Welcome to Year Two!

The Summer Term is here. We cannot believe how quickly the year has flown! This term, we look forward to sunny days, exciting lessons and showing off everything that we have learned in Year Two. 

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 – Mrs Eames

Year 2b – Mrs West

Teaching Assistants – Mrs Ford, Miss Epton

1:1 Teaching Assistant - Mrs Pell (2B)

Midday Supervisor – Mrs Hazelwood

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

Useful Information

• PE Day – Tuesday
• Reading Diaries - Reading diaries should be in school every day. Please ensure that you, or your child, sign the reading record every time it is read. The children may not be able to change their book if their reading record is not signed. 
• Book Changing - There are two reading schemes in our school. Read, Write Inc 'Book Bag Books' will be changed on Friday. Big Cat books will be changed on a Tuesday and a Friday. On both schemes, the children will read two school books each week. For information on your child's reading scheme, please check their reading diary. Alternatively, information can be found below ('Reading Diary Information'). 
• Website Sections – Below are sections with more information regarding reading, assessment, and spellings. Please check these out by clicking the links.

Class Book:

The Magic Fossil by MJ Misra

The Dinosaur's Packed Lunch by Jacqueline Wilson

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. They will go home each Monday with a spelling quiz the following Monday.
• Common Exception Words – These will be sent out termly and bespoke according to what your child needs to practice.

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 learning themes that the children will be taught across all subjects in Year Two. 

Term Six

Land of the Dinosaurs

This term, our learning takes us back to the prehistoric era! In English, we will be building our stamina to write, using all of the skills we have learned so far. We will be writing about a mysterious egg, sent to us from the south coast. We will write instructions of how to look after this egg then, a non-chronological report about the dinosaur that will hatch. Raaaahh, exciting!  

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

Maths: Time, Volume, Capacity, Mass

History: Great Discoveries - Mary Anning

Geography: A Village in Africa - Mugurameno. How does this village compare with where we live?

Art: Dinosaur Sculptures

RE: How do Muslim's treat others?

Music: The Friendship Song (Pop Music)

PE: Dance, Athletics

Computing: Programming to Create a Quiz

PSHE: Stereotypes

Dates for Your Diary:

2nd June - Back to School (wear PE kit)

2nd June - Sports Enrichment Day

10th July - Trip to Skegness - More information soon! 

11th July - School Fayre

18th July - Bots Fest!

Useful Documents

Useful Website Links:

Photo Gallery

Subject Information

Click the links below to find out more about some of the Year Two subjects.