All the news and information that parents and carers of children at our school need can be found in this area of our website.
News Flow
A stream of information from all school departments, the latest at the top, can be seen below.
Year 2 – Return to school
4th December 2020
Dear Parents/Carers of Year 2 children,
Thank you for supporting your children so well with our online learning offer. We understand that it is tricky, but are delighted with how hard the children have worked.
We are really looking forward to getting back to normality next week.
Everyone is welcome back on the 8th December. We have our fingers crossed that nothing affects this bubble again and hope the children are looking forward to the last few weeks as we build up to Christmas.
It is really important to us that you continue to keep a very careful eye on your child by way of their health. Please do not send them back to school if they are displaying any of the primary Covid 19 symptoms or the secondary symptoms as show on this poster…
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Tests are easy to book with results coming through very quickly now. We would rather you aired on the side of caution to avoid any further disruption across school.
If you have any questions, do ring the office who will be more than happy to help.
Christmas Dates for your diary
We want to get the Christmas spirit going and so we would like to invite the children to wear their Christmas jumpers on our whole school Polar Express day and on their Christmas dinner day. We have had to split Christmas dinner over four separate days to allow year groups to social distance in the school hall. Dates are below as a reminder –
Christmas Dinner Day’s
Wednesday 9th December- Reception & Nursery
Wednesday 9th December- Dinner for all other year groups will be pizza, pasta and sweetcorn/peas.
Thursday 10th December- Year 1 & Year 6
Thursday 10th December- Dinner for all other year groups will be burger, wedges and peas/sweetcorn.
Tuesday 15th December- Year 2, Year 5 & the DEN
Tuesday 15th December- Dinner for all other year groups will be pizza, pasta, peas/sweetcorn.
Wednesday 16th December- Year 3 & Year 4
Wednesday 16th December- Dinner for all other year groups will be burger, wedges, peas/sweetcorn.
Other Christmas Dates
Friday 11th December- Mr & Mrs Christmas visiting
Monday 14th December- Polar Express whole school event
Festive Forest Fun!
We have been feeling all festive in The Den.
Miss Taylor set us a challenge of making an Evergreen Star Wreath!
Yesterday we collected various evergreens from around Forest School inclusing Holly, Ivy and other ferns.
It was so wet yesterday we had to let them dry out and make the wreaths today.
What do you think?!?
We love them- well done Denners!
Polar Express- Whole school event
Monday 14th December
All aboard ‘The Newdale Express’
As the part of the Christmas celebrations, children will be watching the film- ‘The Polar Express’(U rating)
During the film, children will be served hot chocolate and Cookies.
(any dietary needs have been taken into account).
Children can come wearing Christmas tops.
Year 2 Spellings – Week 6
Hi all, today is spelling test day again. Yay I hear you say! Can you please complete your spelling test of the number words that you have been learning at home and then email your score to newdale.year2team@taw.org.uk. Good luck!
Next weeks spellings are Jumping Orange words (high frequency words) from Year 1 Summer Term (as you missed learning these due to Lockdown).
A copy of the spellings can be found here:
Remember to practise your spellings every day and complete the daily activities that are posted on the website.
Happy spelling!
YR2 Times Tables (Friday 4th December )
http://www.ictgames.com/funkyMummy/index.html
Good morning year 2,
Happy Friday, please click on the link above for todays times table game. We are continuing with our 2 times tables. All you children who love a challenge you can select more than one set of times tables. (eg: x2, x3 and x10).
Have fun and make those mummies dance.
Mrs Horler
( If you have a question feel free to email me or one of the team on Newdale.year2team@taw.org.uk )
E-safety Top Tip – Internet connected devices
Has your child written their Christmas list yet?
I’m sure they have included a few Internet connected devices, such as:
- smart speakers, for example Google Home and Amazon Echo
- wearables, for example a Fitbit and an Apple Watch
- toys with voice or image recognition, for example Hello Barbie™ and Furby Connect
- robots, drones and other mechanical toys, controlled via an app, such as Dash and Dot.
All of these items would make great Christmas gifts and are useful to have around the home. However, many parents don’t realise that internet connected devices have the same risks as devices like smartphones and tablets. These risks can be more likely to happen if the devices aren’t used or set up properly.
For ideas and tips about how to keep your family safe with internet connected devices, visit the NSPCC website.
https://www.nspcc.org.uk/keeping-children-safe/online-safety/internet-connected-devices/
Friday home learning – Maths
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.
**Please note – we do not expect your child to complete all 5 sheets. Choose one or two sheets to suit their ability. The stars at the top of the sheet show the difficulty, with 1 star being the easiest and 5 stars being the hardest**
If you would like to do a bit more work on money, then you can find Friday’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
Year 2 Topic/Literacy Learning: Friday 4th December
On Friday we will be delivering two live Teams lessons again. The first will be Maths at 9:30am. Then Literacy/Topic will be at 11am. This will be a session comparing how Christmas is different in Australia to here in the UK.
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 children will need to complete their postcard from Australia to home. You do not need to print this sheet but the children will need to see it so they can work out how to write and present their postcard.
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After completing your postcard writing, could you draw a postcard picture on the reverse side to show an Australian Christmas scene? Please see examples below!
To finish off this week’s learning, we thought you might like to share the sequel to ‘The Day The Crayons Quit’. It’s all about postcards sent to Duncan from the crayons so fits perfectly with today’s learning.
Keep up the hard work everyone! The Year 2 team are very proud of you this week!
See you tomorrow,
Miss Newport, Miss Jones, Mrs Thomas and Mrs Horler 😊
Thursday’s live lessons – for anyone who missed it!
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)
Buddy and Snowflake have been playing with our behaviour cards today. We think you all deserve a gold card for your amazing home learning!
If you have any queries or questions about today’s work then please get in touch! newdale.year2team@taw.org.uk
Keep up the hard work Year 2, it is nearly the weekend!
Miss Newport and Miss Jones
