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Welcome to our Year 2 page. On this page you will find lots of information about our exciting projects this year and photographs of our achievements.
Year 2 Team
Mrs Rogerson
Teacher
Mrs Ballinger
Teacher
Miss Williams
Support
Ms Robson
Support
Miss Lyndsay
Support
Important Information
In year 2, children are required to complete their SAT’s in May. In order to prepare pupils for these we work hard in class at encouraging children to become independent thinkers and to build up their stamina to read and write longer pieces of work.
English
The children will be expected to write in full sentences and we are focussing greatly upon presentation and spelling of key words. In order to help your child develop these skills, we would like you to draw attention to their handwriting and their spelling of keywords when they are completing written tasks at home.
Guided Reading
We will be completing daily guided reading sessions, where we will focus on a different text each week. We will be looking at a variety of fiction and nonfiction texts, as well as using our inference skills to investigate illustrations. Our guided read sessions help us build on our fluency, understanding of what we are reading in addition to being able to make predictions, sequence and retrieve information from the text.
Maths
In Maths we will be focussing on number including place value, counting and addition and subtraction. We will be focusing upon counting to and back from 100 and beyond from different starting points. We also need to learn to read and write the numbers to 100 in numerals and words. We will be partitioning numbers in to tens and units. In calculating we will be focussing upon adding and subtracting up to 20 and the number bonds to 10 and 20. We will be having a strong focus upon counting in groups to support the learning of the 2, 5, and 10 times tables.
Science
In Science we will be looking at the needs of animals, including humans, for survival as well as the importance of exercise, eating healthily and keeping clean. We will continue to practice our scientific skills through asking and answering questions and develop our understanding that there could be different possible answers. We will use our observations and ideas to suggest answers to questions about animals and humans.
Reading Homework
Please ensure all children bring their book bags into class every day, regardless of whether they have read the night before. Reading books will be changed on a Monday and Thursday. We ask children to re-read books to develop fluency. In year 2 we also encourage the children to write and draw about their favourite books they are reading at home using their reading record. There is a prize each Friday for the child who has tried their best with this activity. We also encourage adults at home to ask children questions about this reading books not just listen to them read. This help with their comprehension skills.
Extra Homework
Every Friday children will receive a list of year 2 words, these are either common exception words or words that contain ‘sounds’ we are learning that week in class. These need to be practised at home each evening in readiness for testing on Friday.
Handwriting is very important in year 2 and we are going to be focussing on improving our cursive writing over the next half term. We will send out handwriting homework each Friday along with spellings. We are asking that parents/carers take some time to sit with their child and encourage them to correctly form each letter using the given examples.
Curriculum Highlights
Art
We have been exploring colour using watercolour paints. We identified the primary colours and spent some time mixing them to make the secondary colours.
The children looked at 2 pieces of art work and thought about how the pieces made them feel, what colours the artist decided to use and how they might have applied the paint to the paper.
Using either a ‘warm’ or ‘cold’ colour palette, the children confidently mixed different shades to match their chosen image.
Computing
We are having weekly computing sessions delivered by Ian and Kitty from the CLC and we have loved it so far!
We are creating our own book using ‘Book Creator’. We have mapped out our stories, designed a front cover and added a title. We each have our own QR code which we scan to log in to ‘Book Creator’ and add to the previous weeks work.
We can’t wait to read our final creations!
Health and Wellbeing Day
For this year’s health and wellbeing day, year 2 decided we wanted to relax and feel calm!
We had an energizing yoga session; stretching out or bodies and helping to improve our flexibility and strength, along to the story of ‘We’re going on a bear hunt’ by Cosmic Kids.
The children partook in some mindfulness activities; colouring to calming piano music, followed by some meditation by ‘Peace Out’. We took time from our busy day to slow down and pay full attention to our breathing and just enjoyed the quiet moment.
We are creating our own book using ‘Book Creator’. We have mapped out our stories, designed a front cover and added a title. We each have our own QR code which we scan to log in to ‘Book Creator’ and add to the previous weeks work.
We can’t wait to read our final creations!
English
Our focus text this half term is ‘Beegu’ written by Alexis Deacon. We completed a ‘role on the wall’ activity talking about how Beegu might be feeling internally and what she looks like externally. In pairs we then wrote down our ideas on post it notes and stuck them to our image of Beegu. We used all of these ideas to create a word bank of adjectives on our English Working Wall.
History
During Local History Week, in Year 2 we talked about ‘past’ and ‘present’ and completed a large class timeline with the years of birth of the adults in class. We then worked in groups to organise our own set of dates and corresponding photographs into chronological order. To make our own ‘mini’ timelines, we then added dates for when Park Brow School opened, when LFC and EFC were established and when Radio City Tower in town opened.
