Today we were very lucky to have a visit from the author Teresa Heapy, who has written storybooks including Very Little Red Riding Hood and The Marvellous Moon Map. We shared stories and found out about where she gets her ideas from. Teresa shared her writer’s notebook with us where her stories all begin. We created our own Very Little characters and thought about how their stories would differ from the original.
Today, Teresa Heapy, who wrote many picture books came and spent the day with us at school. She read us some of her stories and spent time with each year group creating characters and story ideas. We were also joined by children from Packwood School.
Teresa signed some of her books which we will share in school.
Hopefully, the children will go home feeling inspired to write their own stories. 
Today in our workshop with Teresa Heapy, you created your own ‘very little’ characters like her Very Little Red Riding Hood and Very Little Cinderella. This week I would like you to write your own story using your own character. See if you can make your story into a little book that you can share with the class.
We has a super World Book Day this week and there were some fabulous costumes on show. During the day we too part in activities about our favourite books and created entries for the National Book Token competition.
Today we have celebrated World Book Day at school. The children all looked amazing when we got together in the hall, to share a story. The staff at school have dressed to be the colour monsters from the book the ‘Colour Monster’. Mrs Foster read it to the whole school.
All classes have been carrying out World Book Day activities in their classes and some classes took part in a live lesson with hundreds of other schools.
Hopefully the children have come home inspired to read more for pleasure! 
Today we had a visit from Simon, the Animal Man, to support our learning about animal classification in Science. We learned about mammals, reptiles, amphibians and some invertebrates and some of us even faced our fears and held creatures we were nervous of meeting!
Money
We have been learning about money in maths over the last couple of weeks. Please could you practise making specific amounts of money with different coins with your child. This could be through playing games such as shops or going to an actual shop and helping your child to pay. If possible, please also include giving change.
Year 2 – You also have a calculation using money sheet to complete. You might want to do this with your grown up.
Multiplication
Next week, we are moving on to learning how to multiply. Please could you practise the times tables at home, focusing on 2, 5 and 10 times tables. Remember, you can also log on to Times Tables Rockstars to keep practising.
This week we have been learning about winter in our environment and the winter weather. We have explored the signs of winter in our school garden and how it has changed since we last looked at our environment in December. We collected leaves, seeds and other things that we could find and made ice windows.
Welcome back to a new year and new term. I hope you had a fabulous Christmas!
We’ve got lots of exciting things planned this term to help our learning about our new topic – Voyages of Discovery.
We are going to be learning about significant explorers and adventurers, their achievements and the impact that they made on the world around them. We will be looking in depth at the lives of Christopher Columbus, Ernest Shackleton and Felicity Aston. In Science we will be learning about the Animal Kingdom, and will have a visit from Simon Airey, the animal man, to enhance our learning.
Our P.E. days have changed this term, while swimming lessons are ongoing. Year 2 will be swimming each Friday for 5 weeks from 17th February. Children will need to come to school in their P.E. kit every Thursday and Friday until Easter. For this term there will no P.E. on a Monday.
To find out more about the focus in our areas of learning this term, our topic map and subject knowledge organisers are available at the following links.
Voyages of Discovery Topic Web
Haughmond Spring 2023 Knowledge Organisers
Thank you,
Mrs Gregory
This term we will be having a change to our P.E. days as all the children will be having swimming lessons before Easter. P.E. days, therefore, will be Thursday and Friday. Please could you ensure that children come into school dressed in P.E. kit on these days.
Many thanks.
Bomere Heath CE Primary School
The Crescent,
Bomere Heath,
Shrewsbury,
SY4 3PQ
Tel: 01939 290359
Executive Headteacher: Mrs Julie Ball
Office Manager: Maria Whittaker
