St Mellons Church in Wales Primary School

Welcome to Class 2! Croeso i Dosbarth 2!

Teacher: Mrs Kupe

    

Teaching Assistants: Mrs Jones,  Mrs Bejraoui,  and Mrs Wigmore

 Communication

Contact us on class2@stmellonsprm.cardiff.sch.uk 

   X  (Twitter) - @stmellonsprm

 Our Schoop ID: 13339

Google Classroom Code: lx6lhnin

Overview of the day

8.45-8.55 Children arrive, complete the travel tracker and settle down to complete register​

9.00 – 9.25 Worship ​

9.25 - 10.30 Literacy, Languages & Communication​

10.30 – 10.45 Snack / Break Time​

10.45 - 11.00 Milk and Music

11.00 – 12.00 Mathematics & Numeracy​

12.00 – 1.00 Lunch​

1.00 – 1.25 Read Write Inc session

1.30-1.50 Guided Group Reading

1.50 – 3.00​ (Topic/Science/RE/ICT)​, including 10 minutes daily mile​/ outdoor activities

3.00 Daily Welsh Activities​/ Storytime

3.15 Home Time  

 

Important dates for the half term

 Click this link for diary dates

General Information

Uniform:

Please send your child in school uniform every day. Wearing school uniform helps promote a sense of belonging, pride, and readiness to learn, while ensuring all children are dressed appropriately and equally.  Please label all uniform.

Reading:

Please bring your book to school every day. We will ensure your child's book is changed when needed.  We ask that you read with your child at home for a minimum of 10 minutes a day.

Spelling:

Spelling Lists are uploaded onto our Google Classroom.

Spelling tests are every Monday.

PE:

PE will be every Wednesday.  Children should wear black shorts, house colour or white t-shirt and trainers, labelled clearly with their name. They may also wear black jogging bottoms when completing activities outdoors. 

Snack:

Please bring a bottle of water to school daily, clearly labelled with your child's name on it. Healthy snacks can be purchased from school (via ParentPay) or brought from home.

Summer Term  2026

Our value this half term is Trust.

 

 

Please discuss our termly value with your child at home and encourage them to share how they have been ‘living out’ the value in their daily life.  

trust 1.pdf

 

 Context for learning

Our whole school theme is 'Healthy Habits, Healthy Growth'.

 The Year 2 Topic is 'All creatures great and small'.

Our inquiry question is

What do living things need to survive?  

 

We will learn what makes something living and explore the features, habitats, and life cycles of a wide range of animals and plants. We will investigate ecosystems, food chains and farm‑to‑table processes, and explain how living things grow, change and depend on each other to survive.

Pupil Voice questions coming soon.

 

Our LLC lessons are built around high‑quality, engaging texts, the first one this term being The Bear Under the Stairs, which inspire children’s reading, writing and discussion.  One of the writing skills in we will learn this half term is to identify the features of an information text and write our own information text. 

In Humanities, we will learn how people and the natural world affect one another, exploring positive and negative changes in our local area and beyond. We will discover where our food and water come from, how human actions impact environments such as rivers, oceans and green spaces, and how charities around the world help protect our planet. Through RVE, pupils will also explore places that matter to different people and begin to develop a sense of belonging within the diverse communities of Wales.
In Expressive Arts, pupils develop creativity by making 3D artworks and models using a range of materials. They explore construction techniques, learn how to join materials effectively, and use their imagination to bring their ideas to life.

In RVE we will our Big Question is "God, gods, or no God?"  and consider the questions 'What do Christians believe God is like?'  'Who are the Hindu gods?'  and 'What makes someone important?' 

St Mellons CIW Primary School is proud to be a Rights Respecting School, which means we are a community where children's rights are learned, taught, practised, respected, protected and promoted.  This half term we will be focusing on Articles 24, 13 and 28 from the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child. 

In maths pupils will consolidate their knowledge of place value, addition, subtraction and multiplication.   We will also build on our knowledge of time to read to ½ and ¼ hour on analogue & 12 hour digital clocks, and move onto 5 minute intervals.  

Children will explore rotation by learning to recognise half and quarter turns, both clockwise and anti‑clockwise, understand that a quarter turn makes a right angle, and apply this knowledge in practical, hands‑on activities. 

we will also continue to  learn our times tables & counting in 3's.

Please click HERE to see the Topic Plan.

 Homework

Regular reading with an adult is the most important homework.  Plus, children will have weekly spellings to learn for a spelling test on Mondays, the spelling words are uploaded onto Google Classroom. There will also be a termly homework grid based on our topic. Children may do as many homework tasks as they like over the course of the term. 

Children are allowed to complete their homework in whichever format they wish to choose. E.g Hwb, PowerPoint, on paper, videos etc. 

