Year 2

Reading at Home

We are working hard to hear children read reguularly at school and really appreciate it when parents (and other adults) can hear children read at home too. To help us change class reading books please ensure that you are filling in the reading diaries so we know whether your child needs their book changed or not. We can see real progress in reading skills in those children who read at home as well as school.

TTRockstars

We are delighted to see that so many of the class have accessed their brand new TTRockstars account and are busily collecting coins whilst learning their times tables. Once a week, we are completing a timed written test in class so that the children can show off their times tables facts. Most of the class are focusing on their x2 x5 x10 tables.

Tuesday 16th January 2024 HOME LEARNING

Good morning Year Two. It's very quiet here in school and very, very cold!

You'll find two maths worksheets -  some Maths work on Money which is our current unit. Also, some consolidation of adding skills. 

For English I would like you to focus on this week's spellings. You have slides to watch, a sentence worksheet to complete and a wordsearch as an extension.

Finally, we are starting our new Science unit on Everyday Materials. Watch the slides and go hunting around the house for materials to list on your worksheet.

Keep warm, be good and (if you get chance) practice the Prayer to the Guardian Angel which we have been learning.

Looking forward to seeing you tomorrow (fingers-crossed)

Mrs. O'Shea

Welcome to Year 2 2023-2024

We're very excited to be almost at the end of our first month here in Year Two and what a busy month it has been! Mrs. O'Shea  and Ms. Lanka are excited about all the learning opportunities awaiting us this year. Please remember to check X/Twitter so you can enjoy all the exciting moments your child's learning journey. 

Home learning for the week beginning 18.01.21

You don't need to print off any worksheets. They can be answered on paper. There are lined books available from the school office if needed.

I have been uploading other lessons onto this page for each day so hopefully you've been able to do some reading comprehension, science, theme, art and P.E. Don't forget there are also activities on the Theme and R.E. tic tac toes. 

Children I have been so impressed with all of the work I have been receiving on Seesaw-it's been so lovely to see all of your wonderful efforts. I know doing your school work from home can be difficult so I'm so proud of you!

Thank you for attending our Zoom English lessons and story times. It's been lovely to see you all and be able to still teach- although differently to how I normally would. I'm going to try to do some spelling, punctuation and grammar work at the start of each lesson this week so have a piece of paper and a pencil handy at the beginning of each session. The spellings for this week are below- if you practice these throughout the week we will have a test on Friday.

Parents if you need to contact me please email me on doranl@st-osburgs.coventry.sch.uk/

RWI week beginning 18.01.21

Please use the link below which will take you to the RWI homepage on YouTube. Mrs Adeyemi's, Mr Jordan's and Miss Wood's group need to watch all of the set 3 videos. Miss Howe's and Mrs Hollingsworth's groups need to watch all of the set 2 videos and Mrs Blow's group need to watch all of the set 1 videos. The videos are updated at 9:30am daily (I have noticed last week that sometimes it is just after 9:30am) and last for 24 hours.

Friday 22.01.21 Art

Join in with the tutorial below to draw a panda.

Friday 22.01.21 P.E.

Join in with one of Joe Wick's P.E. sessions. The link below will take you to his YouTube page.

Home learning for the week beginning 11.01.21

You don't need to print off any worksheets. They can be answered on paper. There are lined books available from the school office if needed.

Don't forget to complete the activities on the Theme and R.E. tic tac toes.

Hopefully you should have all received the login details for Seesaw. You can upload pictures of work onto there and I can see and respond to it. It's been lovely to see the work children have added so far. I have sent zoom invites via Seesaw for live English lessons and story times which will be starting next week so please make sure you can access it. If you have any problems accessing this, please email me on doranl@st-osburgs.coventry.sch.uk/

RWI week beginning 11.01.21

Everyday I will update the links in this section. These videos are from the RWI you tube page. These videos are not uploaded until 9:30am and only last for 24 hours.

Tuesday 12.01.21

The link I am adding below is the You Tube link to the RWI You Tube page. On the homepage there will be 3 sections of videos. Set 3 videos for Mrs Adeyemi's, Miss Wood's and Mr Jordan's groups. Set 2 videos for Miss Howe's and Mrs Hollingswoth's groups. Set 1 videos for Mrs Blow's group. Please watch all videos for the appropriate set of sounds. Hopefully just adding this link will be easier for me to adapt each day as uploading all the videos individually yesterday took some time. Any issues with accessing these videos please email me on doranl@st-osburgs.coventry.sch.uk or send me a message through Seesaw.

