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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. 

Click here to open the presentation for our curriculum evening.

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 19.05.25

On Tuesday, we are excited to watch a Sparks performance.  To find out more about Sparks Art click here The Spark Arts for Children – Sparking creativity and change

School is closed from 26^th – 30^th May for the May half term break. We will reopen on Monday 2^nd June for the final term at school. School will break up for the summer holidays on Wednesday 9^th July. Click here for all the school term dates Woodland Grange Primary School - Attendance and Term Dates

With the warmer weather hanging around, please ensure your child has a water bottle with them every day, hat for break/lunch time and you have applied sun cream in the morning.

Please ensure that your child’s name is clearly labelled in their cardigans, jumpers, hats. Due to the warmer weather the children are taking them off and therefore can get misplaced or accidentally taken. Please also check the lost and found, which is at the bottom of the Year 2 steps.

Maths	Literacy / Phonics	Other
The children have started fractions. We are continuing with fractions. This week we will be focussing on unit and non-unit fractions, recognising the equivalence of one half and two quarters and recognising three-quarters. To help support your child at home, please follow some useful links below.   Fractions - KS1 Maths - BBC Bitesize   Maths home learning | Home learning | White Rose Education	We will be continuing to look at the story The Journey Home. The children will be doing some descriptive writing to match an image from the book. Extending their writing and using writing to create a written picture of something. Creating a story map for own version of the story and writing their own version of the story with different extinct animal in.   In phonics, we will be revisiting; Adding er to a single syllable word with vowel followed by a single consonant e.g. big – bigger, fit – fitter. Adding est to a single syllable word with a vowel followed by a consonant e.g. hot – hotter, sad – saddest, thin – thinnest Adding y to a word – single syllable with a vowel followed by a single consonant e.g. flop – floppy, sun – sunny, fur – furry.	In Geography, we will be exploring some of the hottest places on the Earth -deserts! In Science, the children will be investigating if water impacts mature plants. In ICT, the children will continue with the making music topic with a focus on notes and tempo. In Music, the children are starting a new unit of technology, form and structure. They will be listening to and making observations about a variety of live and recorded music.   Mrs Chadwick/Mrs Matthews class will be taking part in net and wall activities. Mrs Pearce’s class will be starting Forest School on Thursday mornings. In RE, the children will be learning about forgiveness in the Christianity. In Art, the children will be learning about the artist Sean Briggs. This week, the children will be experimenting with use of different drawing tools by drawing picture of pandas face.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Week Commencing 02.06.25

We hope you all had a wonderful half term break.

Can you believe we are back for the final 5 and half weeks before the summer holidays!!

Please ensure that your child’s name is clearly labelled in their cardigans, jumpers, hats. Due to the warmer weather the children are taking them off and therefore can get misplaced or accidentally taken. Please also check the lost and found, which is at the bottom of the Year 2 steps.

Maths	Literacy / Phonics	Other
This week, we will be finishing off our fractions unit. We will be looking at non-unit fractions, recognising the equivalence of half as 2 quarters, recognising three quarters and finding three quarters. We will finish the week off with a short assessment, to ensure the children have embedded what has been taught.   To help support your child at home, please follow some useful links below.   Fractions - KS1 Maths - BBC Bitesize   Maths home learning | Home learning | White Rose Education	Over the half term break, the children have been set a task to plan a story for our 500 words competition. We will be writing up and editing the stories. The children will also begin some practise test papers on comprehension and punctuation and grammar.     In phonics, we will be revisiting; i as i e.g. cricket, king, sandwiches, inside i as y e.g.  mystery, myths, pyramid, symbols as o e.g. orange, fox, ostrich, often as (w)a, (qu)a e.g. what, squad, squash, washing	In Geography, we will be exploring some of the hottest places on the Earth -deserts!   In Science, the children will be investigating if water impacts mature plants.   In ICT, the children will continue with the making music topic with a focus on notes and tempo.   Mrs Pearce’s class will be taking part in net and wall activities. Mrs Chadwick/Mrs Matthews class will be starting Forest School on Thursday mornings.   In PSHE, we will be looking at health and wellbeing and thinking positively!   In Art, the children will be learning about the artist Ben Giles. This week, the children will be creating a collage using torn paper.

 

 

 

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 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.