Year 2 – Kestrels

Welcome to Kestrel Class!

Year 2

Hello everyone, 

Welcome to the Kestrel Class. On this page you will find curriculum information for this half term including details of our learning each week and general information about our class. The teacher in Kestrel class is Mrs Anthony. Mrs Matthews is our teaching assistant who is with us all day every day. 

• We open the classroom door at 8:45am every day and the register is taken at 9am.
• Homework is given out on a Friday and it is due in on the following Wednesday.
• Spellings are given out on a Friday and they are tested on the following Friday.
• A reading book is sent home every night – please write down the pages that you have read in the pink home-school diary. We change our books on Mondays and Thursdays.
• Every child can choose a library book to bring home – these are changed on Fridays.
• We do PE twice a week, on Mondays and Thursdays  and this is done outdoors whenever possible. Every child needs a full P.E. kit in school and a pair of plimsolls.

SATs Workshop 

Thank you to all parents that attended the SATs workshop. As requested, please find below the link to the interim framework and the slides from the presentation. I have also put a copy of the common exception words for Year 1 and Year 2 on the website. 

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/teacher-assessment-frameworks-at-the-end-of-key-stage-1 

Learning this week

This week in English we have been looking at poetry. We practised using similes and alliteration in our writing and today we looked at acrostic poems.

We worked with a partner to generate ideas and then shared them on the carpet. 

The poem below is the result of all our ideas. We are so proud of all the amazing similes and alliterative phrases we managed to use!

We had great fun during the visit. Miss Smythe even got dressed up as a firefighter!

PE Kits

Please can you make sure your child has an outdoor PE kit in school. All of our rugby sessions will be taking place outside.

Have you visited the 'Kids' Zone' yet? There are lots of cool games and activities to try - you can even vote for your favourite ones!