Friday 5th March 2021

Good morning Year 2, it is your LAST day of home learning today! We cannot wait to have you back on Monday and to see the 'real' you for the first time in what feels like forever. This morning in our daily welcome we will be talking through what to expect when you return on Monday, so please make sure you join us if you can.

Have a fantastic day today, and then a lovely weekend.

Miss Jay, Miss Hayman and Miss Buttle

Thursday 4th March 2021

Good morning. Happy World Book Day! We have a slightly different daily outline for you today so please check the timings carefully. It is Move and Choose at 9:00, so we will see you at 9:20 for our daily welcome. Please bring your favourite book with you for this session (we will explain the rest when we see you!)

Have a lovely day.

Miss Jay, Miss Hayman and Miss Buttle

Wednesday 3rd February 2021

Good morning Year 2, we are half way through the week already. We are all very impressed with the learning that has been taking place at home this week so well done for continuing to work so hard and try your best with your home learning. We are looking forward to seeing you in our live sessions today.

Have a lovely day.

Miss Jay, Miss Hayman and Miss Buttle

Tuesday 2nd March 2021

Good morning Year 2. Lots of live sessions today so we are looking forward to seeing you throughout the day. Here are some jokes to get you started. If you think you can do better, please email your teacher with your own joke!

Where does an astronaut keep his sandwiches?

Answer: In a launch box.

What's the wooden part of a dog called?

Answer: Its bark.

Have a lovely day.

Miss Jay, Miss Hayman and Miss Buttle

Monday 1st March 2021

Good morning Year 2... one more week of home learning to go until we are all back in school. We cannot wait to see you 'properly' next week! Until then, we have lots of exciting things planned for you, including World Book Day on Thursday! See you this afternoon for story time.

Have a lovely day.

Miss Jay, Miss Hayman and Miss Buttle

Friday 26th February 2021

Good morning everyone! We hope you are ready for your final day of home learning for the weekend, we have lots of exciting things planned for you. Don't forget that there is a slightly earlier time of 1:30pm for your story this afternoon - we are looking forward to seeing you all.

Have a lovely day.

Miss Jay, Miss Hayman and Miss Buttle

Thursday 25th February 2021

Good morning Year 2, we hope you are looking forward to today's learning we have planned and look forward to welcoming you in at 9:00am and seeing you for lots of live sessions throughout the day.

Have a fantastic day.

Miss Jay, Miss Hayman and Miss Buttle

Wednesday 24th February 2021

Good morning everyone and a very happy Wednesday! We are very excited to see the learning that takes place today and to see all of your smiley faces on our live sessions throughout the day. Don't forget your whiteboards and pens for our phonics sessions!

Have a lovely day.

Miss Jay, Miss Hayman and Miss Buttle

Tuesday 23rd February 2021

Good morning! It was lovely to see and celebrate all of the fantastic 'dot' work you completed yesterday - it was clear that you all worked so hard and were creative in many different ways.

We are looking forward to welcoming you this morning and have a really exciting live session planned for English today too. See you then!

Miss Jay, Miss Hayman and Miss Buttle

Monday 22nd February 2021

Good morning Year 2, we hope you had a wonderful half term and are well-rested and ready for another week of home learning. We have our whole-school Ethos Day today so your timetable looks slightly different. Please join Mrs Hillson for her assembly to start the day at 9:00, then join our Unit 1 welcome session at 9:30. We are looking forward to seeing you then.

Have a lovely day.

Miss Jay, Miss Hayman and Miss Buttle. 

Friday 12th February 2021

Good morning, we hope you are all ok. It's your last day of home learning before the half term break and we think you have done the most amazing job - we are SO proud of you! Enjoy your learning today, and then, more importantly, have a lovely and restful break.

Miss Jay, Miss Hayman and Miss Buttle

Thursday 11th February 2021

Good morning Year 1. Wow... what an inspirational morning we had yesterday with Sophie Anderson's virtual visit! We loved hearing all about her stories and how they came to life over a period of time, and how there was so much meaning behind the characters and the settings.

We hope you have a lovely day today, see you at 9:00am.

Miss Jay, Miss Hayman and Miss Buttle

Wednesday 10th February 2021

Good morning everyone, we hope you are all ok this morning. We are so excited for Sophie Anderson's virtual visit this morning and hope you are too. Keep an ear out in case you hear your questions read out!

Have a lovely day.

Miss Jay, Miss Hayman and Miss Buttle

Tuesday 9th February 2021

Good morning Year 2, it was great to see so many of you yesterday, we are looking forward to seeing you in our welcome session and story time today! Here are some jokes to kick-start the day:

Why did the little boy throw a clock out of his window?

Because he wanted to see time fly!

Why are fish so clever?

Because they live in schools!

Have a lovely day.

Miss Jay, Miss Hayman and Miss Buttle

Monday 8th February 2021

Good morning Year 2. We hope you had a lovely weekend. We are so excited to see that Mr Owens and Mrs Davies are teaching your English session today! Make sure you start thinking of any questions you would like answered by Sophie Anderson, the author of The Castle of Tangled Magic, before her virtual visit on Wednesday. Email these to your teacher and they might just get chosen!

