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
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.
Termly curriculum overview
This is a brief overview of what we will be learning this half term.
Parent Information
Here is some important information you will need for this year.
English
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 think about who influences our lives.
Art/DT
This half term, we will be focusing on DT.
This half term children will be designing and making their own moving picture books. They will be focusing on using sliders, levers and moving wheels.
PSHE
We will be looking at health and wellbeing.
Our Online Safety will be embedded into this topic as we look at online relationships.
Music
This term, we will learn to sing and perform ‘London's Burning’ independently, as an ensemble and in a round using our voices and on glockenspiels,
Computing
This half term we will be focusing on 'We are Astronauts’.
In this unit, we will use Scratch Junior to create and programme a sprite and learn how to identify and debug problems.
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 so we are learning about the 'great' fire of London!
Science
In Science, we will be learning about materials .
PE
Dance and Ball Skills
