Wednesday 23rd September
This week the children have enjoyed a bug hunt outdoors. They loved observing the bugs in our school ground and enjoyed identifying them.
In English the children produced some wonderful character descriptions about Mr Walrus or the arctic fox from the story ‘The Way Home For Wolf,’
In Maths the children are learning about fact families using part whole models and base ten. They are learning to investigate associated addition and subtraction facts from a visual image. For example if they know that 20+7=27, they also know that 7+20=27, 27-20=7 and 27-7=20.
If you say a two digit number, can your son/daughter tell you how many tens and ones are in that number? For example do they know that 30+7=37 or thirty seven is three tens and seven ones?
Please encourage your child to log on to Mathletics to access this week’s tasks. The children have two weeks to complete the tasks.
In phonics lessons the children are learning about the alternative ‘ai’ sound. They are learning to segment and blend words with the grapheme ‘ai’ like in ‘snail,’ ‘ay’ like in ‘tray’ and a_e (the split digraph) like in ‘flame’.
Spellings for Monday 28th September
brain
spray
tray
came
flame
they
many
please
people
you
Feel free to use this to help your child learn the spellings:
Look, Cover, Say, Write and Check
In RE the children are learning about The Bible. Please ask your child about their favourite Bible character. Select one of the tasks from the list below and please send the completed task to us via See Saw. Your child could make a puppet of their favourite Bible character, draw their favourite Bible character, write about their favourite Bible character or create and image of their favourite Bible character using 2 Paint on Purple Mash. We would love to share the characters on Monday 5th October, so please upload the completed tasks before then.
Thank you for your continued support.
Kind Regards
H Smith and J Woods
16th September 2020
The children are working hard and having fun.
In RE the children enjoyed talking about their favourite stories from the old and the new testament. In Science we explored a woodland habitat, created a habitat map illustrating wildlife in the woodland areas of our school grounds and focused on the plants and animals that brighten up our school grounds. The children are in the process of creating a colourful harvest basket in Art.
In phonics lessons this week, we are learning about the alternative ‘oo’ sound. The children are learning to segment and blend words with the ‘oo’ sound using ‘o’ (in ‘do’) ‘ue’ (in ‘argue,’ ‘rescue,’ and ‘Sue’), ‘u_e’ (in Luke, flute and tune) ‘ew’ (in ‘newt’ and ‘chew’) and ‘ui’ (in bruise and fruit). Please encourage your child to read and write the words at home. Each Monday morning, we will have a spelling test so please help your son/daughter to learn the spellings at home.
Spellings for Monday 21st September
you
do
through
bruise
chew
argue
flute
fruit
blue
rescue
During Maths lessons the children are learning about place value with numbers up to one hundred. They have enjoyed using practical resources to partition numbers into tens and ones, focused on reading and writing the numbers in numerals and words and compared numbers to 100. Please encourage your son/ daughter to log on to the Mathletics website to complete this week’s homework online. The user name and password is stuck in the front their homework diary.
Thank you for your continued support.
Look out for more information about homework next week…..
Welcome to Year 2!
Hello to all of our families, and welcome to Year 2! We have really enjoyed meeting the children and it has been lovely to see how happy and confident they are upon their return to school.
Please have a look at this page and our Class Gallery regularly to find out what we have been up to in class.
Here is our curriculum overview, which provides a brief outline of our learning throughout the year: Year 2
Please note, our PE days are Tuesday and Thursday. Children should come into school in their PE kit on these days.
For a little more information about life in Year 2, please have a look at this letter: Welcome to Year 2
We look forward to working with you this year.
Kind Regards
Miss Smith and Mrs Woods
CONGRATULATIONS!
We are delighted to announce that the Year 2 children participated in the most Mathletics tasks this academic year…more than any other year group in our school.
The Year 2 children were awarded an amazing 269,036 points!
Thank you for encouraging your child to complete the tasks each week.
2 children received a gold certificate,
18 received a silver certificate and 99 received a bronze certificate.
WELL DONE!
from Miss Smith and Mrs Woods.
Thursday 16th July
Dear Parents,
It was lovely for the children to get together virtually today. The children seemed delighted to see each other. We would like to thank you for your continued support throughout the year. The children have worked extremely hard and continued to ‘let their lights shine,’ despite the pandemic.
Here are a few optional tasks to dip into during the holidays:
We hope you all have a relaxing Summer.
Kind Regards
H Smith and J Woods
Art Project
Mrs Coulston has a challenge for the children. Feel free to get creative with your son/daughter. We can’t wait to share your Art in the Y2 gallery.
Home Learning information week commencing 13th July 2020
Dear Parents,
We are delighted with the amount of photographs that you are sending in showing fantastic home learning tasks. It is wonderful to see the children learning and having fun. Please remember to have a look on the gallery with your son/daughter to find out what all the children are doing.
Maths
This week the focus is on time. We hope your child can read the time to the nearest five minutes. Have fun problem solving together.
Monday 13th July Telling time to 5 minutes
Answers- Telling time to 5 minutes
Tuesday 14th July Hours and days
Wednesday 15th July Find durations of time
Answers – Find durations of time
Thursday 16th July Compare durations of time
Answers – Compare durations of time
Friday 17th July Year 2 Arithmetic Practice Bookmarks – Pack 12
OPTIONAL MATHS TASKS FOR THE SUMMER HOLIDAYS
Year 2 Summer Maths Activities
Year 2 Summer Maths Activities Answers
Ultimate Times Table Daily Practice 1 Booklet
Ultimate Times Table Daily Practice 2 Booklet
Ultimate Times Table Daily Practice 3 Booklet
English
Please ensure that the English unit based on the poem called The Quangle Wangle’s Hat is completed by Friday 17th July. Remember to send us photographs of the completed tasks.
