Welcome to Year Two!

Spring has finally sprung! We hope you are enjoying to sunshine! 

We are heading into a very busy term in Year Two with Sports Day, VE Day Celebrations and a fruity D&T project to look forward to. 

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

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 Giraffe, the Pelly and Me by Roald Dahl

The Gorilla Who Wanted to Grow Up by Jill Tomlinson

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 Five

Tales from Africa

In English (along with other subjects), our writing will be inspired by stories from Africa. We will use the non-fiction book, 'The Most Important Animal of All' to gather information and write explanation texts. Later this term, we will write pieces based on 'Mama Panya's Pancakes'. 

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

Maths: Money, Time

History: Great Discoveries - Howard Carter

Geography: A Village in Africa - Mugurameno 

D&T: A Healthy Smoothie 

RE: How do Muslim's treat others?

Music: Hands and Feet (African Music)

PE: Dance, Athletics

Computing: Robot Programming

PSHE: Stereotypes

Dates for Your Diary:

29th April - Online Safety Workshop

8th May - VE Day Celebrations (come dressed in red, white and blue)

20th May - EYFS/KS1 Sports Day

23rd May - Wear Yellow for the Air Ambulance 

23rd May - Last Day of Term

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

Useful Documents

Useful Website Links:

Photo Gallery

Subject Information

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