Year 2
Welcome to Year 2
These are the adults who help us with our learning.
Teaching Staff
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| Mr Dunne | Miss Smith |
Teaching Assistants
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| Mrs Manser |
High Level Teaching Assistants
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| Mrs Alderton | Mrs Horrex | Mrs King |
Spelling and Phonics - details of the phonics and spelling focus for the half term will be stuck in your child's reading record. We do not do spelling tests however, please practise these at home. Over time, we expect the children to begin to apply these to their spelling independently including in their home learning.
Home learning is due back into school on a Thursday. Please ensure your child brings their home learning book back each week so that we can check which task they have completed. We will send home learning books back out on a Friday.
Our Autumn 1 Topic is:
If you go into the woods today....
This half term, the children will enjoy learning about nocturnal animals. We will learn about different animals and their habitats as well as reading some stories with these animals in such as 'The Owl who was afraid of the dark'. During this topic in geography we will be developing our field and map skills. We will look at the geography of our school grounds and will use maps and compasses to discover the features in this area. We will also develop our creative skills in DT where we will be planning and making 3D chairs. In our music lessons, we look forward to developing our singing and improving songs further by adding percussion instruments. In music we will also begin to learn about letter notation.
Please see the resources on the page for more information about home learning, supporting with reading and phonics and links to other useful websites.
Our PE days are Tuesday and Thursday this half term. Please come to school in your PE kit on these days.
Please see below for links to the home learning and curriculum information for his half term.
How can you help your child at home?
Reading at home
How can you help your child with reading at home?
We hope that you are able to read with your child as regularly as possible and record any comments in their yellow log. Also encouraging your child to take part in our reading challenges. Please see the resource tab above to find questions and sentence stems that you may want to use when reading with your child.
Maths at home
In Year 2 we spend time practising addition, subtraction, multiplication, division and missing number problems. At home you could support your child by giving them various calculation sentences. Find an example of arithmetic papers on our home learning page. This is what your child will practise in school.
By the end of Year 2 we aim for children to be secure with their 2x, 5x and 10x tables. You could use these websites below to practise these. Logins for TT rockstars will be sent home in the Spring term once the children have been explicitly taught about multiplication.
Phonics
We build on the phonics learning your child has learnt in Year 1. You could use the websites below to practise their phonemes.