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News Flow
A stream of information from all school departments, the latest at the top, can be seen below.
Maths Home Learning – Thursday 3rd December
On Thursday we will be delivering two live Teams lessons again. The first will be Maths at 9:30am. This will be a session about telling the time to the nearest 5 minute interval (to the hour this time)
Your child should have received an invite to this session however if not you can ‘join’ the meeting through the Teams app.
Children will need paper and a pen handy for the session.
Following the lesson, the questions on the sheet below should be answered. You do not need to print this sheet but the children will need to see it so they can work out their answers. Try to encourage your child to use the picture of the annotated clock at the top of the sheet to help them.
If you would like to do a bit more work on time, then you can find Thursday’s challenge sheet here:
Keep up the hard work everyone!
If you have any questions please email us on newdale.year2team@taw.org.uk
See you tomorrow,
Miss Newport and Miss Jones
For those self-isolating
If your child is having to self-isolate at home, resources to maintain good attainment and progress are being sent out via Google Classroom under the “Self-Isolation” section under “Classwork”. Please see the attached guide which will help your child access the Google Classroom from a device.
Please feel free to use the blog to showcase pictures of your work from home and get in touch if you need further support. You could email the Y5 team on newdale.year5team@taw.org.uk.
Thank you for your continued support.
Wednesday’s Live lessons – for anyone who missed them!
We had two live lessons today, Maths and Literacy. If you missed either of them then you can catch up with the recording here:
Maths (9.30am)
Literacy (11.00am)
Also have a look at what our cheeky elves have been up to today. I think they are trying to remind us all to keep washing our hands. What a mess they have made!
Both of the elves were named during this mornings meeting. The elf in Miss Jones’ class is called Buddy and the elf in Miss Newport’s class is called Snowflake. Two brilliant names for two cheeky elves!
If you have any queries or questions then please get in touch! newdale.year2team@taw.org.uk
We are all very proud of you Year 2,
Miss Newport and Miss Jones
YR2 Times Tables ( Wednesday 2nd December)
Good morning year 2,
Today’s times table game is an old favourite of mine, a fortune teller. Follow the instructions carefully then take turns with your family at home to answer questions on your 2 times tables.
Want a challenge, click on the link below and try answering divide questions.
Good luck and have fun.
Mrs Horler
( If you have a question feel free to email me or one of the team on Newdale.year2team@taw.org.uk )
Year 2 – Mrs Thomas’s Phonics group (Split Digraphs) – Wednesday 2nd December
Hi phonics group,
Today we will be continuing to practise reading and spelling words using the ‘u-e’ split digraph.
Below is a link to a fun online game. All you need to do is spell a ‘u-e’ word to match each picture that is shown. Good luck!
https://games.galacticphonics.com/longvowels/u-e/interactive/uespell/uespellt.htm
Top tip: If you are not sure what the picture in the game is showing you then click on the ‘list’ button and it will show you a selection of words to choose from.
How many of the 10 ‘u-e’ words did you spell correctly?
Year 2 Spelling activity – Wednesday 2nd December
Hi all,
Todays spelling activity is the ‘Dice Bingo’ game. Some of you have played this before but some of you haven’t so here are the instructions for how to play.
1) Print off a bingo board for each player (each player’s board looks the same).
dice game – number words 1-10 dice game – number words 10-100
Remember to choose the board that matches your spellings for this week.
This one is for Mrs Thomas, Mrs Horler and Mrs Fullerton’s groups.
This one is for Miss Newport and Miss Jones’s groups.
2)Take turns to roll the dice (if you don’t have a dice then I have attached a link below to an online one).
https://www.online-stopwatch.com/chance-games/roll-a-dice/
3)Whichever number you roll, you read the word next to that number on your board, highlight it or colour it in and then copy the word on the line underneath. It is then the next players turn.
4)If you roll a number that has been rolled before then read the next word along on the same line.
5)The winner is the first person to colour a line going either across or down. Remember to shout BINGO!
