St Oswald's Catholic Primary SchoolYear 2 Blog Friday 8th September 2023
Date: 8th Sep 2023 @ 1:16pm
Welcome to our first blog in Year 2!
We hope you all had a lovely summer holiday. We have had a great first week back in Year 2. The children have all settled really well and are enjoying their new routines.
Our PE day is going to be FRIDAY.
Our BOOK change will be MONDAY.
You will get SPELLINGS on WEDNESDAYS and a quiz will be the following WEDNESDAY.
SumDog challenges will be set every FRIDAY.
This week we have started our Maths with Place Value. We have looked at tens and ones, used lots of equipment and compared the values of numbers.
In English we have read ‘Find your Happy’ by Emily Coxhead. The children have created pictures of things that make them happy and written sentences to match their drawings. Our focus will be sentence structure for the first few weeks of Year 2.
We have started our PE for the Autumn Term with our topic of ‘Games and Fundamental Skills’.
Father Michael has visited each class this morning and shared prayers for the new term. Our topic for RE this half term is Beginnings. The children have created hearts and drawn who they love.
In Art, our topic is Draw and Explore. We have looked at different types of artists and explored how they use the world around them to create their art.
Forest School
Your child will be starting Forest School sessions next week with Mrs Corbett, who is a Level 3 qualified Forest School leader. The groups will be made up of around 17 Year 1 and 2 children.
We are blessed with amazing outside spaces and facilities and it is a privilege to be able to use them in this way.
Your child will develop many skills such as communication, team-building, problem-solving and risk-taking.
They will also learn about nature in a holistic way and the approach encourages child-initiated learning. There will be opportunities to experience fires and to learn how to use tools in a safe way.
They will have 2 sessions per week lasting an hour each, for the whole year. Please ensure your child has a pair of named wellies in school at all times.
Home Practice will start next Friday 15th September.
Hope you all have a weekend.
Thanks Year 2 Team