WELCOME TO YEAR 2! 

Teacher: Miss Afzal

Teaching Assistant: Mrs. Hall

Schools Closures

Note to Parents and Carers

Each Monday morning we will be sending a suggested home study timetable out via email if we have your address and also uploaded to the class pages of the website.

This is a suggestion of learning challenges to support your child’s continued progress during the prolonged school shut down.

All children have their pink ‘Home Learning’ book in which to do this work.

If you would like to email work to class teachers for feedback then please use the email addresses below.

If you have any queries then please contact us and we will do all that we can to support you.

In the meantime – please stay at home and stay safe.

-with the best of wishes from all at St. James’.

Contacts:

Miss Afzal - nafzal@stjames.derby.sch.uk

Miss Pancisi - Infantshead@stjames.derby.sch.uk

Every child has a personalised 'home learning pack' to work through during the school closures.

Here is some extra learning you can do online:

Maths:

The Maths Factor created by Carol Vorderman- “We will be making The Maths Factor FREE for everyone (usually about £2 per week) to support childrens’ continued learning at home for the duration of the UK Schools closure period”:https://www.themathsfactor.com/

Counting forwards and backwards: https://www.topmarks.co.uk/learning-to-count/blast-off

Place value: https://www.topmarks.co.uk/learning-to-count/place-value-basketball

Subtraction:  http://www.ictgames.com/mobilePage/bottleTakeAway/index.html

Money: https://uk.ixl.com/math/year-2/equivalent-groups-of-coins

Subtraction word problems: https://uk.ixl.com/math/year-2/subtraction-word-problems-numbers-up-to-18

Measure: https://whiterosemaths.com/homelearning/year-2/

Mental Maths challenges: https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/daily10

A bit of everything: https://uk.ixl.com/math/year-2

English:

World of David Walliams - “Fantastic activities, all inspired by David Walliams’ tremendous tales. Filled with all the wacky and wonderful characters in David Walliams' books, you can download any of these free activity sheets for hours of fun and learning at home!”: https://www.worldofdavidwalliams.com/activities/

Exclamation marks:https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/z8x6cj6/articles/z3dcmsg

Question marks: https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/z8x6cj6/articles/zcm3qhv

Commas in a list: https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/z8x6cj6/articles/zxvcrdm

Prefixes and suffixes: https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/z8x6cj6/articles/zxvcrdm

Sentences: https://www.bbc.co.uk/games/embed/small-town-superheroes?exitGameUrl=http%3A%2F%2Fbbc.co.uk%2Fbitesize%2Farticles%2Fzncgvk7

Singular and plural words: https://www.bbc.co.uk/games/embed/small-town-superheroes?exitGameUrl=http%3A%2F%2Fbbc.co.uk%2Fbitesize%2Farticles%2Fzncgvk7 

Reading:

Audible books are allowing free streaming of children's books whilst schools are closed: https://stories.audible.com/start-listen.

David Walliams is also reading one of his books everyday at 11am. https://www.worldofdavidwalliams.com/

Oliver Jeffers is also reading one of his books everyday:  https://www.oliverjeffers.com/books#/abookaday/

Key Information

• Cherry class have P.E. every Tuesday afternoon and Swimming every Thursday afternoon.
• Please can children have an appropriate P.E and Swimming kit in school for these days.

P.E Kit: White polo shirt, blue/black shorts, pumps

Swimming kit: Swimming hat, trunks/swimming costume, towel

In Autumn 1 we  explored the question,

Could you be an explorer?

We talked about the different places that children wanted to explore through our key text 'Dear Teacher'. We learnt about the 7 continents and 5 oceans as part of our learning too!

In Autumn 2 we  explored the question,

Could you be a vet?

We have been learning about the different pet people have, how to look after them and what a vet's job is. We have done this through our key texts The job, Mog and V.E.T and Six dinner Sid. The children have loved making pet carriers for Mog the kitten!