Year 2 get Sporty and MAD!

Wow! This week has certainly been MAD!

KS1 Sports Day

The children were fantastic on Tuesday when they ran, jumped, stepped, threw and worked as a team during Sports day.

We have so many photos that we cannot add them to this blog. If you would like to view them, click on the following links

2JS Sportsday photo's

2KG Sportsday photo's

2CC Sportsday photo's

The sports day results were:

1st - Red with 114 points

2nd - Blue with 89 points

3rd - Yellow with 78 points

4th - Green with 70 points

IXDOS Fundraiser

On Thursday we had our great IXDOS Fundraiser where the Key Stage 1 children paddled an amazing distance of 228 lengths.  So far we have raised around 60,000 baht.  This is a huge amount and we are very grateful for your fantastic support as well as the enthusiasm of your children to take part.  A special thank you to Hayley and Cameron's dads for their help in the water and Hayley's mum for the organisation. 

Here are some photo's of the great event:   IXDOS Fundraiser photo's

Happy Chinese New Year!

Today the school celebrated Chinese New Year with a Dragon Dance. 

Chinese New Year will be celebrated in many countries on 19th February. We would like to wish everyone a happy and healthy Year of the Goat!

Well Done to our Year 2 Stars of the Week

Next Half Term

Next half term will begin with a focus on the emotional aspects of learning linked to the brain. We will be finding out about our feelings and emotions and how we act when we feel these. 

Our theme for next half term will be based upon Habitats and Food Chains. We will be finding out how animals are adapted to their surroundings, where food comes from and how animals are dependent on each other to survive.

Reminders for next half term:

Swimming is back on!  
2KG will have swimming  on a Monday and PE on Wednesday.  
2CC will have PE on a Monday and swimming on  Wednesday.  
2JS will be split between both of these days, see the information below.

If your child is swimming on Monday's they should come to school wearing their swim clothes. If swimming on a Wednesday they should have their swim clothes in their bag.

2KG Assembly

2KG will be preparing for their assembly which is on Friday the 27th February, at 1:45pm in the Primary Hall.  All 2KG parents are invited.

The Amazing Maths Race

A big Thank You to all the parents who came along to our Maths Workshop on Thursday. It was great to share our methods for Maths with you and hope it will help you understand and help your child.  We have some information booklets available for those of you who could not attend so please ask your teacher for one.

Whilst the teachers were running the workshop the children were busy competing in a Maths Amazing Race. This involved them working together in teams to read grid references on a map, figure out where the references related to and then, once finding their location solving a Maths riddle. The children did very well and showed that they are able map readers.

Also this week the children began their team effort to show natural and man-made features of Phuket on a whole class map. The children had the idea to turn this map into a 3D map. The children are researching the location of a feature and interesting facts about it before creating a painting and representing it on the map.

A Big Well Done to our Year 2 Stars of the Week

Next week is the final week of this term and it is a very busy one! Here are some reminders of what is happening.

KS1 Sportsday  - From 8:15 - 10:10 on Tuesday morning.

Children should come to school wearing their colour team shirt and sports shorts and shoes. All children will need a hat and water bottle too. Parents are invited to come along to the field behind the sports hall to cheer on the children.

IXDOS Fundraiser - Thursday 8:15 - 12:10

Children should arrive at school wearing their swimming clothes.

This is going to be a fun and exciting event so please come along and support us as we set sail in the swimming pool to try and raise money for the IXDOS project. Year 2 will be sailing first between 8:15 and 10:10 followed by Year 1. Snacks and refreshments will be available. 

Will we be able to reach our target of 100 lengths of the pool?

Chinese New Year - Friday 13th February

Children should come to school wearing red or Chinese style clothes. There will be a dragon dance for the children to watch in the morning.

This is the last day of school before the holiday. School finishes at 2:35 as usual.

Big Buddha trip

Our trip to the Big Buddha

We had a wonderful trip to The Big Buddha on Thursday. The children were amazed by the size of the Buddha and used lots of adjectives to describe it. They made sketches and located it on their maps of Phuket after looking down to Chalong Pier and over the other side of Phuket to Kata. We were very proud of how well the children behaved and their politeness to others who were also visiting the site.

We took lots of ipads with us on the trip and the children were responsible for looking after them and taking photographs. They did a great job! You can see the photo's here:

We will now be learning about other man-made and natural features of Phuket and presenting our learning in different ways.

Next week we will also be reading and giving co-ordinates to find specific locations on maps and will use these skills to take part in a Maths Treasure Hunt in the school grounds.


The IXDOS Challenge

Today we sent home a letter with a sponsorship form on to raise money for the IXDOS Project. Since visiting the boat the children have been very interested in this cause and have been thinking of ways that they could Make A Difference to this project. They suggested that we could give money to pay for work on the boat to be done. After lots of ideas of what we could do to earn money we came up with a fun idea of doing some sailing ourselves!



So, on Thursday 12th February all the children in Years 1 and 2 will be working in teams of 6 to paddle a small boat (IXDOS Junior) across the swimming pool. Each length of the swimming pool will represent 1 nautical mile that the IXDOS could sail. We are aiming to paddle enough lengths of the pool (100 or more!) to send the IXDOS 100 miles to one of the Burmese Islands. We will chart it's progress on a map.

We have asked the children to ask up to 5 people to sponsor them to do the sail. People can give one amount of money for the event or sponsor an amount for each length of the pool we sail. Please only send money to school after we have done the sail.

You are all welcome to come along on the Thursday morning and cheer the children on. Year 2 will be setting sail first from 8:15 - 10:10 and Year 1 will take over after that until lunch time.

I wonder how many lengths the children will paddle?


Year 2 Maths Workshop

Next week, on Thursday 5th February at 8:30am we invite all parents to attend a Maths workshop. This will be held in the Year 2 classrooms. We would like to show you some of the different methods that we use to calculate addition, subtraction, multiplication and division. Make sure you have all had your coffee as we will be asking you to join in and solve problems!

Well done to this weeks stars!

As we have been learning our 2X tables, this week we have 2X the number of stars. 3 X 2 = 6!