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Welcome to Summer Class!

 

Summer Class is a mixed Year 1 and 2 class taught by Mr Solomon and Miss Kirk, 
supported by Mrs Moulding (HLTA) and LSA Mrs Curd.
Learning in Summer Class is based upon first-hand experiences 
through exciting half-termly topics. 

Welcome to the last week of term. On the website this week I have uploaded a number of different exercises. Have a look through to see which ones you would like to complete to revise your learning this year. These activities will stay up over the Summer holidays too. I hope you enjoy the last few days of your home learning and it is been great to see your hard work via email.

Miss Kirk 

End of Year Message from Mr Dee

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Fun Activities

Reading

Here are some maths workbooks with questions that cover all of the units we have taught this year. Why not spend the last week of term working on the units that you feel less confident with? There are some reasoning and arithmetic style questions too. 

Year 2 Maths Workbooks

Extra Maths

Below are some writing tasks that you could complete over the last week of term or beyond. Have a look through to see which ones you find of interest. Perhaps you will choose to write about your memories in Year 2? Or start a summer holiday diary?

English

Below is a copy of the Year 2 Common Exception words. Please continue to practice these words in the last week of term and over the Summer holidays for the start of year 3. There is also a series of spelling questions that covers what we have learnt this year.

Spellings

Here are a series of Science Quizzes and experiments (that could be completed at home with adult supervision) to have a look at over the last week of term and into the summer holidays.

Science

Mr Dee's Whole School Challenges. Challenge #5 The Quiz

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Virtual sports' day - The Result

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Hello Summer Class. I hope you all had a lovely weekend. In English this week we are going to be looking at the book 'What was it like to be a kid aboard the Titanic' and create a fact file about the Titanic. I have recorded the story for you on the website. In Maths we are looking at measurements including length, height, capacity and telling the time. In Topic there are a series of activities to complete to learn more about the Titanic. In Science this week we are learning about Icebergs and you can have a go at creating your own. Have fun everyone!

English week beginning 13th July

Maths Week beginning 13th July

Topic week beginning 13th July

Formation of an iceberg - Frozen Planet - BBC One

Science week beginning 13th July

Spelling week beginning 13th July

Hello Year 2! Have you sent in your report comment in to Miss Kirk? If not, please could we ask you email it to her r.kirk@hbt.hants.sch.uk by Thursday. Thank you it would be lovely to have your memories on your report.

Mr Dee's Whole School Challenges. Challenge #4

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Hello Everyone! This week we are going Titanic mad with lots of fun activities in which you will learn all about the Titanic and life on board the ship. Work your way through the English, Topic and Science to discover how the ship was built, who would have travelled on the boat and the story of the Titanic. Head over the video page for my introduction to the work. We will be continuing our Titanic topic next week. In Maths this week we are recapping fractions of shapes and numbers. Have a great week everyone!

Titanic- The Basics

English week beginning 6th July

Topic Week beginning 6th July

Science Week beginning 6th July

Maths Week Beginning 6th July

Spelling week beginning 6th July

Mr Dee's Whole School Challenges. Virtual Sports Day

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Summer Class Worship

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Happy Monday Everyone. I hope you haven't got too wet over the weekend with all the rain we have had! This week we are finishing our work on The Pirates Next Door in English, we are working on statistics in Maths, learning about Oceans in Topic and experimenting with floating and sinking in Science. The RE work for this half term is also on the website. Have a great week everyone and check out the videos from myself on the website.
In English this week we will be writing the next adventure for Jim Lad and Tilda! We will start the week by planning our story before we then get writing the beginning, middle and end of out story. On there website there are some word maps that might help you with your writing. I hope by the end of the week you will be proud to show your story writing and we can make a gallery of them on the website!

English week beginning 29th June

This week in Maths we are looking at statistics which means recording data. Over the week you will be working with tally charts, pictograms and block graphs by creating interpretating data from graphs and creating your own.

