What a fantastic first week back we have had in Year 2! The children have settled back into school brilliantly and have enjoyed getting stuck into lots of exciting learning. Our value for this term is compassion, and we have been thinking about how we can show kindness and care towards others.

During our class worship this week, we explored the Bible story of The Good Samaritan. We thought carefully about how the Good Samaritan showed compassion by helping someone in need, even though they were a stranger. We then discussed how we can follow his example by being good neighbours, showing kindness and helping others. We thought about all the little things we can do every day to make a big difference to someone else!

In English, we have started our new learning all about instructions! We looked at a variety of different instructions and explored the features they all had in common. We used these to create our very own checklist of features that we would need to include when writing instructions. We then focused on imperative verbs. We practised giving our partners command sentences, using imperative verbs to tell them exactly what they needed to do. We had lots of fun putting these into practice before writing some of our own sentences. We are becoming experts at giving clear instructions!

In Maths, we have been using Base 10 equipment to help us add two 2-digit numbers together. We have been working hard to understand the importance of partitioning numbers into tens and ones to help us calculate accurately. We have also been practising exchanging 10 ones for 1 ten when needed. This took lots of careful thinking, but the children did a fantastic job using the equipment to help them understand what was happening!

We have also shared some very exciting news with the children this week… we have revealed what our Nativity will be! The children have been so excited to find out what we will be performing and have loved getting started with learning some of the songs already. 

There is no star of the week this week as we watched year 4's class assembly! We loved seeing and hearing about what they have learnt about so far in year 4.

Reminders:

• PE days are Tuesdays and Wednesdays.
• Please bring in reading books and reading records every day and read 5 times a week at home. Remember an adult needs to sign the reading records.

Have a wonderful weekend!

Miss Knapp