The information below is from your childs year group ...

Headteacher: Mrs N Sansom

Cedar Avenue, Upminster, Essex. RM14 2LW Phone: 01708 225186 Web: www.branfil.com Email: [email protected]

1st May 2020

Dear parents and carers,

HOME LEARNING DURING CLOSURE PERIOD: Year 2 Pack 3

I hope that you and your child enjoyed some of the activities in the last home learning pack. We have had lots of

positive feedback about the approach we are taking with our home learning, with families welcoming the choice

that they have with the subjects and activities so they can match their child’s home learning to their personal

circumstances. Please remember that there are examples of timetables on the website, which you can adapt for

your child, along with additional resources to support you during this time.

The information below is from your child’s year group teachers outlining work that your child could complete

over the next two weeks (Monday 4th May – Friday 15th May). The pack follows the same format as the last pack,

ensuring full coverage across the curriculum. Teachers are starting to make links to resources from BBC and Oak

National Academy, both endorsed by the governement and Havering LA, where they feel that these lessons will

enhance our children’s learning.

In order to help you and your child to stay connected to our school community, we strongly encourage you to

set up a family Twitter account and follow Branfil (@BranfilPrimary). Staff are regularly posting information and

challenges which you can respond to if you would like to. I have so enjoyed seeing the photos and films of the

children responding to the tweets.

Teachers would also love you to contact them by email each week to share some of the home learning that your

child has been doing. I am sure that your child will love getting some feedback from their teacher and hopefully

it will act as an additional incentive for them to complete some home learning. Please email:

[email protected]

[email protected]

[email protected] and so on for all year groups.

In line with usual school procedure, we will update you when there is further news in relation to the school

closure, via text messages and email.

Thank you as always for your support and understanding during this time.

Kind regards

Mrs Sansom

Headteacher

Headteacher: Mrs N Sansom

Cedar Avenue, Upminster, Essex. RM14 2LW Phone: 01708 225186 Web: www.branfil.com Email: [email protected]

BRITISH

VALUES

VE Day 2020

Friday 8 May is the 75th anniversary of Victory in Europe, when the nation will join together to

commemorate the service and sacrifice of the WWII generation then and now.

It will be an opportunity for us all to remember the enormous sacrifices that were made at home

and abroad and to ‘celebrate’ as people did 75 years ago, the arrival of peace in Europe.

It would be lovely if you were to explore VE Day together with your family and then send your

work to your year group email. We can then share your work on Twitter and on our school

website so Branfil can say, “To those who gave so much, we thank you.”

Some ideas but we are sure you will come up with some brilliant ones of your own:

‘Talk the talk’ of a great man. Act out Winston Churchill’s iconic speech. You can find the transcript here.

Recreate the nationwide celebrations of 1945 in your lounge and even play some wartime tunes!

Make some bunting and decorate your house

Make a newspaper front page

Design a medal

Make a WW2 recipe

Tom Moore – do we need to say more!

https://www.primarytreasurechest.com/teachingresources/category/world-war-two-teaching-

resources.html (For All)

MATHS White Rose Maths

www.whiterosemaths.com/homelearning

We will now be using White Rose for your daily maths lessons. We use the White Rose Maths

scheme alongside Power Maths in school. The White Rose Maths Team prepares a series of five

maths lessons for each year group from Reception to Year 6 each week. Every lesson comes with

a short video showing you clearly and simply how to help your child to complete the activity

successfully. Click on the link above and follow the four steps below:

1. Click on the set of lessons for your child’s year group. 2. Watch the video (either on your own or with your child). 3. Find a calm space where your child can work for about 20-30 minutes. 4. Use the video guidance to support your child as they work through a lesson. 5. Answers are available on the website to check with your child

Update:

White Rose has set out a 12-week learning plan that means children can:

make sure they understand the main concepts they need for their work next year cover any new learning that they have not yet have done in school.

Headteacher: Mrs N Sansom

Cedar Avenue, Upminster, Essex. RM14 2LW Phone: 01708 225186 Web: www.branfil.com Email: [email protected]

The 12-week plan

The plan shows the work that children will cover, week by week.

Some of the above differs a little from the BBC Bitesize plan – but only for the first two weeks. From Week 3 onwards, their plans run in line with each other.

