If your child is required to isolate or is unable to attend school for an extended period of time, please call the office on 0121 675 3573 and arrange a telephone meeting with Mrs Sheehan, Mrs Driver or Miss Langford to discuss your child’s learning.
Hello and welcome to year 2’s virtual school! Please feel free to explore the resources available here to either further support your child’s learning at home or as a remote learning tool if your child is required to isolate. You will find learning for both English and maths that runs alongside what we are teaching in school for this first half term, as well as some information about our current topic. Please do call the school on the number above if you would like to discuss your child’s home learning; we are happy to signpost you to what we feel would benefit your individual child the most.
Good news! We now have a place where you can send your work to us. When you finish a lesson, please take a photograph of it and submit it here. Make sure your name is written on the work clearly. We look forward to seeing what you have done!
Autumn 2 week beginning 7th December
Please click on the link above for the Oak National academy lessons on multiplication and division. Focus on lessons 5-10 for the week beginning 7th December. We are using sharing and grouping as our prime strategies for division. The methods are outlined in both the Oak National Academy lessons, as well as the White Rose Hub lessons. See the images below for further suppprt.
ln school, we always start our learning by exploring concepts practically. Children can use anything at home, from cut up bits of paper, to jelly beans!
White Rose Maths also have a series of lessons that support our current learning in school. Click on the image above for further lessons to support your child’s understanding of multiplication and division. Scroll down and select ‘Summer term Week 6.’
Your child has a log in for Times Tables Rock Stars and they have been allocated games and activities linked to their current Target Tables test. Ten minutes daily on the ‘Soundcheck’ game would really help support their progress. Children need to know the 2, 5 and 10 times table by the end of year 2.
And finally, the links below will take you to a selection of arithmetic based games. We often play these games in school and the children love to challenge themselves! Can they beat their previous score? Can they complete the game more quickly? Timers at the ready!
Select the multiplication and division games.
This week we are focusing on our topic of toys with some non-fiction reading and then answering questions about the text. Later in the week you will be adding adjectives to passages about toys and the final activity is adding conjunctions to make compound sentences. (Don’t worry, it is all explained below!) . Click on the activity link to access the PDF. Aim to do one activity each day.
Toys and games– Activity 1 – Read the text and then answer the questions. If you can not print the page, view it online and then write sentence answers on a piece of paper.
Toys and Games – Activity 2 – Read the text and then answer the questions. If you can not print the page, view it online and then write sentence answers on a piece of paper.
Adjectives to describe. – Activity 3 – Put the adjectives in the word bank in the passage about toys. Choose carefully and then read your sentences out loud to a grown up. If you can not print the sheets, view the activity and then write on a piece of paper. Watch the video below to help you.
Adjectives to describe – Activity 4 – Put the adjectives in the word bank in the passage about toys. Choose carefully and then read your sentences out loud to a grown up. If you can not print the sheets, view the activity and then write on a piece of paper. Watch the video below to help you.
Compound sentences – Activity 5 – Watch the video and then look at how you can add a conjunction between the short sentences. If you can not print the sheets, view the activity and then write on a piece of paper
You could also practise these phonic activities by clicking on the links from BBC Bitesize. Try a different one each day. Follow the arrow at the end of the video to do a quick activity.
Carry on with your daily reading by choosing a book (at the right stage for your child) from the Oxford Owl library. You need to register on the home page of the website, but this is free! Click the link below for your own virtual library…
Click here to see a range of ideas for questions you can ask your child about the text they are reading.
And finally, keep up with your spellings using https://spellingframe.co.uk/
In the table below, you will see all our key word spellings and the lists for them. To access one of these lists, you just need to click on ‘ Enter Word List Code’ and enter the code.
| Key words | Spelling lists | Words in each list |
| Reception | 23787 23788 22789 | a I is no go me you we to the my your for said was |
| Key words | Spelling lists | Words in each list |
| Year 1 | 23793 23794 23797 23798 23799 23800 | are ask be by come do friend full has he here his house love of once one our pull push put says school she so some there they today were where will |
| Year 2 | 23802 23803 23805 23806 23808 23809 23810 23811 | after again any beautiful behind both break busy child children Christmas climb clothes cold could door even every everybody eye father find floor gold great half hold hour improve kind many mind money most move old parent people plant poor pretty prove should sugar sure told water whole wild would |
Lots of activities then load (and it is possible to see a simple word list showing the words within that spelling list), and children can access all the ones with the ‘FREE’ badge on them. You do not need to register or sign up
This half term, the children will develop their history skills through exploring how toys have changed over time. Our topic will kick start with a mystery toy box being received from ‘Nanny Chris’. The children will need to become history detectives in order to find out about toys from the past. This will lead onto the children taking part in an exciting DT project, within which they will be set a toy making challenge by a time travelling toy maker
Watch the video below.
Children can conduct their own research by clicking here and here. Why not create a timeline of toys from Victorian times to now? Or perhaps challenge them to find the oldest (and most recent) toy in their household? How are they different?
BBC Bitesize has a range of activities here.
Use these instructions to make your own Victorian Bird In A Cage..
Use these instructions to make a Victorian toy soldier – like the Nutcracker.
Use these instructions to make your own cup and ball game.
Click here for this half term’s homework grid. It’s packed full of ideas for your child to explore at home, either by themselves or with a member of their family. We love to share the work the children are exploring both at home and at school, so please do tweet your child’s learning @HillstonePS.