Parents, please note that there is no worksheet for today's maths session - it is a practical activity using objects from around the house.

Have a lovely day.

Miss Jay, Miss Hayman and Miss Buttle

Friday 5th February 2021

Good morning Year 1. We are so so proud of every single one of you this week - what fantastic learners you are. You are showing resilience, drive and determination and we are seeing this through the learning you complete and the way you are tackling your live and pre-recorded sessions every day, well done.

We are looking forward to seeing you for our morning welcome, and then again for story time at 2:40.

Have a lovely day.

Miss Jay, Miss Hayman and Miss Buttle

Thursday 4th February 2021

Good morning, it's Thursday! These weeks are flying by, we can't believe it's only a week until half term! Enjoy your day of learning today, we are very excited to see what you get up to later on.

Have a wonderful day.

Miss Jay, Miss Hayman and Miss Buttle

Wednesday 3rd February 2021

Good morning Year 2. This morning at 9:00am is Move and Choose; please use the links included in the daily outline to listen to Mrs Hillson or Mrs Staples reading. We look forward to seeing your for your live maths session at 9:20am (after Move and Choose) and then our own story time at 2:40pm. 

Have a lovely day.

Miss Jay, Miss Hayman and Miss Buttle

Tuesday 2nd February 2021

Good morning Year 2. It was lovely to hear that you were all so engaged in Mrs Hillson's assembly and enjoyed your castle designing and making activity yesterday! We can't wait to see the amazing pieces of work you produce as we start our whole-school unit of work on The Castle of Tangled Magic today.

Have a great day, see you at 9:00am.

Miss Jay, Miss Hayman and Miss Buttle

Monday 1st February 2021

Good morning Year 2. How is it February already? We hope you had a lovely weekend and are rested and ready for another fantastic week of learning. We can't wait to see everything you get up to.

Have a wonderful day.

Miss Jay, Miss Hayman and Miss Buttle

Friday 29th January 2021

Good morning - HAPPY FRIDAY! Well done for being fantastic learners this week, we are all so proud of you. Don't forget our special story time at 2:40pm - come in your pyjamas and bring a hot chocolate with you.

Have a lovely day.

Miss Jay, Miss Hayman and Miss Buttle

Thursday 28th January 2021

Good morning! We loved hearing all of your questions for the astronaut in our morning welcome yesterday. You were very interested in what 'space food', so here are three facts, according to NASA:

• All foods must be kept in air tight packaging to stop it from going off
• No food with 'crumbs' are allowed on NASA's space crafts - so that means no bread or biscuits!
• Astronauts have special meal trays which can be strapped to the wall or their laps to stop their plates from floating around in the space craft.

We hope you have a lovely day.

Miss Jay, Miss Hayman and Miss Buttle

Wednesday 27th January 2021

Good morning Year 2, we hope you are all ok and well. We are looking forward to seeing you in our morning welcome this morning. Please don't forget to look for the 'star activities' on our daily outlines so that you know which work needs to be emailed to your teacher each day - it is really important that we can see it.

Have a lovely day.

Miss Jay, Miss Hayman and Miss Buttle

Tuesday 26th January 2021

Good morning, we hope you are ready for another exciting day of learning today. You are very lucky that Mrs Chapman is going to be reading you your story at 2:40pm today, though Miss Buttle, Miss Hayman and me are a little bit jealous that it isn't us! We will see you at 9:00am.

Have a fantastic day.

Miss Jay, Miss Hayman and Miss Buttle

Monday 25th January 2021

Good morning Year 2, we hope you had a lovely weekend. Some of your teachers were lucky enough to wake up to SNOW yesterday morning, were you?

We can't wait to see you in our live maths and English sessions this morning and are just as excited to see your Charlie Mackesy artwork which you will be doing this afternoon, following on from Mrs Hillson's assembly - what a wonderful way to promote hope and positivity in your local community!

Have a lovely day.

Miss Jay, Miss Hayman and Miss Buttle

Friday 22nd January 2021

It's Friday! What a fantastic week of learning we have had, we feel so proud of all of you and are looking forward to celebrating this with you in our welcome session this morning.

A note for parents: next week in our Design and Technology sessions we will be building houses. Please make sure you have some 'junk modelling' ready at home (you may wish to raid the recycling before it goes out!)

Most importantly, we hope you all have a lovely day, and then a restful weekend, it is well-deserved!

Miss Jay, Miss Hayman and Miss Buttle

Thursday 21st January 2021

Good morning Year 2. We can't wait to see you in our sessions today. Don't forget to email us examples of your learning so that we can send you feedback in the coming days.

Have a lovely day.

Miss Jay, Miss Hayman and Miss Buttle

Wednesday 20th January 2021

Good morning everyone! We have lots of exciting things planned for you today which we hope you enjoy. We are very excited to see what your learning looks like at the end of the day!

See you at 9:00am for our welcome session!

Miss Jay, Miss Hayman and Miss Buttle

Tuesday 19th January 2021

Good morning Year 2. We hope you are looking forward to your learning today. You have a live maths session with Miss Jay at 9:20am and another live English session with Miss Hayman at 11:00am. We were so impressed by your contributions to yesterday's vocabulary session, so cannot wait to see what you can share with us today. Don't forget to email us your learning so that we can feedback everything you have done this week.