Maths week beginning 29th June

As we have been learning about Pirates, I thought it would be nice to do some work on the Oceans this week. I have put a series of activities on the website including a Quiz, some video links, an art activity on how to make your own ocean in a bottle, a comprehension text on oceans and a worksheet on labelling the oceans. Will you be able to name and locate all the Oceans by end the of the week!

Want to do some work more on Oceans? Perhaps you could do some research of your own on Oceans? Maybe you could create an information poster about the oceans? Or talk to a friends or family about protecting the Oceans from pollution? You might like to draw or paint a picture of an animal from the ocean! Have fun and I look forward to seeing what you have been up to!

Topic Week beginning 29th June

Commotion in the Ocean

RE for the half term

Spellings week beginning 29th June

Science week beginning 29th June

CBeebies | Do You Know Songs | Sinking and Floating

Mr Dee's Challenges. Challenge #2 Draw with Rob

Is it really Monday already? Welcome back to another week of home learning. The sun is meant to be out lots this week so stay safe having fun.. Can you design a sun safety poster for PSHE? In Maths this week we are recapping multiplication and division. In English we are starting to think about writing a sequel to pirates next door. In Science we are learning about people who have used different materials to create great things. In our Topic work I would like you to design and make a pirate ship! In RE we are going to be learning about the Jewish faith. I really enjoy seeing pictures of your work and Mr Dee has enjoyed seeing students in person. If I have not heard from you for a while I would love to catch up so feel free to send me an email. Have a great week!
In English this week we are going to be completing work based on the Pirates leaving the town of Dull-On-Sea. Firstly we will be writing Jim Lad a postcard from his neighbours. Then we will be writing a newspaper article about all the events that have taken place and towards the end of the week we will be completing research for writing our own sequal to the story.

English week beginning 22nd June

In Maths this week we are revising multiplication and division by 2, 5 and 10. We will start the week with multiplication activities and then more on to division. How confident do you feel multiplying and dividing? 

Maths week beginning 22nd June

Topic Week beginning 22nd June

Spelling week beginning 22nd June

Science Week beginning 22nd June

Music

PSHE - It is going to be a hot week so can you design a sun safety poster?

Quiz answers

Another Miss Kirk Quiz. Video of Quiz is on the resource centre page of website.

English update - I apologise the pdf copy of 'The Pirates Next Door' does not seem to have uploaded. If you require a copy for any work this week please send me an email and I can email it to you as the file seems to be too large for the website. 

Hope you week is going well. 

Worship Spring Class

Mr Dee's Challenges

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Happy Monday Everyone! I hope you have all had a good weekend. I have uploaded some exercises for this week and more will be added as the week goes on. There are a couple of videos on the Video Resource centre from myself that go through this weeks English and Maths. I apologise for the camera work, I will keep practicing!
In English this week we are carrying on completing tasks around our focus book 'The Pirates Next Door'. The tasks include thinking about how the children of Summer Class might feel if Jim Lad came to our school, writing a letter to the council to complain that Pirates have moved into the neighbourhood and creating your own short story about a member of Jim Lad's family. I hope your enjoy the exercises and remember to check your work carefully for Spelling, Grammer and Punctuation. I look forward to reading your work.

English week beginning 15th June

In Maths this week we are recapping money. In the lessons we will be finding totals, working out change and completing 2 step word problems. In the lessons you will need to use your addition and subtraction skills we practiced last week to complete the exercises. If you want further support on working with money I have uploaded 4 video lessons from White Rose which are optional to work through. 

Maths Week beginning 15th June

Lesson 4 on Money from White Rose

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Support on working out 2 step problems on money

Lesson 3 on Money from White Rose

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Support from learning to find change with money.

Lesson 2 from on Money from White Rose

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Additional support on finding the difference in money

Lesson 1 on Money from White Rose

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Additional support video for find the total amount of money

Topic Week beginning 15th June

Science Week beginning 15th June

PSHE

Music Challenge - I hope you enjoy!

Drama - Have a go at talking like a pirate!