Please email a photo of your work to ‘newdale.year2team@taw.org.uk’ or post on the school website year 2 homework blog. We’d love to see who won!
If you need paper copies please contact the school office.
Update 2.12.2020
Thank you for your continued support through this tricky half term. The teams at Newdale are doing their very best to keep everyone safe as well as making sure the children are accessing the very best teaching and learning. We are not writing off Christmas and have all sorts of fun things in the pipeline to help children get excited and looking forward to the big day!
I have been involved in some of the live lessons that Year 2 have been delivering: it has been lovely to see children engaged and enjoying the offer. Clearly, we know it is not as good as being in school, but I am very confident that the Year 2 team are working so hard on delivering the best offer possible. If you are struggling with accessing home learning, please contact the school and we will help you as much as possible. It is important that children do not slip behind.
The attached poster is the latest guidance on Tier 2 which Telford has been placed in. We really do need you to pay more attention than ever to the health of your children. As you can see, there are precautionary test recommendations for a new set of symptoms. If we in school hear a child of complaining of these symptoms, we will ask you to collect them straight away to avoid possible direct contacts and therefore possible spread of the virus. The test process is very easy and we know now that results are often back within 24 hours. Unfortunately we have experienced some parents saying their child is making it up and that they are not ill. As you can imagine, this is very difficult for us in school as we have to be overly cautious for the sake of everyone else. Please support us in monitoring carefully at home and talking to your children should they seem under the weather.
Coronavirus_Getting_a_test_and_when_to_isolate_with_booking_a_test_option
The last reminder for now is linked to sickness and diarrhoea – if your child does suffer with either of these illnesses, please note our school sickness policy is that they remain off school for 48 hours, again to avoid spreading diseases unnecessarily.
Thank you for your continued support in helping us to keep you safe.
Miss Cook
Headteacher
Literacy home learning Wednesday 2nd December
Today we will be delivering two live Teams lessons. The first will be Maths at 9:30am. Then Literacy will follow at 11am. This live Teams session will be a literacy lesson about persuasive letter writing and using our different sentence types.
Your child should receive an invite to this session however if not you can ‘join’ the meeting through the Teams app.
Children will need paper and a pen handy for the session.
Following the lesson, the writing frame below can be completed. This is not essential and plain or lined paper is all that is required.
CA2-L-4-Letter-to-Future-Teacher-Writing-Template-Activity-Sheet
L/O- To write a letter to persuade Duncan to end the argument between orange and yellow crayon.
Try and include as many of the different sentence types as you can within your letter. Remember, these are exclamations, statements, questions and commands.
Below you can see guidelines on ideas for each paragraph of your letter.
Here is an example: Can you spot the different sentence types?
Please see the school website for more information regarding the live Maths lesson.
If you have any questions please email the Year 2 team on newdale.year2team@taw.org.uk
See you tomorrow,
Miss Newport and Miss Jones
Maths home learning – Wednesday 2nd December
On Wednesday we will be delivering two live Teams lessons. The first will be Maths at 9:30am. This will be a session about telling the time to the nearest 5 minute interval (past the hour only)
Your child should receive an invite to this session however if not you can ‘join’ the meeting through the Teams app.
Children will need paper and a pen handy for the session.
Following the lesson, the questions on the sheet below should be answered. You do not need to print this sheet but the children will need to see it so they can work out their answers. Try to encourage your child to use the picture of the annotated clock at the top of the sheet to help them.
If you would like to do a bit more time work, you can find Wednesday’s challenge sheet here:
Well done for all of your hard work Year 2. We are all very proud of you and understand that home learning is not always easy. Keep it up!
If you have any questions please email us on newdale.year2team@taw.org.uk
See you tomorrow,
Miss Newport and Miss Jones
Digging in Forest School … 🌳
We decided that we wanted to dig all the way to Australia today in Forest School … some of us even found hidden treasure! Great teamwork Year 1!
