PE Arrangements for Summer Term

Watch out for ‘Marvellous Me’ messages from your child’s teachers.  We LOVE Marvellous Me at Trimley St Mary – it’s a fantastic way to encourage, praise and celebrate successes and achievements in school.  Take the time to talk with your child about their learning!      Because …… everyone’s a SUPERHERO!!

PLEASE LET YOUR CHILD’S TEACHER KNOW IF YOU REQUIRE A NEW MARVELLOUS ME CODE FOR YOUR PHONE!

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Reading Challenge

Don’t forget to read for 5 minutes, 5 times a week!  Your reading Challenge Slip must be returned on MONDAY MORNING so the ‘scores on the doors’ can be collated by class teachers during registration and sent to the school office.  Come on Year 2!  A KS1 class has never topped the leader board!  We need 75% of our classes to read to meet Mrs Ashford’s challenge.  Earn your Reading Challenge Reward Stamp! Class prizes and house points available too.  Keep reading!!

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The Language of BAD

(Bad is good!)

We want to be challenged at Trimley St Mary.

We have been using the language of BAD to extend our learning.  We have been taking on challenges to show if we are brave, (paddling) adventurous (snorkeling) or daring (diving)!

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At present, Parent Helpers will not be able to come into school.  However, when this changes we will let you know, as in the past …. 

Parent Helpers Welcome!

We have welcomed parents into school in the past, to help our children to improve their reading skills.  When the current situation changes, if you are able to spare a morning or an afternoon, on a regular basis, please let your child’s teacher know.  We are very appreciative of your additional support, and it makes a huge difference to the children’s learning.  We would love you to come and join us!   Thanks for your continued support.

As Readers, we will explore a range of non-fiction texts and research facts about Nocturnal Animals.  As Writers, we will create our own, information texts, with contents pages, headings and glossaries.  We will also be looking at extended texts, like The Enchanted Wood by Enid Blyton.  We will use our Pie Corbett storytelling actions, mapping and ‘story bags’ to create our own stories.  Later in the term we will also look at different stories by the same author and focus on Eric Carle books including The Very Hungry Caterpillar, The Very Busy Spider and The Very Quiet Cricket.  Weekly Maths and English homework challenges will continue as well as spellings to learn.  Your help and support with reading and spelling is invaluable. Our English curriculum SFA (Success for All) will continue.  This skills-based curriculum helps to develop the children’s reading and comprehension skills, basic grammar, phonics and spellings while encouraging co-operative learning.  We will use Resilient Reader and Legends of Literacy strategies to improve our reading and grammar skills.  Don’t forget to complete the Reading Challenge every week!  We challenge you to read for 5 minutes, 5 times a week at home!  Come on Year Two!  We haven’t topped the leader board yet!

We LOVE MC Grammar!  He helps to make our writing AMAZING!   You can find all of MC Grammar’s cool Grammar Raps on You Tube  – a great way to learn all about grammar!  We love singing along to these in Year Two!  Why not take a look?

You  might like to find out more.  Click the link to subscribe and join in the fun!

https://twitter.com/MrMCGrammar/status/1244652305846349826?s=08

As Mathematicians, aspects of the Big Maths Scheme will continue, and we will also use strategies and approaches from our ‘Inspire Maths’ scheme too.   We will practise addition, subtraction, multiplication and division in real life scenarios and represent work with pictures, numbers and symbols.  We will continue to practise problem solving skills.    We will collect data and record it in simple lists, pictograms, graphs and charts.  We will also look at time – days of the week, and months of the year.  Please help your child to continue to learn the addition and times tables ‘Learn-Its’ for this term.   Keep practising your BMBT and CLIC at home too! 

DON’T FORGET TO KEEP PRACTISING YOUR NUMBER POUCH TOO! 

Spelling challenges will be sent home weekly.  You might like to practise these words with your child so that they are confident during their spelling challenge.  We will also practise these words regularly in school too.  IT IS NOT ESSENTIAL THAT THEY GET THEM ALL CORRECT, ALL THE TIME.  IT IS MORE IMPORTANT THAT YOUR CHILD CAN APPLY THESE SPELLING RULES TO THEIR WRITING ALL THE TIME.  We need to learn to spell all the Common Exception Words (CEWs) by the end of Year Two.  These words will be displayed in our classrooms and removed once we have all learn them off by heart.  Termly updates will be sent home, so you can see how our child is progressing with this target!

 Why not visit this online site – you can create your very own lists of words!  Then play a variety of games to practise your spellings! https://www.spellingtraining.com/index.html?&tjc&stjc&uzjw&pzjw&szjw&nyrzjw&dmzsn&otlyq&ozmw&htvl&vdrbbm&drzmw&drzmwqyj&vtcv&vtzw&oryqy&oyqy&lryqy&lryzq&hybhmy