Spellings Week beginning 15th June

Mr Solomon, Mrs Moulding and Mrs Curd have had a lovely first week back with Year 1 and I have enjoyed seeing all the Year 2 work being sent in via email. Well done for all your hard work. I love hearing from you all. This week we will be continuing to look at The Pirates Next Door in English, we will be revising addition and subtraction in Maths, learning more about Pirates and their ships in Topic, learning pirate songs in Music, playing a pirate action game in PE and testing a hypothesis on materials in Science!  

Miss Kirk

Please find the end of year objectives for our Year 2 pupils below. Hopefully this will help you support your child with their reading, writing and maths and see what, as a teacher, we would be expecting to see in these core subjects. Please do contact us if you would like any further information. 

Worship

End of Year 2 Objectives

A message from Mr Dee

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English WB 8th June

Maths WB 8th June Addition and Subtraction

Spelling WB 8th June

Topic WB 8th June

Music - Have a go at learning these pirate themed songs. The backing tracks are below.

Pirate Crew Song Backing Track

I'm a Pirate Song Backing Track

We're off on an adventure Backing Track

Science WB 8th June

PSHE

Pirate Dance with Justin Fletcher

PE WB 8th June

Fire Safety from Hampshire Fire and Rescue Service - Check out their website at https://www.hantsfire.gov.uk/kidzone-and-schools/home-learning-resources/

Welcome back and we hope you had a good half term!

As you are aware Year 1 students have returned to the classroom today and will be taught by Mr Solomon so at the moment all Year 2 work will still be set online from Miss Kirk so please check below for the work set this week. If you have any questions please do email. It is always great to see your hard work. 

Year 2 English Week beginning 1st June

Year 2 Maths - 1st June Revisiting Place Value

Year 2 Topic Work for week beginning 1st June

Year 2 Spelling week beginning 1st June

Year 2 science Week beginning 1st June

A short message for all of our children.

Miss Kirk has set a Quiz for you to complete. A video with all the questions can be found on the media page.

Topic

Spelling - If you do not own a dictionary then use www.dictionary.com Check out https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zbmv2sg/articles/zjyyb82

RE for Summer 1

New home learning pictures and hedgehog house

English

Science

Topic

Spellings

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Spellings

Hello everybody,

We hope you are having a nice start to the week? As per a few requests Miss Kirk and I will try to upload documents as PDF, this should eliminate the formatting issues that people have been having in the future.

As the weather has taken a turn for the worse I have found a nice website with lovely rainy day activities. Not all of them will be applicable under the lock down but there are some brilliant ideas here: https://www.mykidstime.com/things-to-do/50-fun-rainy-day-activities-for-kids/

There is also the Oxford Reading Tree website that has lots of free E-Books to read: https://home.oxfordowl.co.uk/books/free-ebooks/

Just think how tall your sunflowers will grow with all this rain to drink!

Mr Solomon and Miss Kirk

A list of suggested educational games from ictgames.com

Maths Website

 

https://uk.ixl.com/math/

 

A great website for practicing maths online. It has a range of questions for all the different areas of learning and is broken down into year groups. Perhaps the children could work on areas they feel less confident with. 

 

 

 

Quick Note to say that we have recieved some requests from families for additional work. We will endeavour to add a series of additional tasks each week for your children. These can be found on the web page below. 

Additional Optional Learning opportunities

Dear parents and children

As per multiple requests, Mr Solomon and Miss Kirk will endeavour to upload a weekly book read and message to the school website. These will be under the section: Children > Video Resource Centre > Summer Class Story Time.

We hope you enjoy!

Miss Kirk and Mr Solomon

 

P.S. Ignore the bit about sunflower seeds, you'll all find out soon enough! wink

English: Hedgehugs!

Topic - From Dusk Untill Dawn

Dear parents and children,

We hope you have had a wonderful Easter break, we have been so lucky to have such lovely weather. Hopefully you’ve been noticing all the changes that Spring has brought to all of the plants and animals.

As part of our new Topic ‘From Dusk until Dawn’ we will be looking at nocturnal animals; their habits and their habitats!