Y2-Quangle Wangle’s Hat by Edward Lear
OPTIONAL ENGLISH TASKS FOR THE SUMMER HOLIDAYS
Year 2 Summer English Activity Booklet
Year 2 Summer English Activity Booklet Answers
Thank you for your continued support.
H Smith and J Woods
h.smith@grimsargh-st-michaels.lancs.sch.uk
j.woods@grimsargh-st-michaels.lancs.sch.uk
Dear Parents,
Thank you for sharing the wonderful examples of home learning with us. Please remember to have a look at the photos in the Year 2 gallery with your child.
Home Learning Week Commencing 6th July 2020
Maths
Videos for Maths Videos Week Commencing 6th July
Monday 6th July Litres
Tuesday 7th July Temperature
Wednesday 8th July O clock and half past
If your son/daughter is able to tell the time to the nearest 5 minutes already, feel free to try the Mathletics Tasks, rather than encouraging them to complete the activities above.
Thursday 9th July Quarter past and quarter to
Answers – Quarter past and quarter to
Friday 10th July Please complete any outstanding Mathletics tasks today.
Arithmetic
Year 2 Arithmetic Practice Bookmarks – Pack 11
English
This week the English unit is based on a poem called The Quangle Wangle’s Hat by Edward Lear. Click on the link to access the English booklet:
Y2-Quangle Wangle’s Hat by Edward Lear
Please encourage your son/daughter to complete the tasks by Friday 17th July.
The comprehension tasks are differentiated the task with three stars is the most challenging. The majority of children in Year 2 should be able to answer the questions on the sheet with two stars at the bottom.
The-Ant-and-the-Grasshopper-Differentiated-Reading-Comprehension
Science
We would like the children to focus on plants for this half term. Feel free to dip into some of the tasks from this unit of work. Remember to take some photographs so your friends can see your investigations on the Year 2 gallery! Plants Unit
Worship and Prayer
Blackburn Diocese have kindly provided lots of resources for families to access from home. The children love attending worship in school so please have a look at this link:
www.churchofengland.org/faith-action/faith-home/i-am-parent
Blackburn Diocese have a range of Bible Podlets Podcasts for adults to do with primary aged children. The theme is Bible Transformers. It focuses on people in the Bible who were transformed by Jesus.
https://www.bdeducation.org.uk/tag/bible-podlets/
If your son/daughter would like to write a prayer for us to share together, please send me a copy and we can add the prayers to our gallery.
Well being
BBC Bitesize has some amazing resources. The well being section is very good. https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/tags/z7s22sg/year-2
We’d love to see photographs of any of the children’s activities including PE, sporting activities, Art, Design and baking.
Thank you for your continued support.
H Smith
h.smith@grimsargh-st-michaels.lancs.sch.uk
We are very proud of the children.
j.woods@grimsargh-st-michaels.lancs.sch.uk
Dear Parents,
We hope you are enjoying the sunshine. Thank you for the amazing photographs of home learning. We both look forward to receiving photographs of the completed tasks.
Home Learning Tasks for this week:
As we move into July, we begin to think about the highlights of the year and the teachers are busy writing reports. In preparation for moving from Year 2 to Year 3, we would like the children to focus on this writing activity:
Spreading My Wings From Year 2 to Year 3
We can’t wait to read your writing and share the completed booklets with the teachers and teaching assistants in Year 3.
Maths
Try baking or cooking together. Can your son/daughter weigh the ingredients and read the scales?
Measuring capacity with a range of containers and experimenting with a measuring jug is another exciting activity. For a relatively mess free way of measuring capacity, take the empty bottles, containers and measuring jugs into the paddling pool or even encourage your child to measure capacity in the bath.
Try making fruit cocktails or smoothies.
Week 10 Week Commencing 29th June
Please use this link to access the videos to support the maths tasks: whiterosemaths.com/homelearning/year-2/
Monday 29th June Measure mass in grams
Answers – Measure mass in kilograms
Tuesday 30th June Measure mass in kilograms
Answers – Measure mass in kilograms
Wednesday 1st July Compare volume
Thursday 2nd July Milliltres
Friday 3rd July Please complete the mathletics tasks and have a look on BBC bitesize maths.
Arithmetic
Year 2 Arithmetic Practice Bookmarks – Pack 10
Reading
Remember to encourage your child to read for at least ten to fifteen minutes per day. Please continue to record daily reading tasks in your son/daughter’s homework diary. If you would like access to reading books, there are two amazing websites which contain age appropriate books online. They are completely free too.
Oxford Owls also have lots of reading books including Oxford Reading Tree (KS1) https://www.oxfordowl.co.uk/
Collins have also created a parent sign in for free access to their Big Cats reading scheme.
https://collins.co.uk/pages/big–cat-ebooks
This week’s reading task is based on Wimbledon. The task with three stars is the most challenging. Wimbledon Reading Comprehension
Science
We would like the children to focus on plants for this half term. Feel free to dip into some of the tasks from this unit of work. Remember to take some photographs so your friends can see your investigations on the Year 2 gallery! Plants Unit
Worship and Prayer
Blackburn Diocese have kindly provided lots of resources for families to access from home. The children love attending worship in school so please have a look at this link:
www.churchofengland.org/faith-action/faith-home/i-am-parent
Blackburn Diocese have a range of Bible Podlets Podcasts for adults to do with primary aged children. The theme is Bible Transformers. It focuses on people in the Bible who were transformed by Jesus.
https://www.bdeducation.org.uk/tag/bible-podlets/
If your son/daughter would like to write a prayer for us to share together, please send me a copy and we can add the prayers to our gallery.