Have a lovely day.

Miss Jay, Miss Hayman and Miss Buttle

Monday 18th January 2021

Good morning everyone! We hope you had a lovely, restful weekend and are ready for another week of learning. We are so excited to see all of the fantastic things you are doing at home and to celebrate these in Friday's welcome session.

Don't forget Mrs Hillson's assembly this morning at 9:00am. The link to this is on the daily outline.

Have a lovely day.

Miss Jay, Miss Hayman and Miss Buttle

Friday 15th January 2021

Good morning Year 2 and Happy Friday! We are so proud of all of your amazing learning this week and can't wait to celebrate it with your in our morning welcome session at 9:00am. Have a lovely day.

Miss Jay, Miss Hayman and Miss Buttle

Monday 11th January 2021

Good morning everyone!

We hope you are ready for this week’s learning. We have lots of exciting things planned for you, and will be delivering these through a mixture of live lessons, pre-recorded sessions and activity-based sessions. On the daily plans, any live sessions are highlighted in yellow, so please make sure you join these. Links to all pre-recorded sessions are also provided on the daily outline. Please check the weekly timetable to see the timings for all live sessions taking place across the week.

Don’t forget, Move and Choose is still going ahead this week, so if you haven’t already, make sure you vote for your book of choice. The deadline for this is Tuesday. Click on the link below to access the voting form: https://forms.office.com/Pages/ResponsePage.aspx?id=223viscsJkeEFspJfQCj8WmcytbgzAZIkMd8KHXW0bhUNE5RNU0ySTA1TlA5UjhGSkFSN0ZHMFpWSS4u&fbclid=IwAR3mZf9jRzgbq0yFG_5s9APEqCDJKuFBIDbXQ8admitbHZsDuGrYFgYKC3Y

We hope you have a lovely day today and are really excited to see all of the fantastic learning you have been doing – please email us with your finished work at the end of the day.

Miss Jay, Miss Hayman and Miss Buttle

Thursday 23rd July

Wow... what a term! We feel so immensely proud of each and every one of you for the way you have tackled the challenge of home learning for the past 15 (maybe even more) weeks. We are so proud to call you our 'Lockdown Unit of 2020'. 

Today's learning is below, and we have our live session at 9:30. By 3:25 (and before if possible), we would like everybody to put their pens or pencils down, pack the home learning away and have an absolutely incredible summer break - it is so well deserved (and we know how much mums and dads need a rest too)! Well done everyone, we can't wait to see you all in September.

Miss Jay, Mrs Staples and Miss Hayman

Wednesday 22nd July

Good morning! Only two more days to go until the summer holidays! We were amazed with how many of you made it to our live session yesterday and are hoping that lots of you will join us again on Thursday to share your Bossy Book or the commands you have written - we are really excited to hear them!

Have a lovely day.

Miss Jay, Mrs Staples and Miss Hayman

Tuesday 21st July

Good morning again, it was wonderful to see lots of you at Miss Jay and Miss Hayman's Class picnics yesterday, we hope to see lots of children from Mrs Staples' Class this afternoon! Don't forget, there is also a Teams Live session at 9:30 - we would love for you to join us.

Have a lovely day.

Miss Jay, Mrs Staples and Miss Hayman

Monday 20th July

Good morning Year 2, we hope you had a wonderful weekend and made the most of the sunshine where it shone through! We are so excited to see lots of you today, and the rest of you tomorrow. Please arrive at school through the main black gates at 3:45pm where Miss Hayman and Miss Jay will be waiting for you on the playground. Mrs Staples' class, you will be doing the same tomorrow!

Have a lovely day.

Miss Jay, Mrs Staples and Miss Hayman

Friday 17th July

It's Friday! We can't believe there is less than a week until the summer holidays! We are really hoping to see all of you at our picnics on Monday (Bats and Newts) or Tuesday (Dragonflies) - it will be a lovely opportunity to come together before everybody has their summer break.

Enjoy your learning today, and have a lovely weekend.

Miss Jay, Mrs Staples and Miss Hayman

Thursday 16th July

Good morning Year 2, we are incredibly proud of your fraction work so far this week, keep up the hard work! It was lovely to see lots of you yesterday for our live session and we are so impressed with your Beautiful Oops art work, well done.

Have a lovely day today.

Miss Jay, Mrs Staples and Miss Hayman

Wednesday 15th July

Good morning everyone, we hope you are all well. We thought we would start today with two riddles; can you guess which objects we are talking about from the questions below?

What gets wetter as it dries?

What has hands but doesn't clap?

Email us your answers - we look forward to seeing how many of you have worked these out!

Have a lovely day.

Miss Jay, Mrs Staples and Miss Hayman

Tuesday 14th July

Good morning Year 2. We hope you are able to join us for our live Teams session this morning at 9:30. The link to the meeting is on the Willowbank 2020 Facebook group.

We are excited to see the portrait work you started yesterday; the Year 1s in school have been doing the same so it would be lovely to share what we have all been up to!

Have a lovely day.