Monday 11.01.21 English

Pages 92 and 93 of the English Practice Book.

Monday 11.01.21 R.E.

Tuesday 12.01.21 Reading

Watch the David Attenborough short clip below and then answer the questions in the pdf document.

Wednesday 13.01.21 Theme

Look through the powerpoint below and then create a sketch map of your local area.

Thursday 14.01.21 Science

Look through the powerpoint and the either print off the worksheet and complete it or complete it on a piece of paper.

Friday 15.01.21 P.E.

Join in with one of Joe Wick's videos from this week.

Friday 15.01.21 Art

Join in with the tutorial below and draw your own sausage dog.

Good afternoon parents

Just a quick update. I have sent a message through the Seesaw app with a link to our live English lessons which will begin Tuesday 12th January and will happen at 10:45am (rather than the 1pm I previously stated). These will happen everyday apart from a Monday. I have also added a link to a zoom story time I will do every Tuesday and Thursday at 2pm. If you have any issues accessing these, please contact me via my email doranl@st-osburgs.coventry.sch.uk

I have hopefully sent out emails to all parents who may have not had the login details to Seesaw. Please use this as it is the easiest way for me to send links etc.

Thank you

Miss Doran

Good afternoon.

Yesterday when I started planning your home learning it was just in case you might have been isolating- not that we would be in lock down again. I was so looking forward to seeing you today. This week all of our home learning will be uploaded on to this page. Next week I will be teaching you an English lesson Tuesday- Friday at 1pm via Zoom (this will also be available to the children attending school).I will be sending a link to this lesson via Seesaw so please contact me via doranl@st-osburgs.coventry.sch.uk if you do not have this login. I will also be doing a story time 3 times a week too.

I will also contact parents with a login for Times Tables Rockstars.

Keep safe and I'll see you next week on Zoom!

Miss Doran

Home learning for the week beginning 05.01.21

Happy New Year to you all!

You don't need to print off any worksheets. They can be answered on paper.

Don't forget to complete the activities on the Theme and R.E. tic tac toes.

Hopefully you should have all received the login details for Seesaw. You can upload pictures of work onto there and I can see and respond to it. It's been lovely to see the work children have added so far. If you have any problems accessing this, please email me on doranl@st-osburgs.coventry.sch.uk/

RWI for week beginning 05.01.21

Mrs Blow's group are focusing on all set 1 sounds. Use the videos below and your speed sound books to support.

Maths Tuesday 05.01.21

Pages 38 and 39 of the Maths Practice Workbook

English Tuesday 05.11.21

Pages 90 and 91 of the English Practice Book

English Wednesday 06.01.21

Look at the poems below. Read through them. Think about which ones you like and why. Which ones you don't like and why. Can you find any rhyming words and alliteration?

Thursday 07.01.21 English

Look at the image below and create a bank of words or phrases you could use in a winter poem. Try and challenge yourself by using alliteration e.g. snowy skies, brisk breeze.

Friday 08.01.21 English

Time to write your winter poem. This can be in any style you like. If you need some support you could choose one of the poems from Wednesday as a scaffold and just make some changes. Remember to use your word bank from yesterday.

Home learning for the week beginning 14.12.20

There are no RWI sessions this week but your child could recap any of the sounds that they have been learning in their sessions. Scroll down for previous videos.

Home learning for the week beginning 07.12.20

You don't need to print off any worksheets. They can be answered on paper.

Don't forget to complete the activities on the Theme and R.E. tic tac toes.

Hopefully you should have all received the login details for Seesaw. You can upload pictures of work onto there and I can see and respond to it. It's been lovely to see the work children have added so far. If you have any problems accessing this, please email me on doranl@st-osburgs.coventry.sch.uk/

Maths Monday 7.12.20

Complete the progress test on pages 34 and 35 of the Maths Practice Workbook.

Maths Tuesday 8.12.20

Pages 76 and 77 of the Maths Practice Workbook.

English Tuesday 8.12.20

Watch the video below of Britain's Got Talent auditions. Which performance is your favourite? Do you prefer solo or group performances? Which act is your favourite- dance, magic, singers?

Maths Wednesday 9.12.20

Pages 78 and 79 of the Maths Practice Workbook.