Well being
BBC Bitesize has some amazing resources. The well being section is also very good. https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/tags/z7s22sg/year-2
We’d love to see photographs of any of the children’s activities including PE, sporting activities, Art, Design and baking.
Thank you for your continued support.
Kind Regards
H Smith
h.smith@grimsargh-st-michaels.lancs.sch.uk
We are very proud of the children.
j.woods@grimsargh-st-michaels.lancs.sch.uk
Dear Parents,
We hope you are well. We would like to thank you for your e-mails and wonderful photographs of home learning tasks. The children continue to work hard and have fun. Please continue to send us photographs and we will update the gallery. As you are probably aware, we are welcoming more children back to school from Monday morning so we will be in class daily with a bubble of Year One children. We will both do our best to reply to any e-mails but this may take a little longer.
Home Learning Tasks for this week
Maths
We’d love you to send us some photographs of real life measuring.
Try a little DIY or sewing.
Can your son/daughter measure in centimetres using a ruler
or tape measure?
Can your son/daughter read the scales when they weigh ingredients?
Can they help when you prepare a meal or bake?
The videos for this week’s Maths lessons are on this website: https://whiterosemaths.com/homelearning/year-2/
Please look at the videos for Summer Term
Week 9 Week Commencing 22nd June.
Monday 22nd June Lesson 1 – Measure length (cm)
Lesson 1 Answers – Measure length (cm)
Tuesday 23rd June Lesson 2 – Compare lengths
Lesson 2 Answers – Compare lengths
Wednesday 24th June Lesson 3 – Four operations with lengths
Lesson 3 Answers – Four operations with lengths
Thursday 25th June Lesson 4 – Compare mass
Lesson 4 Answers – Compare mass
Friday 26th June Please complete tasks on Mathletics today.
Arithmetic
Year 2 Arithmetic Practice Bookmarks – Pack 9
English
Please ensure that your son/daughter completes the English unit based on Superheroes by Friday 26th June. Y2-Superheroes
Remember to share the written outcomes so I can post the amazing writing on the Year 2 gallery.
This week is refugee week. There are a selection of reading tasks here. The first activity is the easiest and the task with three stars is the most challenging. Refugee-Week-Differentiated-Reading-Comprehension
ing. Most children in Year 2 will be able to read and respond to this text too: Step 3 – Building Reading Skills
Science
We would like the children to focus on plants for this half term. Feel free to dip into some of the tasks from this unit of work. Remember to take some photographs so your friends can see your investigations on the Year 2 gallery! Plants Unit
Worship and Prayer
Blackburn Diocese have kindly provided lots of resources for families to access from home. The children love attending worship in school so please have a look at this link:
www.churchofengland.org/faith-action/faith-home/i-am-parent
Blackburn Diocese have a range of Bible Podlets Podcasts for adults to do with primary aged children. The theme is Bible Transformers. It focuses on people in the Bible who were transformed by Jesus.
https://www.bdeducation.org.uk/tag/bible-podlets/
If your son/daughter would like to write a prayer for us to share together, please send me a copy and we can add the prayers to our gallery.
Well being
BBC Bitesize has some amazing resources. The well being section is also very good. https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/tags/z7s22sg/year-2
We’d love to see photographs of any of the children’s activities including PE, sporting activities, Art, Design and baking.
Thank you for your continued support.
Kind Regards
H Smith
h.smith@grimsargh-st-michaels.lancs.sch.uk
We are very proud of the children.
j.woods@grimsargh-st-michaels.lancs.sch.uk
Wednesday 17th June
The Duchess of Cambridge is leading an online assembly at 11 a.m. tomorrow about mental health and carrying out small acts of kindness. Visit the Oak National Academy website to find out more www.thenational.academy
Thursday 11th June
Dear Parents,
It is always lovely to receive photographs of home learning tasks. Thank you for sharing them with us. The children are working very hard and having fun. Try to find time to share the images on the Year 2 gallery with your son/daughter so they can see the fantastic range of activities.
Home Learning Tasks for this week
Maths
Links to videos for the Maths lessons this week:Year-2-videos
Monday 15th June Lesson 1 – Count sides and vertices on 2D shapes
Lesson 1 Answers – Count sides and vertices on 2D shapes
Tuesday 16th June Lesson 2 – Count faces, edges and vertices on 3D shapes
Answers Count faces, edges and vertices on 3D shapes
Wednesday 17th June Lesson 3 – Sort 2D and 3D shapes
Lesson 3 Answers – Sort 2D and 3D shapes
Thursday 18th June Lesson 4 – Merge 2D and 3D shapes
Friday 19th June Please complete tasks on Mathletics today.
Arithmetic
Year 2 Arithmetic Practice Bookmarks – Pack 8
English
The focus of our new English unit is Superheroes. Have fun. Remember that this is a two week unit: Y2-Superheroes
The reading comprehension tasks are also linked to Superheroes.
