Year 2

Hello Year 2!

I hope everyone is staying well and is cheerful. I am certainly missing seeing you all each day. I hope you are all getting on alright with the home learning now it has changed to the new weekly format. Thank you so much to those of you who have been sending me photos and emails to let me know how you are getting on. It has been great to hear from you and see so much of what you have been up to. If you haven't sent me anything recently, please do send it to the email address below. It would be lovely to see which activities you are choosing to do for your continents work and for the learning about Julia Donaldson books. I hope your revision lessons for the maths topics have been useful too. Don’t forget to keep up with your reading. I have made sure that everyone has some books still to read on the Bug Club page. Remember to do the quizzes too by clicking on the bugs when they appear on each page. TTRockstars is still there for you to use too and it would be fabulous to go into Year 3 with a really good knowledge of the times tables we have covered.

year2@cedarpark.bucks.sch.uk

You have been doing so well working from home all this time. Keep it up for a little while longer and remember to send me your learning.

Take care of yourselves.

From Mrs Franklin

Water Safety - Please take the time to read through this water safety leaflet to help you stay safe around water.

RNLI Water Smart Leaflet.pdf

I am with you video Have a look at this fun video, just to remind you we are all in this together!

Oak National Academy This is a website that provides daily lessons for Year 2

BBC Bitesize This website provides daily lessons for each year group.

TTRockstars Practise your times tables daily with this website.

Active Learning - Bug Club Active learn Primary – links for reading, grammar, maths and lots more. This is the website to go to to read the books i have assigned to you.

Home Learning for Year 2

Examples of home learning from Year 2 this week

Phonics Lessons This website has been set up to provide daily phonics lessons for the Summer term for children in Year 1. This would be excellent revision to help many children in year 2 with their spelling and reading, especially if they were due to retake the phonics screening check (although it would be great revision for everyone). Each day, starting from Monday, a new phonics video will be uploaded. I think it would be an ideal opportunity to revise the letters and sounds of many spelling patterns. Do have a look each day.

Discovery education - espresso We have found out that the company that we use for coding has made all of its activities available to you while schools are closed. You can use the same username and password that you use for the coding (inside your exercise books) and have a go at any of their activities. They give a daily challenge you can try or you may explore the site and find other things that interest you.

Internet Safety This webpage has been created to help parents with internet safety during school closures. It contains links to home safety packs which I will be referring to in the coming weeks and tips for parents to help children stay safe online. This is especially important as much of the learning is online at the moment so please do have a look.

Fun Premier Sport Fitness Challenges/Classes to do at Home This is the link to their website where you can sign in for free downloads, activities etc: https://www.premier-education.com/stay-active/ Premier Sports have also set up on YouTube. They have recorded Activity Professional lead home learning videos as part of their commitment to get children active at home. They will be releasing a new video each day at 3.30 pm. The idea is that this can act as an after-school home learning activity and replace the exercise children would normally get during extra-curricular clubs if they were at school. Sessions will focus on activities including dance, football, fitness, gymnastics, basketball, tennis and yoga and more. Each Monday they will be releasing a timetable of what is coming up. So far they have filmed five weeks worth of content and sessions, including “Personal Best’ challenges so they can be completed again and again as children keep trying to improve. Good luck and enjoy a different way to exercise at home!

Bucks and MK Virtual School Games The Bucks & MK Virtual School games will provide weekly virtual challenges for young people across Bucks and MK to take part in and compete with others across the county. The virtual challenges will be an activity that can be done home, with minimal equipment and gives young people the opportunity to achieve their personal best and compete against other young people across Bucks and MK. Each week a new challenge will be posted on a Monday morning. They will demonstrate the activity and any rules. See this website for challenges and rules.

Stay at home Superheroes Attached is a video that a friend of Mrs Franek's has made for Cedar Park Superheroes. Have a look and remember that you too are a Superhero, helping to keep us all safe while staying at home.

New email address.

Please see the email address below. This has been set up to use during the school closure time, so that the children can use it to send in any letters, questions or examples of learning.

year2@cedarpark.bucks.sch.uk

This email is specifically dedicated for the children to use to contact the teacher. If parents have any messages or queries for school then please still direct them to the school office email address as usual.

So year 2, would you like to email me?

Best wishes from Mrs Franklin

Exercise Books

Some of you have let me know that you are coming to the end of the exercise book that was sent home. As we are trying to limit the number of people visiting school, we are unable to provide new ones to you. Please feel free to use any style of notebook/exercise book you already have at home or put paper in the back of the one you are using. If you would like to get a new one we recommend A4 size, with half 12mm lined and half plain to give space for pictures and writing. To those of you who need a new book, well done on keeping up with the home learning!

Home Learning from Previous weeks

Examples of Home Learning from Year 2

Summer Term in Year 2.

Welcome to the Summer term in Year 2 at Cedar Park School and what a strange Summer term this is going to be.

First of all I would like to say that I hope everyone has enjoyed a lovely Easter break and that you and your families have had a chance to rest and relax together and maybe have been able to make the most of the sunny weather we have enjoyed.

If we were in school, this term in Year 2 the staff would be as follows:

Mrs Franklin will be the class teacher full time with Mrs Gow teaching Year 2 on Tuesday afternoons.

The Teaching Assistants in Year 2 are Mrs Owen (mornings), Mr Schofield (afternoons) and Mrs Crocker (Wednesday morning and Thursday all day).

In the first half term our topic is Night Time and we will mainly be looking at nocturnal animals. In the second half of the term we will study Around the World with a visit to each of the continents. Both of these topics have been thoroughly enjoyed by Year 2 in the past as interesting and exciting to study.

Other Useful Information:

Obviously the learning will be at home for at least the start of the term. I will continue to put maths, writing and reading tasks on the webpage each day and there will also be activities relating to Science, History, Geography, RE, Computing, Music, Art and Design to complete. There will also be some PE activities to do to help you keep fit and healthy.

I will also add on your weekly words for writing to help you learn the spelling rules, a handwriting pattern to practise and some maths fluency questions to help keep your maths skills up to date.

One of the most important things to do while you are at home is to keep up with you reading. This can be school reading books, home books, library books, online books, magazines, comics, recipes or subtitles on the television!

I know it is tricky to learn from home but just do your best and have a go at as many of the activities as you feel you can manage.

Remember just give it a go!

Hopefully we will be back in school together soon.

Take care.

Mrs Franklin