Welcome to Year 2

Mr Steer and Miss Wilson are all so excited to be teaching your wonderful children this year and can't wait to get stuck into some fabulous learning.

PE

Our PE days are on a Monday (indoor) and a Friday (outdoor). Please make sure your child is wearing a suitable PE kit. In our uniform policy, this states that there are no logos on clothes or trainers. Earrings will need to be removed for these days, unless recently pierced (6 weeks).

Reading

Children will be issued with a colour banded reading book from our new Badger Books collection to really instil that love and passion for reading.  

The Year 2 expectation is for you to read with your child minimum of 5 times per week and record it in their reading record.  A parent, carer or guardian signature will be required for each read.  

Please refer to the reading records for guidance and examples on possible questions that you could ask your child about the text which they are reading.  

Reading logs and reading books are expected to be in school every day as part of school equipment and will be checked and signed by school every Thursday.  

Spelling

The children in Year 2 have been split into 2 spelling groups. It is essential that we rebuild the children’s confidence with certain spelling patterns and sounds before moving onto to more trickier spellings. This will be reassessed at the end of each term. 

Spellings will be introduced on Monday and tested on a Friday.  

All children have access to Spelling Shed which is a valuable online tool. Children should be accessing this at home via their log on and playing minimum 5 – 10 mins per day to really embed the sounds and spelling patterns. In turn, this will help with long-term memory and increase their weekly spelling scores.  

Homework

Year 2 will receive a ‘Homework Choice Menu’ filled with fun, creative activities linked to this term’s curriculum topic – Fire and Ice. It’s a free choice menu, and the children are expected to complete at least 3 activities over each half term, with the option to do more if they wish.  

It would be wonderfully beneficial if your children could also access Spelling Shed and Times Table Rockstars (TTRS). Ideally, children should play at least 10 games of TTRS and Spelling Shed each week to support with fluency. Logins for Spelling Shed and TTRS can be found in your child's Reading Records. 

 

Thank you, Year 2 Team.

Timetables

Brunel Class

Seacole Class

What We're Learning

Details of the Year 2 learning journey can be found here: 

Year 2 - What we're learning

Autumn Term

Our topic this term is 'Fire and Ice.' We will be looking at the seasons, weather patterns and the historical event of The Great Fire of London to delve into this topic. We will be reading the book, ‘Pattan’s Pumpkin’ and 'Lost and Found' in our English lessons. These books are beautifully illustrated to inspire the children.

Do listen to your child read daily please. It makes a huge difference to their reading ability and confidence. Remember, even if your child is not reading, listening to stories exposes them to language that they would otherwise not hear. It is vital that you read to them to support their ability to write.

In Maths, we will be learning about Place Value, Addition and Subtraction. In Place Value, we will be learning to count and write numbers up to 100, and will locate numbers on a number line. We will partition numbers into their values of tens and will learn to count in 2s, 3s, 5s and 10s.

The children will use a variety of resources to help them in their math's lessons, including: base 10, ten frames, numicon, rekenrek and counters.

This term we will be putting on a harvest festival performance for parents to come and watch. Dates and times will be made available later in this half term.