This task is for children who find reading comprehension quite challenging: Step 1 – Starting Reading Skills
Most children in Year 2 should be able to read and respond to this task independently: Step 2 – Developing Reading Skills
This reading task is more challenging. Most children in Year 2 will be able to read and respond to this text too: Step 3 – Building Reading Skills
Science
We would like the children to focus on plants for this half term. Feel free to dip into some of the tasks from this unit of work. Remember to take some photographs so your friends can see your investigations on the Year 2 gallery! Plants Unit
Worship and Prayer
Blackburn Diocese have kindly provided lots of resources for families to access from home. The children love attending worship in school so please have a look at this link:
www.churchofengland.org/faith-action/faith-home/i-am-parent
Blackburn Diocese have a range of Bible Podlets Podcasts for adults to do with primary aged children. The theme is Bible Transformers. It focuses on people in the Bible who were transformed by Jesus.
https://www.bdeducation.org.uk/tag/bible-podlets/
If your son/daughter would like to write a prayer for us to share together, please send me a copy and we can add the prayers to our gallery.
Well being
BBC Bitesize has some amazing resources. The well being section is also very good. https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/tags/z7s22sg/year-2
We’d love to see photographs of any of the children’s activities including PE, sporting activities, Art, Design and baking.
Thank you for your continued support.
Kind Regards
H Smith
h.smith@grimsargh-st-michaels.lancs.sch.uk
Thursday 4th June
Dear Parents,
Thank you for all the fantastic photographs showing home learning tasks and fun outdoors. It is wonderful to see the children enjoying the great outdoors, exercising, baking, showing acts of kindness, writing prayers and being so creative.
Home Learning Tasks for this week
Maths
Links to videos for the Maths lessons this week: Year-2-Week-7
Monday 8th June
Lesson 1 Answers Unit fractions
Tuesday 9th June
Lesson 2 Answers Non-unit fractions
Wednesday 10th June
Thursday 11th June
Lesson 4 Answers Find a quarter
Friday 12th June
Please look at the tasks on Mathletics.
Arithmetic Year 2 Arithmetic Practice Bookmarks – Pack 7
English
Please ensure the the unit based on rainbows of hope is completed by Friday 12th June. I’d love to see some more photographs of the children’s completed tasks.
This week’s reading comprehension is based on Sunflowers. Please click here to access the task: Sunflower-plant-life-cycle-reading-activity
Science
We would like the children to focus on plants for this half term. Feel free to dip into some of the tasks from this unit of work. Remember to take some photographs so your friends can see your investigations on the Year 2 gallery! Plants Unit
Worship and Prayer
Blackburn Diocese have kindly provided lots of resources for families to access from home. The children love attending worship in school so please have a look at this link:
www.churchofengland.org/faith-action/faith-home/i-am-parent
Blackburn Diocese have a range of Bible Podlets Podcasts for adults to do with primary aged children. The theme is Bible Transformers. It focuses on people in the Bible who were transformed by Jesus.
https://www.bdeducation.org.uk/tag/bible-podlets/
If your son/daughter would like to write a prayer for us to share together, please send me a copy and we can add the prayers to our gallery.
Well being
BBC Bitesize has some amazing resources. The well being section is also very good. https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/tags/z7s22sg/year-2
We’d love to see photographs of any of the children’s activities including PE, sporting activities, Art, Design and baking.
Thank you for your continued support.
Kind Regards
H Smith
h.smith@grimsargh-st-michaels.lancs.sch.uk
Monday 1st June
Dear Parents,
I hope you had a relaxing half term break and enjoyed the beautiful sunshine. Thank you for your lovely messages and wonderful photographs. The children in Year 2 continue to let their lights shine.
Year 2 children earned an amazing fifty one Mathletics certificates since lock down. One child earned a gold certificate, nine children earned silver certificates and forty one children earned a bronze certificate. Wonderful news. Well done! I wonder how many more children will receive a Mathletics certificate this week?
Home Learning Tasks for this week
Maths
Links to videos for the Maths lessons this week Year-2-Maths Videos
Tuesday 2nd June
Wednesday 3rd June
Answers – Make equal groups – sharing
Thursday 4th June
Friday 5th June
Arithmetic Week Commencing 1st June 2020
Year 2 Arithmetic Practice Bookmarks – Pack 6
English
Look at this amazing unit of work based on rainbows of hope. Try to complete the tasks by Friday 12th June. I’d love to see some photographs of the children’s work.
Please select one of the reading tasks. Have a look at the Pentecost reading task or the Captain Tom Moore task below.
Have fun reading about Captain Tom Moore in this week’s reading activity. Three stars are the most challenging questions.
Pentecost Reading Comprehension Activity
Pentecost Reading Comprehension Activity Questions
RE
Please send me one completed Pentecost activity by Friday 5th June. Have a look at the amazing resources from Blackburn Diocese:
Science
This week we would like you to grow a rainbow in Science. Have a look on the gallery.
Worship and Prayer
Blackburn Diocese have kindly provided lots of resources for families to access from home. The children love attending worship in school so please have a look at this link:
www.churchofengland.org/faith-action/faith-home/i-am-parent
We’ve enjoyed singing along to some of our favourite hymns at home this afternoon. Would your son/daughter like to sing a hymn on video for our Y2 gallery?
Blackburn Diocese have a range of Bible Podlets Podcasts for adults to do with primary aged children. The theme is Bible Transformers. It focuses on people in the Bible who were transformed by Jesus.
https://www.bdeducation.org.uk/tag/bible-podlets/
If your son/daughter would like to write a prayer for us to share together, please send me a copy and we can add the prayers to our gallery.