This means that every day, there’s a learning video on the White Rose web page to watch and a link to that day’s BBC Bitesize page for more information and even more lesson content.

TT Rockstars

https://play.ttrockstars.com/auth/school/student You can now play against other children in your year group - good luck and enjoy the ‘battle’!

SUMDOG

https://www.sumdog.com/user/sign_in

Other Useful websites/links/resources:

Additional useful websites to help support home learning in Maths -

(click on the document towards bottom of page)

http://www.branfil.com/curriculum/maths/

https://www.cgpbooks.co.uk/primary-books - additional books can be purchased

Teacher Activities – Length

Measure items around your home using as many different units of measurement as you

Headteacher: Mrs N Sansom

Cedar Avenue, Upminster, Essex. RM14 2LW Phone: 01708 225186 Web: www.branfil.com Email: [email protected]

can. You could measure using cm, inches, metres, hands, feet, cubes or teddy bears. Can

you think of any other way to measure length?

Use a tape measure to measure your height against a wall. Can you now measure some

of your soft toys to see how long they are? What is your smallest toy? What is your

longest toy? Can you line your toys up in height order? Are any of the toys as tall as you

or anyone else in your family?

Draw some straight lines using a ruler, all with different lengths. Estimate how many

LEGO bricks it will take to cover the line. Now, use the LEGO bricks to cover the line and

see if you were right! Once you have finished, measure each line in cm’s using a ruler.

Is the measurement different to your LEGO bricks measurement? Why/why not?

READING Continue to read every day

You can choose any text type of your choice (e.g. newspaper, comic, book) from home, e-books

from the Havering library app or log on to Oxford Owl (see Spelling section below for log in

details) and select your colour band to read 2 to 3 e-books each week.

Ask your parents/carers to pose lots of questions to develop your understanding of the story.

Respond to the books that you read in one or more of the following ways:

Draw a picture of your favourite part from the story. Write a few sentences explaining

why.

Make a list of the 10 best adjectives that the author has used.

Choose 2 characters and compare them. What is the same about them both? What is

different?

Draw picture of the main characters and think of adjectives to describe them.

First News

Each week we will be emailing a copy of First News to all parents which children can either

read on their tablets/devices or you can print off for them to read. There will also be a

selection of quizzes, puzzles and comprehensions in the same email which you can download

and use when needed.

Teacher Activity/Challenge provided by teachers

Write a letter to the author of your book explaining what you like/dislike about it.

WRITING Continue to write regularly

Short Writing Tasks

Uplevel (improve) the following sentences by adding adjectives, adverbs and

conjunctions:

A man built a house

The cat sat on the wall.

Three frogs swam in the pond.

I can see the stars in the sky.

Headteacher: Mrs N Sansom

Cedar Avenue, Upminster, Essex. RM14 2LW Phone: 01708 225186 Web: www.branfil.com Email: [email protected]

Using any book, see if you can find words that end with the suffixes

– ment, -ful, -ness and –ly. Make a list of all the words that you have found.

Which suffix is the most popular? Can you think of your own sentences that you

could use the words in?

Extended Writing Tasks

Using the picture and the words provided, write your own story set in a spooky castle.

Remember to include:

- Title

- Interesting adjectives to describe the characters and setting

- 5 parts of the story (Introduction, Build up, Dilemma, Resolution and Ending.

- Different sentence starters e.g. One spooky night…, As soon as…, In the distance…

- Capital letters and full stops

Go out into your garden and make a list of all the things that you can see. Look all

around you and use your senses to help you.

Using your list can you make up a poem about what you can see? You could make up

an acrostic poem or your own free verse poem.

Remember to include:

- A title

- Interesting adjectives

- Expanded noun phrases

- Correct punctuation

Visit pobble365.com

Using the picture of the day, describe what you can see. Can you use adjectives, similes and

Key Words

spooky dark quiet

damp

freezing gloomy creepy

terrifying cold scary old

Headteacher: Mrs N Sansom

Cedar Avenue, Upminster, Essex. RM14 2LW Phone: 01708 225186 Web: www.branfil.com Email: [email protected]

metaphors to describe?

