Welcome to Jupiter Class
Year 2
Happy New Year Jupiter Class!
Teachers: Mrs Rhodes and Mrs Faupel
Higher Level Teaching Assistants: Ms Herrington
Teaching Assistants: Mrs Fisher, Mrs Walker and Mr Morris
Mrs Rhodes works Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday (am only)
Mrs Faupel works Wednesday, Thursday and Friday
Important information:
- Reading books will be changed whenever necessary.
- PE will take place on Monday and Wednesday. Your child needs to come dressed in their outdoor PE Kit as some PE will be outdoors. Ideally, they will still wear wellies to and from school and then have their PE shoes in school. The reason for this is we need them to have a dry pair of shoes to wear in the classroom.
- If possible, please just leave your child's school shoes or some pumps in school all the time.
- Homework from the 'menu' is due as and when children have completed a piece. We look forward to seeing it and we will carry on our successful 'round robin' where the children show their homework to each other in small groups. All homework is marked by the class teacher and a sticker / house point is given. Sometimes merits are also given.
- Spellings will be issued and worked through on a Friday in a relaxed manner. This is not a test and scores are not being recorded in diaries. This is supported by a daily spelling lesson.
- Lunches are served in the classroom. If your child would like to bring a healthy snack in the morning then they can.
- We actively encourage the children to drink water and your child needs a named water bottle in school every day. Their bottle is kept on their desks each day.
- Your child washes their hands at regular set times. We remind children to wash their hands well for 20 seconds.
- Our windows and doors are open throughout the day. Please make sure your child has extra layers on if needed.
Please click here for some reading question prompts to help question your child as they read to you and you read to them. As your child is now in Year 2, they need to be able to discuss a text and answer questions about it.
Here is our wonderful Autumn poem from earlier in the year.
HERE is a link to some real and alien words to read with your child. Remind the children to look out for 'special friends'. These are the phonemes/sounds made by more than one letter.
At the beginning of the school year, we travelled back in time to 1666 and The Great Fire of London. What a fabulous topic! We learnt a huge amount and enjoyed going home and sharing our learning with our families.
Please check the front page of the school website for the most up to date diary dates as these are always subject to change.
Keeping in touch:
We both realise that keeping in touch is harder face to face that it used to be currently. We will make every effort to put photographs of the class on Twitter and on here so that you can see what your child is getting up to and as soon as we can welcome you back into the class then we will. We are always available on email and at the end of the school day so please don't hesitate to make contact.
We are enjoying the challenge of Year 2 Guided Reading! Here we are reading in our classroom and fabulous outdoor area.
Which character visited our classroom? Can you guess from the clues and the text map?
Fantastic resources to support learning and homework activities
- Phonics Play - http://www.phonicsplay.co.uk/freeIndex.htm or https://www.phonicsplay.co.uk/PicnicOnPluto.html or https://www.phonicsplay.co.uk/BuriedTreasure2.html
- BBC Words and pictures - http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/wordsandpictures/phonics/
- Oxford Owl - https://www.oxfordowl.co.uk/
- Maths ICT Games - http://www.ictgames.com/resources.html
- English ICT Games - http://www.ictgames.com/literacy.html
- Scratch - https://scratch.mit.edu/
- Purple Mash - http://www.purplemash.com/sch/crick
