School Year 2024-2025

We are so looking forward to the year ahead.

We are Eagle Owls and Wise Owls

Information for parents

PE days: Gymnastics on Mondays and Football on Thursdays.

Children to come in wearing PE kits suitable for inside and outside PE. Children can wear house colour t shirts with a school jumper or cardigan on top. 

Please make sure jewellery is removed before coming to school. Long hair needs to be tied up.

There will be times when we are outside so please make sure your child's kit has suitable clothes and footwear for inside and outside PE.

Homework

Daily Tasks

Reading and keywords

Spelling practise

Counting forwards and backwards to 100 and in steps of 2, 5, 10

Purple Mash remote learning

Rocket Phonics Reading

Children also have Merton Missions set every half term. These can be found on our topic newsletters.

Please click on the PDF or scan the QR code to practise your child's spellings.

Autumn 1 - Let's Explore: The Rainforest. 

In this half term the children will be continuing their investigation into the different climates and reaches of our Planet. Along side our Science topic of animals and their habitats, we will be researching facts for writing fact files. At the end of our topic we will be sharing what we have learned with year 1 ready for their Amazing Animals topic. In maths we'll be building on our place value knowledge and applying this in our work. 

Using the fictional story "There's a Rangtang in my bedroom" and non-fiction texts on animals we will be writing a sequence of sentences using question marks, conjunctions and adjectives to build our fact files.  In Math's we'll be taking what we learnt in year 1 and applying it to numbers to 100 using place value, addition and subtraction. 

In Geography we'll be exploring the rainforests of Madagascar and the Amazon to understand why they are called rainforests and the different animals that live there. We'll also be comparing physical and human features of Popley to the Rainforests to understand the differences and similarities.

In Art we'll be exploring the works of Henri Rousseau and his beautiful drawings of animals in the jungle. Did you know Rousseau never visited a jungle and used books to inspire his art?

In Jigsaw we'll be exploring "Being me in Our World", thinking about the rights and responsibilities we have and thinking about our learning charter for year 2. We'll be thinking about applying an I can do it attitude to our learning through Trickbox. 

Please click on the above news letter to see your child's learning for this half term.

Glue sticks on strike!

Year 2 were shocked to come in from break to see that the glue sticks had shown that enough was enough. A letter was found from the glue sticks saying that they weren't going to work this year until year 2 promised to look after them by keeping their lids on, making sure they go back where they belong and using them carefully. 

Year 2 wrote a letter to the glue sticks persuading them to go back to work and promised them that they would look after them. The glue sticks were happy with this and went back to work. Year two breathed a sigh of relief.