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Welcome to our Year 2 page.

We will keep this page updated with key news and information on our curriculum.

Both classes will be doing Indoor P.E on Thursdays. Both classes will be doing Outdoor P.E on Tuesdays, 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. Children will change into their kits in school, so please make sure that every item of kit is clearly named. 

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. 

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. 

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

We are finally getting some warmer weather, which means the children want to take their coats and jumpers off. We have already had a few children who have lost their cardigans or jumpers. Please can you ensure that your child’s name is clearly labelled on them. Therefore, if it gets lost, hopefully it will make its way back to you. Please also check the lost and found, which is at the bottom of the Year 2 steps.

 

Week Commencing 07.04.05

The children in Year 2 will be presenting an assembly about the Sikh festival of Vaisakhi, for parents to attend, on 10^th April at 9:15 a.m. We would love to see as many of you there as possible. It will be in the school hall and will last approximately 30 minutes. 

School breaks up for the Easter holidays on Friday 11th April 3.15pm. We hope you all have a wonderful time, whatever you may get up to! We reopen on Monday 28th April 8.45am.

 

Maths	Literacy / Phonics	Other
The children are now learning all about mass, capacity and temperature. This week we are measuring in litres and learning to use four operations (addition, subtraction, division and multiplication) with volume and capacity.	We are going to be looking at wonderful Roald Dahl story The Twits. We will be describing Mr and Mrs Twit using adjectives and adverbs, creating our own character title, identifying exciting words used by Roald Dahl and writing our very own letter to The Twits.   In phonics, we will be revisiting N as n/nn eg. Tunnel, ran, down, funny N as kn/gn e.g. know, gnat, knitting, designs. M as m/mm e.g. time, swimming, summer, month M a mb eg. Thumb, climb, lamb.	We will be continuing to prep for our class assembly on Vaisakhi -we do hope you can make it! We will be continuing our Geography topic about the Punjab region in India. This week we will be designing a leaflet all about the Punjab region. We will be carrying on with our topic in our science work -Growing Plants and Bulbs. This week, we will be reviewing what we have learnt about germination. In PSHE we looking at Respectful Rights, this week focussing on Protecting our own rights. In Art, we will be creating our own prints, just like Andy Warhol did. Year 6 will also be sharing the story of Brown Bear to us in French!!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Week Commencing 28.04.25

We hope you all had a wonderful Easter holiday and that you had lots of rest but also fun and you are ready and raring for our next term.  

We are finally getting some warmer weather which means the children want to take their coats and jumpers off. We have already had a few children who have lost their cardigans or jumpers. Please can you ensure that your child’s name is clearly labelled in them, therefore if it gets lost, hopefully it will make its way back to you. Please also check the lost and found, which is at the bottom of the Year 2 steps.

Maths	Literacy / Phonics	Other
We will be finishing our Mass, Capacity and Temperature topic this week. The children will then be moving onto fractions. This week we will be introducing the children to parts and whole as well as equal and unequal parts. If you want to help support your child with this, there are some links below. Refresher with some Year 1 fraction work, click here. Identifying parts of a fraction.	We are going to be looking at the wonderful Roald Dahl story The Twits. We will be describing Mr and Mrs Twit using adjectives and adverbs, creating our own character title, identifying exciting words used by Roald Dahl and writing our very own letter to The Twits. In Phonics, we will be revisiting K as c, k eg. Catch, kitchen k as ck, ch e.g. school, checked R as r,rr e.g. sparrow, brown R as wr, e.g. typewriter, wrong.	We are starting an exciting new geography on hot and cold places. We will be identifying the different polar regions and locating them. In Science, we have a new topic which is growing healthy plants. The children will be looking at how seeds grow into seedlings, then mature into plants. In ICT, the children will continue with the making music topic with a focus on notes and tempo. In Music, we are continuing with our topic of Pitch. The children will be beginning to compose some music. Mrs Chadwick/Mrs Matthews class will be continuing with dance in PE. Mrs Pearce’s class will be starting Forest School on Thursday mornings. In RE this week we will be finding out what the ‘good news’ Christians believe Jesus brings? In Art, the children will be learning about the artist Sean Briggs. This week, looking at the techniques used in different animal artwork and evaluating what they like or dislike about each piece of art.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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.