Leicestershire Libraries have launched their Summer Reading Challenge for 2024. This year is all about getting CREATIVE. Music, junk-modelling, photography, dancing, story-writing...the possibilities are endless. The Challenge is for children aged 4-12 (although there is a mini Under-4s Challenge too!). Join the Marvellous Makers in Leicestershire Libraries from 6 July to 7 September.

• Go to your library this summer to sign up and get your Marvellous Makers collector’s foldout poster!
• Read books and collect stickers and other rewards for your reading (watch out for the smelly stickers!)
• In Leicestershire Libraries, we encourage children to read 6 books and visit their local library 3 times. At the end, you will receive a certificate with your name on and a medal. Remember, you can read ANYTHING.
• Reading together counts too. It could be a chapter book, picture book, comic, graphic novel, fact book, eBook or audiobook.

There are events on at local libraries throughout the summer too.

For more information click here.

Click here to open a plan for the year.

 

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 Year 2 classes will be doing Indoor P.E on Mondays. 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. 

 

30.09.24

We have parent's evening this coming week on Wednesday and Thursday. To book a slot, please use the Arbor app.

We completed the first dictation last week and sent home the books so that the children could share how they had done with you at home. Thank you for supporting the children with this and practising the dictations at home - they did really well. Please can the orange dictation books be returned to school if they have not already been. 

 

Maths	Literacy	Other
This week we are starting a new topic about addition and subtraction. We will be starting by looking at number bonds (the pairs of numbers that add up to a number e.g. 10). We will be looking at the related facts that we can work out using this information e.g. if I know that 6 + 4 = 10 then I know that 16 +4 = 20. We will then look at the patterns when we add and subtract 1 to or from a number. We will explore the connection in facts between number bonds to 10 and number bonds to 100 e.g. I f I know that 5 +5 = 10 then I know that 50 + 50 = 100 and then work on learning and using the number bonds to 100 in our work.   There is some useful information and activities connected to number bonds on this website. What are number bonds? - BBC Bitesize	Phonics – we are looking at the homophones – words that sound the same but have different meanings and spellings e.g. groan/grown, read/red, sail/sale, weather/whether, heard/herd. We will be carrying on our work using the book Grandad’s Island. This week we are thinking about how the characters feel at the end of the story and using our imagination to write the letter that appears at the end of the story. We will be writing in role as the character Grandad for this. We will then be developing our editing skills, learning to use a checklist to help us and understanding the importance of re-reading our work to make sure that it makes sense.   If you want to share the story at home there is a link below that you can use to hear it being read. Bing Videos	In our Science work, we will recognising different kinds of materials and exploring if different ways of using materials are a good idea. This week we will be looking at the inventor Charles MacIntosh who invented a material that was waterproof and flexible that could be used as a fabric. We will be focusing on pulse in our Music lessons. In PSHE, we will be looking at the similarities and differences between our school and those in other countries. In ICT, we will be looking at IT all around us. We will be looking at IT in the world around us, what it is and how we use it. In History, we will be carrying on our work looking at significant historical figures. It will be Grace Darling for this block of work. This week we are thinking about the question ‘Did Grace really carry out the rescue on her own?’ We will also be looking at how the versions of the rescue differ. In Art, we will be focusing on the artist Mary Cassatt. We will be focusing on the way that she used different shades and tints to paint water. We will explore how to do this ourselves by mixing colours and using white to create different shades and tints. (This lesson has been carried over from the previous week)

Week beginning 7.10.24

 

 

Maths	Literacy	Other
This week we are carrying on our topic about addition and subtraction. We will be adding and subtracting 10 from a number using dienes and 100 squares to help us. We will be looking at the patterns that occur to help work out the answers more securely. We will also be using bar models to record our understanding. We will then move onto adding 3 single digit numbers together, using our number bonds to 10 knowledge and practising using a number line. We will then progress onto adding to the nearest multiple of 10 using our number bonds to 10 knowledge. E.g. 46 would need 4 to get to 50. Finally this week, we will be looking at adding a 1 digit number to a 2 digit number crossing the 10 e.g. 36 + 8 – the answer would take us beyond the next multiple of 10. There is some useful information and activities connected to number bonds on this website. What are number bonds? - BBC Bitesize	Phonics – we are looking at suffixes. We will be focusing on adding s or es to turn words into plurals e.g. weekends, lunches then adding ed/er/ing to words e.g. played, player, playing then adding er and est to adjectives e.g. quieter/quietest. Our work is about Grace Darling this week, building on the History work that we have done about her. We will be using a dramatisation of her life as a starting point. We will be sequencing the events for which she is famous, retelling the events, predicting what Grace might say in certain parts of her story and creating a fact file about her using the homework the children have done.	In our Science work, we will recognising different kinds of materials and exploring if different ways of using materials are a good idea. This week we will be looking at understanding what opaque and translucent means in relation to materials. We will be focusing on pulse in our Music lessons. In R.E, we will be looking at the 99 names of Allah, peace be upon him. We will be working on giving simple descriptions of what some of them mean. In ICT, we will be looking at IT all around us. We will be looking at the benefits of IT. In History, we will be carrying on our work looking at significant historical figures. We are now focusing on Guru Nanak. We will be looking at why and how he created a new religion. In Art we will be focusing on the artist Mary Cassatt. We will be using what we learnt last lesson when mixing colours to make our own painting of water based on some images of different types e.g. stormy, wavy, ponds etc

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.