Year 2 - Term 1

Welcome to Year 2! 

Year 2 Staff

• Teachers - Miss Reid, Miss Davies, Mrs Delaney (Monday- Wednesday) and Mrs Lester (Thursday/Friday)
• LSAs - Mrs Law, Mrs Garland and Miss D
• PE Teachers - Mr Evans

Article 29: Your education should help you use and develop your talents and abilities.

As a proud 'Rights Respecting School' we learn about the United Nations Convention of the Rights of the Child (UNCRC). Our class charters set out what both adults and children must do to ensure children can enjoy their rights.

Our first enquiry in Year 2 will be 'What happened on Pudding Lane?' The children will take a look back in time at the Great Fire of London. How and why did it start? What was the impact? We will also be looking at the properties of materials in Science, developing our own programs using Scratch for computing. All our other areas of study can be found on the Medium Term Plan. 

Please see the Year 2 Term 1 Medium Term Plan at the bottom of the page which details the learning taking place in all subjects.

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Mrs Lester, Miss D, Mrs Delaney, Miss Reid, Miss Davies, Mrs Law

Key Dates

Tuesday 2nd September - Inset Day

Wednesday 3rd September - Children Return to School

Friday 19th September - Year 2 Back to School Night 

Friday 24th October - Inset Day 

PE

All children will wear their PE kit to school on their allocated day consisting of:

White T-Shirts

Black/Navy Shorts/Tracksuit Bottoms/ Leggings/ Skorts

Trainers/Daps 

Children no longer leave a PE kit in school. 

This year, our PE days will be on the following days.

• 2VR - Tuesday AM - Mr Evans
• 2DL - Monday AM - Mr Evans
• 2D - Wednesday AM - Mr Evans

Home Learning

Reading- Please try to read with your child regularly as it really does make a huge difference. Also, please remember to write in their reading record every time you read with them along with a short comment as books can only be changed if we know they have been read. Children should read their books at least twice before bringing them in to change and be able to answer questions about the book as reading comprehension is a huge focus in Year 2. Finally, in Year 2, children are allowed to change their own reading books, allowing them to choose books which really appeal to them. Due to sharing a library, each class has allocated days on which they can change their books (See below).

• 2VR - Book changing on Wednesdays and Fridays
• 2DL - Book changing on Tuesdays and Fridays
• 2D - Booking changing on Tuesday and Thursdays

Spellings - Throughout the year the children will take a weekly spelling test. Spellings will be sent home at the end of each term. Please encourage the children to practise these as often as possible. The school subscribes to the Spelling Shed online learning platform which provides the children with online games to help them practise their weekly spellings. Logins can be found stuck in the children's reading records.

Exception Words - Exception words are common words whose spelling may not follow the usual rules of phonics, therefore making them difficult to spell. By the end of Year 2 the children should be able to recall their correct spelling from memory. Please continue to support the children with learning the spelling of the words highlighted on the sheets which will be given out at Parent's Evening.

Homework - The children will also receive weekly homework. This is given out on Fridays and needs to be handed in by the following Wednesday. The work set will consolidate the children's learning from that week in school. The children should be able to complete the homework independently although some support/supervision is useful.