Year 2

Welcome to Year 2!

Our class teacher is Mrs Swift who is also our Art and Design Technology subject lead. We are also very lucky to have Mrs Jordan in class every morning and Mrs Cropper every afternoon and they help support our wonderful children with reading, writing and maths throughout the day.

Miss Brown covers PPA time on a Thursday afternoon.

What our week looks like:

• Monday - Library day.
• Tuesday – Book changing day.
• Wednesday - PE day, guitar lessons for those who are involved.
• Thursday – Book changing day and weekly spelling check.
• Friday – PE day, new spellings issued and homework set.

Any updates or changes to our week will be sent out on our weekly email.

 

Important Information

• New spellings are issued on a Friday along with tasks set on spag.com or maths.co.uk. The children's login details can be found in the front of their reading records.
• Children will need a labelled water bottle in school with them each day.
• Please ensure that all items of clothing are clearly labelled - hopefully this will help things not getting lost!

 

Useful Websites in Year 2

• Phonics Play - https://www.phonicsplay.co.uk/resources
• ICT Games - https://www.ictgames.com/
• White Rose Maths - https://whiterosemaths.com/homelearning/year-2/
• MyMaths - https://www.mymaths.co.uk
• Times Table Rockstars - https://ttrockstars.com
• SPAG.com - https://www.spag.com
• Explorify for Science - https://explorify.wellcome.ac.uk
• A suggested reading list for children in Key Stage 1 can be found at = https://schoolreadinglist.co.uk/reading-lists-for-ks1-school-pupils/suggested-reading-list-year-2-pupils-ks1-age-6-7/

 

 

Autumn 1 in Year 2

Our topic for this term is called Explorers. It is a History and Geography based topic where we will be looking at the world, oceans, space and the people that have explored them and discovered new places. We will investigate how Explorers methods and equipment have changed over time and the different equipment you would need for exploring different continents.

In English we are starting with the book, ‘Man on the Moon,’ by Simon Bartram and we will cover short narrative pieces and use our growing knowledge to create our own non chronological reports.

Like last year, the children’s daily phonics sessions will continue to ensure that they are all getting specific teaching according to their needs. They will continue to learn and embed known and new sounds and tricky words. The children will have spellings sent home each week that will either practise common exception words, tricky words or secure what we have learnt in school the previous week in our phonic sessions.

In maths we will begin the year by refreshing and furthering our knowledge of number and place value by reading and writing numbers to at least 100 and recognising the place value of each digit in a two-digit number (tens and ones). We will also look at estimating and measuring length, addition and subtraction, and the properties of 2D shapes including the number of sides and lines of symmetry.