Dear Year 2 families,
Welcome to Year 2! We hope that your children are feeling excited about the year ahead... We all are!
This is what a typical school day will look like for your child this year:
Phonics / Guided Reading
Writing - Including handwriting / spelling
Break
Maths – Intelligent Practice
Lunch and Play
Maths –Mastering Number
Foundation subjects / PE
Picture News / Newsround / Storytime
Home Time
PE sessions for this term (subject to change) are:
2W -Tuesday & Wednesday
2SJ - Monday & Friday
Please ensure your child comes to school wearing appropriate PE kit on these days.
Maths
Throughout the Autumn term we will be covering units on Number and Place Value, Properties of shape, Addition and Subtraction, Multiplication and Division as well as Position and Direction.
Remember that your child has access to Numbots and Times Tables Rock Stars (TTRS) which will support your child’s maths. We will put your child’s log-in in their Reading Records. If you lose it, don’t worry! Please let us know as soon as you can and we will give you a replacement.
When we start a new unit of work in maths, we will send home a ‘knowledge organiser’ which will show you visuals about what your child is learning.
We will properly introduce Times Tables Rock Stars when we start learning about multiplication, but you are welcome to let your child go on it if you’d like them to get going with the 2, 5 and 10 times tables.
Homework
We will inform you each Friday of any homework activities. The home work will include:
Reading
Remember
Writing
As well as working towards the Year 2 skills for writing, we will be having a big focus on handwriting and spelling this year. We will give you information that will be useful to use at home at the ‘Meet the Teachers’ meeting on Wednesday 13th September at 9am.
Spellings
It is invaluable to continue to practice the Year 1 and now the Year 2 high frequency (common exception/red) words. These are the words that the children should be able to read and spell by the end of Year 2. We will inform you each week of any focus spellings that we would like you to support your child with.
Other curriculum subjects:
We will be covering the following subjects this term –
Autumn 1
History – The Great Fire of London
PSHE – Relationships – ‘Being Me in My World’
Science – Materials and their Properties
Art – Printing – William Morris / David Hearld
PE – Gymnastics and Commando Joe
RE – What do Christians believe God is like?
Computing – E Safety, Digital Photography
Autumn 2
Science – Materials and their Properties
History – Remembrance Day and Walter Tull
Music – African Rock ‘Hands, Feet, Heat’
DT – Textiles. Make a hanging poppy for Remembrance Day
PE – Invasion & Ball Skills
Computing – E Safety
PSHE – Celebrating Differences
Dates for your diary:
Thursday 28th September – parents are invited to join us making Tudor Houses at 1:30pm.
Monday 9th October – Great Fire of London Theme day (see details below)
Thursday 9th November – parents are invited to join us making poppies at 1:15pm.
Great Fire of London day – at school
This is a great learning opportunity where the children are transported to London in1666 in our very own school hall! Those History People have come to Dunalley a few times over the last couple of years and the children, parent helpers and teachers are always thrilled by the experience! They learn SO much throughout the day in a very fun way and often refer to the day during the year.
The children are asked to dress up, however this can be done VERY simply. Your children will be given a page with ideas for dressing up well in advance of the trip to give you time to get a costume together. You really do not need to spend money on this unless you are keen to! Hopefully you will find something simple at home that can be cobbled together to create a costume.
Thank you for all the support that you give your children at home; it is really appreciated. If you have any questions or concerns please do not hesitate to speak to your child’s class teacher. We are here to support you and your child in every way we can. We look forward to working together with you all so that we have another exciting and productive year.
From The Year 2 Team
Miss Nicky Woollatt (2W Class Teacher)
Mrs Toni Sarna (2SJ Class Teacher - Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday)
Mrs Rachel Jones (2SJ Class Teacher - Thursday and Friday)
Miss Gill Stacey (2W TP - Mornings), Mrs Mason (2SJ TP – Mornings and Year 2 TP in the afternoon)
Mr J-T (1:1 support in 2W) and Mrs P-J (1:1 support in 2SJ).
Mrs Fox will be teaching 2W on Wednesday mornings and 2SJ on Wednesday afternoons when we have our Planning, Preparation and Assessment (PPA) time.