Email – Year 2

Messages emailed to Year 2 parents

5 years ago
Posted on 06th Jan 2021 by

Year 2 Home Learning Thursday 7th January

Hello Year 2!

Here is your learning for Thursday 7th January 😊

There will be two live lessons, Maths at 9.30am (looking at pictograms) and Literacy at 11am (working on adjectives and adverbs).  You should have received an invite for this session however if not, then you can join the meeting through the Teams app. Please come to each meeting armed with paper and a pen to write.

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.

Thursday Maths

Thursday adverbs and adjectives

If you are unable to attend the live sessions, a recording of the lesson will always be available afterwards.  Worksheets and any further instructions will be shared via the website. We understand that this is tricky for some of you working from home, especially those with siblings so we understand that it is not always possible to join live. We hope the recordings help to support this. 

As always, spelling and times tables activities will be posted online daily.

If you have any questions please email us on newdale.year2team@taw.org.uk

We understand that this is a very difficult time for parents and we are extremely grateful for all of your support.

Many thanks,

Miss Newport and Miss Jones 😊 😊

5 years ago
Posted on 06th Jan 2021 by

Free SIM cards

At school we have a limited number of a 30GB data-only SIMs for which last for 90 days. We would like to offer these to help support children access the online learning.  The SIM cards will work with a Smart Laptop/Dongle if it has a slot for a SIM card, you simply place it in.

 

The SIM card can be placed into a Smartphone. You can then use that data to connect or ‘tether’ your others devices (eg tablet, laptop) by using the ‘Hotspot’ feature on the phone. You would not be able to use your phone to make calls/texts while using your data SIM.

 

If you would like a 30GB sim card, please email newdale.primary@taw.org.uk and request one (first come, first served). The data must be used to support home schooling during this national lockdown.

 

The SIM cards are limited to 30GB, so once that data limit is reached, no further data is available and once the 90 days has ended, any remainder of the 30GB of data will expire.

 

Regards

 

The Newdale Team

5 years ago
Posted on 06th Jan 2021 by

Wednesday’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 recordings here:

Maths (9.30am)

https://telfordeducation.sharepoint.com/sites/Section_AN_TAW313/Shared%20Documents/General/Recordings/Year%202%20Maths%20live%20lesson-20210106_093029-Meeting%20Recording.mp4?web=1

Literacy (11.00am)

https://telfordeducation.sharepoint.com/sites/Section_AN_TAW313/Shared%20Documents/General/Recordings/Year%202%20Literacy%20live%20lesson-20210106_105843-Meeting%20Recording.mp4?web=1

Please email your work to us at newdale.year2team@taw.org.uk or share your work on the homework blog.

The Year 2 Team

 

5 years ago
Posted on 06th Jan 2021 by

Reading in Year 2!

Oxford Owl is a free to use, online bank of resources. The website address is www.oxfordowl.co.uk  Parents can make their own accounts on this website to access e-books, phonics, reading and maths activities. There is also lots of advice on this website regarding how to support your child’s learning at home. You may still have access to the same account that you used in Year 1.

On the ‘Free e-book library’, you can select books that match the coloured book banded books that your child brings home each day.  You can also organise the books according to the phonics level that your child is reading at.

Many of the books have an audio feature, so that your child can listen to the story whilst also reading it themselves. Most of the e-books within this section of the website also have comprehension activities that your child can complete after reading the book.

And don’t forget there are also some useful websites where you can practise your phonics to then apply in your reading books. See the links below.

Please try to read once a day.  Reading is such an important skill and developing your skills at a young age is vital.  You can still record reading in your reading diaries and we look forward to seeing them when we get back to school.

📘 📕 📗Happy reading everyone,📗 📕 📘

The Year 2 Team

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5 years ago
Posted on 05th Jan 2021 by

Update 05.01.2021

 

Dear Parents/Carers,

We are delighted that our efforts to open today paid off with key worker children back in school loving learning. Staff also worked tremendously hard in making sure the online learning offer is as good as it can possibly be.

It is really important that both staff and parents do all they can to keep children engaged and learning. Staff are aware of the fact that many parents will be ‘home working’ and hence not have as much time as they would like or need to support children. Teachers are trying to make the learning as clear as they can to children in the hope they can manage to get on without the need for too much adult help whilst ensuring a quality provision.

We are keeping our Breakfast and After School Club open to support critical workers but have decided to postpone some clubs until a later date e.g. Crossbar clubs.

We have been inundated with requests for school places and this is becoming a real challenge to us due to teacher capacity and space. Ultimately, schools have closed to limit the potential to spread the virus. We are already close to our maximum capacity to operate safely. We do ask that you only request places if you are a Critical Key worker and that you have no other option in keeping your children at home. We are going to look at whether there are ways we can increase any capacity but in the end we will need to cap numbers and move forward in a safe way for everyone. We really hope you can support us in this.

The new booking form will be coming out soon please keep an eye out for it.

Kind regards

Miss Cook

5 years ago
Posted on 05th Jan 2021 by

Update 5.01.21

Good morning,

 

Many staff working in our school have children of their own and therefore can completely sympathise with you this morning. We know that the last minute decision by the Government will undoubtedly cause mass disruption on so many levels. Many schools have closed their doors today in order to plan for the forthcoming weeks. We worked very late into the night in order to be able to at least allow some of our critical, key workers access to school places for their children, so that they can go to work to support us all. As you know, it is so important that everyone supports each other over this difficult time.