Imagine you are in the picture. Write a story explaining what is happening to you. What

is happening around you? Why is it happening? Where are you?

Use descriptive sentences to describe what is happening to you.

Can you turn it into a story? Add speech? Add characters?

Punctuation and Grammar

Log on to Sumdog to complete the challenges which have been set with the focus on the

following:

Read words with blends and word endings for plurals

Encourage your child to use these skills in their writing where appropriate!

Oxford owl – Extra Practice Zone

Log in details:

Username: 2beech2 2cedar 2holly2

Password: 2beech2 2cedar 2holly

Complete ‘Swap, double or drop’ and ‘Word endings’ activities in the ‘Extra Practice’ zone.

Continue to practise spelling the red and orange words that are in your log book.

Sumdog Each class has been set a challenge based on learning 10 red words. Log into Sumdog to see what

the challenges are.

SCIENCE Plants

If you have any seeds at home then plant one in a pot and then observe how it grows over

time. You can always use seeds from fruit if you do not have any actual seeds to plant.

Watch the following clip and then draw the life cycle of a plant.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zpxnyrd/articles/z2vdjxs

Useful Websites

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zpxnyrd/resources/1

https://www.theschoolrun.com/learning-about-plants-in-primary-school

https://www.dkfindout.com/uk/video/animals-and-nature/how-bean-grows-video/

Art Find out about an artist this half term - The artist is Roy Lichenstein

Write 5 facts about Roy Lichenstein - can you share these facts with a family member? Can you remember the facts by the end of the week?

Produce a piece of art copying Roy Lichenstein’s Pop Art style

Headteacher: Mrs N Sansom

Cedar Avenue, Upminster, Essex. RM14 2LW Phone: 01708 225186 Web: www.branfil.com Email: [email protected]

Geography India

Activities

Using the internet, search for a famous Indian landmark. Draw a picture of it and then

write some facts about it.

Research the animals that you would find if you visited India. Which is your favourite?

Either draw or paint one of the animals.

Using your chosen animal, write some facts about it. These might include: where it

lives, what it eats, how long it lives for.

Useful Websites

http://www.walkthroughindia.com/wildlife/top-10-wild-animals-of-india/

https://www.parentcircle.com/article/10-indian-monuments-your-child-should-know-about/

https://www.theschoolrun.com/homework-help/india

Music Friendship Song

Please Log on to the below website and use the login provided.

Here you will have access to a music topic which can be accessed at home.

http://www.charanga.com - Click on the teacher and student log in box and then put the

username and password in the middle box (YUMA).

Username: Branfil2

Password: year2

P.E. Joe Wicks’ Daily P.E.

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL0kdTyVEX-wKPwxH6Eil7i2F3lTkdqaud

Speed Bounce

- Children choose a line or a mark on the floor. At a signal, they jump from one side to the other,

counting how many bounces they can make before they are told to stop. How many jumps can

you do in 30 seconds? How many in 60 seconds? Can you make it more difficult by adding a soft

obstacle (such as a teddy bear) to try and jump over? Can you challenge anyone in your

household to beat your score?

R.E. In what ways are a church and mosque important to believers?

Draw a picture of the inside of a Mosque, labelling the key features.

As a challenge, write about the purpose of some of these Mosque features in full sentences.

Find out about the Muslim procedure of Wudu, can you create instructions or draw the steps and

Headteacher: Mrs N Sansom

Cedar Avenue, Upminster, Essex. RM14 2LW Phone: 01708 225186 Web: www.branfil.com Email: [email protected]

label what to do.

PSHE Time to Talk

Would you rather go on a rollercoaster or go sky diving? Would you rather live in the sky or under the sea? Would you rather have a hand twice as big or half as small? Would you rather have a pet dinosaur or a pet dragon? Would you rather always have to enter rooms by announcing your name or

always have to do cartwheels out?

Additional

Online

Learning

Resources

with

Celebrities

Maths for ages 4-12 with Carol Vorderman: https://www.themathsfactor.com English with David Walliams https://www.worldofdavidwalliams.com/elevenses/ Cooking with Jamie Oliver https://www.jamieoliver.com/features/category/get-kids-cooking Music with Myleene Klass https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCQh2wgJ5tOrixYBn6jFXsXQ