English Wednesday 9.12.20

Watch the video below and use your worksheet to support.

Maths Thursday 10.12.20

Pages 38 and 39 of the Maths Practice Workbook.

English Thursday 10.12.20

Create a poster for the Christmas Talent show.

Maths Friday 11.12.20

Pages 42 and 43 of the Maths Practice Workbook.

English Friday 11.12.20

Watch the video below and use the worksheet to support.

Home learning for the week beginning 30.11.20

You don't need to print off any worksheets. They can be answered on paper.

Don't forget to complete the activities on the Theme and R.E. tic tac toes.

Hopefully you should have all received the login details for Seesaw. You can upload pictures of work onto there and I can see and respond to it. It's been lovely to see the work children have added so far. If you have any problems accessing this, please email me on doranl@st-osburgs.coventry.sch.uk/

Maths Monday 30.11.20

Pages 12 and 13 of the Maths Practice Workbook

English Monday 30.11.20

We are being a new block of learning in English using the advert The Christmas Star. Mrs C is doing some live teaching again using this. The children loved her live teaching of The Feast. The first lesson is an 'Experience Day'. Watch the following video of Clean Bandit's Symphony. Sing along, look up the lyrics. Look for interesting words related to sound and music.

Maths Tuesday 1.12.20

Pages 14 and 15 of the Maths Practice Book

English 1.12.20

Today is the first live lesson of Mrs C teaching the Christmas Star. Use the worksheet if you can- if not a piece of paper is fine. Watch and follow on with the video below.

Maths Wednesday 2.12.20

Pages 16 and 17 of the Maths Practice Book.

English Wednesday 2.12.20

Today is another 'Experience Day'. Watch the clips below. Think about phrases that adults say to children when they are busy and have no time. Think about what adults do that make children feel ignored. Think about Jasmine in the story- what words could you use to describe her e.g. lonely, rejected, forgotten.

Maths Thursday 3.12.20

Pages 30 and 31 of the Maths Practice Book.

Maths Friday 4.12.20

Pages 32 and 33 of the Maths Practice Book

English Friday 4.12.20

Today is another 'Experience Day'. Watch the videos below and gather a bank of ideas of jobs that adults do. Interview a parent- why are they so busy? What does their day entail? Think about the idea 'children have more time than adults'- do you agree? Why?

Home learning for the week beginning 23.11.20

You don't need to print off any worksheets. They can be answered on paper.

Don't forget to complete the activities on the Theme and R.E. tic tac toes.

You can email any work you have completed to me today (Monday 23.11.20) at doranl@st-osburgs.coventry.sch.uk.

Tomorrow I will be emailing parents a code to access their children's pages on Seesaw- an app which enables photos of the children's work to be uploaded and then I can provide feedback).

RWI Week beginning 23.11.20

Mrs Blow's group are focusing on the sounds b, f and e this week. Use your speed sounds book and look at the videos below.

English Monday 23.11.20

Today is our last sentence stacking day before we begin thinking about our independent writing. We are thinking about plot point 10- the letter. Imagine you are standing in Grandad's attic

Imagine places a letter could be hidden. Think about prepositions we used earlier in the unit e.g. under, next to , behind, on beside (thinking side 1) Use my model sentence, Syd found a letter under Grandad's hat, to write one of your own (writing side 1).

Think about verbs to describe how Syd may have opened his letter e.g. tore, ripped, shredded (thinking side 2). Use my model sentence to write one of your own- He prised it open (writing side 2).

Think about the exciting things Grandad may be doing on the island now. Create a list of action verbs related to what Grandad could be doing e.g. jumping, leaping, diving (thinking side 3). Use my model sentences, there was Grandad sliding down the waterfalls. Grandad had found his happily ever after, to write tow of your own (writing side 3).

English Tuesday 24.11.20

Today we are beginning to think about our independent write. We will be writing a setting description of when Syd and Grandad arrived at the island. Using your five sense and the images in the work sheet below create a word bank of ideas that will support your writing.

English 25.11.20

Today we are writing our setting description. Read the beginning of mine and then write your own.

"Land ahoy!" shouted Syd. Grandad sniffed the salty air and sighed happily. As their feet sunk into the soft, golden sand, Syd and Grandad took in the beautiful sights around them. They had never seen a place as vibrant before. Brightly coloured birds fluttered past chirping. They ventured further onto the island and found a waterfall. All around them they looked high and low, low and high.