 

We understand that some people may have missed the communication that we sent more or less immediately after the announcement last night and we will look at what further we can offer later on today after we have processed the applications we have already received.

 

Please help us by not turning up for school if you are in anyway unsure as to if your child qualifies for a place. We are only able to accept certain children as per the guidance and only children that we have received a form from at this point. A ‘lock down’ is a ‘lock down’, and we need to only have children in school whose parents really do qualify as key workers please. Please also only take up the place if you really need it e.g. shift work patterns may mean you can in fact safely keep you child at home. Please do not be offended if we ask for proof of key worker status and even ask for shift patterns so that we can plan accordingly.

 

School staff will be contacting parents of children who we believe qualify for places who have not yet been in touch. Please wait for communication from school and access the online learning offer for your child today.

 

If you are struggling with accessing the online offer, please contact either the office or your child’s teacher through their email contact.

 

Again, thank you for all of your support.

 

Miss Cook

Headteacher

5 years ago
Posted on 04th Jan 2021 by

Year 2 Home Learning Spring 1

Hello Year 2!

So it looks like we will be doing our learning from home again for a while but the good news is that we are already experts at this and you all did an amazing job last time! 😊

In Year 2, we will be continuing to use the website and Teams for home schooling.  We will also still be available on the email address newdale.year2team@taw.org.uk if you or your parents need to get in contact with us.

There will not be any live lessons today, as we are busy in school preparing for other work that we will be doing later this week.  However the Year 2 Team will be online at 11am to say hello to you all and for a quick catch up.  It would be great to see as many of you there as possible.  As before, you should receive an invite to this session however if not then you can ‘join’ the meeting through the Teams app.

To keep you busy before and after this meeting, we have set a few pieces of work for you to be doing.

Spellings

The spelling rule for this week is the ‘le ending’.  Your spellings can be found here

le ending spellings.

Please practise writing them out and you could even try putting them into sentences.  ✍️

PE

Usually we would have gymnastics on a Tuesday morning so you can choose which PE activity you would like to do for today.  You could do this Joe Wicks workout https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d3LPrhI0v-w or Cosmic kids yoga ‘Popcorn and the pirate’ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T_0P5grVoyg

Optional extension activity – can you research and then create a poster about a famous gymnast? You could choose Max Whitlock, Beth Tweddle or Simone Biles.

New Year Task

Can you answer the questions in these balloons? You could even have a go at drawing the balloons and stars yourself.

From Wednesday live lessons will take place each day, one at 9.30am and the other at 11am.  If you are unable to attend the live sessions, a recording of the lesson will always be available afterwards.  Worksheets and any further instructions will be shared via the website.

We are hoping that our online learning for the next couple of weeks will run the same way that it did during our lockdown in December.

If you have any questions please email us on newdale.year2team@taw.org.uk

Many thanks,

Miss Newport and Miss Jones 😊 😊

 

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5 years ago
Posted on 18th Dec 2020 by

Star of the Week- KS1

Aria-Rose from Miss McCullagh’s class- for always having a positive attitude at school and for being a kind and considerate friend.

Marco from Mrs Plimmer’s class- for going up a band in his reading book!

Demi from Miss Newport’s class- for always following the SMART code and for being a good friend.

Grace from Miss Broadhurst’s class- for always following the SMART code and being kind to other children

Lilly from Miss Jones’- for being an absolute star in all areas of her learning and beyond! You are a credit to your family 😊

 

5 years ago
Posted on 18th Dec 2020 by

Last letter of 2020

 

Dear Parents/Carers,

 

We would firstly like to thank you for all of the support we have had over this tricky period. It has not been easy and despite our best efforts, we have had to deal with a very small number of cases in school this term. Our number of cases is relatively few in comparison to many other schools and we know that our partnership working with you, the Health Protection Hub, the Local Authority along with our strict procedures have helped to keep this figure so low.

 

Should your child(ren) develop symptoms or have a positive test on either Friday 18th, Saturday 19th or Sunday 20th December then you MUST let us know. Could you please do this by using the following email address newdale.primary@taw.org.uk, this will be monitored over that period by two members of staff who remain on call or alternatively calling the school office on 01952 387720.  The school number will be diverted until 6.00pm on 24th December.  Please only call this number to report symptoms or a positive test and not for general enquiries.

 

If your child(ren) develops symptoms or tests positive outside of this time period (Monday 21st December onwards) then please use the NHS Track and Trace system and you do not need to let us know, unless they are continuing to self-isolate once we return on 5th  January. This is because it will have been longer than 48 hours since they were in school and will therefore, not affect any other staff or students. Please note as of Monday 14th December, the isolation period is only 10 days.

 

Thank you for your continued support with this and I sincerely hope it will not be needed for any family over the festive period. I hope you all have a well-earned rest and have the opportunity to spend it with loved ones.

 

Wishing you all a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year from all of the staff at Newdale primary School and Nursery. We look forward to welcoming you back on Tuesday 5th January 2021.

 

Miss Cook