Year 2

2 years ago
Posted on 24th May 2024 by

Healthy Lifestyles Raffle – 2024

Our annual Healthy Lifestyles Raffle is now live on ParentPay. This year’s prize is a signed England shirt from League Of Their Own Team Captain, European Champion & Queen of the Jungle, Jill Scott!

The raffle is now live on ParentPay and tickets are £1 each. There is no limit on ticket purchase however only one transaction can be made so please ensure you purchase all your tickets at the same time.

The raffle will close at midday on Thursday 6th June and will be drawn in assembly on the afternoon of Friday 7th June. All funds raised will go back into school to help subsidise trips, events & experiences for our children.

Healthy Lifestyles Week will take place in school from Monday 3rd – Friday 7th June. All children to wear their PE kit everyday that week.

Good luck everyone!

 

 

 

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2 years ago
Posted on 23rd May 2024 by

TTRS day in year 2!

Wow, Year 2 really were ROCKSTARS this week!!!
They worked their socks off in our SAT quizzes. We are all so proud of their efforts.

I can and I will became… I can and I did!

Tomorrow is our TTRS day so don’t forget to dress up like the rockstars you are.
Families – Times Tables Rock Stars, 43% OFF
If you had a letter about house point dress down day, you can choose between dressing as a rockstar or wearing your own clothes.

Best wishes,
Mrs King

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2 years ago
Posted on 21st May 2024 by

RHSE Update

Dear Families,

In our curriculum, we continue to use PSHE (Personal, Social, Health and Economic) programmes across our school called 1decision and Respect Yourself, a programme devised by the curriculum committee of Shropshire Council. These programmes include elements of Relationships Education, Health Education and Sex Education.  We shared our policy with parents and carers in the Autumn Term of 2022 and adjusted it according to feedback.

We give notice to families each year that the RSHE lessons will be taught during the Summer Term. We let you know so that if children want to talk to you about what they have been learning, you are ready to set aside some time to listen to their thoughts and feelings and help them to understand.

In every year group, the theme includes two or three lessons to help children understand the human body, including the changes that take place during puberty, and how human reproduction happens. There is a very serious safeguarding aspect to this work and obviously the younger year groups are not looking at these issues directly and explicitly but rather learning correct terminology for body parts and doing the foundation work for later year groups. Upper Key Stage classes look more fully at puberty and human reproduction.

We hope you will agree that this work is vitally important for children, that it needs to be done age-appropriately and that the 1decision and Respect Yourself programme gives us a secure framework in which to do this.

It is your legal right to withdraw your children from Sex Education that is outside of the National Curriculum for Science. Relationships Education and Health Education is statutory for all primary schools.

You may be aware that the government are consulting on changes to the statutory guidance on teaching relationships and sex education, and Health education.  This may affect the delivery of our programme next year and we will keep you informed.  There are no changes to our programme this year.

Please talk to us if you have any questions.

Yours sincerely,

Miss Cook

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2 years ago
Posted on 17th May 2024 by

Finance and Personnel Governors Involvement Update

The Finance and Personnel Governors met today and held discussions around our Early Years offer, with an update from our fantastic new nursery teacher. Governors were reassured that the standard of provision remains high. The enthusiasm demonstrated from the nursery teacher was very evident and it was great to hear how this is shared across the team. Governors were impressed with the early identification of SEND within the Nursery and could see how this supports children as they move into Reception.

Governors had an update on pupil premium expenditure and the impact of the sports premium. They could see that a lot of thought had gone into expenditure and that impact was evident.

Governors were happy to see that the staffing structure remains solid across all year groups as we plan ahead for the next academic year. The governors had an in depth look at the budget for 2024-2025. They acknowledged that school budgets are tighter than normal and were reassured that any savings that had to be made would be minimal.

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2 years ago
Posted on 16th May 2024 by

Year 2 World Day for Cultural Diversity

On Thursday 23rd May we will be celebrating the World Day for Cultural Diversity for Dialogue and Development.

As part of these celebrations, we would like to invite your child to share their culture, religion or beliefs with us. This can be in the form of traditional dress, articles of faith, books, some photos, a presentation they have created about a religious event or any other relevant items.

If your child would like to share any such items with their class, please prepare them for sharing by ensuring they know clearly about the item as we are sure there will be plenty of questions as we all will want to know more.

Thank you, Mrs King and Miss Lowe

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2 years ago
Posted on 14th May 2024 by

Year 2 TT Rockstars Day

To celebrate the end of our SATs next week, we have decided to give children a ‘rock’tastic day!

We are inviting Year 2 children to come into school dressed as a rockstar on Friday 24th May. We will be making music, competing in electrifying TTRS games, performing powerful poetry and much more.

An easy dress up idea is bright clothing and crazy hair.

Families – Times Tables Rock Stars

We cannot wait to see our rockstars!

Year 2 team

 

 

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2 years ago
Posted on 25th Apr 2024 by

Curriculum governors involvement update

The Curriculum Committee of Governors met on Tuesday 23rd April. They had an in depth look at our PE offer (with Mr Bryant) and our Maths offer (with Miss McCullagh). They met with some very keen mathematicians from across the school, who loved showing off their maths books and telling Governors all about their lessons.

Governors went on to look at our Equality targets and where we are in achieving them by the end of the year. Governors were reassured to see that attendance was looking more positive.

Governors really value the committee meetings as they always include gathering the views of children and seeing firsthand the work they do. They also value having valuable time with subject leaders so they can gain a very clear understanding about curriculum intent and impact.

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2 years ago
Posted on 24th Apr 2024 by

Year 2 DT

DT plea- please can the children bring a small selection of recyclable materials into school on Monday 29th April so they can create a prototype free standing structure as part of their DT unit this half term.

The children will also need to bring a small toy. It may be a very small teddy/action figure/lego figure that they can use to construct a structure to hold the weight of their toy.

Thank you

Year 2 team.