English Thursday 26.11.20

Today we will be editing and improving our work from yesterday. Check to make sure you have used full stops and capital letters, check your spellings and see if you can make any improvements or add in any extra detail. Make sure your work makes sense.

English Friday 27.11.20

Today we will be writing our final draft of our setting description. Use some fresh paper and re-write your description including your editing and improvements from yesterday. Add a picture when you have finished.

Home learning for the week beginning 16.11.20

You don't need to print off any worksheets. They can be answered on paper.

Don't forget to complete the activities on the Theme and R.E. tic tac toes.

You can email any work you have completed to me at doranl@st-osburgs.coventry.sch.uk

RWI Week beginning 16.11.20

Mrs Blow's group are focusing on the sounds c,k and u this week. Use your speed sounds book and look at the videos below.

English Tuesday 17.11.20

Pages 30 and 31 of the English Practice Workbook

English Wednesday 18.11.20

Pages 32 and 33 of the English Practice Workbook

English Thursday 19.11.20

Pages 34 and 35 of the English Practice Workbook

English Friday 20.11.20

Pages 36 and 37 of the English Practice Workbook

Home learning for the week beginning 09.11.20

You don't need to print off any worksheets. They can be answered on paper.

Don't forget to complete the activities on the Theme and R.E. tic tac toes.

You can email any work you have completed to me at doranl@st-osburgs.coventry.sch.uk

Tuesday 10.11.20 English

Pages 26 and 27 of the English Practice Workbook

English Thursday 12.11.20 

Pages 28 and 29 of the English Practice Workbook

English Friday 13.11.20

Watch the video of Grandad's Island below. Can you write a letter in a bottle- imagine you have been washed ashore onto a deserted island. What would you write in your letter?

Home learning for the week beginning 02.11.20

You don't need to print off any worksheets. They can be answered on paper.

Don't forget to complete the activities on the Theme and R.E. tic tac toes.

You can email any work you have completed to me at doranl@st-osburgs.coventry.sch.uk

English Tuesday 03.11.20

Page 14 of the English Practice Workbook

English Wednesday 04.11.20

Pages 20 and 21 of the English Practice Workbook

English Thursday 05.11.20

Pages 22 and 23 of the English Practice Workbook

English Friday 06.11.20 

Pages 24 and 25 of the English Practice Workbook

Home learning for the week beginning 19.10.20

You don't need to print off any worksheets. They can be answered on paper.

Don't forget to chose activities from the tic tac toe for Theme and R.E.

You can email any work you have completed to me at doranl@st-osburgs.coventry.sch.uk

English Tuesday 20.10.20

This week in our English lesson we will be writing a new version of Little Red Riding Hood. We will be swapping Little Red Riding Hood for Little Billy Blue Bag, the wolf for a bear, Grandma for Grandad and a walk through the woods to a walk through a busy city.

Create a story map for this new version.

English Wednesday 21.10.20

Today we will be building up a bank of words and phrases we can use in our story. Think about words and phrases that you might use to describe what is in Bill'y Bag for Grandad (remember the repetition we used- in Little Red Riding Hood's basket there was fresh bread. In Little Red Riding Hood's basket there was fresh bread and a cosy blanket. In Little Red Riding Hood's basket there was fresh bread, a cosy blanket and some juicy grapes). What adjectives could describe the bear; to describe the sights and sounds of the busy city, how the bear moved to Grandad's flat.

English Thursday 22.10.20 

Today we will be writing our Little Billy Blue Bag story. Think of all of those writing features we used when doing our sentence stacking lessons.

English Friday 23.10.20

Today we will be editing the story we wrote yesterday. Check you have added capital letters and full stops you your sentences. Check to see if you could add any adjectives, alliteration and dialogue.

Home learning for the week beginning 12.10.20.

You don't need to print off any of the sheets. They can be answered on paper.

Don't forget to also choose activities from your Theme and R.E. tic tac toes.

English Wednesday 14.10.20

Think about Grandma in that moment when the wolf appeared. What might she have been thinking? Write some dialogue for what she might have said to the wolf e.g. "Please don't eat me!"

English Thursday 15.10.20

Think of adjectives you would use for a wolves ears, eyes and teeth. Compose sentences for each such as "What flea-bitten ears you have!", "What bright eyes you have!" and "What pointy teeth you have!"

