Year 2

Welcome to Year Two!

It is our final term in Year Two- time flies when you’re having fun! This term, we will be putting everything we have learned into practice to create the best work that we possibly can. Are we ready for Key Stage Two? Almost…😊

Below is some information that you may find useful. We will do our very best to update this page on a regular basis and here you will find useful website links, top tips and most importantly, dates for your diary! There is also a photo gallery so that you can see what we have been up to.

The Year Two Team

Year 2a – Miss Woodcock

Year 2b – Mrs West (Mon-Weds) and Mrs Sibley (Thurs-Fri)

Teaching Assistants – Mrs Zealand and Mrs Gaskin

1:1 Teaching Assistants – Mrs Smith & Miss Pitts

Midday Supervisor – Mrs Paul

Useful Information

PE Day – Wednesday- 2 sessions will be taught on this day. PE bags will be sent home weekly to be washed. Please ensure that your child's PE kit is in school ready for the PE session on a Tuesday.

Reading Diaries - Reading diaries should be in school every day. Please ensure that you sign the reading record every time your child reads. They may not be able to change their book if their reading record is not signed.

Changing Reading Books - Our books or 'shared books', will be changed on a Friday.

Read, Write Inc 'Book Bag Books' will be changed on a regular basis.

For those children on the Read, Write Inc Spelling Programme, their Big cat books will be changed on a Monday, Wednesday and Friday.

There have been a few changes with our reading systems that have been noted in your child's reading diary. Alternatively, the information can be found below ('Reading Diary Information').

Website Sections – Below are sections with more information regarding reading, the SATs, and spellings. Please check these out, by clicking the links.

Class Book:

‘The Dinosaur’s Diary’ by Julia Donaldson

'The Giraffe and the Pelly and Me' by Roald Dahl

If you have any problems or questions, please do get in contact via 'Class Dojo'. We are more than happy to help!

Homework in Year Two

On a weekly basis, we expect the children to complete the following activities:

Reading – Daily for 10 minutes
Times Tables Rockstars – 20 minutes over the course of a week in the ‘Garage’ section. Bespoke calculations will be set for each child.
Knowledge Organiser – To learn the information given for the term and be able to answer questions from it.
Spellings – Children who are accessing the RWI Spelling Programme will be expected to learn spellings at the beginning of each new unit. This will be every 6-8 days.

If there are any other activities that are set, we will inform you through ‘Seesaw’ and ‘Class Dojo’.

The Year Two Curriculum

Click the link to discover all of the curriculum objectives, or 'milestones', that the children will be learning across all subjects in Year Two.

Year 2 Curriculum Milestones

Term Six

Land of the Dinosaurs

This term, our English theme is based on books about dinosaurs. We will be reading stories and non-fiction texts.

Below are some of our other learning themes and key questions:

Maths: Time, Volume, Mass
History: Who made the most significant discovery? Mary Anning or Howard Carter?
Geography: A village in Zambia - Mugurameno
Art: Making a clay sculpture
RE: Judaism and Jewish Celebrations
Music: Reflect, Rewind, Replay
PE: Gymnastics, Yoga, Athletics
Computing: An introduction to quizzes