Welcome to Year 2!
Class 2T
Teacher - Miss Taylor
Teaching Assistant - Mrs Aynsworth
Teaching Assistant - Miss O'Shea
Class 2W
Teacher - Miss White
Teaching Assistant - Mrs Monk
Teaching Assistant - Mrs Ali
Reminders - see the parent information slides below for more detail
PE:
Year 2 PE days are Tuesday (indoor) and Wednesday (outdoor).
Please come in your PE kits on these days. Earrings must be removed for health and safety reasons.
Homework:
Homework will be set via google classroom on a Friday and will be due the following Friday.
Reading:
Please send your child into school with their reading record and book everyday.
Teaching Overview for the current term
Parent Information
Here is some important information you will need for this year.
English
In English, we will be learning using the story 'Up with Birds' to inspire our writing. We will continue learning how to write a range of effective sentences and practise incorporating all the year 2 punctuation.
We will also write fact files and in a non fiction style, linked to our topic of 'flight'.
In Guided Reading, we will read The Boy Who Grew Dragons to enable us to continue practising our retrieval and inference skills.
Reading
Please read with your child for five to ten minutes fives times a week. Use the reading VIPERS below to support questioning. Questioning when reading with your child is fundamental at this stage in their reading development to help them develop their comprehension skills as your children become more able to read fluently.
We will be reading with your child every week. We will be having small group guided reading sessions for those following Little Wandle and 1:1 for those on the stage books.
During the guided reading sessions, we will also be focusing on the VIPERS skills.
Phonics
Our school has chosen Little Wandle Letters and Sounds Revised as our new systematic synthetic phonics (SSP) programme to teach early reading and spelling.
Please click on the link below which will take you to the parent support page for phonics information.
https://www.littlewandlelettersandsounds.org.uk/resources/for-parents/
Spelling
Below are the common exception words and high frequency words for KS1.
Common exception words = words that cannot be decoded using phonics.
High frequency words = words that are frequently used in books (some are decodable, some are not).
RE
In RE, we will learn about different places of worship in Christianity and Islam.
Art/DT
This half term, we will be focusing on Art.
We will learning to mix paint to create different tones and tints and then we will build a 3D sculpture using papier mache.
PSHE
We will be looking at how to maintain positive mental health.
Our Online Safety will look at how to use technology appropriately and how we should follow rules to keep us safe.
Computing
This half term we will be using technology to record data and then create charts. We will also take and edit photos. Finally, we will make a presentation to display all of our collected information.
Maths
We will set maths homework on Times Tables Rock Stars and may send home some additional work if we feel that it is required.
When counting or practising times tables with your children at home, please remember to count forwards AND backwards. This is vital to their knowledge and understanding of number patterns.
Below are maths mats that show some of the objectives your child will be learning in school. You might find them useful when working with your child at home.
The areas we will be focusing on are fractions, mass, capacity and temperature.
Useful Maths websites:
https://www.ictgames.com/mobilePage/
https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/subjects/zjxhfg8
https://home.oxfordowl.co.uk/kids-activities/fun-maths-games-and-activities/
Topic
This term, our focus is history and the topic is 'Flight'. We will learn about early flight including hot air balloons, the Wright Brothers and famous pilots such as Amy Johnson.
Science
In Science, we will be learning about living things and their habitats.
PE
Athletics and Invasion Games