English Friday 16.10.20

Think about the final scene in Little Red Riding Hood....can you write what happened?

English Monday 05.10.20

Look at an image of Little Red Riding Hood- can you create a list of adjectives to describe her? Use these adjectives to write some sentences about Little Red Riding Hood..... added bonus if you can include 'who' sentences e.g. Little Red Riding Hood was a clam and caring girl who was kind to animals.

English Tuesday 06.10.20

Imagine you are walking through the woods like Little Red Riding Hood was. Create a bank of words that could describe what you might see, hear, smell, think, feel and do.

English Thursday 08.10.20

Think about the objects Little Red Riding Hood might have in her basket e.g. fruit, blanket, card, picture, teddy. Write 3 sentences to describe what was in the basket using repetition for effect e.g. In her basket there were green, juicy grapes. In her basket there were green, juicy grapes and fresh, brown bread. In her basket there were green, juicy grapes, fresh, brown bread and dark sticky medicine.

English Friday 09.10.20

Look at a picture of the wolf. Think about his movements. Create a bank of verbs using 'ing' to describe his movements e.g. creeping, sneaking, prowling. Think about some adverbs you could use to pair with these verbs e.g. cheekily, suspiciously. Use these 'ing' verbs and adverbs to write a range of sentences about the wolf e.g. Scuttling suspiciously, the wolf approached Grandma's house.

Monday 28.09.20

Maths pages 16 and 17 of the Maths Practice Workbook.

English pages 4 and 5 of the English Practice Workbook.

Tuesday 28.09.20

English Pages 6 and 7 of the English Practice Workbook.

Welcome to our Year 2 Class Page. This page is going to be a very important tool for us this year as I will be uploading home learning here every Monday. This home learning is to be used if the child is well but awaiting test results for themselves or a family member, if isolating due to a close contact having a positive Covid-19 test, school bubble closure or wider closures of schools.

Please find below work for the week beginning 21.09.20.

Also below is our Welcome Parent Meeting information. Normally this would take place in school but due to restrictions we have added the information onto here. If you have any questions or queries please do not hesitate to ring the school office and I will get back to you.

Hello all

I hope you are all well. I’ve been making calls again this week- it’s been lovely to speak to you again. Any children I haven’t called this week I’ll be calling in the next couple of weeks. Mums and dads you should be receiving an email regarding a Zoom meeting I’m setting up for next Wednesday afternoon. You may already be familiar with Zoom but if not you can download it for free on a phone or tablet or access it on your computer by searching for zoom. Once you have emailed me your interest in taking part in the meeting I will email you the time along with the meeting ID and password. You just need to click onto ‘join meeting’ and add these in. There will be time to do a ‘Show and Tell’ and I’ll read the children a chapter from ‘The World’s Worst Teachers’. 
 

Regarding home learning, there are still lots of packs in the school office- these are there for those children who haven’t collected their second pack. I have added some links below- there is another Talk for Writing pack, links to the RWI daily lessons as well as the link to the BBC Bitesize daily lessons which will be particularly useful for maths. I’ve also added another 3 weeks of the weekly learning activities. There’s also the life skills experience sheet you can work on. Remember you don’t need to be doing lots of work- little and often is best. 

 

Take care.

Miss Doran 

Hello Year 2!

Just a little message from Miss Doran.

I am missing you all greatly, it was wonderful to speak to most of you over the last couple of weeks. I will be calling again soon for another catch up. I hope you're all staying safe and keeping well- remember to stay at home. 

I have added some more links onto this class page. Bitesize are from this week doing daily lessons for most year groups, the link on this page will directly take you to the Year 2 page. For those children who are currently on our phonics programme (RWI), there are daily phonics lessons, I've added the link to that YouTube page too. For maths, in particular, I'm finding the White Rose maths very helpful, the link for that is below too. There is also a link to 3 daily lessons from the government, the link will take you to Oak National Academy.

Don't worry if you're not doing work daily, the most important thing is that you are safe and well. Enjoy this time with your families- read books together, watch films, bake cakes, make a den, get creative! All of those things we don't always get to do.

Remember that although school may be closed for the majority of you, all the staff at St. Osburg's are thinking about you all of the time. Parents if you need any support or have any queries the school office is still open.

Take care and hopefully Mrs Blow and myself will see you soon!

Useful Websites

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