Teacher’s email addresses:

Willow Class: demelzasayers@stratton.cornwall.sch.uk & catloudwill@stratton.cornwall.sch.uk

Hazel Class: jasonseldon@stratton.cornwall.sch.uk

Hazel and Willow Weekly Update – Friday 5th December 2024

Dates for your diary:

Wednesday 18^th December: Whole school Christmas dinner – please book via the app.

Friday 20^th December: Christmas party day and last day of term.

Monday 6^th January: Inset day

Tuesday 7^th January: Children return to school

Tuesday 21^st January: Year 2 assembly

There have been a couple of cases of head lice in Year 2. Please check and treat your child’s hair as necessary.

English: This week, the children have started their learning around the book ‘The House Held Up By Trees’. They wrote questions about the front cover, used noun phrases to describe pictures from the first part of the book and wrote about the life cycle of the Sycamore tree.

Maths: The children continued their learning on 2D and 3D shapes. They counted the sides and vertices (corners) on 2D shapes before learning about lines of symmetry and how to draw 2D shapes with rulers.

Topic: In geography, the children have been learning about the UK’s climate and have been thinking about ways in which they can reduce energy, waste and car journeys to combat climate change.” You are never too small to make a difference.” In science, they looked at the poem ‘The Woolly Saucepan’ by Michael Rosen. They thought about how they could change the poem using different materials.

Coats: Please can you make sure your child has a coat every day in school.

Homework:

Maths – Please complete three 3 minute sessions of Numbots https://play.numbots.com/#/account/school-login-type Your child’s login details are at the front of their purple homework book.

Reading – Please read five times a week at home. Reading completed in school does not count towards the five times

Spelling –All the children will complete Little Birds spelling to support spelling of common exception words.

Little Birds Spelling – Click on the following link to take you to the game https://ictgames.com/littleBirdSpelling/  Along the top where it says year, select number 2 for Year 2. This week, please select the pink house on the right hand side to practise spelling the months of the year: Once you have clicked on the house, press go.

Your child will get to study the word to see how to spell it and then has to drag the tiles up to spell it. Playing this more than once will help to secure their spelling of the words. Please record in your child’s purple homework book once they have completed their homework. Alternatively, you may like to get them to practise spelling the words into their purple homework book.

Thank you.

Mr Seldon, Mrs Sayers and Mrs Loudwill