Well being
BBC Bitesize has some amazing resources. If you would like to try our some of the Science lessons, we’d love to see the outcomes. The well being section is also very good. https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/tags/z7s22sg/year-2
We’d love to see photographs of any of the children’s activities including PE, sporting activities, Art, Design and baking.
Thank you for your continued support.
Kind Regards
H Smith
h.smith@grimsargh-st-michaels.lancs.sch.uk
Remember Mrs Woods would love you to send her photographs of topic work and music.
j.woods@grimsargh-st-michaels.lancs.sch.uk
Thursday 21st May
Dear Parents,
Thank you for your continued support. Your lovely messages and wonderful photographs of home learning tasks illustrate how the children in Year 2 continue to let their lights shine. The children are working very hard and having fun. Please take a moment to look at the Year 2 gallery with your son/daughter. We are very proud of all the children.
I am delighted to announce that Year 2 children earned an amazing fifty one Mathletics certificates since lock down. One child earned a gold certificate, nine children earned silver certificates and forty one children earned a bronze certificate. Wonderful news. Well done!
Over half term we hope you find time to relax and enjoy time together.
Here are a few optional tasks for over the half term:
Lots of wonderful Pentecost themed tasks from Blackburn Diocese:
Why not try a Pentecost word search?
Pentecost Reading Comprehension Activity
Pentecost Reading Comprehension Activity Questions
Can your child retell the story of Pentecost?
Pentecost-Sequencing-Cards-Story-Cards
Pentecost-Story-Colouring-Pages
Have a look at the new Mathletics tasks too.
Remember to send photographs of your lock down Art and Pentecost activities via e mail to h.smith@grimsargh-st-michaels.lancs.sch.uk.
Mrs Woods would love to see some of the topic work. She’d love to hear about your music tasks.
More formal home learning tasks will continue after the half term holiday on Tuesday 2nd June.
Thank you for your continued support.
Take care
Kind Regards
H Smith
Monday 18th May
Dear Parents,
This week is mental health awareness week. During these challenging times it is important for us all to acknowledge that we have moments of feeling a little bored and fed up from time to time. In school the children regularly discuss their thoughts and feelings during worship, RE lessons and circle time. The children know that it is healthy to talk about our feelings with other people.
BBC Newsround has a great clip about Mental Health week : https://www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/52557800
Mental Health Awareness Week 2020 is a chance for the UK to focus on mental health. This year’s theme is kindness, with the week running from 18 – 24 May. The focus on kindness is a response to the coronavirus outbreak, which is having a big impact on people’s mental health.
Some people have mental health conditions like depression or anxiety, which means they have feelings that won’t go away and which start to really affect day-to-day life.
Mark Rowland, chief executive of the Mental Health Foundation, said: “We want to use Mental Health Awareness Week to celebrate the thousands of acts of kindness that are so important to our mental health. And we want to start a discussion on the kind of society we want to shape as we emerge from this pandemic.”
It is helpful to ask other people how they are feeling and consider how they are feeling too. I am sure lots of our children miss a hug or a kiss from a grandparent or other close friend or relative. Empathy is part of our emotional well being and Year 2 are working hard to consider physical and mental well being, making sure that it is a positive topic and not one to be avoided.
Have you carried out any acts of kindness recently?
We would love the children in Year 2 to carry out an act of kindness. Your son/daughter could help out with a task at home, make a card for a friend or relative or bake a cake for somebody. Please send me the photographs and we can share them on the Y2 gallery. If you would like more information about Mental Health Awareness Week, feel free to look on the website below:
Thursday 14th May
Dear Parents,
Thank you for the wonderful photographs of your VE Day celebrations, creative projects, baking, gardening, art work, Science experiments, Maths reading and writing tasks. The children are working very hard and we really appreciate everything you are doing to support your son/daughter with home learning. If you have a moment, please look at the amazing photographs in the Y2 gallery. The gallery is a real celebration of all your efforts.
Maths
Monday 18th May
Video Lesson 1
Multiplication sentences using the x symbol https://vimeo.com/418150502
Lesson 1 – Multiplication sentences using the x symbol
Lesson 1 Answers – Multiplication sentences using the x
Tuesday 19th May
Video Lesson 2 using arrays https://vimeo.com/417922235
Wednesday 20th May
Video Lesson 3 The 2 times-table https://vimeo.com/417922431
Lesson 3 Answers – The 2 times-table
Thursday 21st May
Video Lesson 4 The 5 times-table https://vimeo.com/417922557
Lesson 4 Answers – The 5 times-table
Friday 22nd May
BBC Bitesize Y2 Maths challenge or Mathletics tasks.
Arithmetic
Year 2 Arithmetic Practice Bookmarks – Pack 4
English
This week we would like the children to learn about Ascension Day.
Here’s a fact file for the children to read along with a set of questions for the children to read and then respond to. Pleas select one fact file along with a set of questions. (One star is the easiest task).
Please encourage your son/daughter to retell the story of the ascension of Jesus, when Jesus ascended into heaven.
This cartoon tells the story:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UcFw8pLBSIo
The children could write a story book for younger children. If your son/daughter prefers letter writing, why not ask them to imagine that they witnessed Jesus ascending into heaven? They could write a letter to a friend retelling the amazing events.
Click on the links for writing paper.
We’d love to see some pictures of Ascension Day too.
Click here for drawing paper Blank
RE, worship and prayer
Blackburn Diocese have kindly provided lots of resources for families to access from home. The children love attending worship in school so please have a look at this link:
www.churchofengland.org/faith-action/faith-home/i-am-parent
We’ve enjoyed singing along to some of our favourite hymns at home this afternoon. Would your son/daughter like to sing a hymn on video for our Y2 gallery?
Blackburn Diocese have a range of Bible Podlets Podcasts for adults to do with primary aged children. The theme is Bible Transformers. It focuses on people in the Bible who were transformed by Jesus.
https://www.bdeducation.org.uk/tag/bible-podlets/
If your son/daughter would like to write a prayer for us to share together, please send me a copy and we can add the prayers to our gallery.
Science and Well being
BBC Bitesize has some amazing resources. If you would like to try our some of the Science lessons, we’d love to see the outcomes. The well being section is also very good. https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/tags/z7s22sg/year-2
We’d love to see photographs of any PE and sporting activities, Art, Design and baking.
Why not try designing an outfit for your teddy bear or doll? Use recycled materials and give your toys a new look! Look at this for inspiration!
Stay safe.
Thank you for your continued support.
Kind Regards
H Smith
h.smith@grimsargh-st-michaels.lancs.sch.uk
Tuesday 12th May
Dear Parents,
Tomorrow it is National Numeracy Day. Click on the link for more information:
National Numeracy Day Virtual Festival Schedule_final
Would you like to try a family challenge?
Have a look at the family quiz from our Maths subject leader, Mrs Todd.
This week is Christian Aid Week.
The children attending school enjoyed learning about a Dr Khan, currently working in a refugee camp in Bangladesh. The children discussed the challenges he might face. Then we talked about Dr Khan, who is currently using his God given talents to support the refugees.
During circle time, the children thanked God for the members of our community who are using their God given talents during the pandemic. We thanked God for the key workers. The children mentioned police officers, nurses, social workers, doctors, supermarket staff, food delivery drivers, truck drivers, pharmacists, probation officers, members of the armed forces, teachers and teaching assistants and finally Post Office workers. The children enjoyed writing prayers and celebrated how members of our community are working together during the Coronavirus outbreak. Our prayers are on the prayer tree in the hall.
If you have time, take a look on the Christian Aid website and consider how the world in uniting in love during the international pandemic. Perhaps your son/ daughter would like to write a prayer too.
Thank you for your continued support
H Smith
Thursday 7th May
Dear Parents
We are delighted with all the wonderful photographs and videos of home learning. The children are having fun and working hard. Thank you.
Over the next week we would like the children to learn more about VE day. Following on from the discussion task from Monday 4th May, there are a few more activities for your son/daughter to enjoy. Find out more about V E day or make some bunting. Have fun!
Click on the links for VE Day reading tasks :
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Would you like to make some bunting?
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Maths
Please click on the link to access the videos to support the Maths lessons for this week 11th-15th May 2020:
Monday 11th May
Lesson 1 Answers Add and subtract 10s
Tuesday 12th May
Lesson 2 Answers Add 2-digit numbers
Wednesday 13th May
Lesson 3 Subtract 2-digit numbers
Lesson 3 Answers Subtract 2-digit numbers
Thursday 14th May
Lesson 4 Bonds to 100 (tens and ones)
Lesson 4 Answers Bonds to 100 (tens and ones)
Friday 15th May
BBC Bitesize Y2 Maths challenge or Mathletics tasks.
Arithmetic
Year 2 Arithmetic Practice Bookmarks – Pack 3
English
We would like the children to complete the English booklet below.
Y2-Literacy Elves and the Shoemakers Home Learning Summer 3
RE, worship and prayer
Blackburn Diocese have kindly provided lots of resources for families to access from home. The children love attending worship in school so please have a look at this link:
www.churchofengland.org/faith-action/faith-home/i-am-parent
We’ve enjoyed singing along to some of our favourite hymns at home this afternoon. Would your son/daughter like to sing a hymn on video for our Y2 gallery?
Blackburn Diocese have a range of Bible Podlets Podcasts for adults to do with primary aged children. The theme is Bible Transformers. It focuses on people in the Bible who were transformed by Jesus.
https://www.bdeducation.org.uk/tag/bible-podlets/
If your son/daughter would like to write a prayer for us to share together, please send me a copy and we can add the prayers to our gallery.
Science and Well being
BBC Bitesize has some amazing resources. If you would like to try our some of the Science lessons, we’d love to see the outcomes. The well being section is also very good. https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/tags/z7s22sg/year-2
We’d love to see photographs of any PE and sporting activities, Art, Design and baking.
Stay safe.
Thank you for your continued support.
Kind Regards
H Smith
h.smith@grimsargh-st-michaels.lancs.sch.uk
Monday 4th May
Would you like to learn more about V E Day?
Please click on the link for a few ideas and questions for you and your family to discuss and research together.
Picture News Special Resource – VE Day 75th Anniversary 2020
We’d love you to send us some VE Day Art work or poetry.
Please send them to h.smith@grimsargh-st-michaels.lancs.sch.uk and/or directly to Picture News.
Thursday 30th April
Dear Parents
We are delighted with all the wonderful photographs and videos of home learning. The children are having fun and working hard. Thank you.
We’d love the children in Year 2 to show their support for the NHS and other key workers for their dedication. Here’s an opportunity to design their very own external banner, thanking the NHS and other key workers for their dedication. Five winners will have their design recreated and produced to proudly display on your school gates!
