Dosbarth Ely Team

                                                      Miss Morgan                           Miss Williams                           Miss Zedler
                                           Class Teacher                                LSA                                      LSA

School ID is 17699

Twitter: @stDavidsCiWPrm

Google Classroom: glgwf6i

Email: year2@stdavidsprm.cardiff.sch.uk

Key Dates

6^th June – Return to School (Summer Term 2)

8^th July - End of Term Reports to Parents

 18^th July  – Transition Week

 22^nd July  – End of School Year

This half term, our topic is Around the World Africa with a key focus on Humanities.

Numeracy: Time, division, fractions all continued and revisiting sequencing and patterns in numbers, shapes; numbers up to 1000 in written form and number form.

Literacy: Spelling, handwriting, punctuation, phonics and informative report writing.

Humanities: Life and times of Nelson Mandela, comparing job opportunities in Africa and the UK, Continents, flags, oceans, locating places on a map, culture in Africa, opening our own culture café.

Science: Exploring different forms of energy, reaching and completing our class Eco Targets.

Expressive Arts: African style dancing and music with a focus on tempo/dynamics/rhythm and timbre. African style art with a particular focus on texture, colour and pattern.

RE: Value of Respect

RE focus: Multi faith and no faith festivals

Big Question:  What do celebrations teach us about faith?

Daily Routines

Reading

Please bring your book bag to school every day containing your reading book, sound sheets or key words. All books must be returned each Wednesday in preparation for them to be changed each Friday.

Snack

Please bring a bottle of water to school daily, clearly labelled with your name.

Healthy snacks can be purchased from the snack trolly or brought in from home. Children will be offered toast and milk in the morning.

PE

Please wear your PE kit to school on Wednesday's. Children should wear black shorts, house colour or white t-shirt and trainers, labelled clearly with their name. They may also wear black jogging bottoms when completing activities outdoors. 

Uniform

Please ensure that all items of clothing are clearly labelled with your child's name.

All homework will be assigned and completed through Google Classroom.

Homework will be handed out every Friday to be completed and returned by the following Wednesday.

Please see Dosbarth Ely's Homework Grid and Planner for Spring Term below.

P eople around the world 

E  nd all conflicts and wars

A ll equal, fair and happy

C  reate a place for acceptance and friendship

E  veryone living in love and harmony

The four purposes are that all children and young people will be:

• Ambitious, capable learners who are ready to learn throughout their lives.
• Enterprising, creative contributors who are ready to play a full part in life and work.
• Ethical, informed citizens who are ready to be citizens of Wales and the world.
• Healthy, confident individuals who are ready to lead fulfilling lives as valued members of society.

In Dosbarth Ely, we will start to look at each aspect of teaching and learning and how it will support us in becoming Ambitious, Capable Learners; Enterprising, Creative Contributors; Ethical, informed citizens and Healthy, Confident Individuals.

Our starting point in the Autumn Term will be taking apart each of the Four Core Purposes and asking the learners what it means to them. What does it mean to be ambitious? What does creative mean? Am I a citizen? How can I be more confident?

At St David's we use a scheme called 'Read, Write, Inc' to teach children how to read and write. Below are the letter sounds we will use during our phonic sessions. 

Please visit this link for parents, regarding the RWI scheme:-

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TkXcabDUg7Q

Oxford Owl is a great online resource to use at home. Oxford Owl offers many free e-books that you can read at with your child. Please see the link below:-

https://home.oxfordowl.co.uk/