Year 2 | Victoria Road Primary School

YEAR TWO

Hello and welcome to Year Two

Giraffes

Class Teachers: Mrs Brinkhurst & Miss Bates

Teaching Assistant: Mrs Petrie

Hi Year 2, how are you all? We have missed you and have been thinking about you all and hope you are keeping safe and well? Hope you had a lovely Easter and the Easter Bunny visited you?

It's still a difficult time whilst we all have to stay at home, but try to keep busy (hope you are keeping your rooms tidy?) Try to get some exercise, whether it's on your scooter up and down your street or exercising along with Joe Wicks or doing the Gonoodle dances at home. Have a go at the activities posted below. Please let us know about how you are getting on, any further information you require and what you have been doing in the message box at the bottom of the page or at sbates@vrpsp.co.uk or cbrinkhurst@vrpsp.co.uk, it would be lovely to hear from you!

We hope to see you all soon. Until then keep safe and well.

Best wishes from Miss Bates, Mrs Brinkhurst & Mrs Petrie

SUMMER TERM 2020

As we enter into the summer term and the school is still closed, we will continue to support learning from home. Don't forget to look at Purple Mash:

https://www.purplemash.com/sch/victoria-pl5

and see what '2Dos' there are for the class. You should have your password and login,if not contact us and we'll let you know. Any questions please complete the form at the bottom of the page and we'll get back to you as soon as possible.

BBC Bitesize is here and has some fabulous lessons:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/levels/z3g4d2p

PSHE/WRITING: Wellbeing and the news! Writing activities to help with the current situation and what children might be hearing on the news and how we can deal with this.
https://uploads.guim.co.uk/2020/04/20/NewsWise_activities_for_families.pdf

MATHS: Please access the following website for maths lessons. These are uploaded weekly and have really clear lessons and activities that run alongside for your children to complete on a daily basis. These can be printed off and completed if you are able to or recorded on paper or just discussed together:

https://whiterosemaths.com/homelearning/year-2/

READING: There are lots of different level e-books to read with tasks to complete on the Oxford Owl home website. You will need to create a login but it is all free:

https://home.oxfordowl.co.uk/books/free-ebooks/

RWI: Hooray you can continue with your child's RWI learning at home. If you need to know which level your child is at, please ask and we'll let you know:

www.oxfordowl.co.uk/read-write-inc-home

HANDWRITING: We use Letter-join to practise handwriting in class. Click the following link for the information video: https://www.letterjoin.co.uk/videos/homelogin.mp4

You will need User name: gt1117 and password: home

https://www.letterjoin.co.uk/log-in.html

SCIENCE: The theme this half term is 'habitats'. There are lots of fabulous videos, activities, games and quizzes on the following websites to use to find out more about what a habitat is and the different types of habitat. Have fun!

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/subjects/z6svr82

https://explorify.wellcome.ac.uk/en/activities

https://www.primaryworks.co.uk/product/habitats-ks2-pack-2/

Habitats Activity

habitats presentation.ppt

World Book Day 2020

Emotional Wellbeing - Let's find our inner calm OPEN MINDS is an early intervention service that supports the emotional wellbeing and development of young people.

ACCELERATED READING

The children are enrolled on Accelerated Reader which provides comprehension quizzes. The results of these can be viewed at home.

Children use a software program called Renaissance Place at school. This program has a special feature called Renaissance Home Connect, which you can access outside of school from any computer with an Internet connection. Renaissance Home Connect is fun and easy to use. It allows the teacher, and you to share information about children's progress in Accelerated Reader. You can log in to Renaissance Home Connect from any computer with an Internet connection and compatible browser. Children have been given their user names and passwords. To log in to Renaissance Home Connect Website:

https://Ukhosted102.renlearn.co.uk/2236540/HomeConnect

If you'd like to receive emails showing your student's quiz or test results, click the Email Setup link.

I have had a couple of questions about logging on from home. First - this is definitely possible, they can do quizzes and children can also use myON e-book library and daily myON News service - freely available for the duration of the closures. It will allow pupils to access at home, on tablet and laptop, an e-library of over 7000 books. Children can browse through books on myON. Once they have read the book, they can then log into your schools Renaissance site and click the Accelerated Reader tile. They can then search for the book and take a quiz. Please note that not all books on myON are quizzed.

https://readon.myon.co.uk/library/browse.html

The address to use to get to AR is: https://ukhosted102.renlearn.co.uk/2236540/default.aspx