St Mellons Church in Wales Primary School

Welcome to Class 2! Croeso i Dosbarth 2!

Teacher: Mrs Lawley

Teaching Assistant: Miss Josephs, Mrs Bejraoui and Mrs Jones

                                                      

 Communication

Contact us on Class2@stmellonsprm.cardiff.sch.uk 

Twitter (X) - @stmellonsprm                     https://twitter.com/stmellonsprm

The 'Teacher to Parent' text messaging service will be used when required.

Overview of the day

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

9.05 – 9.25 Worship ​

9.25 - 9.55 Guide Group Reading

10.00 - 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 – 3.00​ (Topic/Science/RE/ICT)​, including 15 minutes daily mile​/ outdoor activities

3.00 Daily Welsh Activities​/ Storytime

3.15 Home Time  

Important dates for the half term

Christian Value - Friendship

28th  April – Return to School

Christian Value Celebration Day Trust

5th May – Bank Holiday

11 th -   17th  May – Christian Aid Week

19th – 23rd May – Welsh Government National Tests Block

22nd  May – Nursery and Reception Family Worship 9.15am & coffee morning

23rd May – End of term

26th  May – 30th  May – Half Term

 

2nd  June – Return to School

10th June  - Class Photographs

11th June – Sports Day

18th June – Reserve Sports Day

26th June – year 1 and 2 Family Worship 9.30am

TBC  -  Residential Year 6

4th July – Reports out to parents

10th July – New PS1  intake meeting (Nursery and Reception) 2pm

14th July  - Transition week

Wednesday 16th July – Year 6 Leavers Assembly 9.30am & coffee morning

18th July  - Last day of term

21st  July – INSET day school closed for pupils

 Classroom routine

Reading:

Please bring your book to school every day. Children will be reading in school daily and we will ensure your child's book is changed when needed.

PE:

PE will be held every Monday.  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 2025

Learning Context:

 
This term we will be looking at how to stay healthy in body and mind. Our enquiry title is: Healthy Body, Healthy Mind.
They will explore what it means to be healthy and what affects our health. They will gain an understanding of how health and wellbeing are important to enabling resilience and navigate life’s opportunities and challenges.  To help us on our learning journey we will be having visits from Cardiff City coaches, Welsh Athletic coaches, Old St Mellons tennis coaches and a yoga instructor.

LLC - factual writing - instructions, fact sheets, leaflets

Maths and Numeracy - measurement, including time, fractions and data handling

RVE - Big Question: God, gods, or no God?   

Humanities - Understand how others have different beliefs, opinions and views.

STEM - how the body works

HWB - Physical literacy, diet and nutrition, substances, self regulation, decision making, relationships and visiting coaches from Cardiff City and Old St Mellons tennis club

Expressive Arts - Emotion in art, dance

Planning

A summary of weekly planning will be available on Google classroom, where you can see what the children have been learning about that week. Please see the Inquiry planning document for our topic planning:

 

inquiry planner summer 2025.pdf

 

 Homework

Each week, children will be asked to complete either a piece of numeracy or literacy based homework which will alternate from week to week. 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:

class 2 homework grid summer 2025.pdf

 

 

 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.

Christian Value

Our value this half term is ‘Friendship'. 

Ecclesiastes 4:9-10 "Two are better than one, because they have a good return for their labor: If either of them falls down, one can help the other up."

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.  

friendship.pdf

 

 

 

 Literacy, Language and Communication

We will be looking at variety of genres in literacy this half term, which will support our learning context. We will focus primarily on story writing and diary writing
This half term we will also be having a focus on handwriting, supporting the work that the children are doing in their Read Write Inc sessions.
We will also 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 PS1 & 2. Children are grouped according to their current ability. In each session we focus on identifying and learning Read Write Inc sounds; reading green and red words; and spelling green words.

 Guidance for parents about Read Write Inc.:

what to teach when speed sound lessons.pdf

 

rwi workshop for parents jan 2025.pptx

 

Numeracy

This half term we will be concentrating some more on measurement skills, including time. We will also be recapping and reviewing everything we have covered of the last two terms, so any opportunity you have to involve your child in recognising or using money, adding and subtracting and practicing their times tables will really help cement their understanding and knowledge. 

 

The children might like to practice money skills with these online game: 

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.

This half term we will be focusing on food and how to ask for what they would like in a shop and/ cafe.

Modern Foreign Language (MFL)

We are excited to announce that we will be learning a modern foreign language as outlined in the Currciulum for Wales: https://hwb.gov.wales/curriculum-for-wales/languages-literacy-and-communication/statements-of-what-matters/

Language to be announced

 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