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 2: Let's Explore: Antarctica

In this half term the children will be continuing as explorers investigating into the different climates and reaches of our Planet. This time we'll be looking at the coldest parts of our planet exploring Antarctica and the Arctic circle. Through the subjects of Geography and Science we'll be looking at how animals survive in these climates and what they eat by understanding different food chains. We'll also be looking at different life cycles of animals and humans.  We'll also use what we learnt about different continents and oceans to remember their names and locations. We'll be exploring maps and thinking about where a penguin may like to live in our school. 

We'll even be launching our topic through investigating how animals of Antarctica sty warm by creating our own blubber. Come back to see how we got on. 

Using the fictional story of Blue Penguin by Petr Horachek we'll be building on our growing knowledge of sentence writing and beginning to think about how we can make our writing exciting through different adjectives and feelings. 

In Art we'll be exploring the works of Nerys Levy and using her master pieces to inspire our own drawings of a penguin in the snow. 

In Jigsaw we'll be exploring "Celebrating Difference", thinking how we are all unique and how we can use kind words to give compliments. We'll also be looking at what to do if someone is not being kind or even bullied in conjunction with Anti Bullying week (November 11th - 15th)

Topmarks Place Value game - What is the 2 digit number? 

A visit from an Artist

On the 15th November we were lucky enough to have an Artist called Holly Parkhouse come to work with the children at our school. Holly is a surface pattern designer and illustrator who creates colourful illustrations using different mediums such as gouache paint, marker pens and lino printing.

Holly works with Hobbycraft and provides many of their workshops and Holly a number of Holly's pieces of art in the form of patterned fabrics alongside other pieces are sold in the Hobbycraft stores.

Holly worked with each class on a personalised art workshop with a focus on patterns. The children were able to create their own Christmas wrapping paper using their pattern making skills learnt both in class last year as well as with Holly.

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.