Miss Jay, Mrs Staples and Miss Hayman

Monday 13th July

Good morning everyone and welcome to a new week of learning. It's very nearly the summer holidays and we feel so proud of how well you are managing either at home or in our key worker bubbles. We are looking forward to seeing you all properly next week for our picnic sessions.

Enjoy your learning and have a lovely day.

Miss Jay, Mrs Staples and Miss Hayman

Friday 10th July

Good morning Year 2, it's Friday! We can't believe how quickly these weeks are going. Enjoy your learning today and we are looking forward to seeing you in our live sessions next week.

Have a lovely day.

Miss Jay, Mrs Staples and Miss Hayman

Thursday 9th July

Good morning Year 2, it has been lovely seeing the things you have been doing at home this week, please keep sending us your photos and videos to see. We are particularly impressed with your fraction work so far this week!

Have a lovely day.

Miss Jay, Mrs Staples and Miss Hayman

Wednesday 8th July

Welcome to Wednesday everyone! It was so nice to see so many of you on our live session yesterday. We are sorry that this morning's session isn't live, but we hope you enjoy what we have to show you! Please check the Facebook page at 9:30am for tomorrow's additional task.

We hope you have a lovely day.

Miss Jay, Mrs Staples and Miss Hayman

Tuesday 7th July

Good morning everybody, get ready for an exciting day... we are hoping to see lots of you for our live session at 9:30am - bring a piece of paper and a pen or pencil ready for our reading quiz.

We would also like to remind you about our 'Build a Den' day which is taking place between now and the 12th July. All children at Willowbank have been asked to build a den for ‘Save the Children’s Den Day’, and have the opportunity to donate £2 to Save the Children - helping to give children around the world a safe place to sleep at night. Please send us photos of your finished den, we would love to put some on the website!

Have a lovely day.

Miss Jay, Mrs Staples and Miss Hayman

Monday 6th July

Good morning Year 2, we hope you had an exciting weekend - we definitely enjoyed Sunday's sunshine! Enjoy your learning today - we are really excited to see what you get up to in our Virtual Sport's Day activities this week and can't wait to see some photos of the things you've been doing.

Have a lovely day.

Miss Jay, Mrs Staples and Miss Hayman

Friday 3rd July

Good morning... you've made it to Friday. We hope you have lots of exciting plans for the weekend and manage to get out and about a little bit. We miss you all lots.

Enjoy your learning today, then have a lovely weekend.

Miss Jay, Mrs Staples and Miss Hayman

Thursday 2nd July

Good morning Year 2! Here are some interesting facts to get you thinking this morning:

We bet you didn't know that...

A shark is the only known fish that can blink with both eyes.

There are only four words in the English language which end in "dous": tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous

Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur

Have a lovely day.

Miss Jay, Mrs Staples and Miss Hayman

Wednesday 1st July

Where did June go? Happy July everyone, the last few months have flown by! Mrs Hillson has been so excited to see all of the beautiful photos of your rainbow rocks, please keep sending those as you finish. She even has a couple of finished rocks in her office and they look amazing!

We hope you have a lovely day today.

Miss Jay, Mrs Staples and Miss Hayman

Tuesday 30th June

Good morning everyone, we are glad to see you working hard yesterday! Thank you for sending us your learning, we look forward to seeing even more as the week goes on. Our Year 1s in school loved their scavanger hunt in the playground yesterday, what did you manage to find in your gardens or out and about on your walk?

Have a lovely day, and we hope to see lots of you at 9:30!

Miss Jay, Mrs Staples and Miss Hayman 

Monday 29th June

Good morning everyone, we hope you all had a lovely weekend. We are excited to see you all on Tuesday for our next Teams meeting.

Parents: if you had trouble joining last week, or haven't been able to access the link due to not using Facebook, please hannah.jay@willowbank.devon.sch.uk so that we can email you the link direct to your email.

Have a lovely day.

Miss Jay, Mrs Staples and Miss Hayman

Friday 26th June

Good morning Year 2. We can't believe it's Friday already. We hope you have lots of exciting things planned for the weekend and we are keeping our fingers crossed that this beautiful weather holds out. We miss you all lots but are already looking forward to seeing lots of you next Tuesday and Wednesday.

Have a lovely day, and even lovelier weekend!

Miss Jay, Mrs Staples and Miss Hayman

Thursday 25th June

Good morning everyone. We thought we would start the day with some jokes:

What do you call a boomerang that won't come back?

A stick.

What's worse than finding a worm in your apple?

Finding half a worm.

Have a lovely day. If you have any jokes that you think are more funny than these, please let us know!

Miss Jay, Mrs Staples and Miss Hayman

Wednesday 24th June

Good morning Year 2, it was SO, SO lovely to see so many of you join our Teams meeting yesterday. We thoroughly enjoyed seeing your smiling faces and can't wait to run more sessions. We hope that you are able to join us again (or for the first time) today for our shared story at 9:30; the link to the meeting is on the Facebook group.

Have a lovely day.

Miss Jay, Mrs Staples and Miss Hayman

Tuesday 23rd June

Good morning everyone. We are really excited to hear that lots of you are able to join our Teams live session this morning at 9:30am. The link to the Teams meeting is on the school Facebook group so please make sure that if you are joining, you do so at 9:30! We look forward to seeing you then.

