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We have all had an incredibly busy week learning in Team Indigo and Team Royal, take a look at what we have been up to….

Maths

This week in maths we have been focusing on statistics. We started the week looking at pictograms, tally charts, block diagrams, Carroll diagrams and Venn diagrams.

RWI/English

This week in English we have started The Stick Man by Julia Donaldson. This week we have focused on our reading skills. We have learnt how to sequence and summarise The Stick Man, identify rhyming words, clarify vocabulary we were unsure of e.g. mast, and review the book.

In RWI this week we have been focusing on building up their fluency when reading, this included their pace, speed, expressions and reading punctuation. Any additional practice will be hugely beneficial.

Thematic Curriculum

This week we have been artists! In art this week we looked at the artist George Seurat and his pointillism method using only dots to colour in his picture. We have been experimenting what tool works best and refining our skills on pointillism.

Next week in:

Next week in English we will be continuing the book The Stick Man and using our writing skills using commas, rhetorical questions and diary entries.

Next week in maths we will be learning all about money. We will look at being able to recognise coins and notes and compare different amounts. We will look at giving change up to and including £1 using our 100 square.

Next week for our thematic curriculum we will become designers in our Design and technology lessons. Later in the week we will be consolidating all our learning this term and doing a quiz.

Love2Learn

Love to Learn – Friday 2^nd December

Due back – Wednesday 7^th December

This week for your Love to Learn task, we would love for you to create your own Christmas decoration using the pointillism method. You can use stickers, pens, paints, pencils, cotton buds, finger painting anything you like just remember to dot, dot, dot! We cannot wait to see all your wonderful creations!

Read at 3

Thank you to all the parents, grandparents and adults that were able to attend this week’s Read at 3 with the children.

Other News

Christmas Party

Our party is on 15^th December please could you bring in the following food for our year 2 classes:

Red Romans - savoury

Blue Vikings -sweet

Green Normans - crisps

Yellow Saxons - Fruit

The children will be able to come into school in their party clothes, but please remember sensible attire and footwear.

We need your help!

Next term our thematic curriculum will be covering Passion for Fashion, where we will be making our own clothes out of recyclable resources! If over Christmas you have any spare materials, tin foil, unused bin bags, bottle caps of various sizes, rolls, newspaper etc. we would love for you to donate these items to us for term 3.

PE

There is no PE or Sports Project on the last week of term Monday 12^th and Tuesday 13^th December.

Nativity

Please may we have costumes in school clearly labelled in a named bag by Tuesday 6th December.

Key dates to remember:

Christmas performance Tuesday 13th December at 9:15 am.

Christmas Parties – Thursday 15th December

 Christmas Jumper Day and Christmas Dinner – Friday 16th December

 Term 2 ends at 2pm – Friday 16th December

 Term 3 begins – Wednesday 4th January

Miss Hall, Miss Davey and Mrs Barlow