Page 9 - Newsletter

Term 1 has been fun and engaging for year 2. Apart from our

day to day classzoom activities, we also enjoyed different tasks from

our assembly on water safety measures to our unit celebrations, we

were able to sharpen our collaboration skills and make it happen!!

Literacy;

Students have been reading aloud books
closely matched to their improving phonic

knowledge, sounding out unfamiliar words

Numeracy: accurately, automatically and without undue

This term year 2 students have hesitation. We have become increasingly

explored how to add and subtract one familiar with and retelling a wider range of
and two digit numbers using concrete stories, fairy stories and traditional tales.

objects, pictorial representations, and We have been making inferences on the

mental calculations. We learnt how to basis of what is being said and done. Year

give change from 20p. We also 2 students have also been learning new

compared and sorted common 2-D and ways of spelling phonemes for which 1 or
3-D shapes. Fractions was also part of more spellings are already known, and

our learning as we recognised, named learn some words with each spelling,

and wrote different fractions in regard including a few common homophones

to length, shape, set of objects or

quantity. Students are now able to
recognise and use the inverse

relationship between addition and

subtraction and use this to check

calculations and solve missing number

problems.