Have a lovely day.

Miss Jay, Mrs Staples and Miss Hayman

Monday 22nd June

Good morning Year 2, we hope everyone had a lovely weekend. We hope you are all able to join us in our live sessions this week - tomorrow and Wednesday. Please keep an eye on our Facebook page and on parent's emails for further information and with links to follow on the day.

Have a lovely day.

Miss Jay, Mrs Staples and Miss Hayman

Friday 19th June

Happy Friday Year 2, we hope you are all ready for the weekend... we just hope it stops raining! Enjoy your learning today, we look forward to seeing what you have been up to!

Miss Jay, Mrs Staples and Miss Hayman

Thursday 18th June

Good morning Year 2, we hope everybody is ok. Did you heard the thunder storm yesterday? At school, we thought it sounded like a rumbling tummy! 

Today are your last two chapters of The Magic Faraway Tree. Keep your eyes peeled for some more stories next week through our new Facebook group - Willowbank Primary School 2020.

We hope you have a lovely day today.

Miss Jay, Mrs Staples and Miss Hayman

Wednesday 18th June

Good morning Year 2. We were really excited to share our new Willowbank Primary School 2020 Facebook page with parents and carers yesterday, and we hope that this means you will be able to keep in touch with us face to face. On Tuesday and Wednesday next week, Miss Jay and Mrs Staples will be doing some live activities with you from the classroom which you can interact with - we hope to see lots of you there. Ask mums and dads to keep checking the new Facebook group for more information.

Have a lovely day.

Miss Jay, Mrs Staples and Miss Hayman

Tuesday 16th June

Good morning Year 2, thank you for sending us your learning yesterday. It was lovely to hear that so many of you remember Miss Mogford reading you Stanley's Stick at Forest School - this made for a lot of accurate predictions!

We hope you enjoy your learning today.

Miss Jay, Mrs Staples and Miss Hayman

Monday 15th June

Good morning and Happy Monday, we hope you all enjoyed your weekend. We have a few more chapters of The Magic Faraway Tree to share with you this week, but we would like to share a few picture books with you when we have finished. If you can think of any picture books that you love that you think everyone will enjoy, please let your teacher know.

Have a lovely day.

Miss Jay, Mrs Staples and Miss Hayman 

Friday 12th June

Good morning Year 2. We have all been so impressed with the science learning we have been receiving this week - you clearly know so much about animals and their habitats. If you are out and about this weekend, we wonder whether you can spot any animals or insects and can work out what their habitat would be.

Have a lovely day and a great weekend.

Miss Jay, Mrs Staples and Miss Hayman

Thursday 11th June

Good morning Year 2, we hope everyone is having a good week so far. We have two new jokes to share with you today... please let us know if you think you have a better one!

Why did the boy eat his homework?

Because the teacher told him it was a piece of cake!

What is a witch's favourite subject in school?

Spelling!

Have a lovely day.

Miss Jay, Mrs Staples and Miss Hayman

Wednesday 10th June

Good morning and happy Wednesday. It certainly looks like you have worked hard so far this week, thank you for sending us your learning so far. We hope you enjoy today's learning!

Have a lovely day.

Miss Jay, Mrs Staples and Miss Hayman

Tuesday 9th June

Good morning everyone! Thank you to all of you who emailed your learning to us yesterday, we always love seeing what you have been doing. We are very excited to have received a parcel in the post yesterday which contains a certain type of insect... we wonder if anyone can guess what they are?

Have a lovely day.

Miss Jay, Mrs Staples and Miss Hayman

Monday 8th June

Good morning Year 2, we hope you all had a lovely weekend. There are lots of exciting things planned for your home learning this week! Don't forget, we are uploading two chapters of The Magic Faraway Tree for you to listen to each day, and thought you might like to listen to one before bedtime!

Have a lovely day.

Miss Jay, Mrs Staples and Miss Hayman 

Friday 5th June

Good morning everyone, we can't believe it's Friday already and the end of another week of home learning. We hope you enjoy what we have planned for you today - please keep sending us photos of your amazing learning as well as all of the other lovely things you have been doing.

Have a lovely day, and a great weekend.

Miss Jay, Mrs Staples and Miss Hayman

Thursday 4th June

Good morning and happy Thursday everyone!

We wonder if you have seen lots of slugs and snails about after yesterday's rain? If you have, it's because slugs and snails need moisture to survive, and they dry out very quickly when they are active but it is hot and dry! Keep an eye out and see how many you can spot when you are out and about over the next couple of days.

Have a lovely day today.

Miss Jay, Mrs Staples and Miss Hayman

Wednesday 3rd June

Good morning Year 2. Wow... we were so impressed with all of your learning yesterday, and can see that you have got back into the swing of things after half term.

Don't forget, there are two chapters of The Magic Faraway Tree for you to listen to today, we hope you enjoy them!

Have a lovely day

Miss Jay, Mrs Staples and Miss Hayman

Tuesday 2nd June

Good morning and welcome back after your half term break - we hope you enjoyed it! We are very excited to share that there is a new Cooking Club section on the At Home Learning page, and Mrs Staples has had a go at creating her own fruit animals! Make sure you go and take a look and maybe have a go yourselves.