Here are the home learning tasks for next week:
Maths
Please click on this link to access the videos to support the Maths lessons: https://whiterosemaths.com/homelearning/year-2/
Monday
Lesson 1 Fact families – addition and subtraction bonds to 20
Lesson 1 Answers Fact families – addition and subtraction bonds to 20
Tuesday
Lesson 2 Compare number sentences
Lesson 2 Answers Compare number sentences
Wednesday
Lesson 3 Answers Related Facts
Thursday
Lesson 4 Answers Add and subtract 1s
Friday
BBC Bitesize Y2 Maths challenge or Mathletics tasks.
English
We would like the children to start the new English booklet below. The tasks are based on one of my favourite fairy tales. There is no expectation for the children to complete the whole booklet in one week. Ideally we would like the children to complete the tasks in this booklet by Friday 8th May.
Y2-Literacy Elves and the Shoemakers Home Learning Summer 3
RE, worship and prayer
Blackburn Diocese have kindly provided lots of resources for families to access from home. The children love attending worship in school so please have a look at this link:
www.churchofengland.org/faith-action/faith-home/i-am-parent
We’ve enjoyed singing along to some of our favourite hymns at home this afternoon. Would your son/daughter like to sing a hymn on video for our Y2 gallery?
Blackburn Diocese have a range of Bible Podlets Podcasts for adults to do with primary aged children. The theme is Bible Transformers. It focuses on people in the Bible who were transformed by Jesus.
https://www.bdeducation.org.uk/tag/bible-podlets/
If your son/daughter would like to write a prayer for us to share together, please send me a copy and we can add the prayers to our gallery.
Science and Well being
BBC Bitesize has some amazing resources. If you would like to try our some of the Science lessons, we’d love to see the outcomes. The well being section is also very good. https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/tags/z7s22sg/year-2
We’d love to see photographs of any PE and sporting activities, Art, Design and baking.
Stay safe.
Thank you for your continued support.
Kind Regards
H Smith
h.smith@grimsargh-st-michaels.lancs.sch.uk
Thursday 23rd April
Dear Parents,
Thank you for the wonderful messages and photographs. Have a look on the Year 2 gallery to see all the amazing examples of home learning.
The Maths challenge for tomorrow is here Family-Challenge-Friday-24th
You can also access it on BBC Bitesize under Year 2 and Maths Challenge.
Here are the home learning tasks for next week:
Maths
Mathletics tasks are now updated. Thank you to all the children who achieved a bronze certificate this week. Well done!
For Maths next week, there are four lessons for Monday to Thursday. The family challenge will be placed on this page next Thursday evening.
Maths for Monday 27th April
Lesson 1 video https://vimeo.com/403260907
Lesson 1 Answers Compare lengths
Maths for Tuesday 28th April
Lesson 2 video https://vimeo.com/405439587
Lesson 2 Answers Order lengths
Maths for Wednesday 29th April
Lesson 3 video https://vimeo.com/405439836
Lesson 3 Four operations with lengths
Lesson 3 Answers Four operations with lengths
Maths for Thursday 30th April
Lesson 4 video https://vimeo.com/405440004
Lesson 4 Answers Problem Solving
Arithmetic Arithmetic Summer 2 Home Learning
English
We would like the children to continue with the English booklet from last week. Y2-Talk 4 Writing Summer 1 Week 1 and 2
Maybe your son/daughter could also show you how amazing their reading and understanding of text is. Have a look at this story: t-e-1000-year-2-a-tale-of-two-feathers-differentiated-reading-comprehension-activity_ver_3
Stay safe.
Thank you for your continued support.
Kind Regards
H Smith
h.smith@grimsargh-st-michaels.lancs.sch.uk
Dear Parents,
Hope you all managed to have a good Easter and that you are keeping safe and well. It has been really good to see photos of the Viking topic work that the children did last term.
This term I am going to split topic into History and Geography and I would like you to use the fantastic homeschool lessons being produced by BBC Bitesize. You can go to the link here:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/primary
There is a short history and geography lesson each week for Year 2 with information, videos and exciting activities. I think it is a really good resource and will continue to give your child a good grounding in these subjects.
Please email me to show me any writing, drawing or creative work your children do. It is always lovely to see work and updates on how your child is getting on.
Music
I have sent everyone an email with log in information and details on how to access music sessions with Charanga, the programme we enjoy using in school. There are weekly lessons for you to do at home. You can visit the site using the link below;
Take care,
Mrs Woods
Thursday 16th April
Dear Parents,
We hope you are enjoying a relaxing Easter break and staying safe and well. Thank you for the wonderful photographs of home learning from before the holiday. Lots of the photographs are in the Year 2 gallery on this website. We hope you enjoy looking at them together.
We’ve sent an e-mail out to you all which contains the Maths and English tasks for each day next week. Links to the daily tasks for next week are here:
Maths questions and answers for week commencing Monday 20th April.
Y2 Summer 1 Thursday Questions
Y2 Summer 1 Wednesday Questions
Remember to encourage your child to watch the short video from the e-mail before completing the written questions and problems. The mark schemes are included above so you can evaluate your child’s progress together.
Friday’s Maths challenge will be sent out separately.
The English booklet is a two week unit so there is no expectation for your son/daughter to complete the whole of the booklet in one week.
Y2-Talk 4 Writing Summer 1 Week 1 and 2
Feel free to contact us if you have any questions about any of the home learning tasks. Miss Smith is available from Monday to Friday and Mrs Woods is available on Thursdays and Fridays. We are looking forward to receiving photographs of the completed tasks.
