Year 2
From Mrs Bellas, Mrs Allen, Mrs Jervis and Mrs Southern
Welcome to our Year 2 class page! In year two, we love making learning fun and are always here to help you on your learning journey. Don't forget that there are many adults in class and around school who are always here to help you, and that God is always here for us too.
On this page you will find all the key information you’ll need throughout the year along with information about our learning.
Key things to remember:
- Homework books will be sent home on Mondays and must be returned to school on Thursdays.
- Reading records must be signed by your parents on a daily basis and returned to school each day.
- On Thursdays, we will have arithmetic and spelling tests based on the homework you have completed during the week.
- Monday is our independent reading day. You can bring a book from home to read in class and share with others!
- You will need to wear your PE kit on Wednesdays and Fridays this half-term.
Our Mission Statement and school prayer
Religious Education
In RE this half-term, we will focus on the Book of Genesis and especially on the story of Noah, mainly focusing on God’s promise, or covenant, with Noah and with all creatures that ‘nothing of flesh shall be swept away again by the waters of the flood’ (Gen 9:15), a promise symbolised by the rainbow.
Writing
During this half-term we will be focusing on using great language, punctuation and more complex sentences to write narratives and poem.
We will focus mainly on developing characters, settings, and plots for their stories. As well as this, throughout their writing, the children will be encouraged to use new language and grammar to make their instructions clear and engaging. They will also be taught to re-read their work and begin to check that it makes sense and to find any errors in spelling and punctuation.
We will continue to practise our handwriting and the cursive script, checking that letters are all of a consistent size and ensuring capital letters and ascending letters are much taller.
Reading
In Year 2 we begin our transition away from phonics to support us in becoming confident, fluent, life-long readers.
In class, alongside our phonics sessions, we have regular guided reading sessions where we begin to think more deeply about texts we read and answer some questions to show our understanding. This half-term we will read extracts from a range of books, including:
- "Dogs in Space" by Vix Southgate.
- "The whale watchers" by Dougie Poynter.
- "Let's hear it for the teachers" by Joshua Seigal.
Each day ends with story time, where the children are given the opportunity to immerse themselves in a class book read by the teacher. Children will also have plenty of opportunities to visit our school library, where they can explore a range of genres, discuss books they have read with others and find books written by authors they have discovered during the year.
Please see below a link which will take you to our literacy page. Here you will be able to access a range of documents and videos to help with the pronunciation of phonetical sounds to help your children with their reading.
Mathematics
This half-term, the children will be focusing on developing their knowledge and understanding of place value. Place value is an important concept for children to master because it helps them understand how to represent and manipulate numbers, which is fundamental to performing calculations.
Next, we will become masters of addition and subtraction, building on their prior knowledge to develop a range of strategies to add and subtract larger numbers and to use these skills to solve word problems.
In the website below you will find some great tools to help bring your learning to life using all the manipulatives we use in the classroom at home on your device!
https://whiteroseeducation.com/resources/digital-tools
Science
This half-term we will be learning about animals and their life cycles in science, including describing the basic needs of animals and humans for survival, and the importance of exercise, diet, and hygiene.
Other curriculum details
Please see links below for more details about the curriculum
Homework
- Homework books will contain your weekly homework. They will be sent home on Mondays and must be returned to school on Thursdays.
- Reading records must be signed by your parents on a daily basis and returned to school each day.
- All spelling homework is now set online via Spelling Frame every Thursday. You will find your unique login for this in your reading records. Please make sure you are practising these at home each day to help you learn.
- On Thursdays, we will have arithmetic and spelling tests based on the homework you have completed during the week.
Remember, if you get full marks on your spelling and arithmetic tests, you will earn a save for each!
Helpful links
Below you will find some useful links to resources you might like to access at home.
Addition without regrouping
Addition with regrouping
Subtraction with regrouping
Click on these extra links below to play some exciting maths games linked to your times tables.
https://www.topmarks.co.uk/times-tables/coconut-multiples
https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/hit-the-button
https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/mental-maths-train
Follow the link below to read free eBooks online on the Oxford Owl library:
https://www.oxfordowl.co.uk/for-home/find-a-book/library-page/
Sing Up at Home
If you enjoy singing and would like to learn a new song, follow the below link to visit the Sing Up at Home page. There will be a new song uploaded with a performance track and backing track each week and pointers and tips of how to sing the song successfully.
Good luck and happy singing!