Have a lovely day.

Miss Jay, Mrs Staples and Miss Hayman

Today we are starting our new text... The Magic Faraway Tree by Enid Blyton. We are going to try to read you two chapters a day and thought you might enjoy listening to a chapter as a bedtime story. Please let us know what you think so far.

Friday 22nd May

Good morning everybody, this is your last day of learning before you have just over a week off for half term. We hope you have lots of exciting things planned, albeit most of these from home! To note:

• Well done for lots of your correct guesses... Miss Hayman's friends are of course HEDGEHOGS! She is going to keep an eye on them over half term and keep us updated.
• Miss Gibbs has put some exciting information onto the PE section of the At Home Learning page all about the Devon Virtual School Games - giving you the opportunity to take part in competitions from home, with medals and certificates to be won in each activity. Make sure you take a look, and send us any photos of the activities you complete.
• We have just a couple more chapters of The Jolley-Rogers and the Ghostly Galleon to share with you before we finish the book. Although there will be no learning on the website next week, we will be uploading the last two chapters of the book on Monday and Tuesday!

Have a lovely day, and a happy, safe half term.

Miss Jay, Mrs Staples and Miss Hayman 

Thursday 21st May

Miss Hayman has some new friends who have decided to make a home in her lovely garden... see if you can guess what the animal is from the following clues. 

1. A group of this animal is called an array (we love this fact because it links with our learning this week!)

2. They rely on hearing and smell because they don't have very good eye sight

3. They make grunting sounds a bit like a pig

We will share a photo of the animal with you tomorrow, but please let your teacher know if you think you can guess beforehand! 

Have a lovely day.

Miss Jay, Miss Hayman and Mrs Staples

Wednesday 20th May

Good morning, we hope everybody is well. We are missing you a lot but have lots of fun things planned for you and we can't wait to see some photos of what you have been up to. Miss Hayman is reading the next chapter of The Jolley-Rogers and the Ghostly Galleon today but this is in two parts, so please make sure you listen to both!

Have a lovely day.

Miss Jay, Mrs Staples and Miss Hayman

Tuesday 19th May

Happy Tuesday Year 2. Not long until half term! Don't forget, when you do your English learning today, we uploaded the Traction Man story for you to listen to. Scroll down to Monday's learning if you would like to listen again to refresh your memory.

Have a lovely day.

Miss Jay, Mrs Staples and Miss Hayman

Monday 18th May

Good morning Year 2 and welcome back to another week of home learning. We are very excited about what we have got planned for you this week, so we hope you enjoy it. On Friday, we are challenging you to take part in PE with Jo Wicks... we have chosen Friday because he always dresses up and encourages you to aswell! So please start thinking about a costume you could wear for Friday's workout!

Have a lovely day.

Miss Jay, Mrs Staples and Miss Hayman

Friday 15th May

Good morning everyone, how is it Friday again? We hope you are spending some time outside in the beautiful weather, us teachers are still enjoying our daily walks and bike rides! Please keep sending us photos of the other exciting things you get up to, we love seeing your photos.

Have a lovely day.

Miss Jay, Mrs Staples and Miss Hayman 

Thursday 14th May

We thought we would share some fun animal facts with you today.

Did you know that a crocodile cannot stick its tongue out?

Did you know, a slug has four noses?

Did you know, horses and cows sleep standing up?

If you know of any interesting facts, please let your class teacher know - we would love to share them with everybody!

Have a lovely day,

Miss Jay, Mrs Staples and Miss Hayman

Wednesday 13th May

Good morning Year 2. We are glad you are enjoying your computing this week and it's nice to see you are thinking of your instructions carefully. While the weather is so nice, we thought we would remind you off Miss Mogford's Outdoor Learning section of the website - this week she has already put up some ideas for minibeast hunts, colour hunts and leaf imprints! Let us know how you get on.

Miss Jay, Mrs Staples and Miss Hayman

Tuesday 12th May

We hope everybody is well and found yesterday's learning interesting and we look forward to seeing more photos of the things you have doing as we move through the week.

Miss Hayman is reading Chapter 5 of The Jolley-Rogers and the Ghostly Galleon today, she has worked hard on her best pirate voice so we hope you like it!

Have a lovely day.

Miss Jay, Mrs Staples and Miss Hayman

Monday 11th May

Good morning Year 2, we hope you had an enjoyable long weekend and managed to get outside in the sunshine. We have loads of exciting things planned for you this week, including lots of reading activities linking to our class text as well as some computing!

If you managed to do any cooking over the weekend linking to last week's maths work, please send us some photos, we hope to update our Class Pages section of the website later this week.

Have a lovely day.

Miss Jay, Mrs Staples and Miss Hayman

Thursday 7th May

Good morning everybody, we are going to start the day with some jokes today. These were found and sent in by Monty in Bats Class, we hope you like them:

What do aliens like to listen to?

Nep-tunes

How did the egg cross the road?

It SCRAMBLED across

Don't forget that tomorrow is Bank Holiday, so we would like you to enjoy time at home with your families. If you are looking for extra learning though, remember that Mrs Staples has uploaded some resources linked to VE Day onto the 'additional resources' section of this page.

