Week beginning 22nd June 2020
Literacy:
End of year memories:
Lion King Topic:
Celebrating success:
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Week beginning 15th June 2020
Dear Primary 2 Pupils, Parents & Carers,
Exciting News Primary 2!
This week we have planned a ‘virtual trip’ for us all to take part in! And it doesn’t matter if it rains, because we don’t have to leave our house! You might need to pack a snack and a lunch though! And hopefully you might have some people (or cuddly toys) in your house that would like to join you?
If possible, we could all try to complete this ‘virtual’ trip on Wednesday 17th June (don’t worry if you can’t take part on that day though, you can complete it at any time!) We are going to be taking part too! We can’t wait! We might even post some pictures of us!
Also, running this week is a new Gilmerton Sumdog Challenge (15th -18th June)! And an Edinburgh Sumdog competition starting on Friday 19th June. Let’s see how many Primary 2 pupils we can get entering!
There’s a wee extra emoji challenge included in our home-learning this week – can you name all of the story books?
We hope that you have a super week! Just 2 more weeks to go until you get a very well-deserved rest!
Kind regards,
Mrs McCallum, Mr Odie and Miss Williamson
Literacy
Numeracy and Maths
Topic
Celebrating Success
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Week beginning 8th June 2020
Dear Primary 2 Pupils, Parents & Carers,
Hello again Primary 2! We hope that you and your families are all well and have enjoyed a lovely start to June? Let’s hope that the sunshine returns!
This week and next, we will continue to issue new reading, spelling and numeracy tasks as we have been doing! We will also provide you with the final 2 sessions of our Lion King project – we have been loving the work that you have done already on this! Sumdog this week may be slightly different as the team at Sumdog have asked us to trial something for them! And a new Edinburgh contest will be starting on Friday 19th June!
Exciting news – look out for something extra special next week! We are in the process of planning a ‘virtual’ class trip!! Details are to be finalised, but all will be revealed in next week’s home-learning, so look out for it! We think that it will be a lot of fun!
Finally, another huge thank you to you all for remaining so positive and supportive though-out these challenging times. And for everything that you have been doing at home – you have all been amazing! Just 3 more weeks until you get a very well deserved rest!
keep safe, keep smiling and keep talking! We miss you all lots!
Kind Regards,
Mrs McCallum, Mr Odie and Miss Williamson
Literacy:
Numeracy and Maths
Art and Lion King
Celebrating success
Dear Primary 2 Pupils, Parents & Carers,
Hello again Primary 2! We hope that you and your families are all well! Thank you for all of the wonderful work that you have been sending us! You have all been so busy and we just love seeing the things that you have been doing!
A huge ‘well done’ to everybody who took part in the recent school and Edinburgh Sumdog competitions – we will let you know when the next ones will be happening! Until then, we will continue to provide you with weekly spelling and numeracy challenges!
Over the next few weeks we have some creative tasks for you linked to our whole school ‘Lion King’ project! Look out for these! We hope that you enjoy them!
We will also continue to issue new spelling words, a numeracy challenge and new reading books within Oxford Owls and Epic! This week we have also included our final ‘Building Resilience’ unit.
Remember, you do not have to complete every activity! And you can also access any activities/tasks from previous weeks!
Finally, do you have any home-learning ideas? Have you been doing anything that you think the rest of the class might enjoy? How about letting us know and we could try to include it in our home-learning in future weeks! Just email your ideas to Admin@Gilmerton.edin.sch.uk and they will forward them on to us!
We will be back in touch soon, until then –
keep safe, keep smiling and keep talking! We miss you all lots!
Kind Regards,
Mrs McCallum, Mr Odie and Miss Williamson
Week beginning 1st June 2020
Literacy:
Numeracy and Math:
Art and Lion King:
Celebrating Success:
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Week beginning 25th May 2020
Literacy:
Numeracy:
Topic and Health and Well being:
Celebrating Success:
Week beginning 19th May
Literacy:
Numeracy:
Lion King topic and Art:
Ms Boyle’s challenge
Celebrating success:
Mental Health Awareness Week:
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Week beginning 11th May
Literacy:
Numeracy
Topic and Art
Celebrating success
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5th May 2020
Dear Primary 2 Pupils, Parents & Carers,
Welcome to another week of Primary 2 home-learning!
This week, the whole school are beginning an exciting project – The Lion King Experience! The first 2 parts of this project are included in your home-learning for this week if you would like to take part!
We have also issued new spelling words, new Sumdog challenges in numeracy and spelling, a maths challenge on using tally marks and new reading books – including an extra ‘Epic’ reading challenge! Remember, you can also access any activities/tasks from previous weeks.
We are really loving seeing and hearing about all of the things that you have been up to – these messages really help to cheer us up! If you do have anything to show us (home-learning or anything else that you have been doing!) then please post on Twitter or email to Admin@Gilmerton.edin.sch.uk
Remember, there is no pressure to complete all or any of these tasks – we value everything that is going on at home and appreciate the challenges! The important thing is that you all keep safe and well. Speak again soon, we miss you all lots,
Kind Regards,
Mrs McCallum, Mr Odie and Miss Williamson
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27th April 2020
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21st April 2020
Dear Primary 2 Pupils, Parents & Carers,
Welcome back to Primary 2 home-learning! We hope that you have had a lovely Easter and managed to have a well-earned rest?
We will continue to set weekly tasks – new spelling words will be issued, we will identify a new reading book for your group (from Oxford Owls) and Sumdog challenges will change on a weekly basis. Remember, you can still login to your class EPIC page to access additional reading and the writing, health and well-being and websites information is still available in our folder.
We also hope to add in a few additional tasks and challenges – this week we have included a ‘Lego’ challenge and a ‘number of the day’ activity!
If you would like to take photos of anything that you have been doing then we would love to see them! We would also love to see your smiley faces as we miss you so much! Please post on Twitter or email to Admin@Gilmerton.edin.sch.uk
We know how challenging these times are so please only do what you can manage – the important thing is that you all keep safe and well. Speak again soon, we miss you all lots,
Kind Regards,
Mrs McCallum, Mr Odie and Miss Williamson
This week’s learning:
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Dear Parents & Carers,
The Primary 2 staff team have provided a range of learning opportunities and activities to support your children over the next few weeks.
Our intention is to set weekly spelling, reading and maths challenges using the Sumdog website or App. All of the children have been reissued with their logins (and for those who have been absent, we have arranged for them to be posted out).
Some children have also been issued with their ‘Read Theory’ login so that they can access reading comprehension at home. All children can login to their class EPIC page (using their class code on the document – ‘Primary 2 websites’) where they can access a range of reading material.
We have also provided a Health and Well-Being activity grid and a list of the commonly used websites in class.
We hope that this will support your children during these challenging times. We will miss you all very much! Keep safe and well,
Kind Regards,
Mrs McCallum, Mr Odie and Miss Williamson
Week beginning 30th March
Gilmerton Primary School 