1. This week’s learning 🌟

We have had a fantastic start to the new school year in Year 2! This week has been all about settling in, building positive relationships and learning our new school rules and routines.

We have also been exploring emotions and thinking about how we can support ourselves and others when experiencing different feelings. We watched Inside Out and discussed the different emotion characters, before exploring how emotions can be represented through colours and sounds. 🎨🎵

We have enjoyed lots of circle time too, sharing our thoughts and talking about how different situations might make us feel. 😊

2. Important information for next week 📚

Reading books will be coming home every Friday. Please practise reading these with your child as often as you can throughout the week. Regular reading at home really helps to build confidence and fluency. Please return reading books to school each Friday so that they can be changed ready for the following week. 📖

🏰 Save the date – Jump In Day!

On Monday 21st September, Year 2 will be having a special ‘Jump In’ Day to help us immerse ourselves in our new Castles topic!

We would love the children to come to school dressed as a knight, queen, king, princess or another medieval character for the day. 👑⚔️🏰

Please don't feel that you need to buy a costume – homemade costumes and simple ideas using things you already have at home are absolutely welcome! The aim is simply to have fun and help bring our new topic to life.

3. How can you help at home? 🏡

Next week we will be starting our exciting new topic — Castles! To get ready, have a chat with your child about any castles you may have visited together as a family. What can they remember? What did the castle look like? Who might have lived there?

You could look through family photographs, spot castles when you are out and about, or even take a little walk over to Barry Castle and see what you can discover! 🏰🔍

We can't wait to hear about the children's experiences and begin our new topic together!