‘Be The Best You Can Be’

April 2022

Dear Parents and Carers, 

I hope you have all had a lovely Easter break and managed to take advantage of the sunny days we have had. Long may they continue! I can’t believe we are entering the summer term already – they do say time flies when you are having fun! What a busy five weeks it is shaping up to be, but I know that our super star Remarkable Rabbits will embrace each day and continue to work hard to Be The Best They Can Be!

Our new topic is called Castles, Knights and Dragons and I am sure the children will love the things we have in store! A prince or princess one day – sleighing dragons another! Life is very busy in Y2 at The Ellis!

We hope the newsletter attached will explain what we are learning about as well as giving you some ideas for your home learning projects. Please remember that we do ask children to complete some home learning each half term and to bring / send it into school. This could be one longer piece or a few shorter pieces. We look forward to seeing what they get up to!

Here are some quick reminders for the coming weeks ahead:

• Please read with your child at least 3 times a week and record this in their reading diary. We ask that book bags are brought to school every day with their reading diary in it. 
• Spellings will be given out on a Friday (please ensure their pirate spelling book is in their book bag on a Friday) and will also be on Spelling Shed. We will have our weekly spelling test every Friday. 
• Please ensure your child has a pair of wellies and pumps in school which fit as we know lots of children’s feet have been growing in recent weeks!  
• Our PE days are Tuesday and Wednesday so please ensure they have their PE kit in school on these days and earrings are removed as children are not able to do PE with earrings in. Our Tuesday PE lesson continues to be outside so we ask that children have a pair of trainers and would suggest jogging bottoms or tracksuit bottoms and a jumper or jacket.
• A quick reminder that toys should not be brought to school please as we do not want them to get lost or broken and that watches with cameras are not allowed in school.
• As the weather hopefully starts to warm up, please ensure your child has a sunhat to protect them.

Finally, please note the date we sent out about the Whirlow Residential parent’s meeting which is on Thursday 26^th May at 5pm. Here packs will be given out and any questions answered! Exciting times ahead! Please ensure you have completed full payment for the residential by Friday 6^th May as we have to send off the final payment to Whirlow after this. There are lots of whole school things happening this term as well, so please keep an eye out for your emails!

We will keep in touch over the coming weeks and if you have any enquiries, please do not hesitate to ask. 

Thank you for your continued support. 

Kindest Regards

Y2 team