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Posted on 05th May 2020 by

Value of the Month- May

Thank you for all your support with the value of the month for April, which was Freedom. Throughout April, children learnt about the different aspects of Freedom from rights and responsibilities to freedom of speech.

Our value of the month for May is Perseverance

What is Perseverance?

  • Not giving up even when faced with a problem.
  • Trying your best in all situations.
  • Realising that sometimes we are faced with challenges but trying to overcome these in the best way possible.

Suggestions for parents to work with children at home:

Discuss what the word means. Has your child ever been in a situation where they have demonstrated perseverance? If so, can they tell you strategies of how they didn’t give up?

Discuss with your child situations where people have shown perseverance and have achieved success e.g. family members, individuals with mobility difficulties, athletes etc.

Self-belief- discuss with your child how they feel about their learning and other skills and attributes. Talk about what they could do when faced with a challenge. It’s important that children learn the importance of perseverance even when faced with difficulties.

Here are a few websites which show how individuals have overcome difficulties and demonstrated Perseverance:

Derek Redmond – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kZlXWp6vFdE

Steve Jobs – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ElVUqv0v1EE&app=desktop

Michael Jordan – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=45mMioJ5szc

Tanni Grey-Thompson – http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/primaryhistory/famouspeople/tanni_grey_thompson/

The Suffragettes – http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/22766676

Please let your child’s teacher know if we can celebrate any work from home, on our school website.

Feedback on the values and what you do at home is really valuable to us and we really appreciate all your support.

 

 

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Posted on 04th May 2020 by

Helpful Books for Younger Children

It can be quite challenging to explain to children (particularly younger children) about what is going on in the world at the moment. To help find the right words to explain why we need to wash our hands so frequently and the reasons why we are having to stay at home, here are two more fantastic books to help:

‘Staying at Home’ by Sally Nicholls (available as a free download by Anderson Press) https://www.andersenpress.co.uk/staying-home/

Here is the PDF version:  STAYING_HOME_ Sally Nicholls 

Also helpful is ‘I Don’t Want to Wash My Hands’ by Tony Ross. You could order a copy online, but here is a link to the author reading his story aloud which you may find useful.

We hope you find them helpful.

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VE Day Bunting

In preparation for the VE celebrations later this week, we created some celebratory bunting in school. The younger children decorated paper pennants whilst the older children used textiles and sewing to create theirs. I was so impressed by the resilience shown this afternoon as sewing can be really challenging. Ashleigh, Joe and Lola particularly impressed me.

 

 

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Posted on 03rd May 2020 by

Geography Week

Hello everyone. Thank you so much for sharing all of your excellent art and music activities over the last two weeks. The theme for this week is Geography. Please find attached a range of activities that you can try at home. I have also attached some resources that may help you complete the tasks.

We hope you enjoy the activities and look forward to hearing all about your fantastic Geography work via the homework blog.

Many thanks Mrs Evans and all the staff at Newdale

Home Schooling Geography Theme Week

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Posted on 03rd May 2020 by

Year 2 Home Learning Monday 4th May 2020

Hello Year 2!

We hope you have had a wonderful weekend and you are ready for some more home learning this week!

Spellings – the spelling rule for this week is possessive apostrophes.  To find out more watch this video:

Your spellings for this week are here:

possessive apostrophe spellings

We have set you the Purple Mash quiz to complete for today.

Literacy – On Friday it will be the 75th anniversary of VE day so this week in Literacy we will be completing work all about it.  We then plan to have a Stay at Home VE Street Party on Friday.

For your Literacy work today we would like you to complete a reading comprehension about VE Day.

Monday Comprehension

Maths – this week we will be continuing to use the White Rose materials.  Today’s learning will recap your knowledge of number bonds to 20. You will look at fact families for addition and subtraction for number bonds to 20.  The video you need can be found here

https://whiterosemaths.com/homelearning/year-2/

And the worksheet to be completed is here.

Monday – Fact families bonds to 20

Times Tables Rockstars – Don’t forget to practise your x2, x3, x5 and x10 tables.  Miss Horler and Miss Rouse are ready to set challenges on TTRS.  For your login details look in your blue homelink book or email your class teacher.

Afternoon activities – This week’s theme is Georgraphy, please see ideas below.

When you complete a geography activity please upload them to the Year 2 homework blog for us to see.

We are looking forward to seeing your work,

From Miss Newport and Miss Jones.  😄😄

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Posted on 30th Apr 2020 by

Year 2 Home Learning – Friday 1st May 2020

Hello Year 2!

We are at the end of another great week, well done to everyone for their hard work!

Your home learning for today is:

Spellings – please complete your spelling test for the rule ‘a before l and ll’.  Don’t forget to email your scores to your class teacher, we would love to hear how you get on!

Literacy – today it is time to read Chapter 5 of Sky Scraping Sunflowers.  Then complete the activities linked to this chapter which are set in your 2do section on Purple Mash.

Maths – Friday Family Challenge!

Can you solve these problems?

Email your answers to your class teacher or upload them onto the homework blog.

PARENTS ONLY – to get the answers or to find more Maths challenges please click here or email us.

Miss Rouse and Miss Horler are eagerly awaiting the final scores for TTRS this week.  It has been close all week – your efforts today could win the cup for your class for this week!

Music – it has been lovely to see all of your music work this week. Children in Year 2 have made instruments, created songs and even written their own song lyrics.  We will see some of you on Britain’s Got Talent soon I am sure 😆 🎵

Today is your last chance to complete activities from the music ideas page and upload them onto the homework blog.  We are looking forward to seeing your work!

We hope you have a great weekend!

From,

Miss Newport and Miss Jones 😄😄