We’ll try and ease you all back into a learning environment where we have lots of nice jobs and tasks for you to experience together. Please remember to keep up with your daily reading and a little daily Phoincs practise for year 1 goes a long way. laugh

Again, an enormous thank you to all of you who have been e-mailing us lots of work, it’s fantastic to see what you have all been up to! We hope this finds you all well and safe.

Kind regards,

Mr Solomon and Miss Kirk

Dear Summer Class

How are you doing? We hope you are all keeping safe and having fun indoors.

We have had some lovely pieces of work sent to us over email which has been great to see. Lots of you have been showing us your writing and maths. We have even seen some of you making great peace poles.

Please continue to email over you work. Mr Solomon has been especially pleased with the amazing letters he has had for the Easter Bunny.

Let us know the fun things you have been up to as well!

Enjoy the Easter Celebrations at home with your family.

Miss Kirk and Mr Solomon 

 

Easter Writing - Please write a response to the EB and share the Easter Story with children

Great Fire of London Activities - please use for discussion if you cannot print.

Creativity drawing prompts - Just for fun!

Dear Summer Class

We hope you are enjoying your first week of home learning and that you are keeping safe.

Mr Solomon and I will be updating the website every week with learning for you to complete at home. The learning will continue on from the work we have been doing at school.

 

Maths

Mr Solomon and I will upload daily maths for you to complete. Mr Solomon’s focus is Number and Miss Kirk’s focus is Shape, Space and Measure. Ask an adult to explain the tasks to you if you are unsure. Most of you received a book that you can complete this work in on Friday.

 

English/ Topic / Big Write

Mr Solomon will upload English and Topic tasks which relate to the current topic, which at the moment is The Great Fire of London. Miss Kirk will upload a Big Write task on a Thursday which will have a different topic each week. If possible please encourage the children to complete this work on lined paper.

 

Science

Our current topic is Materials. Miss Kirk will upload science work to complete on a Friday. This work should be practical and a chance for you to investigate.

 

 

Phonics/Spelling

Mr Solomon has upload some phonics links for Year 1 children and Miss Kirk will upload weekly spellings for Year 2 pupils. All children should be practicing the Year 1 and 2 common exception words.

 

Reading

Please encourage your children to read every day in whatever format that might be. Most children took home some books from school on Friday. Please remember to encourage your children to sound out using their phonics and to ask your child lots of questions about the book.

 

Please email Mr Solomon or myself if you have any questions. We would love to hear from you or see your home learning. We will be available by email on our normal working days (Mr Solomon Monday – Wednesday and Miss Kirk Thursday- Friday).

 

Best Wishes

Miss Kirk

 

 

Religious Education

The Great Fire of London - Hurstbourne Style!

Topic Overview Great Fire of London Spring 2 2020

Into the Forest - Woods Walk

Topic Overview Spring 1 2020 - Once Upon a Time

Topic Plan Autumn Term 2019

Summer Class Home learning 28.6.19

Africa Home learning Project

Africa topic map

Summer class home learning 10.5.19

A Visit from the lambs 9/5/19

Mrs Williams bought in four orphaned lambs.
Getting to grips with bottle feeding!
They liked the garden.

Life Cycles Topic planner

ANIMALS OF ANTARCTICA Websites

Basecamp

Ship Building

HOMEWORK Friday 23rd November

HOMEWORK Friday 16th November

HOMEWORK Friday 9th November

HOMEWORK Friday 2nd November

EXPLORERS websites for research

Autumn Term 2

This half term, our topic is 'Epic Explorers'. This history and geography based topic will focus specifically on the expeditions of Captain Scott and Shackleton. We will look closely at the physical features (landscape, weather, animals) of Antarctica through videos and images, and compare with our Winter in the UK.  Take a look at the topic map and Discovery Time activities below to see what exciting learning we have in store.

We have already started preparations for our Christmas play 'Babushka'. The children will be developing their speaking, listening, music and drama skills, along with being given their chance to perform to a public audience. It is going to be a very busy half term indeed!  

