Welcome to Year Two.

2L Miss Lewis 

2D Miss Dawson 

2G Miss Goodfellow

Our Teachers

Miss Lewis

Miss Dawson

Miss Goodfellow

and Our Learning Support Assistants

Mrs Anderson

Miss Burton

Dear Parents / Carers,

We hope that you all managed to have a relaxing summer break. We can’t wait to welcome the children back to school. We have a very busy and exciting year ahead of us and we look forward to meeting you all throughout the year.

The year group is divided into 3 classes:

2G Miss Goodfellow

2L Miss Lewis  

2D Miss Dawson

Working across the year group, we also have our Learning Support Assistants: Miss Burton, Mrs Anderson and Miss Smith.

 

Meet the teacher Friday 12^th September

On Friday 12^th September at 14:50 all parents and guardians are invited to your children’s classroom to learn more about our curriculum and school routines.  Please arrive via the school office.

English

In English, we will be taking inspiration from the books The Crow’s Tale, The Great Fire of London and Meerkat Christmas. The children will be using these stories and some short video clips to produce descriptive writing. Across the school, we use The Write Stuff approach where children construct sentences and stack them into plot points. On the left page of their Writing books, children will gather ideas as a class before composing their own sentence on the opposite page of their books. We can’t wait to read their wonderful stories! Any handwriting practice at home will be greatly appreciated.

Reading

This term, we will be reading short stories from a range of genres, taken from past KS1 SATs papers.

In line with the school’s reading policy, children are expected to read five times a week at home. Your child’s book will be changed weekly, or more often if required. Please support your child by logging reading on Boom Reader. For every week that your child has five logged reads, they will earn a raffle ticket that is entered into the end of half term reading raffle. Please remember if your child completes a book and needs something else to read, we encourage them to read a range of home books and library books.

Children will continue to have whole-class phonics lessons to develop knowledge of sounds. Some children will also have phonics books to take home in addition to their banded book if they did not pass the phonics screening check in Year 1.

Mathematics

Within Autumn term, children will be completing three blocks: Place Value, Addition and Subtraction and Shape. 

Children are also encouraged to practise their 2, 5 and 10 times tables at home. Children can log into White Rose 1- Minute Maths and consolidate number skills.

Science

In Science we will be studying units called The Apprentice Gardener (plants) Take Care and Growing Up (animals including humans).

RSHE
We will be learning through our topics Being Me and Celebrating Difference.

P.E. and Swimming

P.E kits are required to be worn to school on the day of your child’s P.E. lesson. School P.E. kit consists of plain black shorts or joggers, a black sweatshirt or hoody, white t-shirt (with or without the school logo) and trainers. Please ensure that if your child wears stud earrings to school, these are either removed by the child themselves or taped up with tape provided from home.

All Year 2 children will be doing outdoor PE on a Monday. 

2D and 2G will also have outdoor PE and Art on a Wednesday so will be required to wear their PE kit to school on this day.

2L are swimming in the first term and therefore will need their swimming kit in school each Wednesday. They should come to school dressed in their school uniform. The first swimming session will take place on Wednesday 10^th September.

Uniform

Correct school uniform must be worn and all garments must be labelled with your child's name. Please ensure that school bags do not have large keyrings. Earrings should be gold or silver round studs.

Snacks

During break time, children will be provided with fruit and vegetables. If you wish to provide an additional snack, then this must be in line with our healthy schools’ policy.  

Homework

Your child will be given a homework sheet every Friday to complete. This will include a Maths activity and spellings linked to current areas of learning.