Year 2 Newsletter

It was wonderful having the opportunity to meet with parents this week during the parent consultations. These meetings are so valuable, as they help us to gain a better understanding of your children as well as give you a glimpse into how they are at school.

We are continuing on our story journey. The children have thoroughly enjoyed engaging in collaborative story planning during our inquiry play sessions. We have had children become expert story tellers and sharing stories through role play, puppet shows, story maker ideas and arts. We are seeing an increased understanding of the structure of a story and the importance of being aware of who your audience is.

The children have been exploring morals within a story and identifying these in traditional and well known stories such as the 3 Little Pigs, Billy Goat Gruff etc...

This has led to many great discussions about how we all connect with stories in a variety of different ways.

In Mathematics, we have been consolidating our learning of place value, skip counting and number bonds through many interactive games. The children have also been practicing their addition skills and finding number bonds to 10, extending to 20 and finding differences between two numbers. They have also demonstrated lots of creativity when making characters using different shapes and adding googley eyes to make their characters come to life!

The children in Year 2 have now been put into their phonics groups and know which rooms they will go to for their learning. They had the chance to meet with their new class teacher and EA today for a fun introductory lesson to phonics, made even more exciting being Pyjama & Bedtime Story Dress Up day (We raised $12,400. Thank you all!).

The children will be participating in 2x phonics sessions a week in their differentiated groups after half term. In their groups, they learn three sets of sounds that correspond with word cards and books. Below are the different sets of sounds your children will learn.

For more information please click here .

Our Games programme will begin after the half term holiday starting the week beginning Monday 24th October. Your child should wear PE kit on their PE and Games day unless it is a special school event.

Year 2 Games will be on FRIDAYS.

As I'm sure you're glad to hear, several sporting tournaments and matches between schools in Hong Kong are finally resuming. After more than three years without school competition, we are extremely pleased to see this.

In light of this, it is crucial that the PE Department at Kennedy School has a deeper grasp of what our kids are up to in terms of their extracurricular sporting activities. This information is crucial and will allow us to provide our students with opportunities to represent Kennedy School in their preferred/strongest sport.

To assist us in making more informed decisions on the selection of sports teams, especially so early in the school year, we would appreciate it if you could offer a brief description of any current sporting activities your child participates in outside of Kennedy School.

If you have more than one child at Kennedy School please fill in the form separately for each of your children.

Extra Curricular Sports Form

PYP 101: A PARENT’S GUIDE TO THE IB PRIMARY YEARS PROGRAMME WEBINAR

WHEN? - Wednesday 2nd of November at 6.00pm to 7.00pm

This webinar is designed for parents to find out more about the IB PYP, which is the curriculum framework we use at Kennedy School and across ESF. This webinar will focus on the IB Mission, the Learner Profile, key features of the PYP, and how our curriculum is embedded into the PYP framework through our Programme of Inquiry.

This webinar will be interactive and you will be discussing and working with other parents. It is a great opportunity for us to share, learn and grow together.

Please fill out the survey here and we look forward to seeing you virtually on Wednesday 2nd of November. We will share the link and additional information about the webinar closer to the date.

Parent Volunteers are an important part of the library, who help us accomplish many core tasks required to provide high-quality services. The library is having a makeover this year, therefore we hope to have as many volunteers as possible. If you would like to help out then please see details below.

Please click on the following link for this week's Chinese learning in Year 2.

The Kennedy garden team is looking for adult volunteers to do some easy gardening in school with others. No experience required just enthusiasm. This is just a social and friendly group.

If interested please email ttremmel@kennedyt.edu.hk or jleong@kennedy.edu.hk for more details.

ESF Mid Term Break

We look forward to seeing the children back at school on Monday 24th October.