game that can be played using a Number line.

We will also be learning inequality symbols such greater than > less than < and equals =

By doing this, we are comparing number so that the children will see that 51 and 15 have the same digits and 51 > 15.

Reminders:

PE is on Wednesday and the children may wear trainers.

Swimming is on Friday and the children may wear their PE kit all day as this makes it easier to change for swimming.

Class Masses at 10am in the Church

St Francis on Monday 23^rd September

St Martin Monday 30^th September

You are welcome to join us at the Church.

Have a good weekend and God bless you and your families.

The Year 2 Team.