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Books we are reading in class this term include: 

 

     

      

 Notices

Welcome back! We hope you have had a relaxing break and ready for the new school year.  Please remember that school now ends at 3:25pm.

This noticeboard will be updated on Monday afternoons to share homework and keep you updated with life in Year 2.

Glue sticks - Please send a non-coloured one in for your child to use.
Water Bottles - Please ensure that your child brings a named water bottle to school with them each day so that they can hydrate regularly throughout the day.
Teachers:
Apricots -Mr McDonnell
Damsons - Miss Breen 
Support Staff
Apricots - Mrs Donnelly and Miss Porter
Damsons - Mrs Shrayev, Ms. Aroldoss-Murugan and Mrs Smith

 

Reading for Pleasure

As part of our continued focus on reading in school, we would like to develop the lending library of books within each class. This will enable the children to foster a passion and love of reading at Belmont and ensure that they have access to high quality texts.
Please find links to the book list that has a variety of books that we would love to have in class.  Once a book has been donated to the class we will add a tick to show we now have it.  Please check the list to ensure that the book that you would like to donate is one that we don't already have.
These books will be stamped to show who has generously donated them and shared with all the class.
The books come from the Recommended Books for Year 4 List which can be found below.

BOOK LISTS TO FOLLOW

 

 

Reading Records - reading records should be returned to school every Monday with a comment about how your child has read in the past week. This is so the reading records can be checked and a new reading book can be given. We also give out the reading for pleasure/sharing books on Mondays, so these books also need to be brought to school along with the reading records. 

 

 

 

Autumn Topic 

Our topic this term is called 'I Love London' and we will be learning about The Great Fire of London and also looking at famous landmarks in the city. We will then use the city of New York to compare.

Year 2 Autumn Learning Tree

The below list is part of an initiative called Word Aware that we are using in school. We thought it would be helpful to share this list with you so that you can use some of these words at home when discussing the topic. If your child speaks a different language at home, it would be helpful to discuss and translate these words using your home language. We may add to this list during the topic as new words are introduced.

 

 

 

 

Word Aware - I Love London - Autumn 2024 

 

           

 

 

 

 

Home Learning 

Each Year 2 child will bring home a CGP KS1 English - Grammar, Punctuation & Spelling Homework Book. Details on which task to complete will appear below and these books need to be returned each Wednesday to be marked in class. Do not let your child complete all of the tasks in these books, we will set work linked to what we teach in class where possible and we will be assigning tasks each week therefore the book will not be completed in page order. 

Maths home learning for each week will be set on Google Classroom and the grammar home learning details will be listed in the Home Learning table below. 

Books for Year 2 

Here is a list of 50 books that are recommended reads for Year 2. 

50 Reads for Year 2

 

Handwriting sheets (to print off at home)

Handwriting cursive alphabet

Handwriting cursive days of the week

Handwriting cursive Y2 words 

 

Calendar/ Key dates

School Diary

24.09.24 - Great Fire of London Workshop (information to follow)

25.09.24  Home School Partnership Evening 

 

Home Learning timetable  

Please see the table below for details of the home learning tasks.

Reading 

15 minutes daily.

Please return reading records every Monday to let us see how your child is getting on and to let the children get new reading books. Make sure that the adult records a comment to say how the reading has gone.

Children will take a school library book to read at home for pleasure. Please return these on your child's class library day so that they can choose a new book. 

Spellings

Here are this week's spellings: To follow

 

 

 

The link below has the Common Exception Words for KS1 if you would like some extra spellings to practise at home.

 

 

Times-tables 

Times Table Challenges can be printed here.

CGP KS1 English - Grammar, Punctuation & Spelling Homework Book

Please complete 

 

Grammar books must be brought to school every Wednesday for marking.

 

Please ensure that no other pages are completed, other than the ones we set each week for homework.

Maths

Maths homework.

 

Please check Google Classroom every Monday afternoon for details of the maths task that has been set. No homework is set during holidays.

 

Here is a link to our calculation policy. Please refer to this when you are working with your child at home. 

Creative Home Learning Project 

TBC

 

General Routine Information

Monday

Spellings

 

 

We complete our weekly spellings.

 

Please return reading records and Reading for Pleasure books. 

 

Tuesday Outdoor PE (Damsons & Apricots) Apricots & Damsons need to come to school in a full Belmont PE kit that is labelled.
Wednesday

Indoor PE (Damsons and Apricots)

Apricots & Damsons need to come to school in a full Belmont PE kit that is labelled.

 

 

Both classes to bring in CGP grammar books for marking homework.

 

Thursday

Library (Apricots and Damsons)

 Apricots and Damsons should bring in their library books. 

Friday

Times-Table Challenge

 

 

We will begin to complete our weekly times tables challenge after October half term . 

 

For further information about Home Learning and ideas on how to support your child please click here

Common Exception Words - these are the words to read and spell by the end of Y2

CEW Y1 List & Y2 List

Learning this week:
English

 

Maths

 

Learning next week:
English
Maths

 

Class Reps

Our class reps are:

BHSA Apricots: 

BHSA Damsons: