Junior 2

Welcome to Junior 2!

Junior 2 is a mixed year 5/6 class and their teacher is Mr Tyler.

2.11.21

Dear Parents,

I hope you all had a great half term.  It’s been great to have the children back in school today, we’ve had a good first day back.

This half term in Junior 2, we will be continuing with our topic of World War Two.  This will involve looking at the Blitz, Evacuation, Rationing and Digging for Victory.  As you know, as part of our topic, we will also be visiting The National Holocaust Centre on Thursday 18^th November (please pay on Parent Pay if you haven’t done so yet). 

In English, we have started by looking at biographies and autobiographies, including ‘Boy’ by Roald Dahl and ‘Singing for Mrs Petigrew’ by Michael Morpurgo, before writing a biography of Winston Churchill.  We will then go on to focus on ‘Carrie’s War’ by Nina Bawden, which is set during WW2 (if you have a copy of this book at home, please bring it in to school). 

In maths, we will be focussing on number, looking at multiplication and division, addition and subtraction, fractions and shape.  In science, we will be learning about properties of materials, which will involve comparing and grouping together everyday materials on the basis of their properties.

In RE, we are looking at incarnation and focusing on the question, ‘Was Jesus the Messiah?’.  In French, our unit of work is entitled ‘Family and Friends’.  In art, the children will be making WW2 medals out of clay.

We will continue to go swimming on Tuesday afternoons, with our last swimming session on Tuesday 7^th December.  Starting next week, we will be doing PE on a Wednesday afternoon, where we will be doing gymnastics.  As we are doing gymnastics, the children will need to wear a PE t-shirt (ideally white) and PE shorts or tight fitting leggings (jogging bottoms or tracksuit bottoms are not suitable for gymnastics).  Due to the cold weather this time of year, we are asking that children come to school in their school uniform and bring their PE kit to change in to, in school.

As I’m sure you are aware, your child has been given a planner, which should be brought to school each morning and taken home each night along with their reading book.  Inside the planner, there should be your child’s values card, reading pages and homework and reminder pages.  Homework will continue to be given through Bug Club and Mathletics.  Mathletics will be set before each weekend to be completed by the following Friday.  Bug Club reading comprehension homework will also be set on a regular basis where the children will be set a book and be given a deadline for when it needs to be completed by.  Please support and encourage your child to complete this homework to the best of their ability and to a high standard.  Children also need to read at home each week both independently and to an adult, with the minimum requirement recorded in your child’s planner.  To show the reading has been completed, please tick the relevant boxes and sign your child’s reading pages for Friday each week.  The children will continue to be given weekly spellings to learn and they will be tested on these in school, on a Monday this half term, so they will need their spelling books in school.   

If you have any questions or would like to speak to me, please either come to speak to me on the playground before school or contact the school office.  If it is not urgent, please email junior2@gunthorpe.notts.sch.uk which I will be checking weekly.

Many thanks

Mr J. Tyler

Football Match Flintham v Gunthorpe Thursday 7th October

A great performance from our football team, playing their first match in almost two years.  Despite losing 2 - 0, the team should be very proud of their performance.

Thursday 1st July

Dear Junior 2,

Here we are again, learning at home.  I hope you’re all well and not too frustrated with having to self-isolate again.  It’s been another strange year but we are all getting used to things not going to plan.  There’s lots to look forward to when we return to school on Monday 12^th July, which is the first day of our activity week.

There is work for today and tomorrow on the Junior 2 class page of the school website.  There’s maths for your year group, English work and then another subject to keep you busy.  If you finish your work quickly, there is also work on Mathletics, books on Bug Club, TT Rockstars and, for those of you with a Spellzone account, there’s work for you there too.  From Monday 5^th July, there will be daily video lessons for you to follow, like we have used previously, each day next week.

Follow the instructions you get and try your hardest with everything you do, taking care with your presentation.  Every day, once you have finished, you (or your parents) need to email your work to junior2@gunthorpe.notts.sch.uk for me to see and provide you with some feedback.  The work can either be done on paper and scanned in or photographed, or the work can be done on the computer.

