Class 5
Year 2 Newsletter & Home Learning Grid
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Spring Y2 Newsletter
Welcoem to Year 2
Week Ending 28/03/2025
This week our certificate winners are children that have tried hard to impress during our assessment week. They worked hard with reading, writing or maths work.
Dojo winner - Sofia
Well done everyone!
Week Ending 14/03/2025
Well done to all of class 5 for getting the class certificate for fantastic behaviour on the trip to Ledston. Mrs Walker said that all of the children behaviour was fantastic, and they worked hard to make shelters.
We also have won the Tidiness Toby award this week so Well done for a super week class 5.
Lets try and improve our attendance and punctuality for next week!
Class 5 Potato Winner
Reuben won the competition for the best potato in class 5. What a fantastic Mr Bump!
Week ending 07/03/2025
We enjoyed doing various world book activities this week. On Friday we did a reading swap with class 14 and enjoyed a biscuit and drink while we read.
Certificates
Toby - For continuing to try hard with his writing.
Daisie-Mai For trying hard in maths to combine numbers using tens and ones grid.
We were also the proud winners of the Uniform Una frame.
Certificate Winners- Week ending 28.02.25
Our certificate winners
Olivia - For writing a super report about Neil Armstrong
Reuben and Daniel for trying very hard with our Maths assessments.
Dojo winner Sofia
Wonderdome 11.02.25
This week Class 5 had a fantastic time in the Wonderdome. We got to learn about space in a giant, silver tent that came to school. Irina taught us about galaxies, planets, stars and our solar system. We really enjoyed the experience and were able to write some detailed recounts about our time in the Wonderdome.
Certificate Winners- Week ending 14th February
We were very happy this week that we won the Lunchtime Li award for super behaviour at Lunchtime. We were very proud of this.
We also won the certificate for best attendance this term and lots of us got 100% attendance or 95% attendance.
Dojo winner - Grace
Certificate winners
Darcie - Working hard to make the right choices with her behaviour. Well done and keep it up!
Ebony - For trying hard with her writing on a recount of the stardome.
Certificate Winners- Week ending 7th February
Dojo Winner - Nate
Certificates
Imani - For always giving 100% effort in all her work at school. Thank you for always working hard.
Elyas - For making a fantastic start to the class, we are happy you have come to join us in class 5.
Chinese New Year
The children enjoyed learning about Chinese new year this week, we did some creative pictures in class and at home.
Attendance
Class 5 won the best class attendance this week. We got 150 dojos and x 2 prizes for beating all the other classes to be the best class at coming to school. We are so proud.
We now are going to try to make sure we come to school everyday and on time as sometimes some of us are late.
Certificate Winners- Week ending 31st January
Jasper - Super effort to be an independent writer when writing his character description about Bob.
Willow - For trying hard to make the right choices when playing and for doing fantastic work in English this week.
Reuben - For trying very hard to be my maths star when working out 1/2s, 1/4s and 3/4s.
Dojo winner - Darcie
Well done for having a super week
Certificate/Dojo winners for Week Ending 24th January
Dojo winners - Grace and Darcie
Certificate winners;
Sofia - For always giving 100% effort with her work and a super role model
Henry - For trying hard with quartering and halving
Certificate Winners- Week ending 17th January 2025
Toby - For trying hard in his maths work on halves
Aveya - For her fantastic effort and concentration in all her subjects this week.
A big well done for all of class 5. Last week we talked about improving our class attendance and lateness. We did this and got the whole school best attendance at 97.3%! We enjoyed our treat of a longer golden time and a prize. Well done class 5.
Certificate winners-week ending 10th January
- Millie - Anna, post on Dojo and certificate winner for fantastic home learning. we love the ricket and the ship you made.