Choose from activities on our homework grid:

 Download a pdf copy of the grid HERE

 Four Purposes

The four purposes are that all children and young people will be:

Ambitious, capable learners who are ready to learn throughout their lives.

Enterprising, creative contributors who are ready to play a full part in life and work.

Ethical, informed citizens who are ready to be citizens of Wales and the world.

Healthy, confident individuals who are ready to lead fulfilling lives as valued members of society. 

 

 Literacy, Language and Communication

This term we will be focusing on handwriting, supporting the work that the children are doing in their Read Write Inc sessions.
We will continue to develop the children’s phonics knowledge and letter formation, to support progress in their reading, writing and spelling skills using Read Write Inc.

Read Write Inc is taught daily (Monday- Friday) across from Reception to Year 3. Children are grouped according to their current ability. In each session we focus on identifying and learning Read Write Inc sounds.

 Guidance for parents about Read Write Inc.:

what to teach when speed sound lessons.pdf

 

 

Numeracy

The children might like to practice skills with these online games: 

Times Tables Rock Stars- pupils will have their individual logins for TTRS

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/money/toy-shop-money

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/hit-the-button

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/mental-maths-train

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/learning-to-count/place-value-basketball

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/daily10

 

Welsh

The Welsh language is very important to us. We encourage both staff and children to use incidental Welsh both inside and outside of the classroom. We enjoy our Helpwr Heddiw sessions which supports the children in learning new phrases by playing fun Welsh games and through independent learning opportunities as part of their continous provision available throughout the day.

Learn Welsh Games - https://www.learn-welsh.net/welshgames 

S4C Education - https://www.s4c.cymru/en/education/tag/36/primary/ 

Modern Foreign Language (MFL)

We will be learning some basic French as outlined in the Currciulum for Wales: https://hwb.gov.wales/curriculum-for-wales/languages-literacy-and-communication/statements-of-what-matters/

 

 Internet Safety

At St Mellons, we promote the use of 'SMART' rules, as we know how important it is to stay safe online.

Please encourage your children to use these 'SMART' rules at home too. 

For more information please visit https://hwb.gov.wales/zones/online-safety/key-information/primary-learners/ 

 Jigsaw

The Curriculum for Wales is now a statutory requirement since September 2022 for all schools in Wales. It has a key role to play in helping children and young people navigate the world safely. Welsh Government wants education to help our children to develop as healthy, confident individuals, ready for the next chapter in their life after school. Relationships and Sexuality Education (RSE) encompasses the knowledge, skills, dispositions and values that will empower learners to:

• support their health and well-being

• develop healthy, safe and fulfilling relationships of all kinds, including those with family and friends, and in time, romantic and sexual relationships

• navigate and make sense of how relationships, sex, gender and sexuality shape their own and other people’s identities and lives

• understand and support their rights and those of others to enjoy equitable, safe, healthy and fulfilling relationships throughout their lives.

Please click here for more information curriculum-for-wales-relationships-sexuality-education-code.pdf (gov.wales) 

 Healthy Schools

We are very proud to be promoting a healthy school. We encourage all children to eat healthy during snack and lunch times. 

We are able to provide snack for your children in school at a daily cost of £2 per week / £14 per term. Please pay via ParentPay.

Please ensure that your child has a labelled bottle in school daily, containing water only. We have fresh drinking water fountains, where the children can refill their bottles.

For advice on how to make a healthy packed lunch, please visit: https://www.nhs.uk/healthier-families/recipes/healthier-lunchboxes/

 Active Travel


WOW is a pupil-led initiative where children self-report how they get to school every day using the interactive WOW Travel Tracker. If they travel sustainably (walk, cycle or scoot) once a week for a month, they get rewarded with a badge. It's that easy!

Please support us on our Active Travel mission by encouraging your child to walk, cycle or scoot to school, or use Park and Stride. This will help keep our bodies healthy and help reduce our carbon footprint!

Picture News

During our worship time on Mondays, we have been discussing Picture News, challenging ourselves to use new, ambitious vocabulary to describe our feelings and opinions. We have been learning about current news, topics and events.  

Useful links

By clicking below, you can access a range of resources to continue learning at home:

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/ - Great online games for curriculum areas

https://www.bbc.com/bitesize/levels/zbr9wmn - BBC Bitesize

http://www.crickweb.co.uk/ks2literacy.html - Lots of online games linked to different areas of the curriculum

https://www.learn-welsh.net/welshgames - Online Welsh games

https://corbettmathsprimary.com/5-a-day/ - Corbett Maths - 5-a-day Challenges

hwb.gov.wales - collection of online tools provided to all schools in Wales by the Welsh Government