Y2 Newsletter 05.05.23

Living our school values: 

A note from Mrs McCormack (Primary Principal):

Dear Parents,

I hope this update finds you and your families well. This week has marked three special events. We celebrated Labour Day, Coronation Day to honor King Maha Vajiralongkorn, and, today, King Charles III’s Coronation Day.

Despite the shorter school week, we have been busy and productive. On Monday, we held our twice-annual CPL day, which provided an opportunity for our teachers to engage in professional learning across a range of disciplines. We were extremely fortunate to have Tom Sherrington as our keynote speaker, who continues supporting us with evidenced-based classroom practices. I was pleased to see so many parents in attendance at Tom's workshop on Tuesday, which was an excellent opportunity to gain further insight into our ethos and pedagogy.

With the especially warm temperatures set to continue, please be assured we are actively monitoring the Heat Index and our Heat Management Guidelines at all times. We want to ensure that our students and staff are safe and comfortable during hot weather, and we take all necessary measures to prevent heat-related illnesses. Please feel free to contact us if you have any questions.

Learning

Term 3 - You are what you eat!

Please visit our curriculum pages and class blogs to find out more about this exciting learning!

As part of our Humanities topic ‘Why is food important?’ we will explore where food grows. We will also think about how we import foods that do not grow locally and the positive and negative impact that has on the world around us.

Over the next two weeks, please could you send in any empty food packages you have that clearly state where the food item comes from. We will collect these in classes and use these to support our geography learning.

Thank you very much for your help and support!

RSE - Relationships and Sex Education Presentations

Next Week:  

Our learning in PSHE focuses on naming the outside body parts of both girls and boys. We use scientific terms for these parts and discuss the differences between boy's and girl's bodies.

Music - Performance Week

We are excited to have two musical performance opportunities happening soon. Performance week is happening in regular class music lessons during, 8^th-12th May. (At the end of Performance Week on Saturday 13^th May, we are also holding our Solo Festival for which applications have now closed.)

Performance Week is an opportunity for any child who is learning a musical instrument to perform in front of a small audience during their regular timetabled music lesson. Children can sign up to perform during their music lessons and it is an internal event with no spectators. We encourage all students who learn a musical instrument to participate.

Please support your child to perform if they take lessons on an instrument and please help them to bring their music/instrument on the right day:

Monday 8^th May 2B

Tuesday 9^th May 2F and 2W

Wednesday 10^th May 2M

Thursday 11^th May 2A and 2P

Friday 12^th May 2J and 2C

IT - Lessons and Resources

This term in ICT we will be learning to create Animations using the App - Flip-A-Clip

The children will learn about frame-by-frame animation and begin to use some different techniques (12 Principles of Animation).

If you want to have a go at home, you can get the free version of the App (contains Ads).

If children make any animations at home, please share them by posting them to us on Teams or Seesaw.

FlipaClip: Create 2D Animation on the App Store (apple.com)

Flip A Clip - Microsoft Apps

See some examples of lesson ideas here - Y2 - Can I create animations? - Bangkok Patana School (fireflycloud.asia)

Swimming Gala - Wednesday 17th of May

PTG - Tech Talk

PTG TECH TALK #6 with Brian Taylor - - Tuesday, 9th May from 8 am onwards.

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