Level 2 

Level 2 students have continued to grow in all areas, and we are seeing some beautiful examples of collaboration, resilience, and persistence in times of challenge. 

Inquiry Learning 

Students are learning about the past and what communication, transport, home life, chores, and school was like. We were very lucky to have some guest speakers visit us and speak about their experiences from the past. Claire Swanton, Billy's Mum, spoke about growing up in South Africa and what it was like there in the past. We had Katie, Rosie L's great Grandma, speak about her childhood, and we had Ellie J's Granddad, Kelvin, excitedly show some shillings, records, and football memorabilia from the past. We thank these wonderful parents and grandparents for contributing to our learning.  

Numeracy learning 

Level 2's have been working hard with numbers to 1,000 and sometimes beyond 1,000. They are consolidating their understanding of place value. Lessons have centered around reading and recording numbers to 1000 and beyond, expanding numbers 1-1000 and beyond (if applicable), solving worded problems, and understanding and applying place value knowledge. We have also looked at length and measured our height, our feet, and applied our knowledge of using rulers, tape measures, and trundle wheels to real-life measuring situations. 

Literacy learning 

Level 2 spelling has been a big focus and students have begun to settle into a very explicit routine every morning with 30 minutes of phonics, spelling, grammar and handwriting. We have learnt that 'y' at the end of a work sometimes says 'e' like funny and bunny. We then moved on to learn that 'ey' also says 'e' like in honey and money. Students have been focusing on writing sentences with a capital letter and full stop, and they are currently learning about character traits in narrative stories. 

Reminders and coming up in Level 2

If you need to speak to your child's teacher, please email them to make an appointment. We want to make sure that we give you our full attention. As classrooms are very busy places, we are often very busy in the mornings as students are arriving. Having said that, if you need to tell us something important, we welcome this as needed. 

• Hats – All students need a hat! Please pack one in their bag
• Homework - continuing every week. Spelling, Maths and a take home reader.
• Rubbish free yard - no rubbish to go outside 
• Compass - keep an eye on Compass for excursions and important updates. Cut off dates are final. 
• Level 2 late stay – Term 4
• End of Term (MAD Easter Day) - Thursday 2nd April - Dismissal 2:30pm
• Parent helpers - If you would like to be a parent helper you must have completed the parent helper training and have a current WWCC. Please email your class teacher via compass if you would like to help in the classroom. 

Warm regards, 

Level 2 teachers

Kim Holmes, Yasi Shayesteh, Elizabeth Seymour.