I’m looking forward to receiving your work each day and I’ll see you all on Monday 12^th July, ready to go to Hill Holt Wood and, hopefully by then, England will have won the Euros!

Stay healthy, keep motivated and work hard.

Mr Tyler

7/6/21

Dear Parents,

I hope you have all had a good half term and were able to enjoy the lovely weather.  The children have all settled back in to school really well after their well-earned rest.  We have a busy half term ahead of us, building up to end of year assessments and we have our activity week to look forward to as well. 

In English, we are going to be looking at short fantasy stories, using the book ‘Outer Suburbia’ by Shaun Tan.  We will then go on to look at persuasive writing, before moving on to looking at poetic styles using poems by Michael Rosen and Roger McGough.  In maths, we will be starting off by looking at algebra and ratio before going on to recap and revise areas of the curriculum we have previously covered this year.

During this half term in Junior 2, we will be starting a new topic of ‘The Stone Age to the Iron Age’.  Within this topic we will be looking at the Stone Age, Bronze Age and Iron Age, focusing on the tools for hunting, Skara Brae, copper mining, Stone Henge, roundhouses and druids.  In science, we will be classifying living things, describing how living things are classified into groups according to common characteristics and based on similarities and differences, including microorganisms, plants and animals.  There are new knowledge organisers for our new topic and science units on the Junior 2 page of the school website. 

In RE, we will be looking at creation and science and asking if they are conflicting or complementary.  In French, we are going to be learning about food and drink and in art, the children will be doing work on portraits with Mrs Palethorpe.

For this half term, Junior 2 have PE on Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Fridays so, on these days, the children need to come to school in their PE kits.  On Tuesdays, the children have dance with dance coach Lauren Parker.  On Wednesdays, the children are doing netball with Mrs Shaw and on Fridays we have cricket with cricket coach Joe Ashdown.  There are still some places available for after school tennis on a Monday so, if you would like your child to take part, please let me know.

On non-PE days, the children need to wear their normal school uniform but they can wear dark coloured trainers.  We are still trying to keep what the children bring into school as minimal as possible.  All the children will need, unless told otherwise, are their coats; a packed lunch if they are not having a school dinner; a water bottle (only water allowed), a healthy snack for morning break (no crisps or chocolate); and their reading book and planner.  

On the week beginning 28^th June, the children in both Year 5 and in Year 6 will be completing their end of year assessments for maths, reading and GPS (grammar, punctuation and spelling).  These assessments will be used to help with the children’s end of year assessment judgements.  As you should already know, we will be having our activity week on the week beginning 12^th July.  Hopefully you have already paid the £20 deposit on Parent Pay and the remaining £15 will need to be paid by Friday 9^th July if you have not done this already.  More information will be sent out nearer the time.

Homework will continue to being given through Bug Club and Mathletics.  Mathletics will be set before each weekend to be completed by the following Wednesday.  Bug Club reading comprehension homework will also be set on a regular basis where the children will be set a book and be given a deadline for when it needs to be completed by.  Year 6 children also have their maths homework book, with certain pages to complete each week.  There is still an expectation that children read at home each week both independently and to an adult, with the minimum requirement recorded in your child’s planner.  To show the reading has been completed, please sign your child’s reading pages for Friday each week.  The children will also have weekly spellings to learn and they will be tested on these in school, on a Monday. 

If you have any questions or would like to speak to me, please contact the school office if it is of an urgent nature.  If it is not urgent, please email junior2@gunthorpe.notts.sch.uk which I will be checking weekly.

Kind Regards

Mr J. Tyler

Thursday 19th September: Flintham 3 Gunthorpe 3

A massive well done to our boys' football team who played magnificently in our first match of the year, away at Flintham Primary School.  The boys worked so hard as a team and were very unlucky not to win, with Flintham scoring with the last kick of the game.