Have a lovely day today.

Miss Jay, Mrs Staples and Miss Hayman

Wednesday 6th May

Good morning Year 2, we hope you are enjoying your learning this week. This Friday is a bank holiday; it would usually be on a Monday but this Bank Holiday has been linked to the VE Day, or Victory in Europe Day, which marks the end of World War II. Mrs Staples has kindly uploaded some resources to the 'additional resources' section - please take a look and send us some pictures of the things you get up to.

Have a lovely day.

Miss Jay, Mrs Staples and Miss Hayman

Tuesday 5th May

Good morning everybody, 

We hope you're ready to start listening our new text... The Jolley-Rogers and the Ghostly Galleon by Jonny Duddle. We will be reading a chapter every day. Miss Jay is starting today with the prologue (an introduction to the story) and Chapter 1. Please let us know what you think so far.

Miss Jay, Mrs Staples and Miss Hayman

Monday 4th May

Good morning Year 2, we hope you had a great weekend and made the most of the little bits of sunshine we saw.

Today is the FINAL chapter of George's Marvelous Medicine and we are so glad you have enjoyed it. Don't worry... tomorrow we will be starting our new story which we think you will love just as much as this one.

Have a lovely day, we can't wait to see some of your fantastic learning.

Miss Jay, Mrs Staples and Miss Hayman

Friday 1st May

It's suddenly Friday again... where did the last week go? We are so pleased to hear how brilliantly you are doing with your Bubbles stories and are looking forward to seeing some finished pieces today. 

We have updated our class page with some photos of lots of the amazing things you have sent to us - make sure you take a look and see what your friends have been up to this week too.

Have a great day, and a fantastic weekend.

Miss Jay, Mrs Staples and Miss Hayman

Thursday 30th April

Good morning everyone, it’s lovely see how hard you have all been working this week! Please make sure you check the newsletter tomorrow to see if any of the photos you have sent us have featured… we had so many to choose from. Tomorrow, we will be revealing the new book we will be reading to you each day so make sure you check the website in the morning to find out!

Miss Jay, Mrs Staples and Miss Hayman

Wednesday 29th April

Good morning everyone and a very happy Wednesday. We are so pleased to see you are enjoying your fidget spinner activity to support with your spelling this week, please keep sending us lots of photos. We are also incredibly impressed with the art work you did linked with The Colour Monster - we can't wait to share some of these on the newsletter this week.

Miss Jay, Mrs Staples and Miss Hayman

Tuesday 28th April

Good morning Year 2. To start the day, here are a couple of jokes. Do you have any jokes you could share with us?

What do you call a sleeping dinosaur?

A dino-snore

What's a witch's favourite subject in school?

Spelling!

We hope you have a lovely day.

Miss Jay, Mrs Staples and Miss Hayman

Monday 27th April

Good morning everyone, we hope you all had a lovely weekend. There are lots of exciting things planned for you today which we hope you enjoy. Keep emailing us with suggestions for our next class text which we can share on the website; we think we may have to do a vote as we’ve had lots of ideas from you all already!

Have a lovely day.

Miss Jay, Mrs Staples and Miss Hayman

Friday 24th April

Good morning everybody! How is it already Friday? These weeks are flying by.

Yesterday's maths activity was definitely a challenge... we've heard that even mums and dads found it tricky (and truthfully, so did your teachers who had to work together to work out the answer!)

We hope you are ready for the things we have planned for you today. Please send us photos of your story maps and core value hand art when you finish these, we are very excited to see them.

Most importantly, have a lovely weekend and stay safe.

Miss Jay, Mrs Staples and Miss Hayman

Thursday 23rd April

Good morning Year 2, we hope you are managing to enjoy some time in the sunshine - we are so lucky to have such beautiful weather at the moment. Please keep letting us know what you are getting up to, we love seeing your photos or hearing your news over the phone.

We are starting to think about our next class text to read each day (we have just over a week's worth of George's Marvelous Medicine chapters to share with you before we finish the book). Does anybody have any suggestions of short chapter books we could share with you next? If you do, please send your teacher an email!

Miss Jay, Mrs Staples and Miss Hayman

Wednesday 22nd April

Good morning everybody, we can’t believe it’s already Wednesday! We have lots of exciting things planned for you today but please don’t feel that you have to complete all of it. We are still really enjoying receiving photos of all of the other amazing things you have been doing, such as adventuring outside, making models, even more baking and some of you still have your tuck shops up and running!

Miss Gibbs has uploaded some more PE resources for you to have a go at too, should you wish to try something different. There are some active workouts and some fun challenges for you to complete!

Have a lovely day

Miss Jay, Mrs Staples and Miss Hayman

Tuesday 21st April

Good morning Year 2. We were very impressed with all of the learning we were sent yesterday, please keep sending your photos to us... it is making our day seeing your amazing learning and lots of smiling faces!

We hope you have started to tick off some of your reading bingo challenges... some of the children in school yesterday managed to tick off two or three, can anybody beat that? Can you come up with some of your own to add to the grid?

Have a lovely day,

Miss Jay, Mrs Staples and Miss Hayman

Monday 20th April 2020

Good morning, we hope you all had a lovely weekend and are excited for a new week of learning. 

