Our Year 2 Class
A very warm welcome to our Year 2 class page. In Year 2, our children are really starting to fly! Building on previous years they will become confident readers, writers and mathematicians. As school life falls into place, they find themselves our oldest infants and begin to develop a real sense of responsibility. I hope that you find all the information useful and if you have any questions I am available before and after school for a quick chat.
Our Year 2 Class 2024-2025
Class Information
Who's Who
Miss Barton- Year 2 Class Teacher
Mrs Jackson - Part-Time Teaching Assistant
Mrs Holmes – Part-Time Teaching Assistant
Mrs Casilli - Inclusion Teaching Assistant
In Year 2 PE is on Tuesday and Friday, please make sure you send your child in the correct PE kit.
Reading
The guided reading schemes we use in Year 2 are:
- Read, Write Inc
- Oxford Reading Tree
Home Reading books
Whilst your child will read regularly in school you can make a big difference by listening to your child read and asking them questions about what they have read for just ten minutes each night. Your child will bring home a reading journal, please update this each time they read at home. Children need to read 5 times a week at home to earn a stamp in their reading journal.
Please note: Your child will only change their books on a Thursday when they will bring a book home to read the following week. This is to allow your child to become a fluent reader and have time to spend discussing the text.
Phonics
In Year 2 we follow Read, Write Inc
Each day we undertake a RWI lesson. During this time we review the set 2 and 3 sounds and will learn a new sound each day. After the Speed Sounds lesson we look at a key text for the following three days. RWI is really helpful for embedding spellings and during each lesson we come across new 'Red Words' which, we learn how to spell and are encouraged to use in our independent writing. We really enjoy our RWI time (particularly the partner work, actions and rhymes!)
Homework
Homework is sent home on Thursdays and needs to be completed by the following Thursday.
- Spellings will be sent home on paper and will be added to Spelling Shed, a minimum of 5 games need to be played each week.
- Handwriting will be sent home in a small yellow book, each week your child will have different letters and words that need to be practised and written out.
- RWI Speedy Sounds videos will be added weekly to watch at home with your child, these will be the same as the Speed Sounds learnt in class that week.
- A maths number bonds sheet will be sent home weekly to work on mastering basic number facts. Maths practise can be completed on Numbots.
Evidence for all homework needs to be added to Seesaw by Thursday each week so that dojos can be awarded to your child.
This Half Term: Summer 2 (June – July 2025)
Maths
Unit 12: Problem solving and efficient methods
- use place value and number facts to solve problems
- solve problems with addition and subtraction:
- recognise and use the inverse relationship between addition and subtraction and use this to check calculations and missing number problems
- using concrete objects and pictorial representations, including those involving numbers, quantities and measures
- applying their increasing knowledge of mental and written methods
Unit 13: Position and direction
- order and arrange combinations of mathematical objects in patterns and sequences
- use mathematical vocabulary to describe position, direction and movement, including movement in a straight line and distinguishing between rotation as a turn and in terms of right angles for quarter, half and three-quarter turns (clockwise and anti-clockwise)
English
Narrative – The Storm Whale and Non-fiction - Questions and Answers for Neil Armstrong
- Write neatly ensuring capital letters and tall letters are the correct size.
- Demarcate sentences with full stops and question marks
- Write a simple, coherent narrative
- Use past tense correctly
- Use coordinating and subordinating conjunctions
- Write about real events, recording these simply and clearly
- Write using some of the joins taught
- Spell most common exception words correctly
Science
Feeding and Exercise
- Children will have identified their initial ideas about basic needs and will have considered items needed to survive on a desert island.
- Children will have named and classified a variety of food that humans eat by plant or animal origins.
- Children will have identified a simple food chain.
- Children will have completed an enquiry into what garden birds prefer to eat.
- Children will have made a diet and exercise plan.
- Children will have identified food safety and hygiene guidelines.
RE
What makes some places special to believers?
- Which places are special to me? Where is a sacred place for a believer to go?
- Which place of worship is sacred for Christians?
- Which place of worship is sacred for Jewish people?
- Which place of worship is sacred for Muslims?
- How are places of worship similar and different?
- Why are places of worship important to our community?
DT
Cooking and Nutrition: Balanced Diet
- To recognise foods and their food groups.
- To identify the balance of food groups in a meal.
- To identify an appropriate piece of equipment to prepare a given food.
- To select balanced combinations of ingredients.
- To design based on criteria.
- To evaluate a dish based on design criteria.
Computing
Creating media: Stop Motion – Using tablet devices
- To understand what animation is.
- To create a stop motion animation.
- To plan my stop motion animation.
- To create a stop motion animation.
- To create a stop motion animation.
History
How did we learn to fly?
- To explore the story of the Wright brothers.
- To develop an understanding of historical significance.
- To investigate why Bessie Coleman is historically significant using photographs.
- To develop an understanding of primary sources.
- To investigate why the Moon landing was a significant event in history.
- To place significant flight events on a timeline.
Music
Pitched Percussion – Melody (Pentatonic)
- Play an instrument in a group, showing some awareness of other performers.
- Play fast/slow, loud/quiet, high/low and change the type of sound when playing instruments.
- Knowing how to hold a beater.
- Knowing how to play a note on a tuned instrument accurately.
- Understanding what a pentatonic scale is.
- Being able to play melodies in a pentatonic scale.
PE Indoor
Fitness
- To track a rolling ball and collect it
- To develop underarm throwing and catching to field a ball
- To develop an overarm throwing to limit a batter’s score
- To develop hitting for distance to score more points
- To be able to get a batter out
- To understand the rules of the game and use these to play fairly
PE Outdoor
Striking and fielding Games
- To learn how to run for a long time
- To develop jumping in a long rope using timing
- To develop co-ordinating in individual skipping
- To develop stamina and change of direction
- To explore exercises to develop strength
- To develop agility, balance and co-ordination
Our School Sports Games Value will be ’Determination’