Epic Explorers Topic Map & Discovery Time

We have had some amazing Victorian Toys projects and presentations coming in to school. The children should be so proud of their research and presentation skills.

Information Reports about Victorian Toys

Max's Information Report on Dominoes

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Max tells us all about the Victorian toy, Dominoes

Ella's Information Report on Rocking Horses

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Ella tells us all about the Victorian toy, the Rocking Horse

VICTORIAN TOYS AND GAMES websites for research

Our Grandparents' Toys - Take a look at what we found out

Our Parents' Toys - Take a look at what we found out

HOMEWORK Thursday 18th October 2018 HALF TERM

HOMEWORK Friday 12th October 2018

HOMEWORK Friday 5th October 2018

HOMEWORK Friday 28th September 2018

HOMEWORK Friday 21st September 2018

HOMEWORK Friday 14th September 2018

HOMEWORK Friday 7th September 2018

DISCOVERY TIME Friday Afternoons

Autumn Term 1

This half term, our topic is 'Let's Play'. The focus will be on how toys have changed through living memory. First, we will explore our own modern toys and share our 'special' favourite toys with each other. Then, we will find out about toys from our parents' and grandparents' childhood through interviews, 'show and tell' toys that children bring into school, a living history exhibition and hands on play with these toys in Discovery Time. We invite parents and grandparents into our Discovery Time sessions to play alongside the children. Finally, we will find out about Victorian toys. We will compare the materials that the toys are/were made from. Take a look at our topic map to find out what other learning we have in store this half term.  

 

English: Reading

Our whole class 'Book Talk' sessions will be based on the books Dogger and The Velveteen Rabbit. Together, we will retrieve information from the text to ensure we have a basic understanding of what is going on in the story. Next, we will use our inference skills to explore the feelings of the characters. We will also relate this to our own experience of losing our special toy or how we might feel if we lost it. We will discuss the meanings of some of the vocabulary the author uses. The Year 2 children will be challenged further by being 'Grammar Detectives' where they will be encouraged to find grammatical features in the text e.g. expanded nouns phrases, list with a comma, compound sentences using a conjunction, contractions, possessive apostrophes, which will in turn support their writing. Word reading skills will be taught in groups through phonics, guided reading and individual reading sessions that are closely matched to your child's age and stage of learning.  

 

English: Writing

Our focused writing will be based around the stories Dogger and the Velveteen Rabbit. The children will recreate a story similar to the structure of Dogger featuring their own toy which sadly is lost then found. The children will be encouraged to apply the writing skills that are taught along the way. These skills are dependent on your child's age and stage of learning. We will be sharing our stories with the new Year R children.

The Velveteen Rabbit features a toy that becomes REAL so the  children will imagine their own special toy to coming to life through the 'Nursery Magic'. We will explore ideas for adventures through drama for writing. We will be videoing these stories to upload onto this website to entertain you, so watch this space!

Writing Across the Curriculum

The children will be encouraged to present their research about parents' and grandparents' toys through a range of writing opportunities in topic time i.e. making information signs for our class museum, planning what to say in a speech bubble to create a video documentary on an ipad, posters and information booklets about toys in the past. As homework, children are encouraged to choose how to present the information they find out from interviewing members of their family such as photos with captions, poster, video interview, PowerPoint presentation, information booklet etc.    

 

LET'S PLAY TOPIC MAP

HIGHLIGHTS FROM LAST YEAR !

Yr2 Country Dancing

End of Year 2 Expectations in Reading, Writing and Maths

Autumn Term Reading Information Parent Workshop

Autumn Term Maths Parent Information Meeting : Addition and Subtraction

Spring Term Maths Parent Information Evening: Multiplication and Division

Maths Booklet

Below are some websites that you may find useful when supplementing your child's learning at home.

  • Mathletics A website designed to support your child's learning in maths.
  • Phonics Play Phonics Play Website- designed to help your child consolidate their understanding of phonics
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