Mrs Woods will be in touch soon with topic and music home learning tasks.
Thank you for your continued support
Kind Regards
H Smith and J Woods
h.smith@grimsargh-st-michaels.lancs.sch.uk
Thursday 9th April
Dear parents,
We hope you are staying safe and well. Here’s a copy of the e-mail which contains a link to a cartoon version of the Easter story, as well as a selection of activities for your son/daughter to try. Happy Easter Year 2
We are looking forward to sharing some of the completed tasks on the Year 2 gallery.
Thank you for your continued support.
Kind Regards
Miss Smith and Mrs Woods
Tuesday 7th April
Dear Parents,
We hope you are enjoying the sunshine and staying safe. Here’s a link to a useful book for children. It explains the Coronavirus in child friendly language. Coronavirus-A-Book-for-Children
Thank you for your continued support
Kind Regards
H Smith and J Woods
Wednesday 1st April
Dear Parents,
I hope you are well. Thank you for all the wonderful photographs of children’s work and achievements. They really cheer us up. Please check your e-mails for the most up to date information about home learning, activities for Easter and updates.
It is very important to continue to read with your son/daughter every day. Even ten minutes a day will make a real difference. Please continue to record daily reading tasks in your son/daughter’s homework diary. We are happy for your child to read books from home. If you would like access to reading books, there are two amazing websites which contain age appropriate books online. They are completely free too.
Oxford Owls also have lots of reading books including Oxford Reading Tree (KS1) https://www.oxfordowl.co.uk/
Collins have also created a parent sign in for free access to their Big Cats reading scheme.
https://collins.co.uk/pages/big–cat-ebooks
This week we would like the children to complete pages 32-37 in the reading book and pages 32, 33, 34 and 35 in the reasoning book.
Feel free to contact us if you have any questions or queries.
Please continue to keep in touch and enjoy learning together.
Kind Regards
H Smith and J Woods
Wednesday 24th March 2020
Dear Parents,
I hope you are enjoying working on the home learning packs together.
Please encourage your child to complete a handwriting exercise each day. The Penpals resource is for handwriting. The children usually spend ten minutes a day on this. Encourage your child to write in pencil, use tall and short letters and join with care.
In the home learning pack for Year 2, we’ve also included reading, writing, word level, maths, science, craft and problem solving activities.
Please ensure that your child logs on to the mathletics website each day and completes at least one task. This could be one of the tasks set by me, or live mathletics to improve arithmetic skills. In addition to mathletics tasks, I would like your son/daughter to complete one of the maths exercises in the home learning pack.
For English, the children are required to complete one task a day too. Feel free to select a reading comprehension task from the pack, a word level challenge or start on the non-chronological report about Easter symbols. Details on a separate e-mail.
We’ve included lined paper for the writing tasks. Talking together about the writing task will help with ideas. Please encourage your son/daughter to write in good sentences using joining words (and, but, so, because, or, if, so or when), commas in lists, adjectives and varied openers. Neat handwriting and accurate use of capital letters and full stops is essential.
In addition to daily Maths and English, I’d like the children to complete one other task. Please select from the other activities in the home learning pack. If you are feeling creative, your might like to create a scrap book about Easter Symbols. This links with our RE unit of work. Alternatively, spend some time on Mrs Wood’s topic challenge based on the Vikings.
Once your child has completed the tasks in the home learning pack, please use the marking guide to check the work together and give your child feedback.
Education City and Purple Mash also have excellent resources to reinforce learning at home.
If you would like to contact me about any of the tasks, I will try to reply to your queries before 5 pm each day from Monday to Thursday inclusive. Feel free to contact me by e-mail. My e-mail address is h.smith@grimsargh-st-michaels.lancs.sch.uk.
Mrs Wood’s e mail address is j.woods.@grimsargh-st-michaels.lancs.sch.uk. She teaches on Thursdays and Fridays.
Thank you for your continued support.
Kind Regards
H Smith
Home learning information from Mrs Woods
Topic
Please carry on with our Viking topic. Record information in your Viking passports if you like. Don’t worry if you don’t have the passport or want to work in a different way- your topic can be as creative as you want it to be. Examples of areas to research include Viking timeline, invasion and warriors, houses and homes and Viking gods and beliefs. The children have already really enjoyed this topic and really impressed me with their work, so have fun and find out about the areas that interest them.
Please email me for any questions and support.
BBC Bitesize and BBC Teach are both good resources. They are aimed at KS2 but a lot of the resources are accessible to Year 2.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/ztyr9j6
https://www.bbc.co.uk/teach/class-clips-video/history-ks2-the-vikings-animation/zhrygwx
Music
I have sent everyone an email with log in information and details on how to access music sessions with Charanga, the programme we enjoy using in school. This is something you could try with your child over Easter, if you like, or next term. You can visit the site using the link below;
Take care,
Mrs Woods
Dig Deep in 2020
Dig Deep Topic Web Year 2 Spring 2020
Spellings for Monday 23rd March
This week we are concentrating on spelling words containing the suffix ‘er’ or ‘est..
faster
fastest
slowest
louder
quickest
Five of the spellings are key words for Y2.
sugar
Sunday
sure
talk
tall
Wednesday 18th March
CGP Tasks
This week we would like the children to complete pages 26-32 in the reading book and pages 28, 29, 30 and 31 in the reasoning book.
Thank you for your continued support.
Miss Smith and Mrs Woods