Welcome to Year 2!
On this page you will find information detailing what your child will be learning this year along with useful information and updates. We are delighted to have the opportunity to work with your child throughout Year 2 and welcome you to what will be an exciting and engaging year ahead. Please do spend time looking at the knowledge organisers to see what the children will be learning in more detail.
Please continue to use ClassDojo to contact staff and keep up to date with exciting opportunities and experiences.
PE DAYS: TUESDAY AND WEDNESDAY
Please note that children need to come into school in their PE kit on a day when they have PE. As a reminder, the P.E. kit consists of:
· Black leggings or tracksuit bottoms or shorts
· Red PE top
· Black jumper
· Trainers/Wellies
Mr D Suddaby
SENCO/Year 2 Teacher
Mr D Hood
Assistant Principal/KS1 Lead
Mrs A Adams
Year 2 Teacher
Miss S Palin
Teaching Assistant/Cover Supervisor
Mrs S Birkin
Teaching Assistant
Miss K Bell
Teaching Assistant
Mrs R Hicks
Teaching Assistant
Homework
Reading
Reading on a regular basis is vital when children are in year two. Children will bring their reading books home every evening and the role of the adult is to listen and support them. Please remind them to use their decoding strategies when they come across an unfamiliar word- this could be sounding it out, using the pictures to help or finding words within words. Please make sure that the reading is recorded in the ‘Boom Reader’ app each time your child reads. We are setting your children a challenge of reading at least three times per week. This will be recorded and if achieved, your child will earn dojos to help them earn bigger rewards.
Phonics and Spellings
During the Autumn term, your child will have a daily phonic session following Little Wandle. Moving on from this, the children will have whole class reading sessions, delivered on a daily basis. Interwoven into the phonics sessions will be tricky words and words linked to the particular sound or spelling pattern learnt. Your child will also take part in discrete spelling lessons linked to ‘Pathways to spell’. These will take place three times a week. Spelling homework, linked to the taught grapheme that week, will be sent out on a Friday and will need to be returned by the following Thursday.
Maths task
A piece of Maths homework will be sent on a weekly basis. Work will be set which reinforces the learning that has taken place in the classroom that week and that will develop basic skills. This will be sent out on a Friday and be due in the following Thursday.