We have heard that Joe Wicks is adding some World Trivia questions to his PE session this morning; join him on YouTube at 9 o'clock to get both your body and brain active. Please let us know how you get on.

Also, don't forget to email any pictures of your rainbow drawings or of you and your family clapping for the NHS to admin@willowbank.devon.sch.uk - Mrs Hillson is very excited to see these!

Have a lovely day, we are looking forward to seeing your wonderful learning this week,

Miss Jay, Mrs Staples and Miss Hayman

Friday 17th April 2020

Good morning Year 2, we hope you have enjoyed all of your learning so far this week, this is the final day before the weekend where you can get some well-earned rest!

It has been lovely to speak with so many of you on the phone this week and hearing all about the interesting things you have been doing - we've heard lots of you have been busy gardening, seed planting, learning how to do gymnastics, creating Youtube videos, baking and many more interesting things.

We hope you enjoy chapter 4 of George's Marvellous Medicine by Roald Dahl, it's Mrs Staples' turn again today, please let us know what you think of the story so far. 

Have a lovely day.

Miss Jay, Mrs Staples and Miss Hayman

Thursday 16th April 2020

Good morning and happy Thursday... this week seems to be flying by! We have been incredibly impressed with all of the amazing learning that we have been receiving through email so far this week, please keep it up.

Chapter 3 of George's Marvellous Medicine by Roald Dahl is now ready for you to listen to and is being read by Miss Hayman, we hope you enjoy it!

Have a lovely day.

Miss Jay, Mrs Staples and Miss Hayma

Wednesday 15th April 2020

Good morning everybody! It was lovely to see so many of you back into the swing of learning yesterday and we hope you enjoy the activities we have set for today. Please continue to email us with some of the learning and other exciting things that you have been doing at home, we are looking forward to putting some photos onto this week's newsletter!

Lots of you emailed yesterday asking for your log in details for Timestable Rockstars. If you would like your log in details, please email your teacher.

Chapter 2 of George's Marvellous Medicine by Roald Dahl is now ready for you to listen to, please let us know what you think of the story so far. 

Miss Jay, Mrs Staples and Miss Hayman

Tuesday 14th April 2020

Good morning everybody, we hope you all had a lovely Easter and made the most of the glorious sunshine! We also hope that you're feeling rested and ready for some more exciting learning to take place.

We have set up all Year 2 children with a log in for Timestable Rockstars. If you would like your username and password to access the website, please email your teacher.

The teachers in Unit 1 are trying something new today and have had to be very brave! Please make sure you listen to Mrs Staples reading Chapter 1 of our new text... George's Marvellous Medicine by Roald Dahl. There will be a new chapter uploaded each day so make sure you look on the website daily to hear the next part of the story.

Have a lovely day,

Miss Jay, Mrs Staples and Miss Hayman

Friday 27th March 2020

Happy Friday everybody! We hope you have a lovely day today. Along with all of your other exciting learning, Miss Hayman has found something incredibly exciting which you may wish to try... Becky Bettesworth has put a 'Love Keeps Us Together' poster onto her website for you to colour in! Please send us any finished posters so we can see your wonderful work.

https://beckybettesworth.co.uk/collections/free-download-to-colour-in/products/love-keeps-us-together

Thursday 26th March 2020

Good morning, what a beautiful day it is today!

Over the last few days, Mrs Staples has been enjoying nice, long bike rides and Miss Jay has been doing lots of walking in the village that she lives in. Miss Hayman has been playing catch with her dog Simba in the garden every day! What are you doing to make the most of the sunshine? Here are some of our ideas:

• Joe Wicks PE lesson outside in the garden
• Helping with the gardening or planting seeds
• Having a picnic lunch outside

We are all so excited to see what you get up to today, please remember to send us photos!

Miss Jay, Mrs Staples and Miss Hayman

Wednesday 25th March 2020

Good morning everybody!

Wow Year 2... we have been amazed by all of the fantastic learning you have done at home so far - thank you to those who have shared this with us already! It has been lovely to see that you have been doing other things as well, and nice to see lots of you have been making the most of the sunshine where you can.

Have a lovely day today, we are glad the sun is still shining and look forward to hearing from you soon.

Miss Jay, Mrs Staples and Miss Hayman

Tuesday 24th March 2020

Good morning and Happy Tuesday!

We all hope you enjoyed learning from home yesterday. We know that for some of you, there was quite a lot of learning on our website for you to complete, especially if you had brothers and sisters trying to do their learning too! Please remember to do what you can, but that you do not need to do everything if it is too much! The # challenges we provided are additional learning opportunities to extend your thinking – if you do not get to complete these, that is ok!

It is a beautiful day today, we hope you get the opportunity to go outside for some fresh air, perhaps a short walk or Jo Wick’s PE lesson outside. We look forward to seeing what you have been up to later on today.

Miss Jay, Mrs Staples and Miss Hayman

Monday 23rd March 2020

Good morning Year 2, we hope you have had a lovely weekend and are ready for an exciting day of learning. We look forward to seeing all of your fantastic work soon!

Miss Jay, Mrs Staples and Miss Hayman