Year 2
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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 Tuesday. Please make sure earrings and any other jewellery are taken off on those days for safety purposes. Don't forget we need to have Indoor and Outdoor P.E kits in school all week so please bring them into school on Monday and we will send them home on Fridays.
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.
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.
As the weather is cooling down and becoming wetter, please make sure that your child has a named coat in school, as we will be going outside during break and lunchtime.
Don't forget to return any consent slips for the De Montfort Hall singing festival in March.
03.02.25
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Our work, this week, will be continuing with our focus on multiplication skills. We will be looking at adding equal groups and connecting this to repeated addition sentences, then introducing and using the multiplication symbol in written number sentences and finally using arrays to help us work out multiplication problems.
How to multiply using an array - BBC Bitesize The website above has some useful information about arrays. |
In our phonics work we will be focusing on the phoneme eer. Firstly, as ear e.g., dear, clear, appear then as eer e.g., career, volunteers, cheerful. Then as ere e.g., here, atmosphere and interfere. We are finishing off our work using the book The Dragon Machine. This week we will be using the plans we wrote to create our own dragon story. We will be breaking the story into chunks to write it to ensure we really focus on the vocabulary that we use and the sentences that we write. We will then edit it to correct, improve or make additions to what we have written. |
We will be carrying on our work in Science about Growing Up. This week we are bringing together all the things that we have learnt and think about how do humans stay healthy. In History, we are carrying on our work about The Great Fire of London. This week we are looking at being able to answer the question ‘Why did the fire spread so quickly?’. In Music, we are continuing our work all about rhythm. In I.C.T, we are continuing our work on the topic Robot Algorithms. This week we will be looking at debugging a program that we have written. In P.S.H.E, we will be marking Children’s Mental Health week by completing work that recognises what makes each of us special. The theme is Know Yourself, Grow Yourself. In our Art work, we will be carrying on our topic, being inspired by the artist Steven Wiltshire. This week we will be looking at the skylines of London, drawings that Steven Wiltshire creates and looking at the shapes we can see. We will use this to draw and cut out skyline pictures that will create a silhouette effect. |
10.02.25
Don't forget to return any consent slips for the De Montfort Hall singing festival in March.
We are looking forward to seeing some of you at parents' evening this week on Wednesday. For those of you that haven't booked in yet, use the Arbor app. The next dates are after half-term, on Tuesday 25th and Thursday 27th February.
Maths |
Literacy |
Other |
Our work, this week, will be continuing with our focus on multiplication skills as well as starting to look at division. We will be looking at making equal groups from a set of objects, sharing objects into equal groups, applying our knowledge of the 2 times table, and dividing numbers by 2. We will be doing this work through the use of objects to share out into equal groups and drawing to show our workings. We will also be doing work that asks – how do you know, with the expectation that the process that has been used is fully explained e.g. I know that 4 shared equally into 2 groups is 2, because I know that 2 x 2 = 4.
Year 2 Multiplying and dividing - Year 2 Maths - BBC Bitesize This website has some useful information about sharing. |
In our phonics work we will be focusing on the phoneme air. Firstly, as air e.g. armchair, hair, fairy, then as are e.g. farewell, careful, share, then as ear e.g. bear, tear, wear and finally as ere e.g. somewhere, there, anywhere.
We will be writing a story inspired by a visual prompt, twice this week to practise our skills doing this. We will talk about what we can see in the picture and what story it might be telling us, generate word banks of interesting vocabulary to use and think about the different kinds of sentences we can use to make our writing great to read.
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We will be starting a new topic in our science work. This block is called Growing Plants and Bulbs. To start off with, we will be looking at how plants grow and change over time. In History, we are carrying on our work about The Great Fire of London. This week we are looking at being able to answer the question ‘Which historical figures had an impact on what happened and what effect did they have?’ In Music, we are continuing our work all about Rhythm. In ICT, we are continuing our work on the topic Robot Algorithms. This week we will be finishing our work on debugging a program that we have written. In RE., we will be looking at the connection between Muhammad and Abu Bakr and create a fact file about what we learn. In our art work, we will be carrying on our topic, being inspired by the artist Steven Wiltshire. This week we will be creating fiery backgrounds and silhouettes of skylines to link our work to the Great Fire Of London. |
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.
Vegetable Chilli
We made vegetable chilli. We had to follow a recipe, chop all the ingredients, measure out all the quantities then cook it in a big pan. Once it was ready we got to taste what we had made. It was delicious!
Great Fire of London
We learnt all about the Great Fire of London. We made model houses and created our own model of London from 1666 placing the buildings very close together. Then we recreated the Great Fire itself! It was very exciting to watch.
Christmas biscuits
We made cheesy Christmas biscuits. It was hard work making the dough. We had to weigh all the ingredients and follow the recipe carefully.
Grace Darling
We looked at the story of Grace Darling. Look at our amazing lighthouse pictures.
Castles
We learnt all about castles. We went on a trip to visit Warwick Castle, it was amazing! There were lots of steps to climb up Guy's Tower. It is 39 metres high! We watched the Trebuchet being fired and saw the birds of prey display. It was an amazing day.
Healthy Eating
We made healthy and unhealthy lunchboxes.