Welcome to our Year 2 page. We will keep this page updated with key news and information on our curriculum.

Our PE days are: Monday and Thursday. Please make sure earrings and any other jewellery are taken off on those days for safety purposes. 

Click here to open a plan for the year.

When we test the children on their dictations, we will send the books home for parents to look at. Please make sure they come back to school the next day – thank you. 

Click here to open the presentation for our curriculum evening.

For the 'Parents Guide to Reading with your Child' please click here.

 

Don't forget we need to have Indoor and Outdoor P.E kits in school all week. 

 

Both Year 2 classes will be doing Indoor P.E on Mondays. Both classes will be doing Outdoor P.E on Thursdays, so remember to take any jewellery off for those days and make sure that P.E kits are in school from Monday. We will send home P.E kits on Fridays to be washed. 

We will be checking reading diaries when we hear the children read each week and on a Friday morning. If there is a comment from an adult stating that the book has been read and fully understood, we will be changing the reading book. We will be doing Guided Reading every other week, so, we will check reading diaries on Tuesdays those weeks to see if reading books need changing. 

Don't forget to send in choosing books to change on a Tuesday and library books to change on a Friday.

We are continuing our reading challenge where the children who read their school reading book, at least 3 times a week, will get entered into a draw for the reader of the week. Lots of you have already been doing this and have taken up the challenge - keep up the great work. 

 

Week beginning 8^th April 2024

Maths	Literacy	Other
In Maths, we are carrying on our  topic called Mass, Capacity and Temperature. This week we are comparing volume and capacity, measuring using millilitres and litres and then moving onto understanding the measuring of temperature. We will be using practical experiences of this as well as tackling written problems linked to the topic.   Try using the website link below to have a look at it at home.   What is capacity? - BBC Bitesize	Phonics –  we will be looking at t as t or tt e.g. next, tiptoe, sitting, kettle, then t as ed e.g. walked, stopped, looked, then d as d or dd e.g. sudden, toddlers, child, had and finally  d as ed e.g. tried, explained, closed.   In Literacy, we are focusing on Free Verse poetry using some poems from a book called The Works. These are poems that don’t have rules about how they are written. We will be exploring a range of poems, performing them in class and adapting them to write our own. We will also be thinking about which poems we like best and why, identifying the features of the poetry that we think work well.	In P.S.H.E, we will be thinking about ways to show that you care for others.   In Science, we will be continuing our work about gardening and plants called The Apprentice Gardener. We will be looking at the beans we planted and observing any changes that we see.   In our art work, we will be looking at printing linked to the work of Andy Warhol. This week we will be creating print designs of animals, then transferring the design to a modelling clay using the engraving technique.   In our ICT work we are continuing our exploration of Robot Algorithims.   Our Geography topic is all about Hot and Cold Places. We will be exploring where to find hot and cold places on a globe in relation to the North and South Poles as well as the equator.   Our Music, the topic is still about pitch. We will also be continuing to learn and practise the songs that we will be singing at the singing festival in De Montfort Hall, which is coming up soon.

 

Week beginning 15th April 2024

Maths	Literacy	Other
In Maths, we are finishing off our  topic called Mass, Capacity and Temperature then starting our work on understanding Fractions. We will be completing word problems using the four operations, linked to capacity, volume and temperature, then finishing with an assessment to see what we have learnt. In the second half of the week we will be exploring Fractions. This will focus on understanding what a ‘part’ and what a ‘whole’ means, followed by looking into what equal and unequal parts are.   Have a look at this website to practise your fractions knowledge. What are fractions? | BBC Bitesize - BBC Bitesize	Phonics – we will be looking at n as n/nn e.g. dinner, when, sunny, January, then n as gn/kn e.g gnome, gnat, know, designs, knitting. We will then move onto m as m/mm e.g. time, swimming, summer, month, then m as mb e.g. comb, climbing, lamb, thumbs. In Literacy, we are starting a new book-based chunk of work. This will include work on adjectives, identifying and writing different sentence types   (statements, questions, exclamation sentences and commands ), writing a letter including questions to find out more and offering advice through writing commands. We will reveal the book next week as we will also be doing some predicting about it so don’t want to spoil the surprise!	In R.E, we will be looking at the events before and after the resurrection of Jesus. In Science, we will be continuing our work on gardening and plants, called The Apprentice Gardener. We will be looking at different types of seeds and trying to predict how tall they might grow. In our art work, we will be moving onto a new topic based on the artist Sean Briggs. We will be looking at images of animals by different artists and investigating the different techniques used.   We will also be creating our front covers for our topic books using collage. Our Geography topic is all about Hot and Cold Places. We will be finding out facts about different explorers. In Music, the topic is still about pitch. We will also be continuing to learn and practise the songs that we will be singing at the singing festival in De Montfort Hall, which is coming up soon.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

          

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

White Rose Maths 

We mentioned during the Curriculum evening that our Maths scheme is remaining as WRM. There are lots of resources such as videos and activities to support your children with at home on their website. It is free to create a login. 

Here is the link to sign up : www.whiterosemaths.com/#subscribe 

 

Introducing Rocket Phonics

 

As part of the Oak Academy Trust, Woodland Grange Primary School are starting this academic year with a new Systematic Synthetic Phonics Programme. From Pre-school to Year 2 we will now be using Rocket Phonics to support our teaching of reading and writing instead of our previous scheme which followed Letters and Sounds alongside Jolly Phonics.

 

What is Rocket Phonics?

 

Systematic Synthetic Phonics is not new in schools. We have chosen to use Rocket Phonics as it combines the alphabetic code knowledge and skills that are needed to learn to read and write, with language-rich children’s literature. This approach will embed phonics in context, and support a love of reading and writing from the outset.

 

Reading in Year 2

What does this mean for you?

• We have a brand-new reading book scheme that works alongside the Rocket Phonics Programme to compliment our teaching in school.
• The Rocket Phonic books are designed to appeal to children who are starting to learn to read, as well as those who are becoming fluent readers.

• The books are a variety of fiction and non-fiction, written by phonics experts and children’s book writers.
• All of the books have been carefully levelled according to book banding and other criteria, to ensure gradual progression in difficulty.

 

• Foundation Stage pupils have a wide variety of new reading materials to send home, when they are ready.
• In KS1, year groups 1 and 2, we will endeavour to ensure that your child has an appropriate reading book that seamlessly matches their reading ability as a continuation of their reading progress.

Handwriting and spelling

• The children will be using new sound mats to support their letter and sound correspondences. There are 4 sound mats that will be available to download on the school website.
• We are currently updating our handwriting and letter formation teaching strategy. We know that many of you are keen to have these resources to support your child’s learning at home. We aim to upload these on to the school’s website as soon as they are available.
• In the first term of the academic year, each year group will hold a Curriculum Evening to explain their learning in more detail.

 

Dictation

We will be sending home a dictation for your child to learn every other Tuesday. It will be stuck into their Homework book. We will test the children on the dictation the next Tuesday ( the date is written on the dictation). When we test them at school we won't do the sentences in the same order, so it is a good idea to mix the sentence order up when practising at home.  It will help with the children's spelling and also with their understanding of sentence writing and punctuation. It is a good idea to remind them where to put capital letters and full stops when writing out their dictation sentences to help them develop good habits in their writing. We will be giving out house points not only for correct spellings but for punctuation as well. 

Each child has been given a dictation based on how they are doing with their spellings and phonics. We will be reviewing the dictation groups regularly and will adjust groups if we think that is the right thing to do based on how the children are getting on.

 

 

Take a look at our curriculum in action.