- Jacob - For fantastic independent division work
Year 2 Home Learning Grid
Year 2 Newsletter
Week commencing 2nd December 2024
Tiago - Dojo winner
Noah - Working hard to make arrays
Kavi - Always working hard
Week commencing 25th November 2024
Certificate award winners
Week commencing 18th November 2024
Certificate awards winners
Millie anna - dojo winner
Daisy - Super writing about Nelson Mandela this week.
Nate - For doing fantastic maths calculations this week.
Week commencing 21st October 2024
Class certificate awards
Week commencing 14th October 2024
Year 2 had a wonderful day exploring Yorkshire Wildlife Park on Tuesday. We saw lots of animals from Africa such as lions, giraffes, rhinos and zebras. We applied our Scientific knowledge about animal groups in a workshop led by a park ranger too!
Thank you to all those that came to our Black History Month assembly where we shared our learning about Nelson Mandela. We all enjoyed sharing our hard work with you in our book look too!
Awards 18.10.24
Writer of the week - Millie-Anna for great independence in her writing this week.
Star of the week - Henry for coming to school with a smile all week!
Behaviour role model - Jasper for always following instructions well.
Week commencing 7th October 2024
Year 2 have learned all about Nelson Mandela to kick start Black History Month this week. We have enjoyed using our geographical knowledge of South Africa to think about how Nelson Mandela made such a difference in the past. Come and see our learning in our assembly next week!
Awards 11.10.24
Mathematician of the week - Noah for good perseverance when finding 10 more/less.
Handwriting Hero - Tiago for always presenting his work so neatly.
Behaviour role model - Reuben for showing excellent listening and attention skills this week.
Star of the week - Daniel for always trying his best.
Week commencing 30th September 2024
This week in Geography we have been recalling our knowledge of human and physical features. After looking at landmarks in the UK, we delved into South Africa and where we could visit if we went there. We enjoyed using atlases and online maps to locate the various places and described these using compass directions.
Awards 4.10.24
Mathematician of the week - Cohen for good independence finding one more/less.
Writer of the week - Imani for super descriptive writing.
Handwriting Hero - Olivia for taking care over her work.
Star of the week - Willow for concentrating well this week and trying hard with her work.
Behaviour role model - Lexi for following instructions very well.
Week Commencing 23rd September 2024
We enjoyed celebrating European day of Languages in Class 5 this week. We celebrated the languages spoken by classmates and threw ourselves into a game of Hello Bingo. We also learned how to sing 'Head, shoulders, knees and toes' in French: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eVbbLXPdJKQ&ab_channel=ToffeeTV
Awards 27.9.24
Mathematician of the week - Max for applying his place value knowledge to problem-solving.
Star of the week - Millie for working super hard and being very helpful.
Behaviour role model - Lacey for always following our Golden Rules.
Writer of the week - Harry for a brilliant character description
Class 5 have had a wonderful 2 weeks settling into Year 2! We have launched our new topic of 'South Africa' by investigating artefacts, maps and photos sources. In Maths we have explored our knowledge of place value in, identifying tens and ones in 2-digit numbers. We have started our new Science topic of 'Taking Care' and been enjoying our new text in English, 'The Greedy Zebra'.
Awards 13.9
Mathematician of the week - Jacob for excellent partitioning.
Handwriting Hero - Sofia for beautiful presentation in all learning.
Star of the week - Grace for excellent listening and 100% effort.
Behaviour role model - Millie-Anna for following our Golden rules so well.
Week commencing 16th September 2024
Class 5 began focussing on Geography during their TSU work this week. We recapped the countries and capital cities of the UK using this fun song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RvDIZoQLgIE and used these to label a map. In Maths we used our place value knowledge to order 2-digit numbers and were encouraged to 'prove it' using concrete or pictorial representations.
Awards 20th September 2024
Mathematician - Nate for excellent representations to support ordering.
Handwriting Hero - Aveya for good effort in joining 2 letters.
Star of the week - Kavi for being a really kind and helpful member of the class.
Behaviour role-model - Daisy for always trying her best.